What's your best diary/planner?

[katieg03]

Such a boring post but I am looking for the ultimate paper based planner. I manage a school, a football team, a partner that works away and have two boys and a dog 🤣 the classic filofax seems to be a wee bit boring, there are lots online that seem to be MLM led which is not what I want. I want space for notes/budgets/reminder type sections and a decent size. Old school I know but I like lists and ticking stuff off so a normal diary doesn't cut it for me. Anything that fits the bill? Thank you

Google calendar here.

Lots of teachers' planners have what you're looking for - along with assessment and register pages you don't want, but which could be used for budgets etc.

The Works is worth a look, also Busy B diaries are good. I like Moleskine too with week to few on one page with ruled page on other.

To view that should read!

Sorry, Filofax for life here!

Try the Mum's office Blox diaries. www.mumsoffice.co.uk/collections/blox-stationery/products/the-blox-diary-2023

Left hand page has the usual weekly diary format, the right hand page has a grid with 3-4 columns per day for keeping track of what everyone else is doing! I have a column each for DH, my kids and my job.

I have a Boxcleverpress one. I think it's a family life planner. 7 columns, meal ideas column and things to do. Week per double page view. Extra sections for notes, shopping lists, Christmas etc Best one I've found.

M+S do a family planner that is one of the best I have used. It has loads of details for things like bills due, holiday planners, individual pages for children's details, school details, Christmas, and monthly budgets. Each month has a heading page with space for notes and a calendar, and each week is double page with the 7 days in one side and 4 lists on the other that can be anything you want. It usually comes out in Oct for the following year so it's not an academic one, but was only about £6.

I just got one from SoTypicalMe that you can customise and they print it to order. I love it. You can add in checklist sections, it's week to view with a month to view page at the beginning of each month

sotypicalme.co.uk/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIiq7lxP-K-gIVyO3tCh2cIgi_EAAYASAAEgL5mvD_BwE

Thanks so much! I knew you'd deliver 😀

I really like the box clever press diaries and calendars. They have plenty of room for lists and plans.

@ArtichokeAardvark Thanks for this recommendation. I'm taking a look and the Blox diary looks great for me. Weird thing is that they don't have images of the monthly and yearly layouts. I emailed them but instead of sending images, they just described the layout. Would you be able to share some pics of what the monthly and yearly layouts look like please? You can PM if you want. Thanks!

A4 Filofax 'A Week On Two Pages'

Or even A5 Filofax 'Week on One Page with notes' if you want more space for notes and lists

The A4 and A5 sizes fit well within Filofax Clipbooks if you don't want a standard filofax organiser as the outer layer. The clipbook format will lie open flat on a desk/counter.

personally I favour a moleskine weekly planner which has a week to view diary on the left hand page and a lined notes page on the right which I use for to do lists, habit tracking etc. They are available in various sizes, colours, hard or soft back and 12 or 18 month options.

BusyB have some nice designs, e.g busy life which is 2 week to view calendars and note spaces per week over a double page spread (e.g. one personal and one for work), Their family diary layout has week to view calendar and notes space on the left page, and a grid layout on the right (could be a column for each child, one for work etc). I really like this idea, but found it just didn't work for my brain. I need everything on one calendar and I have developed a colour code system for different people / categories instead (e.g. workstuff in green, my stuff in black, husband stuff in blue)

Another idea is to look on etsy and see if you can find layouts you like that work for your filofax. You could potentially mix and match a couple of different things to find the things that suit your needs