Clever Fox Planner Daily PRO - 8.5 x 11" A4 Size Daily Life Planner and Gratitude Journal to Increase Productivity, Time Management and Hit Your Goals - Undated - Lasts 3 Months (Lavender)

First off, the ability to fully use this planner required 2 years after being diagnosed with ADHD. During that time I learned skill after skill, focusing intensely on each one until I had it down.This planner puts ALL those skills in one place and with a format that enables using them as and when needed.It helps with focusing your prioritization - both at the beginning, and then again each month, week and day.It allows you to diagram out to “see” the time it will take you to do things (and if you really *can’t* do everything you meant to do today if you can’t fit it in!) or can use the times the mark what you actually DID do. This is on the dailies. I love that there is space for todo lists on the sides, or notes at the bottom.It’s fantastic for how it reminds the user to plan for a well-balanced life and not just the “chores”. It also helps with “seeing” the future in some more realistic ways. I didn’t fill out the entire first section this time, but as I do this journal every 3 months, I’m sure it will flesh it out.Let’s talk about the weeklies, because I feel like this is the most perfect balance. I cannot put too many “habits” in there. It forces me to think about what the actual main goal for the week is. It prompts me to pick a reward!!! And in the review of the week - it asks me if I did the reward! Which sometimes I haven’t so then I go make myself, and the planner is so much more effective.The reviews here are also super intuitive and guided. You do need to learn how to review effectively, if you’ve never learned this skill before. But it’s absolutely critical. The daily ones to write down what I will do differently keeps me from beating myself up about today. Same with with week and month, really. But I tend to feel most guilty about today, which can get in the way of being motivated to get at it again tomorrow.Lastly, DO NOT REMOVE THE BULLET PAGES FROMTHE BACK!!!One of the main reasons this is super duper effective is that it’s the ONLY notebook I need to keep track of to use all of my skills that I have put so much effort into using. I keep it with me all the time.I even put a tile in the pocket in the back so it will ring at me if I temporarily misplaced it.But with the bright color, and the fact that I am in it All. The. Time. I lose it less often than I do my phone…which to be fair, I have my watch call like 5x a day. Still. I can go a whole week without having to “call” this planner!!But if it didn’t have those pages in the back, then I’d also need a bullet journal. Then I’d have two things to keep track of.Two things to keep track of is how I don’t keep track of *anything*. Not gonna lie.As for the pen thingy, I need to use like 20 colors anyway to keep my brain organized, so I just keep a soft pencil holder in the elastic band, so no problems.There isn’t a single thing about this journal that I don’t use. I love it so much. For me, it’s the ADHD holy grail as an executive-functioning-assistive-device.(Although again, if you are another ADHD-er, first you need to learn to use each skill one by one and build up to it. If you haven’t, then you’ll struggle to get the most out of this journal.)Pro-tip: I often use the “excited about” and/or “feel happy today” and substitute it for things like: “an affirmation” or “self-care item” or something like that. Those labels aren’t always the thing I decide to use it for that week. But that space for it is prime, and I wouldn’t change it at all.

Using this planner covers all the bases.....Habit/task tracker, progress or regress review, objective management, results realized.

