Its 10 3 / 4-by-12 SmartDate planner is a build-it-yourself system that allows me to choose everything according to my needs and my style. I could opt for daily, weekly or monthly calendar views ...

This is easiest done with a paper planner, especially one that's divided into seven days on one side and blank or lined paper on the other. 5. Make Your Steps Concrete .

And here's an important caveat: these are all paper planners. In a digital world, we still want — and need — to write it all down. It helps us remember and helps goals happen.

Paper planners, totems of a pre-digital era, are enjoying a surprising resurgence. “Paper is so calming,” says one fan.

Paper planners are now big business with more than 5,000 options for 2019 planners on Amazon, and specialty shops offering high-end bound books and imports from Korea and Japan.

Like Livescribe systems, the Smart Planner as it’s called uses paper embedded with sensors that can read and sync anything written by the Moleskine Pen+ though this system is made by Neo.

The following year, she launched Richmond, Virginia-based Cloth & Paper, a company that makes planners. The business flourished during the pandemic, with revenue reaching more than $7 million in 2021.

I’m using the Day-Timer Two-Page per Day, portable-size planner. It’s got monthly pages for quick, at-a-glance looks at the month. For every day of the year, it has an appointment schedule (8 ...