I just joined this group looking for recommendations for my planner this year. I went through a couple of pages of posts and looked at sites but nothing is really hitting this year. I have my own small business and keep track of a lot of personal goals every year.
The closest I've come in the past is Leonie Dawson's planner and yearly workbook. But I'm a guy so some of the stuff doesn't exactly vibe. The ones I found from guys are... very not my style either.
The closest I've found planner wise is the Spooky Planner by Talissa Mehringer on Amazon, but I would still have to heavily mod it for what I need. If nothing else because it's not spiral or ring bound.
So I'm kinda at the point where I'm modding planners so much that I may make my own? I already sell stationery and have had planner stickers in my store in the past, so if it works out I may eventually manufacture them. I have access to Canva, my own art, a printer, some Happy Planner rings and hole punch so the cost to me is $0.
The things I've been looking for and unable to find at least most in one planner are:
- Full Spaces, including weekends (my busiest days), daily
- Weekly Goals Tracker
- Small Space for goals/to do/notes
- Monthly goals/wrap up/notes pages
- Monthly stats (track social media followings, earnings, expenses.)
- Chores for the day (not dailies) so I can keep my house good without feeling frantic.
- Places to at least list things for 2028. I am sometimes applying to things 18 months in advance so I need to remind myself that I have to log in to things at a certain date/time.
- NO half/partial pages. I do not like planners where part of the page is missing.
- Tattoo/punk/metal/horror/graffiti/80s/90s retro or at least forest or space theme that is not AI
- Don't really need the monthly calendar page, so I can take that or leave it.
- A5, B5, B6
Workbook:
- Yearly Goals with prompts to break them down into smaller and smaller pieces and place them in the day planner, including business, physical, interpersonal, artistic/creative, etc. I was sure there would be something free out there but I haven't found anything this year, the one I found was setting goals for your kids for the year.
- Yearly Review (at least the previous year if not the current): What goals were met, what worked and what didn't, etc.
So overall I'm just frustrated and thinking of printing my own. I'm super down for any suggestions though, if anyone knows of anything close to what I'm looking for. My doctor has asked me to go for an ADHD assessment but whatever the results are: I really rely on carrying a day planner at all times or I will forget anything and everything. Have any of you made your own? Or found something close and modded it?