The quality and layout

*update: so I made it to the end and I was wrong. They have four months worth of monthly calendar reviews. But not four months worth of daily pages. If they would take out the 29 dotted note pages at the end they could definitely add another month in there!!!! Hey Clever Fox! Fix this! No one needs that much space for notes! And then it could be a four month planner!! But I still give it a 5 star cuz I love it.So I love planners. Maybe a little too much. But I also love customization. I've used other brands in the past (Tul, Blue Sky Planners, etc.) but I always end up coming back to Clever Fox. I've also tried digital but writing is more personal for me and I tend to stick with it more than digital. I even made my OWN planner!!! For me I was specifically looking for a planner that had months, week reviews, and daily pages to plan my day out as it is not the same every day. But I also wanted room to incorporate a journal feel to it. This book delivers on all of that. I love all the choices in colors (i'm planning on making a rainbow on my bookshelf out of them all) For me the selling point was the best layout for the daily sheets. I loved the setup and use pretty much every section.So I've been using this planner for 3 months now and one thing I wanted to point out is that it is actually a four month planner, not three as advertised and stated in the reviews. I have the purple and lavender ones and they both have the same layouts inside. 4 months and it looks like there is enough pages for four months of daily pages as well. So really you only need 3 of these cuties for a full year. I think the price is worth it because the quality is there.The ONLY thing that I do not like is that compared to every other Clever Fox planner out there this is the only one that seems to NOT have an elastic pen/pencil holder on the side and I do appreciate that feature on their products so I thought it odd that this one does not have it.Ultimately I recommend really looking at the layouts in each one of the Clever Fox Planners and seeing which will fit your lifestyle best. But if you want almost a journaling and in depth daily planner along with weekly reviews and monthly calendars, this is definitely a must! It even has the added bonus of reviewing your goals and helping you to break down you life goals and what you're doing all this planning for!!

I have been looking for a good organized planner that has room for notes and list. This planner has given me a view into my schedule and as far down the road as I need. It is built well and is a great size.

UPDATED: Original review below...After further use, I still don't like how prescriptive the goal section is, but overall it's pretty good, however...I won't renew after going through this one as I don't use the schedule section which takes up a massive area of each page. If you use the scheduling section I think this would be great. If you don't, a massive amount of each page is wasted and left blank. They could take that out, make the dotted section smaller and do two days on each page and make it a six month one and it would be a lot better :)Initial thoughts...Just started using it so will update if things change after more use, but overall it contains the main ideas with goal setting type planning, nothing innovative but packs a lot in. I think most people will love this, as I basically I do this with patients for a living I think it's a touch clunky but I'm probably a bit picky with this type of thingProsNice cover, and great choice of coversIncludes most of the basic goal setting ideasMoves through macro to micro goal/value/tracking ideas wellNice use of extra pages for adding in extra thingsNice and big with plenty of space, a little too big if anythingWhat you lose in flexibility from a Bullet journal you save a lot of time in not having to draw out new templates everydayConsI really am not keen on how the goals have prescriptive areas assigned for you, so either you have set goals for areas you might not be interested in, like Business and career etc, or leave big gaps in your goals and have limited room for goals you actually want to set. I don't get why these aren't left blank and included in the guide if people want to add their suggested onesIt boasts 'designed in Europe', and yet it shipped from the US which meant an import charge and higher shipping costsA little big and expensive for my tastes, but some people will like thatNo pen holderThe gratitude section is odd, my use/understanding as an ACT therapist is of gratitude as an on-going process rather than 'write some things here at the start of the journal and we can never mention it again', feels like it's kind of stuffed in without thought of how it actually fits (there's a few bits like that actuallyI don't think this will be my permanent journal going forward as too expensive for the flaws mentioned, but overall pretty good, gets the job done :)

After attending a webinar at work about boosting productivity I knew I needed to revamp my ‘to do list’. I used to have 2 lists work and personal. This past week I have combined both plus put into place what Uni of Berkeley neuroscience doctors suggested. Have you Most Important Tasks and Least important Tasks defined each day before you begin your day. Like everything, this is a new habit, but this desk sized book has helped me feel more productive each day this week. As others have said this book is designed for your desk and not to travel. It is larger than my previous weekly planners. But feels good. Nice quality paper and easy to use with handy sections and plenty of space to detail your tasks and notes for each day.

I absolutely love love love this journal, I must have bought just about every journal from the clecer fox range and by far this is the best one, because its A4 size there is loads of room to write, because it's only a 3 month version I'm not going to get bored with it, I can plan my day down to the very last detail, the extra bullet pages in the back are fantastic so I won't need any other notebooks, I think this is going to be the one that finally helps me get my life in order, the only little thing is the cover is flexible unlike all the other journals I've bought in the past so you will need a hard surface to write on but other than that this is as always a beautiful journal and very usable.

The lavender colour is even more beautiful than I expected...

I love this book. I've never been so organised. My work colleagues are very envious of me. Good value for money.