The Best Paper Planners To Organize Your Life In 2022.
When I first decided to get my life together and found planning and started actually using a paper planner back in 2013, there weren’t as many options to choose from as there are today. More so that the planning community has grown tremendously in size compared to when I started. So the options out there are endless compared to when I first started using a paper planner. The amount of paper planners that are on the market as of today can very well make you feel lost when it comes to picking the right planner for you.
When you first start using a paper planner, you will most definitely find the large following that makes up the planner community. You have to remember though this isn’t something that comes to you overnight. Keep in mind that we were all new at one point in time and learned and grew from the time we were new to planning. You probably feel lost when it comes to where to even begin, what planner you should buy and where to even purchase a decent paper planner. Most important rule make sure the planner fits your lifestyle.
This is where the confusion and frustration tends to set in more often then not, especially after finding the planner community on Instagram, Twitter, TikTok or Facebook.
You will see pages upon pages of beautiful and fully decorated paper planner layouts that most likely will make you feel intimidated. Just remember this planner has to work for YOU. There are many different layout options and styles to choose from, some of these options are daily, weekly and monthly. You have your dated and undated planning options. Last but surely not least, you have the weekly layout styles that ranges anywhere from horizontal, hourly or vertical.
This decision alone can be really frustrating and will probably cause you to quickly spiral down the paper planning rabbit… FAST. Not only have I been there, done that, so have most of my fellow planner friends within the planning community, we were all considered newbies at one point in time. Trust me when I say we completely understand where your coming from.
I promise you will find planner peace. Just make sure you are picking a planner based on your lifestyle, not by how it looks in photos on social media. This is what causes total planner meltdown, or shut down, getting a planner based on others photos that does not in reality actually work for you in the long run.
What’s the point right?
Moving forward, my hope are to help guide anyone who finds this blog post and steer them into the right direction when it comes to choosing a paper planner. There are so many different options and styles when it comes to choosing a planner. I will be adding a variety of different types of planners along with some of my all time favorites down below. I will also go a bit into detail and give some descriptions on these planners and the different options you can find.
THE PLANNERS I WILL BE LISTING BELOW ARE JUST FROM MY OWN EXPERIENCE AND IS SOLELY MY OPINION, THIS IS EITHER FROM USING ONE OF THESE PLANNERS OR THE PLANNER COMMUNITY. I AM NOT TELLING ANYONE TO BUY ONE PLANNER ON THIS LIST OVER THE OTHER. LASTLY, I AM NOT A EXPERT OR DO I CLAIM TO BE, I JUST KNOW A LOT ON PAPER PLANNERS AND PLANNING IN GENERAL FROM EXPERIENCE.
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The Best
Paper Planners
To Organize Your
Entire Life In 2022.
• The Erin Condren Weekly Life Planner
The Erin Condren Weekly Life Planner Is a coil styled planner that measures 7 inches by 9 inches in size. The Erin Condren Weekly Life Planner comes with a removable cover, lots of different note sections and goal planning. There are three different layout options as well as the option to customize your page designs with three different styles. Also you have your sturdy double pocket folder in the back, 4 sticker sheets coiled inside as well as a removable clear pouch and ruler.
The Erin Condren Vertical Neutral Weekly Life Planner has been my first planner option now for many years. Every year I order another planner from Erin Condren faithfully. Not only does the Erin Condren have everything you need all wrapped up into one planner, the paper quality is the best yet. I highly recommend that you give this planner a try.
The Erin Condren Life Planner will run you around 60.00$.
The Erin Condren Weekly Life Planner has been my go to planner now for years.
The layout options are as follows..
Horizontal Weekly
Vertical Weekly
Hourly Weekly
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• The Happy Planner
The Happy Planner is another really popular planner that a lot of planners use within the planner community. Like Erin Condren you have various sizes and Layouts, the difference between the two, The Happy Planner is a disc bound planner. The paper quality is also great and you can walk into most stores and purchase one. They also have a line of disc punches so you can add your own pages within the planner.
The Happy Planner comes in three different sizes and three layout options. More so the punch also comes in three sizes. You can also buy expansion packs to add to your happy planner. Lastly You can find a whole line of stickers, notebooks and storage all from The Happy Planner line.
The Happy Planner will run you anywhere from 20$-40$.
The Weekly Bound Simplified Planner by Emily Ley is somewhat similar to your Daily Simplified planner all though this is a bound planner that has a weekly that’s horizontal with lined weeks. To start you have your month on two pages with laminated step tabs before the weeklies begins.
The Weekly Simplified Planner Is super pretty and super colorful, however not too colorful, I feel it’s the perfect balance. In the beginning of the planner, Emily Ley guides you on using your new planner for maximum productivity. I highly recommend you giving her planners a try.
The Weekly Simplified Planner will run you about 60$.
