![]() This long-term testing and devotion has earned it the top spot here. The Hobonichi Techo is a longtime Strategist favorite, used by three of our staffers (all three of whom have used the planner for years to stay organized). Layout: Daily | Size: 4 by 6 inches | Cover: Softcover ![]() Any of the 30 planners recommended below will surely go a long way toward keeping you on track this year. So to find the best planners, we talked to 28 productivity experts, life coaches, and people who love stationery (including a few Strategist staffers) about their favorites, then culled our archives for standout styles we’ve written about before. (I have, after all, updated this list faithfully every January and was tasked with selecting the best 100 notebooks for our massive notebook-testing story.) Leafing through the well-loved Hobonichi Techo planners I’ve used over the years brings me almost as much pleasure as scribbling in them did.Īnd while I’ve been devoted to Hobonichi Techo for most of my adult life, I’ve covered the Strategist’s stationery beat long enough to know that finding the right planner out of the very vast and very particular world of paper goods can be overwhelming. And once the year is complete, a physical planner becomes an artifact - a time capsule, if you will - of that calendar year’s happenings. There is plenty of research that shows how actually writing down your to-do list and schedule for the day - rather than typing it out on a laptop or iPhone - makes you feel more engaged in the task at hand. ![]() For me this is fine because I work in terms of weeks, just take note of that in case you want to use this template but don’t work the same way as me.Instead of an app or gadget that claims to jump-start your productivity, consider investing in a good paper planner. Because of this, some months will actually contain dates for the next month. Week 5 is located inside January 2019, not Feb 2019). When a week crosses over into the next month (for example week 5 of 2019 will start on Jan 28 and end on Feb 3) I put the week into the month it starts on (e.g. This is sorta a mish-mash of a few different concepts: GTD, Tickler Files, Bullet Journal, etc. I can do the same thing for moving a task to a future week. What I like about this system though is that I don’t have to know the specific date, maybe I wanna do the task at some point next month, in that case I move it to the bullet for that month instead of a date’s bullet. If I wanna do a task on a specific day in the future, I can easily move that task (using the ‘move’ feature) into that specific date’s bullet. This way, the top of the list will always be the current week. Then I archive the previous week by ticking it off. I also review my notes from last week and if there’s anything I wanna keep, I move it somewhere else (I keep separate documents in Dyna as project spaces, often these notes/ideas will be moved there). ![]() This involves moving any incomplete to-do’s out of the previous week, into the new week. At some point later on, probably when I do my weekly review, I can use the ‘move’ feature in Dynalist to move that future to-do to the appropriate week or date.Īt the start of a new week, I do my “weekly review”. To do that, I simply rapid log the future to-do into my today list. Sorta bullet journal style - I like to start every day with a “blank page” where I can rapid-log my thoughts and ideas.īecause I map out the whole of the year in advance, I can schedule to-do’s in advance too. I put my thoughts, to-do’s, ideas, everything basically into that day. Basically I breakdown the year into months, weeks, and dates inside an outliner app (used to use ‘the other’ one, but past year I’ve lived happily inside Dyna).Įvery day, I open up the bullet for that day. This is a system I’ve been developing over the past few years. I just finished putting together my 2019 planner template, feel free to copy/steal this if it’s useful for you! So here ya go, here’s exactly the same planner template but updated for the year 2020! See here: Yearly planner 2021Ī few people had asked me for a version of the below 2019 planner template, but updated for 2020. Special note and thanks to who made a gsheet template that I borrowed to help me do the above faster. I guess I am making this into a yearly tradition ![]() The yearly tradition continues! Here’s the 2022 version of my annual planner template: ![]()
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