Can we talk about planners...?

[MsJaneAusten]

I’m on the annual search for the perfect planner. None of them seem to do quite what I want them to, even the customisable ones.

Does anyone have recommendations?

Or has anyone tried a digital planner on their iPad that they could recommend?

Thank you

I use idoceo on my ipad - it's the closest thing to the perfect planner I've ever found. Some of the sequences to get from one screen to another are a bit unintuitive, but I've been using it for the past 5 years. Not a bad return on £7.99

I used pirongs for a few years and liked them.

Our school ordered planners for us this year. I was dubious at first but they are actually really good. Dated pages in a ring binder so that you can hole punch stuff and put it in.

Not used any online ones though.

Idoceo! I couldn’t remember the one i’d been recommended before. Thanks. I’ll check it out.

I looked at Pirongs (or the Unique sister site) and it seems the most flexible one available but still doesn’t quite do what I want it to.

I usually buy from The Teacher Planner Company, but next year’s designs are incredibly ugly!
I have just spent a happy half hour designing a unique Pirongs planner, but I am not 100% sold on it yet.
I am very lazy and would love a predated one. Who offers that?

I buy a nice planner from pirongs uniques every year.

I've bought a pirongs planner for the last couple of years, with all the dates in. My one last year lasted only a few weeks, it completely fell apart. I was really disappointed so I'm not sure what to get this year. I do love not having to write in the dates!

I had a School Planner Company A4 spiral bound one this year and really liked it. Already dated, different numbers of lessons available. They do A5 ones and ring binder ones as well. Not the prettiest, but functional.

I've just bought mine from the positive teacher company. I really like the lay out. Previously I have had pirongs which were fine but I hated having to write the dates in.

Don't use a paper planner. I use spreadsheets and my iPad.

Thank you. Seems I am not the only one with planner woes!

Any particular apps on your iPad @BeltaneBride?

I love the look of the positive teacher planner, but I prefer a one day per page layout. Can’t find anything else I like the look of.
Penstripe do dated planners at a very reasonable price but then wanted £9 for postage. No thanks!

I would love a really good web based planner. Idoceo looks good but I want something I can run on Windows.

I use Planboard as my visual timetable at school, which is excellent for that purpose. It doesn't quite do what I would like as a full planner though (allow for the attachment of documents etc).

I'm using excel atm, but I'd really like a web based solution.

I looked a pango, but it isn't good enough for the cost!

I get mine from loop education. It's mine the TPC but dated, which is my main wish

I gave up with paper planners and switched to iDoceo. It was a revelation!! Loved that app 💕

@reefedsail - apologies for the daft question, but how do you use excel? Different sheets per week? Different file completely each week? Links?

A sheet for a term with a box per subject per week for medium term planning. Just add a sheet each term.

At my school, short term planning is just your slides so I don't need to do separate short term plans.

I've been teaching for a very long time and I only have 8 children in my class. They each have very detailed individual learning plans on a specialist platform, so I don't need to put wild amounts of detail into medium term plans. I'd like something with pretty colours though- excel is so butch!

I've just found out you can download Teachers' Planners for OneNote, which has made me very happy as I can indulge my stationary problem on my ipad.

Stationery, obviously stationery.

I do teach the UK2 homophones properly, I promise!

Ok, talk to me about One Note. Is it bad that i don’t even know what that is?

It does so many good things- essentially it's a notebook that you can fill with as many pages as you like, all formatted how you want, which you can open on every device you own. If you have an ipad and an apple pencil, it revolutionises taking notes in a meeting. You can stick documents or pictures in it and then annotate them really easily. You can email pages to other people or print them out. And it's free!

Watch some bits of on Teacher Tech if you want to get a gist of what it does.

Thank you @reefedsail. I’ve done some more googling and watching of one note videos and seen some of the prettier designs you can buy on Etsy for it. Looks good. Is it easy to transfer data into there? And where is the data stored?

The data is in onedrive in your Microsoft account. I've found it easy to put everything I want into it.

I must go and look at Etsy!

I’m another iDoceo user. Wouldn’t be without it now.

I bookmarked this post to read this afternoon. I've been looking at OneNote as it seems to be an excellent way of going paperless, you can go between laptop and iPad etc, link with files for planning...
I'm just wondering if anyone has purchased one from Etsy, there looks like a good one but it doesn't have any reviews, it's £18 - but onenote have their own version. I can't decide whether it's worth purchasing?