• Laura Casey’s Power Sheets - Goal Planner
The Power Sheets by Laura Casey has been around now for many years. When this planner first was released it was a standard goal planner with a thin cover and plastic coil. After a year or two, The Power Sheets got a complete makeover, the coil went from thin plastic to thick metal, the cover was more of a hard cover and there were a few cover options. Now there are so many beautiful covers and the planner is amazing.
The Power Sheets by Laura Casey isn’t your typical daily, weekly or monthly style planner. This is a planner for creating steps to achieve whatever it is you dream of. I highly recommend you buy this Goal Planner and use it daily. It really does help you break down your visions on to paper and work on reaching your goals everyday you use this planner.
• The Productivity Planner
The Productivity Planner is a bound notebook style planner that is A5 size. The Productivity Planner is a daily and weekly planner that is non dated. This planner helps you to stay on top of your weekly goals and review what happened each week. Everything is non-dated so you do not waste pages like most planners. Includes 7 days of the week pages and Saturday and Sunday page per week.
The Productivity Planner will run you around 35$.
• The Reminder Binder
The Reminder Binder was designed to brighten your day and lighten the load from your mind. Use its page to download your days, weeks and months so that your mind is free to enjoy the present. The Reminder Binder is a coiled type planner that was built with moms and busy schedules in mind.
The Reminder Binder will run you around 30$.
The Erin Condren Monthly Life Planner is a great option if you want for customization within your weekly layout. I personally use the monthly planner along with my regular weekly Erin Condren Life Planner. The Erin Condren Monthly Life Planner has laminated monthly tabs and your month on two page layout calendar. Before each month begins you have a two page month at a glance page.
At the end of The Erin Condren Monthly Life Planner you have two sticker sheets and a sturdy double pocket folder, both coiled inside the monthly planner. I love this planner.
The Erin Condren Monthly Life Planner will run you about 40$.
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• The Erin Condren A5 Ring Bound Planner
The Erin Condren A5 Ring Bound Planner is not only the perfect size being it’s A5, the inserts are super thick paper just like the life planner paper. You have a choice from a daily or weekly layout, a personalized cover and also a line of accessories to use inside your ring planner. You also have the option to purchase additional dailies, lined paper and productivity inserts.
The Erin Condren A5 Ring Bound Planner is made of soft vegan leather with card pockets on the left and a notepad pocket on the right. Lastly, you have many planner/cover styles to choose from such as plain colored planners to designed covers to match the life planner removable covers. If you would like to further customize your planner, you could use your own inserts or purchased inserts that are A5 size from other shops alongside your Erin Condren Inserts. All you need is a A5 punch or to use a single punch lined up with one of your Erin Condren Inserts.
You can also find a large variety of different accessories on Etsy to further personalize your Erin Condren A5 Ring Planner.
The Erin Condren A5 Ring Bound Planner will run you around 80$ in price.
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• The Day Designer
The Day Designer was created by Whitney English and has been around longer then I’ve been planning. When I joined the planning community 9 years ago, The Day Designer was one of the first and most popular daily planners among the planning community (and still is). The Day Designer and The Daily Simplified Planner may look similar but each do their own things in regards to the way the planner is put together.
The Day Designer has a beautiful yet durable metal coil, a hard sturdy cover with gold meter corner covers and super thick paper. The Day Designer is the perfect size measuring 9 by 9. However if you rather something smaller, there is a coiled mini version.
The Day Designer like I mentioned above is a daily planner that is considered hourly. You also have a meal section, a goal setting section along with a note section. Your calendar is a month on two page with sturdy laminated monthly tabs. The Day Designer by Whitney English is the ultimate daily planner in my opinion.
The Day Designer will run you about 60$.
• The Daily Simplified Planner
The Daily Simplified Planner by Emily Ley is a daily, timed planner that is coiled bound with monthly step tabs. The Daily simplified planner comes in multiple cover styles and has a sticker sheet included, a double pocket folder and super thick paper. In between your dailies you have a month on two page calendar. In your daily pages you also have a note column and to do list area.
The Daily Simplified Planner is the perfect size, about 7 by 9 and is super simple to use. This is why it’s called the Simplified Planner. It helps you to write your tasks and goals daily with a simplistic style. I have been using The Simplified Daily Planner now for many years and absolutely love it.
The Emily Ley Daily Simplified Planner will run you about 60$.
The Hobonichi Techno Planner is a daily, dated, dot grid planner that’s smaller in size then a typical A5 planner. This planner is considered to be A6 size and is the perfect option if you want portability, such as to bring with you inside your pocketbook or bag. The Hobonichi planner comes with one of two options, English or Japanese format.
The Hobonichi Techo Planner is a daily planner that starts on Monday and runs through Sunday. Before your daily pages begin your monthly calendar sits in the front of your planner before your dailies. To complete this planner is the note section after your yearly dailies inside the back.
The Hobonichi Planner line is a pretty popular line of planners throughout the planning community. There’s also different styles such as The Hobonichi Cousin. I love that you can buy many different options of notebook covers to store your Hobonichi Planner inside.
