u/vylits

A5 Horizontal Weekly Haroo, CreffectivePaper, Aura Estelle, Sterling Ink?

I've been using an Erin Condren planner since 2019, and I like the aesthetic, but the layout isn't working for me anymore. I know I want:

  1. A horizontal weekly layout without daily pages and I like to see the monthly calendar on all the weekly pages
  2. An a5 or b6 for portability + room for to-dos, light memory keeping, appts.
  3. A tracking system that makes it easy to track multiple things and can view multiple months or a whole year at a glance. I track days I workout (cardio & weights separate), writing days, word count, pm routine, mood, and my cycle.
  4. A goal setting page that includes quarterly check-ins so I can adjust goals as necessary.
  5. A section for yearly dates/important dates/future logging. It makes it easier to pass family birthdays, anniversaries, etc to monthly and weekly layouts and from one planner to the next.
  6. I'm OK with some ghosting but no bleed through. I use Writech or Muji .5 gel pens to write, Mildliners to highlight, and Tombow Fudenosuke Brush Pens for headers. I also have some stamps but I'm primarily a functional planner.

I've been doing research and I think I've narrowed it down.

I really like Aura Estelle's Weekly Horizontal. Its weekly layout is my favorite, but there's no quarterly tracker and I've never used tomoe river paper. Not sure if the paper is a plus or minus.

CreffectivePaper Weekly Planner has a weekly layout I like almost as much as Aura Estelle's, a thicker paper that will be more familiar to me, and it has great trackers, but there's no goal section or quarterly goal update, so I'd have to use the note section to create my own.

Sterling Ink Horizontal Core Planner has my favorite yearly and monthly trackers, but I don't love their weekly horizontal layout and that's where I spend the most time in my planner.

Haroo Planner has great trackers but there are too few for me, and it doesn't have a quarterly check in section. But it has a notes section I could repurpose.

I'm leaning towards Haroo or CreffectivePaper, but there are very few reviews and almost no YouTube videos I can find about them. What has been your experience? Is there a better option?

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u/vylits — 4 days ago