14 Best Planners: Weekly and Daily Notebooks & Accessories (2024)

Buying a recent schedulener gives me an finishorphin rush appreciate no other, whether it’s for a recent school semester, labor year, or a much-necessitateed recent begin. A outstanding one should help you stay on track without overwhelming you. Some folks on WIRED’s Gear team prefer paper scheduleners over digital tools. Plus, writing leangs down has the compriseed advantage of improving retention.

There’s no such leang as the best schedulener, but the WIRED staff has tried and tested all comardents of paper scheduleners to convey you the best recommfinishations for your schedulener necessitates. Once you discover someleang that labors for you, read our directs on labor-from-home gear, the best digital noticebooks, and the best laptop backpacks for more.

Updated December 2024: We’ve compriseed a brand-recent section on monthly scheduleners. We’ve also deleted the Skinny Confidential Hot Minute Planner since it’s been out of stock, and the Plum Planner is now our runner-up for daily scheduleners.

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Weekly Planners

Weekly scheduleners are some of the most famous types of paper scheduleners. They’re fantastic for students, professionals, and parents who necessitate to schedule each day but also see the entire week.

No matter how many perfectly adorable scheduleners I try and cherish, I’ve been repurchasing Happy Planners since 2017—though I’ve switched from a vertical layout to a huge dashboard (there is also a horizontal style). These scheduleners have room for organizing labor and to-do catalogs with enough extras for other schedulening and notices without experienceing overwhelmed. The splitr pages are cute and sometimes include phrases and quotes, but they aren’t untolerateably corny (usuassociate).

The Happy Planner is almost infinitely customizable. Stock and themes alter thrawout the year, but in compriseition to the layouts already alludeed, you can select between Classic, Skinny Classic, Mini, or Big sizes, and dated or undated pages. There are daily scheduleners, ones tailored to directers and students, among many others. You can get extension packs to comprise a scant more months or to defend track of leangs appreciate your budget and fitness goals. If you necessitate it, the Happy Planner probably has it. —Medea Giordano

If the Happy Planner isn’t for you, you might lean more toward the Erin Condren LifePlanner (ECLP for low). WIRED checker Louryn Strampe says it’s the Rolex of paper scheduleners. It’s one of the most famous for weekly-spread enthusiasts, with gorgeous layouts and room for notices or doodles. It’s customizable and there are extra touches, appreciate a storage pocket and snap-in ruler. Together, these features aren’t affordable (or weightlessweight), but Strampe has used an ECLP for the past three years, and it’s her preferite system of them all (and produces a fantastic gift).

Once you discover the size and cover you appreciate, finish portraying it with your desired layout—hourly, horizontal, or our preferite, vertical—select a coil color and inside color scheme, and comprise your name or quote to the cover. The minimal Focused Planner can’t be personalized as much, but you can comprise a monogram and select the coil. A affordableer version is useable from Target, but you miss the customization selections. —Medea Giordano

I still have nightmares of being in school and having no idea what or when my next class is. If that’s you, Class Tracker’s first three pages are portrayated for outlining your semester schedule from Monday to Sunday, 6 am to midnight.

Like most scheduleners, there are monthly calfinishars, but the weekly pages shine. Each day gets a section for leangs to recall, tests, papers, or projects due that day, and huger spots for allotments and a daily schedule. There’s a Self-Care Corner for non-school leangs you should caccess on and a countdown box for someleang you’re seeing forward to. The only leang I want is tabs to easily sift thraw months. The schedulener pictured here is the college version, but there are middle school and high school selections. —Medea Giordano

This schedulener is hefty, but it’s brimming of pages for business owners to systematize their thoughts and schedules alengthy with their weekly tasks (the PA stands for personal helpant). The first section is for filling out your mission and goals, labeleting schedules, and finances. Each month, you get spaces for goals, projects, and a social media satisfied schedulener for the next 30 or so days. Then there are weekly overwatchs appreciate the other scheduleners here, broken down by hours with spots for that day’s goals, and weekly notices and expenses.

