9 Greatest Diary Planners for Everyday Productivity

Plan your task and appointments in advance easily with the Custom Built Weekly Planner by OnPlanners.

The notebook has classic hardcover design and comes with a beautiful and durable cover with the attractive design.

The minimalist-inspired content of the pages provides all the essentials for efficient planning: spacious weekly layouts, to-do lists, blank spaces for important notes etc.

Overall, this is a great planner with thick paper, amazing design and productivity-driven layouts.

First up, this pretty and productive offering from Kade Spade will get you in the mood for planning in style. This diary planner is top quality and certainly aesthetically pleasing with a unique striped and floral design in an elegant monochrome with gold title text. The inside cover is equally as elegant in a cool orange with a handy inside pocket where you can keep a photo of someone or something inspirational to you to look at everyday.

Other cool features include gold foil stickers that you can dot around your planner as reminders of just for fun. We like the “Party” sticker best, although the “Don’t Forget” sticker might be more sensible! Monthly spreads and spacious lined week views are nicely laid out and the planner is spiral bound with a handy elastic closure band. This is a great compromise between a classic planner and a productivity planner.

The clue is in the name with the Passion Planner. This innovative gem of a planner will get even the laziest or most reluctant of us motivated! It is based on increasing productivity and well-being and packed with templates, guides and advice. It uses the following four stages to help you to generate and implement your goals: Dream Big, Break it Down, Work at it and Reflect.

Using this template, you can start with your wider life-goals and gradually get to the point where you are making the day to day changes which you need to reach them. In addition to mind-mapping templates at the start, each weekly view has areas for your weekly focus and reflection, to-do lists, inspirational quotes; anything you could possibly think of to track and keep on top of your progress on the way to achieving your hopes and dreams for the future. If you are looking for a planner with a productivity structure built in, this is the perfect planner for you.

Built with Kickstarter, this planner quickly became an absolute hit among productivity aficionados.

The planner features an unconventional planning system designed to visualize your day and help you estimate the workload and stay on schedule easier. Last but not least it’s made of first-class materials like Italian bookcloth and Swedish Arctic Munken paper.

Besides great functionality and beautiful design, it offers great value for money. It used to be a little pricey, but with time, Evopaper reduced the price without sacrificing the quality and even introduced the ring-bound version.

Erin Condren’s planners are as pretty they come. This beautiful journal planner has a beautiful cover design. It comes in a stunning card box and would make the perfect gift. Inspirational quotes at the beginning of each month, as well as sections for dreaming and planning where you can add your own initial lists such as wellness, home, family, travel, exercise etc., get you started on your motivational journey. In addition to monthly views to jot down your longer-term plans and aims, dateless weekly spreads provide a new level of flexibility that is rarely seen in a planner; a great feature.

Offering two sizes, both with thick quality paper and matching gold stickers to mark key appointments, the elegant Erin Condren LifePlanner puts your productivity planning in your own hands while guiding you along the way. This option is a real winner!

Get pretty in pink with this fantastic orchid design dated diary and planner from Blue Sky. This planner is not just a pretty face and has all the features of a classic, good quality planner. Coming in two sizes: 5” X 8” and 8.5” X 11”, you get the option of a planner on the go or a larger planner for you detailed projects…or both. It’s spiral bound, lying flat, and has excellent quality, thick paper and coated monthly tabs so you can find your notes easily. A nice touch that we liked is an inside pocket at the front where you can keep all those odds and ends that you may usually lose like notes, lists and receipts.

In addition to spacious monthly and weekly views, extras include a reference calendar for the following month to make your future plans, a page listing major holidays and a contacts section. Classic features, quality and style would sum up this planner.

A daily diary is a great option for your 2021 diary for anybody who needs a lot of space to take notes over the day in addition to scheduling appointments. Each day of the month is dated and has a full red and black lined page. This diary would work in a professional setting to outline your entire days’ work in the morning as well as having the option for taking notes and updating your note pages throughout the day. You then also have a page of reference for each day to refer back to. It would be equally suited to use as a journal or for memoirs. The diary has a durable burgundy, hardback cover and high quality paper.

As you would expect from an old classic, sections for contacts, public holidays and religious dates are included along with standard time zones and a compound interest page for good measure! A useful extra is a monthly expense summary page, great for household or professional budgeting.

Next up, another daily planner from the trusted favorites, Moleskine. This version is hardcover 5” X 8.25” in black but one of the fantastic things about Moleskine is their flexibility. All or their notebooks, journals and planners come in 3 size options, the choice of hard or soft cover and at least six well-chosen colours so there is something for everyone. Their day planners dedicate a whole page to each day, allowing for detail. It also gives times of the day in the margin to guide your scheduling if you wish to use them. An outline of a world map is a nice touch, implying perhaps, that this would make an ideal travel journal!

Additionally, there is a monthly 2021 calendar and a collection of stickers with letters and symbols to customise your writing. As any Moleskine fans out there will know, you really can’t go wrong with this brand. It has been tried and tested for many years and always comes out a winner!