Clever Fox Planner Premium Edition – Undated Luxurious Weekly & Monthly Planner to Increase Productivity and Hit Your Goals – Organizer – Start Anytime, A5, Lasts 1 Year, Dark Teal (Weekly)

Has Everything I Need, (and I’m a perfectionist!)
This is the first time I have tried an undated planner, so it is a bit different in that the weekly pages are necessarily separate from the monthly pages. However, since there are 3 ribbon dividers, they are all easily accessible – I have used the 1st to indicate the current month, the 2nd for the week, and the 3rd for the note pages at the back. I have only used the first week so far, but I like the daily pages on the left and the other, more detailed sections on the right. I especially like the habits/skills daily check sheet – there are 7 areas one can use (so far I have only put in 4 things), and then, obviously you can change your daily repeated tasks as necessary. I also really appreciated having the choice of so many colors for the planner – the “gift box” was gorgeous, and liked having the “how it works” instructions available for download. The cover is good quality, the pages are clean looking and easy to read. In the front the planner has pages for your vision, life purpose, passions, skills, affirmations, main goals, so it helps to keep you on track. Inside the back cover there is a pocket which can be used to keep flat items or receipts. The elastic closure and pen loop (which seems to be sewn in) are added benefits. I often buy planners and then don’t really make good use of them, but this one is so beautiful (light blue) that it makes me want to use it more often. Also, even though I am only at the very beginning, all of the pages lie almost perfectly flat, so you can leave it open without it closing up by itself. Therefore, it can be left open on your desk or workspace to facilitate its use, and it is easy to write even up to the inside edges of the pages. From what I see now, it is a very pretty, sturdy and well thought-out planner

This is a really nice planner!
I really like this planner! I saw someone using it to track a goal and thought it would help me to do the same. So, I’m not exactly using it as a day planner but as a way to plan and accomplish a big goal with lots of little parts.The pros:1. A nice section at the front for goal planning. Big enough but not overkill like I’ve seen in some planners.2. Each month has a section with a monthly calendar and a nice monthly review section.3. Every quarter, there’s a new section for 3-month goals.4. Each week, there’s a section for a main goal, main priorities, personal to-do list, habit tracker, wins, and improvements for next week.5. A bunch of dot grid pages at the back.6. Pen loop, back paper pocket7. Really nice quality! The paper is thick and the cover has a really nice feel to itNeutral:Stickers. They’re fine. I’ll probably use a few but most don’t apply to me.The cons:I knew it would come in a gift box. I can’t rate down for this because this was part of the description. That said, it seemed unnecessary.I’ve leafed through the manual but haven’t sat down to read it. I’m not sure whether I will at this point. It looks like it could be helpful.Overall, I’m really happy with this purchase! It’s a nice quality planner. There was clearly a lot of thought put into all parts of it.

I like it a lot, I feel a lot less stressed about planning. It’s also very good quality.

I started bullet journaling about five or six years ago and, while I love the concept, they were taking me waaaay too long to create myself, even just a simple version without all the fancy artwork I’ve seen people do in theirs on YouTube.Every year I’d tweak the way I created the pages from the year before, eliminating the stuff I thought I’d use but hadn’t, adding new things, trying different layouts. I even sent away to America for James Clear’s Habit Journal because I liked the dedicated habit tracking pages. But it was still too much graft to set up the diary pages. And it only had two bookmarks.I began to resent the amount of time I had to spend drawing these things up every December. I was trying to improve my productivity, fergawdsakes, so having to create the flippin’ bullet journals seemed entirely counter-productive! And so began my search for the ideal pre-printed journal/planner…Most of the pre-printed ones I found had something off-putting about them. They were either too flowery, had stupid illustrations or naff typefaces, or the layouts lacked something one way or another. They weren’t grown-up enough, mostly. I wanted something I wouldn’t be embarrassed to open in a client meeting, essentially, but still had all the planning/logging/reflection aspects I like.When I looked at the page designs of this Clever Fox planner, it seemed to me like they’d been designed by someone who’d lived my journey and felt my pain. But, unlike me, they’d had the savvy to go out there and get their ideal planner made into a real thing. And for that I am truly grateful to them. I’m looking forward to the new year, when I can get this baby started!Everything about it is just really well thought out. The cover is sturdy and handsome, the paper is nice and thick, there are three bookmarks, the folder inside the back page isn’t going to rip because the sides are made of a silky fabric, the sticker sets are more usable than any other stickers that have ever come with a diary/notebook I’ve had before. Some of them are purely decorative/inspirational, but that’s quite good; the folks at Clever Fox have hit a good balance there, I think. And the amount of dotted blank pages at the back is really generous. It’s nice and minimalist, it’s clean, it’s tidy, and you can jazz it up a bit if you so desire.So. That’s that. A week to a fortnight of time saved every December by not having to sit with a pen and ruler for hours on end drawing up every week of the new year (and inevitably making annoying mistakes), when I’d rather be practising my guitar or watching Christmas movies on Netflix.In a nutshell: if you’re anything like me, buy one of these. You won’t be disappointed.Update October 2022: One year on from my original review, I just wanted to add that I’ve bought another for 2023. And it is highly likely I’ll buy another this time next year, supposing I’m still alive.Update April 2024: Yup, I bought another for this year. This has become a thing. Still loving this planner!Update September 2025: Just bought my new Clever Fox for 2026. Still a thing in my world. Happy days!