11 Best Planners: Weekly and Daily Notebooks and Accessories (2025)

There’s nothing like the sensation of a brand-new planner. Whether or not it is the beginning of a brand new yr and even simply the month of June, we have discovered one of the best planners to ship that satisfying rush of a recent begin and a clean web page. The feeling of writing issues down not solely feels satisfying however helps enhance retention, and paper planners give a sense of delight in a world that may really feel bleak.

A terrific planner will provide help to hold your life on monitor, however meaning one thing totally different for everybody—do you want room for a number of to-do lists? Locations to trace all of your calls and conferences that week? Open area for no matter strikes your fancy? From day by day and weekly planners to planners designed for a selected kind of individual, listed below are all of our favourite planners that we have tried and examined. Our total favourite weekly planner is Plum Paper’s A5 Vertical Priorities Planner ($38), which you’ll be able to customise to start out anytime of yr and to suit all of your wants. Should you’re extra a day by day planner, strive the Day Designer ($68) or the Hobonichi Techo ($40). We have additionally acquired picks for month-to-month planners, college students, loopy list-makers, and extra under. It is a good time of yr to select up your mid-year planners if you would like one for the college yr (or need a recent begin with a brand new planner!), since mid-year planners begin in July.

As soon as you discover your good planner, remember to seize a few of our different nice workplace gear, from the best digital notebooks and pc displays to everything you need for your work-from-home setup.

Up to date June 2025: We have added the Ardour Planner, Be Rooted Planner, and At-a-Look Planner to Extra Planners We Like, and added extra choices to the Planner Equipment part.

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Our Favourite Planners

From weekly and day by day planners to planners for particular use circumstances (and even a very customized planner!), listed below are all the highest planners we suggest shopping for.

If I solely purchased one planner, this may be the one. The Plum Paper A5 Planner has the proper quantity of customizability with out feeling like I’ve to do an excessive amount of work to create it, and has a variety of lovely covers and colour choices to select from. I personally love the Vertical Priorities structure, which I personalized to incorporate a precedence part for my son, however you’ll be able to select from different layouts—there are 10 various kinds of layouts, going from vertical and horizontal to scholar and purpose setting, then anyplace from two to 4 sorts of layouts inside every kind. You additionally select from an enormous number of covers that you could customise with issues like your title or the yr, and select from an enormous vary of add-ons like month-to-month exercise summaries, child monitoring pages, and a lot extra.

The A5 size is simple to make use of and tote round wherever I would like, and you may have the planner begin on any month you would like—nice for if you would like an annual planner abruptly in March or July with no need to skip all these further months. You may discover a two-sided folder within the again, which I often use for stickers and pressing paperwork I have to deal with. Talking of stickers, I really like Plum Paper’s stylish sticker units ($5+) that vary from matching their add-on pages to cute seasonal stickers, and that I could make my very own customized stickers on Plum Paper’s web site.

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If Plum Planner’s designs aren’t fairly for you, then discover the Erin Condren LifePlanner (ECLP for brief). It is one of the vital widespread for weekly-spread lovers, with tons of layouts to select from and room for notes or doodles. You’ll be able to customise it equally to the Plum Planner above, although it would not have fairly as many choices for the pages you’ll be able to add. You may select the quilt first, then fill it together with your desired structure from the 4 choices: hourly; horizontal; or our favourite, vertical. Then select one of many three colour schemes and a coil colour, and add any cowl customizations you need (like your title or a quote) to finish your planner.

There are cheaper Erin Condren planners you’ll find at Goal, however you’ll be able to’t customise them such as you would on Erin Condren’s web site. I additionally personally choose the quilt design choices and colours on Plum Paper, nevertheless it’s price trying out each to see which one most accurately fits your fancy.

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Day by day planners offer you a complete web page for every day, and the Day Designer is nice for anybody who needs area for each a full calendar and a pleasant lengthy to-do checklist for every day. The schedule half of the web page goes from 5 am to 9 pm, supplying you with loads of room to schedule conferences, plan exercises, or block out shopper appointments. The opposite half has a protracted to-do checklist you’ll be able to fill in, plus the highest of the web page has an area for the three most vital issues, any due dates, and dinner.

It is a bit on the cumbersome facet, since there is a web page for each single day of the yr together with month-to-month spreads, nevertheless it’s not so large that you could’t convey it in a spacious backpack or tote bag. I additionally like that it isn’t too tall, with a sq. A5 design, however nonetheless has loads of room for a pleasant lengthy to-do checklist.

