Looking 4 a day planner
 

I'm in need of a new day planner, I believe something around the 5x7, 6x8" size would suit my needs the best. I've only checked a couple of stores but they seemed a bit pricy. Any thoughts where I can find a nice one, reasonably priced?

Thanks, Janice

Are you looking for a dated or non-dated (where you write the days in)? If non-dated, you can get the refills pretty inexpensively at Walmart or Staples. I decorated a small binder and then used the refills. You can get binders in a couple of different small sizes too.

I was going to make Staples my next place to look. I believe I'm leaning toward the undated and purchasing refills. THANKS so much!

If you google "free daily planner template" you'll come up with lots of options to print your own if that's something you like to do. I like to make my own, then I know I have the type and style of pages I need. There is probably a template in the downloads thread here on SCS also.

What a great idea, guess I need to be more of a googler, lol.

I'm a Franklin Covey girl, but theirs aren't cheap.

I got a wire bound one from Franklin Covey that was on sale for about $14 or $15. It has a 2 page month at a glance and then the week at a glance for more detailed notes and appointments. There's also an address section. The size was 5 x 7, and you can order from them online.

I've gotten where I buy a small, white presentation binder at Staples (or elsewhere if they have them). The pages that fit in are the 5.5x8.5 size. I buy the yearly "tabbed month-in-view" calendar refills and buy blank, lined notepaper for my day to day planning. I found that the pre-printed daily pages tended not to work for me because some days I had a ton of stuff going on and tons of notes to myself on them that I ran out of room on the pre-printed page. By using the blank, lined notepaper, if I fill up a page then I just add a continuation page for it. Plus, somedays I don't have much on them at all and with the pre-printed dated pages I feel like I'm wasting my money if I didn't use them. I always hated the coil binded planners because I always seemed to have extra stuff that I needed with me but I couldn't add to the coil binding, so the three ring little binder works great for that. I had tried various formats, but this is one I tried after the others and the only one that has "stuck". I did like the Franklin Covey products but they tend to be expensive and they're next to impossible to find much in my area.
Forgot to add that I also like that the little binder has a hard cover and many times I have it closed and am writing something loose, so the hard cover gives me a little "desk" surface. I would really like to find something that zips closed, but then I'd have to give up the hard cover and I tend to use that little "desk" a lot.