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We tested the Black-owned Ivory Paper Company’s 12 Month Daily Planner, which is similar to the Day Designer planner. This is by design, so if you miss a week you don’t end up with wasted dated pages and the guilt that comes with them. The calendars are undated, with months, weeks, and days grouped together in different sections.

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In 2018, we tested the original size against the Full Focus Planner, the Productivity Planner, and the Day Designer planner the Panda Planner Classic was the best for its streamlined format, small size, and ease of use.

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The company makes several other planners, too, including a larger, 8.5-by-11-inch version, the Panda Planner Pro, plus a weekly version (we haven’t tested either yet) for those who like to plan more than a day at a time. They also preferred the layout, overall look, and cover quality of the Panda Planner over that of the Passion Planner, which also focuses on accountability. “It says ‘Exercise’ here, so I feel like I would have to exercise so I could fill it in,” one tester told us. Testers who wanted something for goal planning really liked the prompts and the feeling of accountability that the Panda Planner Classic gave them. This is still the best planner for memory keeping, but if you don’t want to shop from Erin Condren, we recommend The Happy Planner or the weekly or daily planners from the Black-owned Ivory Paper Company. Since then, the company has released planners celebrating identity, including Pride Month and Black History Month collections, and donated some of the proceeds to charity. Many Erin Condren fans and customers saw the stunt as racist because most of the students involved were white and wealthy, and they boycotted the company on social media as a result. It coincided with the nationwide Black Lives Matter protests, and many people saw it as taking advantage of that movement, since the organizers clearly understood that having a “protest” instead of a gathering would allow them to get around their town’s social distancing rules. In June 2020, founder Erin Condren took a leave of absence from the company after she helped her daughter plan a high school graduation march that skirted the school’s decision not to hold an in-person graduation during the pandemic. The back of the planner offers a couple of project-tracker pages to help brainstorm and plan longer-term projects. It has room for extracurricular activities or jobs, weekly goals, and to-do lists, as well. The weekly pages are also lined (which helps keep everything visually organized) and divided into seven class subjects a day. The front has space for a full class schedule, and each monthly page has lined space for each day, plus study tips and boxes for monthly goals and projects. It’s 8.5 by 11 inches and less than 0.5 inch thick, so it has plenty of space for writing and doesn’t add much bulk to a backpack, but it’s still big enough that it won’t get lost or squished surrounded by textbooks, notebooks, and folders on a desk. Why it’s great: The Blue Sky Academic Student Planner is the best out of the eight academic-year planners we’ve tested because it has the most useful features for middle school, high school, and college students, the cover is sturdy, and it’s inexpensive-at this writing, it’s the second-most affordable planner we recommend. Wherever possible we’ve chosen options that are widely available and come in different sizes and colors.

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If you’re not sure which type of planner is for you, we cover how to choose the right planner you can also see how we made our picks. Our picks include an academic planner for students, a highly customizable traveler’s notebook, a simple book-bound planner, a minimalist calendar, a refillable ring-bound organizer, an option for memory keeping, a goal-tracking planner, and a bullet journal. We set out to satisfy a range of planning types-from simple scheduling to more artistic uses like journaling and sketching. We’ve researched 122 planners and tested 44 since 2017, and we’ve discovered that most (but not all) of the best planners cost $50 or less. There are so many good planners that we can’t recommend a single standout instead, we’ve found eight, in a range of styles, that people with different priorities will love. You can’t beat the satisfaction of crossing something off your to-do list with a sharp pencil or a smooth pen-and shouldn’t everybody use their phone less anyway? You can find plenty of phone apps to help you keep track of your life, but stationery lovers know the power of writing it all down on paper.

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