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A number of WIRED staffers suggest the Hobonichi Techo (Japanese for “planner”). WIRED reviewer Adrienne So says it is the proper measurement—sufficiently small to slot in a bag and maintain data but additionally capable of lie flat on a desk. There’s a month-to-month overview after which a web page for every day, together with a quote that manages to be thought-provoking with out being too trite. The quilt is a particular black, stamped with gold foil and it comes with all kinds of cute accessories. —Medea Giordano

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Not surprisingly, given the title, there’s nothing discreet about this planner. With its bright-blue cardstock cowl and 11- by-14-inch profile too large to slot in any purse or small bag, that is for individuals who reside—or plan to reside—giant. The companion to motivational speaker and entrepreneur Jesse Itzler’s Huge A## Calendar (as seen in our Gift Ideas for People Who Work From Home), this spiral-bound “planner for extremely visible folks” depicts every month in its entirety throughout a two-page unfold, with outsized 2.5- by 2.5-inch squares for every day. Motivational quotes high every web page (pattern: “To do distinctive issues, put your self in distinctive conditions”), and the again of the planner incorporates a goal-tracker model of the Huge A## Calendar—day-after-day of the yr at a look.

There are 5 lined pages for notes, a running-pace chart ought to you end up overcome with a sudden burst of vitality, and a Yr in Evaluation worksheet with containers for holding monitor of yr highlights resembling “favourite new music,” new issues I attempted,” and “profession milestones.” If sudden inspiration strikes that must be shared, there’s a 300-square-inch dry-erase board within the again that may be propped up for impromptu conferences or demonstrations. I really feel extra energized simply trying at it. I do want the times of the week had been on one web page as an alternative of throughout each, so I may hold it open folded in half on my desk (when opened, its footprint sprawls slightly below 2 toes extensive—a major quantity of desk actual property), however as somebody who takes copious handwritten notes, it’s a worthy trade-off for me for the sheer quantity of day by day writing area. —Kat Merck

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Should you can’t appear to search out the fitting planner for you, it could be time to design your individual. That sounds intimidating, however Agendio makes it fairly straightforward with its totally customized planners, permitting you to select from premade pages or designing your individual (with some limitations—it isn’t as open-ended as a program like Canva) to create the proper month-to-month, weekly, and day by day spreads. You can even design your individual extra pages, like exercise trackers or studying lists, that you could both add for every month or to the tip of the planner.

There’s each a Professional designer, which I used to create totally customized pages and a selected structure, and a Basic designer, which is way easier and allows you to select from premade pages. I actually favored the quilt choices, and the default cowl measurement (so long as you do not add too many pages) will wrap across the planner’s coil to make it seem like a modern folder and defend the binding. It is a fantastic choice if you happen to are likely to destroy issues in your bag. It may simply change into expensive with every part you’ll be able to add, nevertheless it’s a very satisfying feeling to create your good planner and have it arrive at your entrance door, printed and certain.

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There are a variety of quirky planners, however Ban.do is likely one of the most enjoyable choices that is in nearly everybody’s price range. From a web page to trace the books you learn to a complete web page devoted to my astrological delivery chart, it is arduous to withstand the enjoyable that Ban.do’s planners provide. The weekly structure has sufficient room for day by day planning, and you will get enjoyable extras like month-to-month meal planning and three pages of included stickers. There are additionally undated ($25) variations if you would like full date flexibility.

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This has change into my new go-to planner, as a result of I’m infamous for a number of lists. Particularly as a mother, there’s usually one checklist for work, one checklist for residence and parenting duties, plus different random lists like which exercise outfits I wish to put on this week and a packing checklist for a visit I will not take for a month. I want a variety of room to corral my concepts, and the Objective Planner really has room for all of it. The weekly unfold consists of 5 to-do checklist areas, from work to residence and tasks and stuff to purchase, plus smaller checklists for every day and loads of area to write down in my schedule. Not solely that, however there are two full dotted pages after every weekly unfold for me to doodle, brainstorm, and write extra lists throughout for that particular week. The month-to-month unfold has six lists, plus six sections to mirror on when the month ends.

It is a six-month, undated planner, so you’ll be able to choose it up any time of the yr and begin utilizing it. You do want to take a seat down and write in issues just like the months and dates, however I discovered that enjoyable and satisfying to do. I additionally favored including some colour coding with highlighters so as to add slightly enjoyable to the pages. There are additionally some enjoyable pages within the entrance to mirror and plan to your roles in life, targets you wish to obtain, and books you wish to learn. I really like the large B5 size because it’s lastly sufficient area for me, however there’s additionally a smaller A5 ($25) size.

