1. LifePlanner by Erin Condren ($45-$65, plus add ons)
LifePlanner by Erin Condren is one of the bestselling megaplanners ever. If you're into color coordination, this is the planner for you. Pretty much all of the planner designs are customizable with names and monograms, while the inside pages can be customized to be a vertical box layout, a horizontal layout with lines, or an hourly layout (for those of us who would rather sleep when we're dead). You also can choose to have a colorful inside theme or a neutral inside theme. Some styles even let you chose the color of the coils! All planners come with a weekly spread, a spread of mini month calendars, a monthly spread, and a notes and quotes section.
2. MayDesigns ($7-$20)
All MayDesigns planners are 5x8 in size and come with a canvas covering. They come in what seems like a billion different cover designs and patterns. Monograms are also available. This planner is great for people who want maximum organization with minimum bulk. Inside pages are customizable with agenda pages or blank pages.
3. Flagship Collection by Day Designer ($49-$59, plus add ons)
If you're all about business and organization, but don't feel the need to decorate every single inch of your planner, check out Day Designer. Each day has a space for daily gratitudes, to-dos, notes, and more. If you're looking for a cheaper option, Day Designer recently had a line out at Target that featured hourly planners, mini planners, desktop planners, and more. The best part? They were all under $20.
4. Mead Academic Planners ($7-$14)
If you're new to the planner game, this is the planner for you. They're super cheap and you can get them just about anywhere office supplies are sold. Mead planners come in every shape and size imaginable and don't need a lot of help to stay sharp and clean.
5. Plum Paper Planners ($30-$50)
These planners come with a custom cover and several different layouts. The way the student planner is laid out makes it easy for one to keep track of multiple activities. Family style planners are also available, which are great for people with multiple classes or family members. If you don't schedule much on the weekends, the student planner would be more than enough for you. Traditional planners come in three different layouts: hourly, black lines, and morning/afternoon/evening. The hourly is similar to the layout of a Day Designer planner and the morning/afternoon/evening is similar to the layout of the Erin Condren.
6. Design Love Planner by Stil ($30, originally $60)
The Design Love Planner is one of two planners that Stil makes. This planner is awesome for people who want to look like they have their shit together on the outside, but still have plenty of room on the inside for their busy lives. It comes jam packed with removable quotes that you can hang up in your office, bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, or anywhere that you want to find inspiration. It's also got a monthly budget section so you can keep track of how much of your paycheck you've spent on groceries and how much of it you've spent on Sephora. The last few pages are tear out pages, perfect for usernames and passwords, recipes, and quick notes.
7. Daily Design Love Planner by Stil ($50)
This six month planner is perfect for people who love planners that have a lot of heft to them. It can be bought any time, because you fill in the dates yourself, making it perfect for someone (like me, admittedly) who can't have too many planners. It's divided into task-based and time-based sections, but still incorporates budgeting like Stil's Design Love Planner. The Blush Marble style is a limited edition and will only be available for a little while longer!
8. Pieces of Moment Weekly Scheduler by MochiThings ($19)
MochiThings is the ultimate stationary and planner website. For those of us who seem to never leave our computer, this planner is the bomb.com/yourmom. It's got huge boxes for each day of the week, so you never have to miss your 6 am hot yoga sesh again. Each 60 week planner features 12 patterns that alternate every 5 weeks, as well as a section in the back for notes and stickers (mostly stickers). Check out MochiThings for hundreds of other planner styles, too!
9. Draw Your Tomorrow Planner by MochiThings ($32.95)
What kind of planner lets you draw while your get your life together? Uh, this one, duh. The Draw Your Tomorrow Planner lets you plan your days, make to-dos, all while doodling to your heart's content. It's a dateless planner, so you can pick it up and start anytime, and comes in two sizes and two styles. In addition to all of that, this planner includes: an intro page, 14 months of planning, 58 weeks of planning, plain note pages, and lined note pages. The small size comes with 10 additional grid pages.
10. Lilly Pulitzer ($18-$35)
It doesn't get more classic than Lilly Pulitzer planners. With a range of mini to jumbo, these planners are perfect for anyone, super busy or a set schedule. Year after year, this planner tends to be the queen of them all. Each year brings new patterns and designs but the same monthly and weekly layout.
11. Kate Spade ($30-$40)
Speaking of classic, only Jackie O herself could create a planner more sophisticated than Kate Spade's. Each planner comes with a monthly and weekly spread, plus pages for holidays and celebrations, notes, and stickers. These planners are perfect for the person who's schedule is just too busy for their iPhone to handle.
12. Purple Trail Planers ($30ish, plus add ons)
If you're super type a, organized, and detailed, but never found a planner that could keep up with your perfect fonts, colors, and straight washi tape, FEAR NOT! This is the planner for you! Purple Trail Planners have hundreds of covers, plus you can control almost every characteristic. Everyone has different priorities. Purple Trail has made it so easy to keep track of those priorities with planners designed for weddings, parents, teachers, and students. All tabs are laminated, all paper is bleed proof, and all planners are durable enough to withstand your cousin's wedding AND the first semester of college. If you're craving a planner that keeps up with you and a planner that you can keep up with, this is the planner for you.
So there you have it. 12 planners that could quite possibly change your life. So go forth, embrace your inner Leslie Knope, and color code everything that has atoms.
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