r/DigitalPlanner

I am search of a digital planner for my wife and myself and would appreciate some advice.

It would need to be able to sync our phones (Android) and our laptops (Windows). We would not need any type of tablet for it and don't want that.

Currently, I am doing a trial with Cozi, but am not happy with their privacy policy. I would like a planner that is more protective of my data. I'm not quite ready to go down the 'pi hole' yet. Any suggestions?

Hi! I’ve been planning to build a Google Sheets planner and I wanted to ask for ideas before I start designing it.

I’d love to know:

• What features do you actually use the most in a planner?

• What functions or automations make a planner feel easier to use?

• Are there any layouts, trackers, dashboards, or systems you wish more planners included?

• What usually makes you stop using a planner after a while?

I’m aiming to make something that’s both functional and simple to maintain, especially for people who like flexibility in Google Sheets.

Some ideas I’m already considering:

• Habit + goal tracking

• Monthly/weekly dashboards

• Auto-progress tracking

• Finance & budget pages

• Mobile-friendly layout

But I’d really appreciate hearing what works (or doesn’t work) for you, guys, personally. Thanks in advance!

Hi! I've been hearing a lot about Sunsama, but I'm trying to see if there are other apps that are more worth it. I want something that can flexibly allow me to dictate weekly and monthly goals, and give me a space to follow up. I manage a lot of projects and hobbies so I would like to get organized on that and make sure I'm always on track for my larger goals. Let me know what you guys like!

Ive created a Free guide for any business or entrepreneur. Explaining how you can use my templates and others to your advantage! Any support is Greatly appriciated! LINK WILL BE IN COMMENTS!

am wanting to transition from paper to digital because I have just gotten so busy.

I use one note for notetaking
Outlook calendar

I need to find a planner that gives me a weekly overview/ and monthly view. Think blue sky monthly and weekly planners.

I like simple and don’t need all these extra pages I will never use.

Any thought? I feel like I’m looking for a unicorn.

Im down the rabbit hole of looking at digital calenders and all of the pros and cons. All we are looking for is a digital calendar that can sync to google calendars and have it display on the wall, so at a glance at home we know that going on in our lives and can be as organized as we can be. Maybe we are just wanting too little out this device? So many people are loving the Apollosign for its dual use as a tablet and access to Google Play. But we just need a Calendar. A lot of people complaining about the subscriptions for Skylight just to have access to display pictures, food prep, and chores? We just want a calendar.

Is Skylight too much for how basic we want? Mind you, we want a good device and UI, so getting the cheapest most basic product isnt our first option.

I've been diagnosed with ADHD for a few years now and my finances absolutely showed it before that — impulse buying, forgotten subscriptions, qnd a stack of debt I was too ashamed to look at properly.

Every budgeting tool I tried assumed I'd remember to

check it, that a monthly overview would feel real to me, that I had the executive function to sort 20 spending categories. I don't. None of them stuck.

So I made my own.

Things I built in that I've never seen in other planners:

→ Weekly spending log, not monthly. Monthly is too

abstract for ADHD time blindness — a week is real.

→ An Impulse Purchase Pause page. You log what you want to buy, why you want it, wait 24 hours, then come back. Buy it with zero shame if you still want it. More often than not the urge is gone.

→ Subscription tracker — I was paying for four things

I'd completely forgotten about.

→ Debt snowball tracker with a win wall, because shame has never once helped me pay anything off faster.

The design is receipt-style — monospace font, dashed tear lines, aged paper background. Felt right for a budget planner. The cover says:

SUBTOTAL OF SHAME: £0.00

TOTAL CONTROL GAINED: PRICELESS / £4.99

Comes with a print version and a fully fillable digital

version you can type into on a tablet or laptop.

Link in comments if anyone wants it. Happy to share

screenshots of any specific page too — just ask.

Four kids, ages 6, 8, 11, 14. End of year means four sets of concerts, field trips, spirit weeks, sports tournaments, and class parties landing in the same three week window. Last May I missed a recital because I had the wrong time written on the whiteboard and nobody caught it until we were already somewhere else.

That was the thing that finally made me stop tolerating a system that worked fine nine months of the year and collapsed under the two months that mattered most.

The specific problem with a family calendar for multiple kids during end of year activities isn't finding a calendar, it's that the volume of overlapping events breaks any system where one person is responsible for entering and maintaining all the information. I'd been using a combination of google calendar, a whiteboard, and a notes app and all three had different information on them by the time May hit.

We put up a Hearth in February after another school email disaster. The biggest difference was honestly just having everything in one visible place instead of split across apps and paper. Each kid has their own color so you can glance at the week and immediately tell whose life is about to derail yours. The volume is still a lot. Four kids in May is always going to be a lot. But losing things stopped being the thing I was managing on top of everything else.

Hi r/Notion! First post here so please be gentle 😅
I’ve spent the last few months building a Notion planner for myself after trying basically every productivity system out there. What started as a personal project turned into something my friends actually wanted to use.
I’m very much a beginner at this whole thing, so I wanted to introduce myself before jumping in. I’m planning to share tips, behind-the-scenes looks at how I built the system, and genuinely just hang out here and learn from you all.
One thing I’d love to ask: what’s the #1 thing missing from Notion planners you’ve tried? I want to keep improving mine and your feedback would mean the world.
Happy to be here! 🎉

I’ve built a simple calendar app designed for daily logging to help me track where my time actually goes. It can be used for time blocking, as a to-do list, or even as a habit tracker. I made subtle design choices to adapt it to my personal needs. It's free and works offline(pwa). Please try it out and let me know if you found it useful.

• double click on timeline to create or edit calendar card/item.
• long press to move it around or resize. to resize drag the bottom arrow.

There has to be something better!!! I just need a dang calendar displayed digitally! How do you create a digital displayed calendar...use an old iPad and have everyone sync up? Including the weirdo with the android phone and digital calendar...haha.

I recently purchased a Skylight calendar thinking it was worth the hype. What a letdown that was. First, I paid for the Skylight Calendar 2 (Classic/Black) with Plus Plan thinking that included the year worth of the Plus plan, wrong, that did not include the plan. What is the point in having 2 options if it doesn't actually include that? Maybe I missed something when purchasing it.

I received the calendar, excited to get started. I plugged it in, started the set up process, synced my calendars and waited for them to show up. When they did, none of the colors from my Apple calendar were the same on the Skylight....no problem...I'll take the time to fix all that and change all the family calendars to look the same as in my phone. I got the rest of the family synced up, family of 4, a teen and young adult. Each persons calendar then had to be adjusted so they were combined on the Skylight and the right color for the person. Once adding the google calendar things went weird and had to then figure out how to get that calendar to combine with the main person's calendar, but then it leaves this weird gmail profile that never goes away under profiles. Then when it comes to birthdays, you now have to create a new profile to manually enter all the birthdays in and set them to repeat yearly and make sure you have the right profile selected. All of this is very time consuming for someone who already has that stuff in the Apple calendar. After getting everyone's calendars loaded the calendar gets very chaotic looking, yes, you can filter things out, but isn't the point to the calendar being able to see what is happening?

The app. What clunky junk. Half the people in the Skylight Facebook help page...yes, a whole Facebook page to help you navigate something that should be simple according to everyone, are showing pictures of things in the app that I have never seen. Some people have options that other don't, explain this to me. It is not the easiest to figure out simple tasks, they are all hidden amongst other tabs/clicks. It shouldn't be this hard. I am tech savvy, but this is a pain.

I'm sure this is great for people who have not started any kind of digital calendar with little kids and no other baseline, but for 4 almost adults that have their activities on their phones, this isn't it for us.