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The Completely happy Planner has an enormous vary of planners, with tons of designs starting from a vertical structure to a big dashboard to even a design made for work. There’s plenty of area in these spacious planners, however the design looks as if it might be good for college students, whether or not they’re full-time or simply taking courses within the evenings or after work. The divider pages are cute and typically embody phrases and quotes, however positively have a youthful really feel to them.

You’ll be able to select between Classic, Skinny Classic, Mini, or Big sizes, and dated or undated pages. There are daily planners, ones tailor-made to teachers and students, amongst many others. The distinctive binding design makes it straightforward to take pages out or add them again in, and you can too get extension packs so as to add a number of extra months or to maintain monitor of issues like your budget and fitness targets.

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Extra Planners We Like

Whereas these aren’t our high picks, these are nonetheless nice choices to make use of as a planner.

• At-A-Glance Simplified by Emily Ley Weekly Monthly Organizer Set for $85: It is a cute organizer set that comes with a refillable binder, planner pages for all of 2025, inside pockets, and even slightly inside zip pouch. It is also the fitting measurement for A4 paper if you happen to needed so as to add your individual paper or pages to this stylish little binder. It is a actually cute set, however I discovered it slightly small for my liking. Should you’re not an enormous to-do checklist individual, this may very well be match for you.
• Bright Day Kids Daily Checklist for $13: This was our planner choose for youths, nevertheless it’s now not accessible. We’re hoping it returns since we favored how included to-dos like brushing tooth and making the mattress, with further traces for gadgets to be written in, and will maintain as much as tough therapy within the college backpack.
• Be Rooted Academic Planner for $16: It is a weekly planner with a couple of paragraph of area for every day, with a complete week spanning two pages at a time. It consists of some stickers within the entrance, plus some intention-setting sections for every month. What’s particularly cool is that Be Rooted is a female-owned small enterprise making paper planners and equipment (like these pen sets), plus different life-style items like candles and wall calendars.
• Blue Sky Weekly Planner for $15: A number of members of our group like Blue Sky. Its inexpensive planners offer you area to jot down duties with out cluttering up the web page. They’re additionally measurement—a lot simpler to tote round than some on this checklist. As with the Completely happy Planner, you’ll find different layouts, sizes, and formats to swimsuit you, and there is a collaboration with Day Designer, one other favourite of ours. —Medea Giordano
• Blue Sky Monthly Planner for $10: Blue Sky’s Month-to-month Planners have a unique structure than the weekly, the place every day of the month has a number of traces for jotting down a number of bullet factors, and there’s a notes part for something that might require extra writing room. The yearly overview helps you to monitor from an eagle-eyed perspective. It is the smallest month-to-month planner we have tried, with 10-by-8-inch pages, however extremely inexpensive.
• Brass Monkey Undated Standard Planner for $11: This planner has a ton of enjoyable squeezed into its pages, with issues like popular culture birthdays and on today notes. It is undated within the sense that it’s not tied to a yr or a weekday, however you may get all the times of the month already in there, and you may fill within the yr your self and test off the day of the week as an alternative to make it align with the present date. It is slightly small for my use, however everybody I’ve confirmed it to has been taken with it for its quirky additions.
• Laurel Denise Horizontal Weekly Edition for $59: I’ve by no means seen a planner designed like this. It is wider than a standard planner, and the left facet is for laying out the month—it is undated—whereas the fitting has a spot for the month’s to-dos and a dotted space for no matter else. Within the center are 5 half-pages for organizing every particular week. You flip the week web page and nonetheless get to see every part else you already wrote for the month. It is an attention-grabbing planner, however I struggled to make use of it with the small day by day space.
• Levenger Circa smartPlanner Weekly Agenda for $60: That is one other strong weekly planner with little frills. Should you simply want traces and days, that is your match. The model additionally sells a leather folio for the planner, which appears very skilled however is costly.
• Moleskine Pro Planner for $12: Former WIRED reviewer Maryn McKenna prefers the Moleskine Professional Weekly Vertical, which is a pocket book planner hybrid. The left web page has clean traces, and the fitting is split into sections for tasks, standing, and a basic to-do checklist. Weekly pages break down days by the hour, and clean test field pages allow you to plan elaborate preparations of day by day and class to-dos. McKenna says she seems like she has achieved one thing earlier than she even begins ticking off duties. —Medea Giordano
• My PA Business Planner for $49: The PA stands for private assistant, however this planner is greater than that—it doubles as each a planner and a full-on marketing strategy workbook, serving to rising entrepreneurs set up and plan their enterprise plans, starting from product pitches to social media technique. The start of the guide is devoted to organizing your marketing strategy, after which there’s weekly checklists and purpose lists, plus area to trace your water, train, and meditation. There’s additionally area on the finish of the planner to brainstorm for the yr forward and a few further lined and graph pages for miscellaneous notes. It is a hefty planner that works finest for entrepreneurs with a product they’re promoting, however the workbook pages and targeted weekly spreads may assist any type of enterprise proprietor. Plus, it is available in a handful of enjoyable colours and appears good sufficient to mix in on a bookshelf.
• Papier Daily Productivity Planner for $35: Papier has unbelievable cowl design choices to match almost any fashion or temper. For layouts, I just like the undated Day by day Productiveness planner finest. Every week has a field per day, traces for notes, areas for 3 priorities, a protracted to-do checklist, and a behavior tracker. Plus, there is a meal planner and procuring checklist for each week. There are additionally a number of pages devoted to outlining every day’s schedule. I did not want these pages as a lot throughout my typical week, however folks with rotating weekly schedules may respect it. Papier can be the one model I discovered that allows you to scroll via each single web page before you purchase. I am so particular about what I like and wish, this ought to be customary. —Medea Giordano
• Passion Planner Weekly Planner for $41: That is my favourite weekly planner for mapping out the hours of my day. It would not have as a lot room for to-do lists, however you do have a bit for every week for a single private and work to-do checklist, which I take advantage of for my main tasks, and a few doodle area. I actually love Ardour Planner’s equipment, and the way good the pages really feel to write down on.
• Studio Tigress Seasonal Planner for $18 (Per Season): These Seasonal Planners from Portland, Oregon-based Studio Tigress aren’t your customary planner. These are giant particular person sheets protecting a complete three-month season, permitting you to have it pinned on a wall or mendacity throughout your desk for straightforward entry. The ten-by-16-inch sheets are definitely larger than most planners and are not straightforward to journey with, however moderately function a helpful at-a-glance search for your key targets, to-do gadgets, occasions, and deadlines that you simply write down. There’re 5 undated weeks for every month, so you may should test your digital calendar to substantiate which dates are the place, however that additionally means there’s loads of room for every month to write down down what’s arising and further notes if you happen to want. There are 25 spots on the to-do checklist, and I favored utilizing it for my foremost seasonal targets (like apple choosing within the fall, seeing the zoo vacation lights within the winter) and main to-do gadgets (like getting my automotive emissions checked and buying prepare tickets). Whereas it may well’t substitute a weekly or day by day planner if you happen to like day by day to-do lists, I liked utilizing these sheets to get a birds-eye view of the upcoming season. —Nena Farrell

