I’m intrigued by Sterling Ink’s complete planner where the monthly, weekly, and daily spreads are grouped. I like the idea of less flipping back and forth. But, I don’t like that it only comes in hard cover. It feels chunky from the beginning, so can only imagine how t will be at the end of the year.

Are there any other planner companies that structure their planners with everything grouped?

Hi! I'd like a pretty specific planner insert/notebook. Does anyone know of someone who will custom design/print them?

I'd like it to be 2-page monthly calendar spreads followed by horizontal week-per-page (meaning laying open the left side page is a horizontal week and the right side page is another week spread). No extra notes pages, no extra frills. Could be split between two inserts, A5 size, must be on fountain pen friendly paper. I'd be willing to print myself if someone could design it as an A5 traveler's notebook insert.

Thanks for your help!

So I've been working on a highlighter set where each color matches the exact hex code of Google Calendar's event colors (so your notes/planner actually match your calendar). Was originally building it around the old 11 colors, but Google decided to just casually roll out an update with 24 default colors instead lol, plus you can now fully customize colors on top of that. Cool for them, mildly stressful for me.

Trying to figure out if it's worth expanding to all 24, or if that's overkill and a smaller set (like the original 11) would honestly be enough for most people.

Curious what people who actually color-code their calendar/planner think — would you want the full 24, or is that more than anyone needs? And now that you can customize your calendar colors yourself, does having a matching highlighter set even matter to you, or is that beside the point?

My whole life is built around my time being flexible. I don't have kids but I take care of several dogs, help my husband with his business, and help a few elderly family members with cooking, exercise, etc. I do sometimes take them to appointments so those are set times but, otherwise, my "schedule" is built on flexibility. When someone needs something, I need to be able to get up and go. However, I also need to go to the gym several times per week for my own health and I would love reading time, etc. but those things just never happen. I wondered about using an hourly planner but, this sounds pitiful, I have no idea how I would use it in MY situation. There aren't really that many set times for things, other than the occasional appointment. Any ideas or tips for me? Thanks!

I’m buying the Dailee planner because it has everything I need. HOWEVER, it’s too huge to carry when needed to. Anyone use two planners because of this? Or this and a digital version? I used to take pictures if I had to run out the door but I don’t like that. I like to check things off. Also I’m a mom so the most efficient way is best for me. Should I just write it twice?? I love paper and pen so I can’t go fully digital.

I know you guys get this one a lot, but it’s driving me crazy and I need some help.

I need a recommendation for a daily/weekly planner that just FITS. I’ve tried apps, notes app, a notebook, generic planners from the store but nothing quite sticks.

Does anyone know of a planner that has a section for weekly breakdowns as well as day by day planning and is small enough to fit in a purse/tote bag without being cumbersome? Bonus points if it’s undated and also has a monthly calendar section too

I’ve realized apps don’t work for me because they don’t have everything I need and notebooks often flop for me because it takes too much time to draw out the organized sections myself. My binder doesn’t work either because it’s too big to carry around. I’d love something I can just slap open, write down all of my plans in organized sections, and toss in my bag. Any thoughts?

I really love the concept of messy, used and abused planners!!

All the planner videos have this pretty perfect colour coordinated neat handwriting aesthetic but I'm more inspired by illegible well used well loved, crinkled up, coffee stained planner and that's kind of what I aspire to.

Can anyone relate? Or point me in the direction of where I can find inspo?

I did a search but didn’t find any recent posts that addressed this question.

Is there anything out there with Tomoe River paper that groups at least the weeklies and dailies together? Essentially, I want the Sterling Ink Complete but NOT a hardcover. Hardcovers are dealbreakers for me. Having the dailies dated or undated wouldn’t matter as long as they were grouped with a corresponding weekly spread.

I’m currently using a Hobonichi and I love it except for the way the sections are grouped.

TIA for your feedback!

For the longest time, I've been a Hobonichi Weeks user. I used 4 notebooks for different areas of my life. It was good until it wasn't.

I want 1 notebook (plus a small notebook for brain dump and random uncategorized thoughts) for everything. I tried TNs but couldn't stick to them, either too tall or too small. Hobo weeks is the perfect size but I'm getting tired of pulling 4 different notebooks and I discovered that I prefer having a weekly horizontal insert right next to thw daily pages.

So for July, I plan on using a personal (? I still get confused with the sizes) A6 size ring planner. Luckily, I found a shop that sells inserts that look like Weeks pages.

But I have some concerns. What took me a long time to try rings is that I'm concerned about archiving. With Weeks, after the year ends, I'll have a hardbound book I can store like a normal book. But how about the pages of a rings planner? Do you have a separate binder? Store them on boxes? Buy cheap plastic ring binders? DIY?

If I stick to a ring planner for the rest of the year, I'll have a lot of extra pages from my Weeks. Has anyone tried unbinding the Weeks pages and turn into ring pages? How do the pages hold up? I've seen videos of those who tried but have never seen any feedbacks or if they continue using them.

If I do the above, what would be a better way to use the Weeks cover?