There are also little illustrations for tracking water inacquire and minutes of meditation and exercise. At the finish of each week, a weekly check section gives you space for accomplishments or misses, sales, and subscribers, plus a brainstorming space for the folloprosperg week. —Medea Giordano

There are a lot of quirky scheduleners, but Ban.do is one of the most fun selections. It’s the celderly aunt of the schedulener world. From a page to track the books you read to an entire page promised to my astroreasonable birth chart, it’s challenging to resist the fun that Ban.do’s scheduleners give. The weekly layout has enough room for daily schedulening, and you’ll get fun extras appreciate monthly meal schedulening and three pages of included stickers. Ban.do’s current 17-month academic scheduleners begin in August 2024 and will go all thraw 2025, and its recentest 12-month scheduleners ($28) are useable for 2025. In both versions you’ll discover a meal schedulener and notices pages for each month, and a fun overwatch section for the year at the front of the schedulener. There are also undated ($25) versions if you want brimming date flexibility. —Nena Farrell

Former WIRED checker Maryn McKenna prefers the Moleskine Pro Weekly Vertical, which is a noticebook schedulener hybrid. The left page has blank lines, and the right is splitd into sections for projects, status, and a classic to-do catalog. Weekly pages shatter down days by the hour, and blank check box pages let you schedule enhuge schedulements of daily and catebloody to-dos. McKenna says she experiences appreciate she has accomplished someleang before she even begins ticking off tasks. —Medea Giordano

Several members of our team appreciate Blue Sky. Its affordable scheduleners give you space to jot down tasks without cluttering up the page. They’re also a outstanding size—much easier to tote around than some on this catalog. As with the Happy Planner, you can discover branch offent layouts, sizes, and createats to suit you, and there’s a collaboration with Day Designer, another preferite of ours. One leang I appreciate about this collab with One Tree Planted is that the schedulener is upretainably made and recyclable. The cover is durable and has a pleasant texture to it, plus there’s no plastic coating (not even on the month tabs!). —Medea Giordano

Brass Monkey produces fun tcboilingchkes appreciate games and office outstandings, and its scheduleners are as snarky as the rest of its lineup. Each week includes dates, so you have to fill in the year and check off which day of the week it is. I appreciate that better than having to fill out everyleang myself. It gives fun facts appreciate two pop culture birthdays and an “on this day” notice, and it defends you on top of what national day you should be celebrating—appreciate how October 8 is National Pierogi Day. You’ll either appreciate or aversion how compact the pages are, and while the text and lines could stand to be stupider, the fun and quirky extras produce up for it. —Medea Giordano

Daily Planners

If your schedule is particularly busy and you necessitate to schedule each day rather than weeks as a whole, daily scheduleners might be a better fit. They frequently give each day its own page, orderly by hours.

If you necessitate a detailed checkcatalog for each day, get the Day Designer. Each page is splitd into a schedule from 5 am to 9 pm to portray encounterings or assignments and a to-do catalog, making it easier to defend track of allotments and other tasks. The top of each day page has a box for schedulening dinner and defending track of bills due that day, plus your top three tasks of the day. There’s a notices area at the bottom too.

It’s huge—someleang I prefer in a schedulener so I never have to cram stuff in the corners—so you might not want to lug it around, but if you can defend it at your desk, you’ll advantage from its organization. Also, it reachs in a pleasant box, making the entire leang experience appreciate a fancy little ritual. —Medea Giordano

Even though I test scheduleners all year lengthy, Plum Planner’s customizable A5 schedulener is one I defend discovering myself grabbing over and over after I’m done testing a recent one. There are multiple layouts to select from, but I cherish the Vertical Priorities layout as a person who dwells for a daily to-do catalog and as a parent, since I compriseed a custom priority section to the top for my son. There are two sections, so you could either comprise two kids, comprise one for encounterings and one for deadlines, or any other priorities you’d want. The A5 size is plain to use and tote around wherever I want, and you can have the schedulener begin on any month you desire—fantastic for if you want an annual schedulener suddenly in March or July without necessitateing to skip all those extra months. There are lots of wonderful comprise-ons too, from themed pages (monthly laborout summaries! baby tracking pages!) to chic sticker sets for every theme you can leank of. —Nena Farrell

Even second-graders necessitate (or want) to recall leangs! WIRED checker Adrienne So wanted someleang affordable for her kids and didn’t equitable want a noticebook they’d fill with draprospergs. This Daily Checkcatalog fits the bill. There are included to-dos appreciate brushing teeth and making the bed, with extra lines for items to be written in. There are a scant other prompts for them too. It’s sturdy and has held up under unfrifinishlyly raw treatment in her kids’ backpacks. —Medea Giordano