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Planner Alternate options

Not everybody wants or needs a inflexible planner. Should you simply want day by day to-do lists or are a fan of bullet journals, take into account getting a fantastic pocket book as an alternative.

A Basic Pocket book

Former WIRED reviewer Jaina Gray opts for a plain lined pocket book. After attempting dozens, her favourite is the Midori MD Pocket book with paper constructed from cotton pulp (similar to cash!). It is available in lined, unlined, or dot-grid. Gray says there’s simply one thing meditative about turning over a clean web page in the beginning of every week and thoroughly jotting down her schedule, plans, and workload. No missed days to make you’re feeling responsible. Midori’s notebooks are designed to suit inside pocket book or journal covers (which you’ll find throughout Etsy). The pages are a refined off-white and have a weight and texture that attracts you in. The tender cotton paper of this notebook makes drawing, sketching, and plain outdated writing an absolute pleasure. —Medea Giordano

Add Some Index Playing cards

WIRED reviewer Scott Gilbertson says he would not use a planner, however every day he writes down the handful of issues he will do on a single 3-by-5 index card. The index card with this to-do checklist lives in his pocket, together with a small notebook by which he jots down notes all through the day—usually the supply of the next day’s to-do checklist. The pocket book and index playing cards match inside this very cool waxed canvas notebook cover. Gilbertson says he copied this technique from one of the vital profitable folks he has recognized, and after almost 20 years, it is nonetheless higher for him than another system he is tried. It is low-cost, light-weight, and simple to handle. —Medea Giordano

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Planner Equipment

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Possibly all you want is paper and pen and also you’re good to go. However we prefer to get inventive. Stickers are a well-liked accent, and so they’re a pleasant slippery slope. When you make your first “spread” (a group of themed stickers on a planner web page, just like a scrapbook), you’ll by no means return. Etsy is the central hub of planner stickers. You’ll be able to order printed stickers or purchase digital information and print and lower them your self. You can even go for a full package (a complete unfold’s price of stickers) or simply the person elements you want probably the most.