The quandary of what to do for a Planner for next year . . .

For several years now, I’ve been using a homemade planner, and while it has worked well for me, I decided that for 2024, I would purchase a ready-made planner. I shopped for weeks. It feels like I looked at every planner in existence, and I still wasn’t sure I got what I need. So many of them have things I don’t need, or don’t have things I DO need. Some of them would make me spend so much time writing in them that I’d never get anything done! I need clean, simple, uncluttered. And . . .

I’m trying to change the way I do a lot of things over the next year, so I felt it was time to change up my planner again. So this is what I got for 2024:

It’s by Planner Envy. I got the horizontal layout. I’m not sure I’ll find a use for every single little section, but I like the layout, so we’ll see. They have other layout options as well, so take a look if you’re interested.

I debated whether I even needed a planner at all, but yes, I do. I need a central location to keep everything written down and gathered together, or I’d go back to having notes and scribbles scattered everywhere, and end up forgetting important things. I’m not ready to give up a planner completely just yet. Maybe in my retirement, but that is not now!

If you’d like to revisit my musings on planners I’ve set up and used in the past, here are some past posts about it:

I’m a Planner Nerd: this post shows how I set up my homemade planner notebook, which I still have and will still continue to use for reference info that passes from year to year. It’s just not a day-to-day notebook any more.

It’s That Time of Year: yes, it is, and the decisions are always agonizing! This post has a long list of planner sites for all types of planners. If you’re shopping for a planner, this might help. I will add some more links as I find them, just to keep this list all in one place.

My 2020 Planner: this is the one I’ve been using for the last four years, and altho this did work pretty well for me, I wanted something a bit more formal for this coming year. I have some big things coming up, and I didn’t want to have to keep printing my own pages every week!

So . . . if you’re a planner nerd like me, I hope this helps you find something you’ll like to use. My personal goal is to never spend more time planning than doing, so my planner style keeps evolving as my life and work responsibilities evolve. Here’s to a well-planned 2024 for all of us! (But does it ever go as planned? — teehee!)