Several WIRED staffers recommfinish the Hobonichi Techo (Japanese for “schedulener”). WIRED checker Adrienne So says it’s the perfect size—petite enough to fit in a bag and helderly increateation but also able to lie flat on a desk. There is a monthly overwatch and then a page for each day, alengthy with a quote that deal withs to be thought-provoking without being too trite. The cover is a branch offentive bconciseage, stamped with gelderly foil and it comes with a expansive variety of cute accessories. —Medea Giordano

Papier has incredible cover portray selections to suit cforfeitly any style or mood. For layouts, I appreciate the undated Daily Productivity schedulener best. Each week has a box per day, lines for notices, areas for three priorities, a lengthy to-do catalog, and a habit tracker. Plus, there’s a meal schedulener and shopping catalog for every week. There are also a scant pages promised to outlining each day’s schedule. I didn’t necessitate these pages as much during my common week, but people with rotating weekly schedules might appreciate it.

I don’t appreciate the layout of Papier’s ytimely scheduleners, which feature all the month calfinishars first, then an overwatch for each month with goals and to-do catalogs, and then the weeks. This comardent of scramble doesn’t labor for my brain. But Papier is the only brand I set up that lets you scroll thraw every individual page before you buy. I’m so particular about what I appreciate and necessitate, this should be standard. —Medea Giordano

Monthly Planners

If you’re seeing for a schedulener that will help you see at an entire month at a glance rather than equitable a day or week, here are some selections for you. There’s less room for detailed to-do catalogs, but it’s fantastic if you’re a huge-picture schedulener rather than a by-the-minute schedulener.

Not unforeseeedly, given the name, there’s noleang discreet about this schedulener. With its luminous-blue cardstock cover and 11- by-14-inch profile too huge to fit in any purse or petite bag, this is for people who dwell—or schedule to dwell—huge. The companion to motivational speaker and entrepreneur Jesse Itzler’s Big A## Calfinishar (as seen in our Gift Ideas for People Who Work From Home), this spiral-bound “schedulener for highly visual people” depicts each month in its entirety atraverse a two-page spread, with oversized 2.5- by 2.5-inch squares for each day. Motivational quotes top each page (sample: “To do exceptional leangs, put yourself in exceptional situations”), and the back of the schedulener retains a goal-tracker version of the Big A## Calfinishar—every day of the year at a glance.

There are five lined pages for notices, a running-pace chart should you discover yourself loss with a sudden burst of energy, and a Year in Rewatch laborsheet with boxes for defending track of year highweightlesss such as “preferite recent music,” recent leangs I tried,” and “atgentle milestones.” If sudden inspiration strikes that necessitates to be splitd, there’s a 300-square-inch arid-erase board in the back that can be propped up for impromptu encounterings or demonstrations. I experience more energized equitable seeing at it. I do desire the days of the week were on one page instead of atraverse both, so I could defend it uncover felderlyed in half on my desk (when uncovered, its footprint sprawls equitable under 2 feet expansive—a convey inant amount of desk genuine estate), but as someone who acquires copious handwritten notices, it’s a worthy trade-off for me for the sheer amount of writing space. —Kat Merck

These Seasonal Planners from Portland-based Studio Tigress aren’t your standard schedulener. These are huge individual sheets covering an entire three-month season, apexhibiting you to have it pinned on a wall or lying atraverse your desk for plain access. The 10- by 16-inch sheets are certainly hugeger than most scheduleners and aren’t plain to travel with, but rather serve as a handy at-a-glance see for your key goals, to-do items, events, and deadlines that you author down. There’re five undated weeks for each month, so you’ll have to check your digital calfinishar to validate which dates are where, but that also uncomardents there’s plenty of room for each month to author down what’s coming up and extra notices if you necessitate. There are 25 spots on the to-do catalog, and I appreciated using it for my main seasonal goals (appreciate apple picking in the drop, seeing the zoo holiday weightlesss in the prosperter) and convey inant to-do items (appreciate getting my car emissions checked and purchasing train tickets). While it can’t swap a weekly or daily schedulener if you appreciate daily to-do catalogs, I cherishd using these sheets to get a birds-eye watch of the upcoming season. —Nena Farrell

Blue Sky’s scheduleners are affordable and unburdened by extra junk—we recommfinish a weekly version above. Each day of the month has a scant lines for jotting down multiple bullet points, and there’s a notices section for anyleang that would need more writing room. The ytimely overwatch lets you track from an eagle-eyed perspective. It’s also the petiteest monthly schedulener we’ve tried, with 10- by 8-inch pages. —Nena Farrell

Notebooks

Not everyone necessitates or wants a stiff schedulener. If you equitable necessitate daily to-do catalogs or are a fan of bullet journals, ponder getting a fantastic noticebook instead.

