Planner Pad Spiral Bound 3-Tier Funnel Down 12 Month Organizer, Calendar Year (January-December 2024), Black Cover/Black Ink, 8 1/2" x 11"

I highly recommend this planner! And I have been through many, many planners, from the basics to the super fancy - I’ve even spent big bucks on making a customized planner and once had one shipped from England! - and most don’t last long or are never even used. This unassuming planner pad is the best so far. There’s a reason it’s been around for so long with so many loyal users. It’s well thought-out and well laid-out with space to write everything I need and without all the bells and whistles I don’t need. I initially ordered the smaller size and immediately realized the spaces were way too small for me to write in, so returned it for this executive size, which is perfect. It still fits in my purse and I have plenty of space every week to write everything I need to. I’m on my fourth week using it, and each week I am seeing my to-do list gradually calm down and am using the bottom section more and more to schedule my time. So far, I have used the top columns for a work to-do list for each of my two businesses, a home to-do list, a kids to-do list, and a running list of things to discuss with my husband. This still leaves two more columns that I have sometimes used for things I need to buy, personal tasks, or discussion topics for a staff meeting, as well as the notes/calls and expenses section, which I use flexibly, since we do budget tracking separately. Amazingly, there is always enough space - even with multiple meetings last week, I had space to jot down all my important notes right on the weekly page. The overall layout of this planner makes a lot of sense to me and feels very functional. I’m using the future planning at the beginning for things like my kids’ school breaks or travel plans. I like how the monthly pages are in with the weekly pages - that way when something gets scheduled or I need to write a reminder for something for the next month, I just flip to that monthly page and put it in and I know it will be there when I get to that month and I can write it in the appropriate weekly page. I highly recommend this planner for anyone who has a lot on their plate and/or struggles with organization.

This is my 6 th year using this planner as faculty. It keeps me organized for my many committees and courses taught, I love the monthly calendar at a glance and I make a daily to do list and am able to take quick notes as well! I love the 81/2 by 11 inch planner.

I order every year. Used this for 15 plus years. Keeps me organized

I am a planner collctor, always looking for something new and never really able to commit. I have a dozen of half-used planners, including ones I've personally designed(!), that never seem to be able to hold my interest and meet my planning needs.And then there was this planner. Where have you been my whole life?!I have used this planner faithfully for the year's entirety! And I'm buying another! I love it!PROS:*The format lends itself to great organization and flexibility. I can use it for the funnel-down planning method that it's designed for, or I can reassign the sections for my needs for the week. Sometimes the upper sections I use to segregate tasks based on time (eg <5 min tasks, 10 min tasks, >30 min tasks), other times they become categories (eg house tasks, garden tasks, work tasks, etc), or (urgent, important, etc.), or a nice place for a daily journal entry or gratitude or Scripture writing. I love that the page has structure but not so much I can't easily break away and do something different if the mood strikes me.* There is enough space to write what's needed.* Love the large monthly notes page next to the monthly calendar, and the two month at-a-glance calendars on each weekly spread*Durable pages that don't ghost (I can use pens and zebra mildliners no problem. No Sharpies, though.)CONS:* it's pretty basic in deisgn; no pretty stuff. Wish it came in more color options at least. Green or black? Yuck. I use the light green one so I can at least put some washi tape on my pages to brighten things up without the design showing through, though it still does somewhat.* Wish it came with integrated tabs for the months and maybe a pen holder. Buying those things plus a back pocket can really add up.

Finally! Something to help me stay on track and get a handle on my life. If you have a head injury (concussion, etc), ADD or ADHD, you know how hard it can be to hold a mental image of your tasks and how essential lists and to-dos are. This planner allows ALL the lists, to-dos, daily appointments, monthly reminders, and notes, to be in one place. No more notes you lose, no more adding something to your digital calendar but forgetting to open it. I write all my to-dos and lists in this notebook weekly, daily, and then break it all down to what I need to do that day. Remember a new thing you need to add? Easy. Its all in one, easily visible place. I spend an hour or so weekly carefully going over everything and adding / transferring anything from the prior week over to the current one in the top row of "categories". Then its easy to break-down these tasks to simple daily to-dos, and add your appointments to the bottom, as well as schedule specific times for the to-dos.If you run a business that needs a detailed daily / hourly log for appointments, that should be a different notebook, and use this one for managing your personal life.Its the first planner that's ever worked for my brain and I highly recommend.

Buy without worry. Took away 1 star because they don’t make the monthly dividers any more

I love this planner. LOVE IT. Great for my adhd and line of work. Bought this beautiful one to start the new year at work, and was let go on the 27th of January. I didn’t get to use it at all, and no one wanted it. So it just sat because my mental health plummeted and I couldn’t figure out a way to use it/didn’t really want to do much. It is a great way to take a big picture approach and funnel it down to details if you aren’t good at doing that on your own. It was hard to send this guy to recycling. I hope if you get one the same fate doesn’t happen to you.

Arrived (4) days late, but received in Good order. I have ordered this Planner Pad for the last 37 years.

…BUT, this planner is listed as one that works for a lot of ppl with ADHD, so the following details are to let you know the specific barriers I encountered (if you’re up to a lot of reading lmao) - your adhd and mine could manifest vastly differently in the details.I decided to try it out because I thought the format would help me get my thoughts and tasks better organized..However I discovered a few mental blocks:1. Categorizing activities immediately at the top of each page doesn’t work for me - I need to just write everything as it comes to mind, a sort of 🧠 dump, and then sort it afterward (I KNOW I could just do that in the provided space but I am also often debilitatingly perfectionistic so I block at writing things in a place or way that is labelled otherwise 😅)2. The layout: the top of the page being categorized lists of activities, and then the day of the week starting only in the middle of the page messes me up - I’m super visual and intuitively I just attribute the entire column to the day in question which is obviously unhelpful given the layout - brain glitch 🤷🏻‍♀️3. I frequently get de-railed by the added step of having to rewrite the category/activity contents into tasks - it might make it onto the category and get forgotten in the tasks, or even vice versa, and if the task doesn’t get done on the right day, and I don’t remember to transfer it to another day or week, it’s lost..4. Having the tasks separate from the appointments means that I have to refer to two lists (and YES, the lists are literally one on top of the other, so it shouldn’t be a problem, but for me it is - I need to schedule my tasks IN my appointments or they risk being forgotten)5. There is very little space for the times of appointments, and I generally track activities of the day and notes (activities, health, stuff about my daughter, how the day went), so the lack of space is a problem on most days (this isn’t a religious tome-like journalling practice or anything, but I do it pretty frequently)6. I often have to re-write lists of categories for weeks because some lists or tasks are either ongoing or not urgent and get pushed.. the suggested use is that you leave the categories on other pages with the corner either intact or folded down (instead of being cut), but referring back to other pages is a perfect way for me to never think of those tasks ever again - the saying ‘out of sight, out of mind’ is 100% true for me. I started to write the lists on post-it’s and move them weekly but that’s a bit silly too…Anyway this was WAYYY longer than I thought it would be, hope it helps at least one person 😂