Pro - Best Daily Planner for Happiness & Productivity - 8.5 x 11" Softcover - Undated Day - Guaranteed to Get You Organized - Gratitude & Goals 6 Month Journal (Dark Green)

I’ve used several planners over the years. I love this one because of the size and writing area. It helps me focus on my daily tasks, keep notes / add tasks to follow up on. It’s the first this I open in the morning, wrote my affirmations and then schedule. Great product/ sturdy, comes in great colors too.

PSA: This will be a lengthy review and could be triggering.I have cPTSD and like Mike I found myself not producing at all and I was in the throes of my PhD. I was given a Rocketbook planner for one of my birthdays. LOVE Rocketbook, but I was in love with my other planner I have which is paper based. Well, I decided to give it a go. So Rocketbook is reusable, so it only gives one quarter, two weeks and 7 days worth of pages to work with, but it is a joint enterprise with Panda. I was liking the design and quickly came to realize that I looked forward to starting my day. Now I do need medicine but with that boost, I am able to plan my day, do my yoga and meditate and get going. Using Panda was a key moment to my day and productivity. If I didn't use it, I didn't really work. I realized that I hated having to erase and then go into my computer to see my progress and previous days. So I thought, I will go back to my old planner, forgetting Panda made their own--I didn't say I was perfect. I actually got sad that I didn't have my affirmation, focus, gratitude at the start of my day. I had to create it in this planner. I spent this money for something that made me sad because it only had space for priorities and that isn't everything I needed. So I went ahead and got the Panda Pro for 6 months, because right now, this is important for me. I am almost done with my PhD and am still healing. It works! I have a better outlook, even if nothing excites me at the moment or I am having a bad day. I go through the motions and still get my work done. I have spent 40 years living with a brain in negativity, now this planner truly is helping me reprogram one day at a time. Mike has created something special. I am a customer for life!

The monthly and daily sections are great but the 'weekly' one is horrible. The Monthly gives you the ability to fill it out for when you need it if you're not using it for consecutive months, the daily section is the same so you can fill out the dates as needed.The 'weekly' is just a section that says WEEK on each page but doesn't give the days of the week or even an area to add it yourself. If they just removed this section it would be much better because there could be more note taking areas instead.

The damage was on the front cover. It looks like someone used a blade to cut open something and sliced the cover of this planner. I am not returning it because I bought this for school that starts on Monday. I don't have time to return it and wait for a replacement.As for the planner, I love it. This is exactly what I was looking for. I am a non-traditional student, so I needed a place to coordinate my life, job and school.

For years I carried a 'day-planner' and felt very in control of my life. As my company migrated away from day-planners over to digital tools I felt less organized and less in control of my days... each month seemed to get me further and further away from what I was used (organized). This planner is nothing revolutionary but it is very good. I have been using it for a month and feel like I am gaining back all the pieces that I felt I was losing in the digital tools. There is something to hand-writing things that helps my brain prioritize....Only minor issue I can see is that it is just a 6-month size... although the year size is huge so I will stick with the 6-month. ;)