The Best Planners for 2021 To Get Life Organized

Want to get organized and hit those goals in the new year? When things feel out of control, especially with the chaos of the end of the year, many people take comfort in planning, organizing, and setting goals for the upcoming year.

There's something about putting pen to paper and writing those dreams down. This process is what turns wishes into realities. Writing them down gives them credence and validity, and what better way to keep it all together than with an awesome new planner?

2021 Goal Digger Planner Classic

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https://migoals.com/products/2021-goal-digger-planner-classic
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This is the perfect weekly planner that comes with a side of journaling. It’s like having a private life coach within arm’s reach to help keep goals and dreams in constant focus. We love its slim profile, minimalist look, monthly review section to look back on, inspirational quotes, and ample pages for notes and doodling.

Ponderlily Weekly Planner

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https://ponderlily.com/collections/dated-planners/products/2021-weekly-ponderlily-planner-sage-monday-start

This gorgeous planner is perfect for keeping organized and tracking goals. It features inspirational quotes and spaces for intentions, a to-do list, gratitude lists, and notes. We also love that it's made with eco-conscious materials.

Kokuyo Jibun Techo Lite Diary

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Kawaii Pen Shop

This lightweight planner features weekly and monthly calendars in a slim format and a beautifully minimalist cover. Be warned that they are mostly written in Japanese, but knowing Japanese isn’t important to use them. The most important things like section headers, months, and days of the week are all in English. For those looking for something to easily tote around in a purse every day, this is it.

Smythson Wafer Agenda With Pocket

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https://www.smythson.com/us/lemon-2021-wafer-agenda-with-pocket-1027524.html

The Smythson Wafer agenda is palm-sized and fits perfectly into any pocket. Handbound in England, the cover is made of crossgrain lambskin with gilt-edged, pale blue featherweight paper. We love the back pocket to store important receipts and memorabilia. It’s both functional and beautiful.

Clever Fox Weekly Planner

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Clever Fox Planner

This easy-to-use and streamlined planner is a 12-month, undated weekly organizer. Each weekly spread includes a page for each day of the week and the other page includes space for the week's main goal, priorities, notes, to-do list, and a grid of check-boxes for daily routines like water consumption or exercise. There’s even a spot to write down what went well during the week and goals for the following week.

Avocado The Ultimate Academic Planner

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Ivory Paper Co.

For a student, the Ultimate Academic Planner is a game-changer. This all-encompassing spiral-bound planner is designed with a dual weekly spread layout including a horizontal layout to track classes. There’s also a spot for weekly to-dos, assignments due, study box, and lines to jot down notes from class. 

The Budget Planner

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Ivory Paper Co.

To stay focused on goals, keeping track of finances is almost always the key to success. The Budget Planner is perfect to control the finances. The money planner has subscription and transaction trackers along with monthly budget pages. It makes it easy and fun to keep track of personal spending and stay focused to pay off debt. 

Bloom Daily Inspirational Academic Planner

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Amazon
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School is hard enough in these crazy times, but the inspirational phrases, goal tracking, vision boards and fun stickers in this planner are sure to help students stay focused and reach those goals.

Daily Planner 2021 by Panda Planner

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Amazon
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Nearly 7,000 positive Amazon reviews can't be wrong. There's focus/daily habit checklist, daily/weekly/monthly sections, and reviewers say it really helps to prioritize and organize their life checklists.

The Ideal Planner

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Amazon
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Ideals are seeds of greatness and this planner is perfect for tweens and teens who want to set goals and dream big. Emma Chamberlain balances fun with functionality with undated planner pages, puzzles, mood boards, games, and guided journal prompts. 

Rocketbook Panda Planner

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Amazon

The Rocketbook Panda planner is a next-level planner — it's erasable and reusable, so there's less waste. This Panda Planner is similar to the original version, but with Rocketbook technology and the included smart pen, digital copies of notes can be saved to Google Drive, Dropbox, or Slack. Simply wipe it clean and start fresh every year.

Artfan 2021 Productivity Planner

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Amazon
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The Artfan Productivity planner goes next level by including a pen loop and back pocket for added organization and usability — no more losing those pens. There are also 16 months of cute color-coded calendar stickers. It's also a good option for journaling fans because it includes 88 pages of note pages in the back.

Roterunner Purpose Planner

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Rote Runner

This purpose planner is the best of both worlds — streamlined organized planning and big goal setting for those shooting for the stars. Described as "a unique organization system designed to help you reduce overwhelm and live with purpose. A holistic, strategic and actionable six-month planner, journal and numbered notebook that empowers you to reclaim control of your time and priorities," it'll bring what’s important into focus. In addition to the gridded weekly pages, there’s space to write down both roles and goals as a partner, employee, and friend.

Milligram 2021 Non-Diary Daily

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Milligram

Not only is the Milligram planner pretty with a variety of abstract covers, colorways, and programs, it includes space for action lists, budgeting, meal planning and more. It's the chic organizational planner for the most organized person.

Poketo Quarterly Planner

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Poketo

This quarterly planner breaks organization into quarter-sized digestible parts. Three months is the perfect amount of time to set small goals and reach them. It’s long enough to dedicate time to see results but short enough so there’s no burnout. This is the ultimate one-step-at-a-time planner. Not to mention it's super cute.

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