Planner Pad Spiral Bound January-December 2026/ Calendar Year 8 1/2″ x 11″ Large 3-Tier Funnel Down 12 Month Organizer, Black Cover/Black Ink

First impressions…I think I am going to love this planner
I do not know why I have never noticed this planner before now, when I have been ordering planners on Amazon for years!(I keep my work life separate from home life, and use the dated Action Day Planner for work.)For my personal life, I have been using the Good Busy planner for a few years; it is a combination of goal tracking and getting things done. But for me, it is a little too heavy on the goals portions, because I keep a separate goals journal.But, Good Busy takes too long to bring their paper planners back in stock, and I am tired of wasting my time filling in undated planners. So for 2025, I bought the dated Planner Pad.I opened the Planner Pad package and went through every page. Here are my first impressions on what I really like and what I think can be improved:Likes:Choice of larger or smaller size planner (I ordered the larger size)Dated (Thank you for saving me hours of writing in dates!)One week across two facing pagesLayout of each week’s pagesMonthly calendar at the start of each month with full page for planning notes (and not all months placed in the front of the planner)Three-year planning calendar in the front, and three years of holidays (I will not need my 5-year monthly planner anymore, which was a pain to maintain)Mini three month calendars on each weekly page: prior-current-next monthsEach page was printed perfectly – no faded pages or misprintsHeavy-ish paper – I do not expect bleedingNeeds improving (IMO):Six pages for Important Phone Numbers at the front: I am 61 years old and all my phone numbers are in my phone. Just make it six lined pages for notes. I will probably use this section for writing myself general notes, like where I placed something that I am likely to forget.Twelve pages of Goals/Projects pages at the back: Just make it 12 lined pages and delete the days of the week and the cells.Spiral bound – This makes me a little nervous, because I use spiral bound planners long ago and the pages would start coming out. I will say that this planner’s spiral looks secure, so I hope that will not happen.I also purchased the self-adhesive Insta Pockets and the Page Finders, because I love being organized.Overall, I think I am going to be very happy with the Planner Pad, and hope to remember to update this review when I begin using the planner in 2025. 🙂

Consistently a quality product.
I have been using this product for nearly 15 years and could not be happier with it.I’m still “old-school” when it comes to my appointment planning, and this product works best for me.

Increased my organization tremendously
This is a really well made planner – good paper, with a design that is AMAZING for planning. It has made a huge difference in how I plan because it gives me ONE place to put all of my thoughts, categorize, and then plug into my week. I have only two complaints: 1) it really needs monthly tabs, and 2) (this is big for me) I do not like a plain black cover – making it pretty is part of what entices me to remember to use my planner. They do make a “seasons” planner which I think is ugly. I have unbound the cover and replaced with an old cover from another brand that allows me to use a piece of pretty paper.

…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 😂