“Planners should alter according to the shape of your life,” createer WIRED checker Pia Ceres says. For her, that uncomardents using a dotted noticebook. This individual noticebook can be used for class schedules, daily scheduleners, to-do catalogs, and angsty diaries. She says dots are the perfect medium between the confineations of lines and the void of blank paper. It’s equitable arranged enough to let you draw the calfinishars and catalogs you necessitate—then reproduce them when life inevitably upfinishs itself aacquire. Muji’s noticebook has a durable cover to withstand book bags and coffee spills. If you have a Muji store cforfeit you, you may be able to discover one for affordableer. —Medea Giordano

Former WIRED checker Jaina Grey selects for a plain lined noticebook. After trying dozens, her preferite is the Midori MD Notebook with paper made from cotton pulp (equitable appreciate money!). It comes in lined, unlined, or dot-grid. Grey says there’s equitable someleang meditative about turning over a blank page at the beginning of each week and attfinishbrimmingy jotting down her schedule, schedules, and laborload. No missed days to produce you experience at fault. Midori’s noticebooks are portrayed to fit inside noticebook or journal covers (which you can discover all over Etsy). The pages are a lessend off-white and have a weight and texture that draws you in. The gentle cotton paper of this noticebook produces draprosperg, sketching, and plain elderly writing an absolute happiness. —Medea Giordano

• Laurel Denise Horizontal Weekly Edition for $59: I’ve never seen a schedulener portrayed appreciate this. It’s expansiver than a traditional schedulener, and the left side is for laying out the month—it’s undated—while the right has a spot for the month’s to-dos and a dotted area for wdisappreciatever else. In the middle are five half-pages for organizing each particular week. You turn the week page and still get to see everyleang else you already wrote for the month.
• Levenger Circa inincreateigentPlanner Weekly Agfinisha for $60: This is another firm weekly schedulener with little frills. If you equitable necessitate lines and days, this is your suit. The brand also sells a leather folio for the schedulener, which sees very professional but is pricey.
• Artful Agfinisha for $40 (per year): If you desire you could comprise stickers to your Google Calfinishar, this is the tool for you. This isn’t a paper schedulener, but it turns your digital calfinishars into the paper schedulener experience. There are both monthly and weekly watchs, plus an area for catalogs, and tons of stickers you can comprise. Some stickers you necessitate to buy on top of the annual membership, but lots are included, and the included stickers have a ton of variety.

WIRED checker Scott Gilbertson says he doesn’t use a schedulener, but each day he authors down the handful of leangs he’s going to do on a individual 3-by-5 index card. The index card with this to-do catalog dwells in his pocket, alengthy with a petite noticebook in which he jots down notices thrawout the day—frequently the source of the folloprosperg day’s to-do catalog. The noticebook and index cards fit inside this very celderly waxed canvas noticebook cover. Gilbertson says he copied this system from one of the most accomplished people he has understandn, and after cforfeitly 20 years, it’s still better for him than any other system he’s tried. It’s affordable, weightlessweight, and plain to deal with. —Medea Giordano

If you’re reading this direct, you probably are a pen-and-paper person, but sometimes going digital is more handy. A outstanding digital schedulener can complement your analog one instead of replacing it. Notion is a multipurpose productivity tool with tons of mighty and customizable features. WIRED checker Louryn Strampe uses it as an finishless to-do catalog, with tasks splitd into categories appreciate Work and Long-Term Goals, but it can be used as a team database, a budget spreadsheet, a habit tracker, and more. There are tons of tempprocrastinateeds to select from, including scheduleners that range from monthly at-a-glance watchs to granular hour-by-hour days. It even syncs atraverse devices. The best part? It’s free. —Medea Giordano

Maybe all you necessitate is paper and a outstanding pen and you’re outstanding to go. But we appreciate to get creative. Stickers are a famous accessory, and they’re a plmitigateful slick slope. Once you produce your first “spread” (a assembleion of themed stickers on a schedulener page, aappreciate to a scrapbook), you will never go back. Etsy is the central hub of schedulener stickers. You can order printed stickers or buy digital files and print and cut them yourself. You can also select for a brimming kit (an entire spread’s worth of stickers) or equitable the individual components you appreciate the most.