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Kaelyn

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I just purchased this one on Amazon and am looking forward to receiving it in a couple days: https://www.amazon.com/2021-Pl.....typ_p_img_

It has cacti on it, and I decided I rather like the symbolism of growing in difficult terrain. It's what I started doing in 2020 and aspire to continue in 2021.

Whatever happens with the pandemic, I am excited about my life this year. I'm still loving my job, I'm hopeful that my graduate school applications will go better this time around, and I'm having an absolute blast making domestic life fun. Tonight I baked chocolate chip cookies from scratch on a total whim because I realized I had all the ingredients in the pantry. If I don't have anything "serious" to do on any given day, I'm going to write small things like that. Why not?

For anyone else who uses an analog planner (or a digital one that you can screenshot), I would love to see them!

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I also have a planner from Amazon but it has a plain aqua plastic cover. I like your cactus symbolism. I will try to get a photo tomorrow. It is in the bedroom where DH is sleeping.

Helena

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Darn, there was a good off-topic thread about planners, but it's gone now

Mine is not a fancy one, but I am super-picky about the layout and this one fits the bill perfectly. The brand is Plato and it's probably from Walmart. I like having a to do list area that's not tied to a specific date. Also the cover is kinda funky!

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Runcarla

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@TG - still there! https://youlookfab.com/welookf.....21-planner

Stagiaire Fash

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Darn it! I had the most lovely planners! Brought home three of them for 2021 so I could take more time with the decision. Also brought home a blank one to do a test run the last few weeks of 2020 to see if a paper planner would as useful to me as it was bitd. Alas, I think I wrote a grand total of 2 dates in the planner. The planners have been returned.

Ledonna N.

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I have one mega planner for the year it is even color coded it is filling up quickly

JP

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I use digital planners now and use Any.do for my tasks, but in the past I always used the Frankin Covey planners. I loved them.

JAileen

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Nice! When I worked I had a large wall calendar and one of those at a glance desk calendar. In theory I love planners, but in reality I don’t use them. I put appointments on my ipad. My husband and I have our calendars synched.

I really want a nice small leather notebook for my bag, that I can put in new pages, but haven’t found anything.

LaPed

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I bought a paper planner for the first time in many years at the outset of 2020. I was convinced, based on 2019, that I would have another super busy year with tons going on and thought it would be fun to have a physical record of events and trips and milestones. Pretty sure I jinxed us all!

So, no paper planner for me this year. Wall calendar + Google calendar is plenty. What I have been reaching for a lot are little pocket-sized blank books, especially ones that can be used outdoors without being damaged by moisture. I keep one of these in my backpack: https://www.riteintherain.com/....._universal

I also bought this 10-pack for use at home. I love that when I fill one up I can put it back in the little case: https://scoutbooks.com/shop/10.....notebooks/

Laura (rhubarbgirl)

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Mine is a half-letter discbound; my current cover is pink and is from the Martha Stewart Home line (Staples or Office Depot, I can't remember which). My new 2021 monthly pages are from Cloth & Paper as are my new monthly dividers. I switched weekly spreads when I started school again last fall to have more room for assignments on each day; they're from Office Depot. I've got a new mood/health tracker monthly spread (from etsy) and a fitness and meal tracker weekly spread (Dear Planner on etsy) that I'm excited about using. The other spread I use constantly is my budget one, but that's just a dot-grid page on one side that I fill in myself and a 'check register' page on the other to track expenses. I've collected a lot of stickers over the years but I don't end up using them very much, to be honest. I'm definitely a functional/practical planner. I'll take some pics in a second and try to post them too.

chirico (Chiara)

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Hi! Here's mine - the one I keep in my purse. I actually got it from the supermarket, and I liked the happy colors... It has auggestions for cooking and recipes. No, I am not a chef .
I have a more serious one at work, will take a picture when I go.

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kkards

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I’ve moved 100% to online calendar, for my personal life, i love how it syncs, sends me reminders and allows me to put in notes & attach emails and websites. For my work life, meeting change so often that having them in a manual calendar is useless. but for my work life i love my perpetual date notebook, it allows me to use as many pages as i need/want for each day to take notes during a meeting, keep track of what someone told me, and notes for my to dos and future projects.

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Minaminu

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I have a Bullet journal with prefilled information from Quo Vadis, it's the first time that I use this format, so far so good!

SarahD8

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I use a small soft cover moleskine notebook. (Meetings and appointments that happen at a specific time go on my outlook or Google calendar.) I have tried and tried to go all digital but I just think better on paper and my brain needs to organize things in different ways depending on my tasks/assignments in any given week.

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Helena

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Oh thx for finding the link Carla, I didn't know how to get back to older ones!

Style Fan

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I haven't used a planner for years, but I think I will get one for 2021. I always use pen and paper.

rachylou

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My $1.49 planner from Grocery Outlet

I barely write anything in it. Mostly I stick post-it’s to it. I’m in a sad state since the smartphone. Before, I had a Filofax and I was soo together. Now, I think it’s too much to carry a smartphone AND a planner, but I find the phone useless for planner purposes.

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Anonymous

Wall calendar for me

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Runcarla

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DH and I share a month-at-a-glance style daytime TSO that we don’t double book activities, Usually it if full of activities. Between pandemic related lock-downs it could get pretty full of swim times and golf games (everything had to be pre-booked due to social distancing regulations. We are in a period of lockdown through to the 24th, so a pretty empty month!

The small agenda is mine and lives in my bag.

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Gretchen

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Notebook calendar for me, for everything non-work related. I like this one because of the customization they support. I also bought the version with disks so I can mix it up as my needs change.

https://www.plumpaper.com/shop.....ngeable-co

Anonymous

I like how this one is laid out but boy is it Heavy. During my busy season I definitely need the timed appointment spots, and having space for gratitude saves me a second notebook. Glad I'm wfh now so I don't have to schlep it!
I don't use an online calendar for work cause PII (health field).
I'm trying to be really diligent about using it effectively

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Flytigress

Here's a fun article about choosing planners by horoscope sign:

https://www.wellandgood.com/20.....diac-sign/

rachylou

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Haha. This is true for me (pardon language!): “And air signs are just not carrying around extra sh*t.”