This is my fourth year using a customized paper planner from Plum Paper. Additionally I am using a digital planner called Life Journal from Gospel Focused for personal things.
Features of My Favorite Work Planner
Choice of sizes
5.8 x 8.3, 7 x 9 (my choice) and 8.5 x 11 (my first one).
These features are automatically included in each planner no matter the size:
- Year at a glance
- Special Dates
- Ideas, plans, and goals
- Front of Tab – solid color; you could place pictures here to personalize
- Back of Tab – 3 circles at the top of the page to use for whatever you wish. I use for top goals for the month. Below that is a place to add birthdays, events, things to remember and two customizable lists
- Monthly Spread
- Dotted Notes pages
- Contacts Page – you can add extra
- Passwords page – you can add extra
- Double sided pocket
Choice of binding and Covers
I love how I can choose what design will be on the font and back cover as well as a favorite quote, your name, etc. I have my first name and the year.
They offer 3 binding options:
- Metal Coil Binding (what I use)
- Disc Punch (discs not included)
- Not Bound or Punched
Choice of Layouts
Over 15 different layout options with further customizations possible.
- Vertical
- Vertical Priorities – this is the one I use
- Morning Evening Planner
- Morning-Afternoon-Evening
- Hourly
- Vertical Columns
- Horizontal
- Two-sided days
- Horizontal priorities
- Notes and Days
- Monthly
- Tabbed monthly
- Simple monthly
- Daily
- 12-month daily
- 6-month daily
- Grid
- Full week grid
- Monday through Friday grid
- Teacher
- Preschool + Kindergarten
- Elementary School
- Middle + High School
- Homeschool
Each includes loads of sections useful for each type plus 3 different layouts.
- Student
- Elementary School – lots of helpful pages in back
- Middle + High School
- College
- Personal Financial Planners
- Ultimate Financial Planner
- Vertical Financial Planner
- Horizontal Financial Planner
Choose Your Start Month
Purchase after January? No problem! You can choose your start month and the number of months in your planner!
Section Add-ons
They offer lots of different options like Home Planning, Business, Lifestyle & Education. My first planner had a meal planning section, a fitness section, a blog planner. Now I only use the Social Media Add-on.
The business Section Add-ons you could include are blog planning, brainstorm, social media, photography and direct sales. The Dispersed Add-ons for Businesses include dispersed blog planning pages, dispersed mileage pages, Dispersed meetings pages and dispersed direct sales pages. The choices for Tabbed Page Add-ons include: Meetings, Contacts, Party Pages, and Mileage Tracker.
I probably should have included the dispersed blog planning pages!
Other Extras
My planner for this year has displerse To-Do pages at the end of each month.
You can have no holidays include or add holidays and special dates. I have the standard US holidays. (You get to select which ones to include!)
They also offer sticker pages that can be moved after placing. I got the standard and social sets this year.