You can find notebook covers ranging anywhere from your standard plain notebook sleeves, decorated more travelers notebook style covers to fancy leather covers with pockets and pen loops. The choice is yours… but either way this planner won’t disappoint.
• PopRun A5 Bound Daily Planner
The PopRun line of planners are still one planner line (shockingly) I still have yet to try. This planner is also a daily style planner that is bound with a hard Bullet journal style cover. The PopRun Daily Planner has fantastic reviews and I am definitely intrigued by this planner. The PopRun Planners also comes in a couple of different styles such as your weekly coiled style planner to a bound pocket style planner.
• The Clever Fox Planner Pro A4 Weekly Bound Planner
I’ve talked about The Clever Fox Planner is some of my other planner line posts throughout the years. However this planner was totally upgraded. The Clever Fox Pro Planner is a one year, undated, weekly and monthly layout planner with all the bells and whistles.
The Clever Fox Planner has a quick start guide in the beginning and is a weekly and monthly planner. The Clever Fox Pro also has premium paper, a sturdy pocket folder, areas for all your goals and budgeting pages. Last but definitely not least there are note pages at the completion of your year.
If you thought this planner couldn’t sound anymore appealing, you also have a pen loop, elastic closure and 6 sticker sheets. To me this sounds like an all in one planner to basically organize your entire household or even your whole life. The Clever Fox Planner has been around now for years and is really reputable. This planner also comes in a large assortment of color options.
The Clever Fox Planner will run you about 40$.
• Essential Weekly Planner
The Essential Planner is a coiled planner that measures 7 inches by 9 inches and comes in a monthly style planner or a weekly/monthly style planner. The Essential Planner also comes in a 8 by 11 size if you want a bigger planner. I love the look of this planner being it’s a more simple and sleek planner. There are step tabs throughout the planner and bonus snap in ruler style dashboard with sticky notes.
The Monthly Planner has your month on two pages with lined blank pages in between your months. At the end of the planner you have note pages.
The Weekly Planner has your month on two pages with your weekly pages filling each month in between. At the end of your planner you have note pages.
The Essential Planner is a nice style, simple planner and is also reasonably priced. This planner will run you anywhere from 17$-25$.
• Go Girl Planner Pro Weekly Planner
The Go Girl Planner comes in a assortment of different options. You can choose from horizontal, vertical and hourly bound planners. There is also a coiled planner option. Lastly you can also purchase a bound pocket planner.
The Go Girl Planner comes in A5 size, measuring 5.8 by 8.3 inches. It has a high-quality vegan leather cover with an elastic band, a pen holder, a pocket at the back, 3 bookmarks, and thick 120gsm no-bleed paper. I absolutely love Bullet Journal style planners.
The Go Girl Planner will run you about 15$-35$ depending on which planner you will choose.
• Bloom Daily Planner
The Bloom Planner does come in a large range of styles and sizes from monthly, weekly and daily planning that focuses on your goals and visions. The Bloom Planner has been around for many years and comes in a large variety of sizes and planning styles. You can find The Bloom Planner line at your local office or craft stores or even on Amazon. The Bloom Planner has many different planning layouts and options, and also comes in different coiled and bound styles. You can also find portfolio style leather planners.
The Bloom Planner will run you around 20$ and up depending on type of planner and the size, type and style of planner you choose.
• Poketo Quarterly Goal Planner
Have you wanted to try your hand at a new skill but have quickly lost motivation? Or perhaps planned on starting a new hobby but pushed it to the back of your mind? The Poketo is on hand with the Quarterly Goal Planner to ensure you make your dreams become a reality. Helping to not just set professional and personal targets, but to stick to them as well. This planner is complete with over three months’ worth of goal planning with question prompters to ensure you get the most out of your challenges.
The Poketo Quarterly Goal Planner will run you about 25$.
• The Paper Source Daily Planner
The Paper Source Daily Planner is marble with gold foil accents. This is a planner, notebook in one. The Paper Source is a bound daily planner that has an elastic closure. I think this would be a great planner to add to your collection.
The Paper Source Daily Planner will run you around 50$.
I hope this post will help anyone who is either new to paper planning or maybe someone who has been using a paper planner already but struggling with the current planner they are using. Planning isn’t a one size fits all case, there’s sometimes years of trial and error before you find planner peace. I tried to include a variety of different planners ranging in different sizes layouts and price. My hopes are you can find a planner that I have listed above that will suit your everyday needs.
SO NOW IT’S YOUR TURN…
What do you think of the the paper planners I have talked about above, I would love to hear your thoughts on this subject. Lastly, are you a planner addict such as myself and active within the planning community already, what’s your go to planner. I would love to hear your thoughts.
Keep in mind there are still so many other options out there to choose from besides just coiled and disc bound planners. I don’t want to overwhelm anyone who may be new and looking for their first planner either. I will make sure to do a separate post on ring bound planners along with another extremely popular planning option, The Bullet Journal Method.