If you need a quality planner to get organized, I'm going to show you one of my favorite paper planners. The Plum Paper planner is all that I wanted it to be and more. Also, check out our video below to see more details.
Plum Paper
For as long as I can remember, I've been obsessed with office products. Give me ALL the felt tip pens, post-it notes, and a crisp, clean paper planner. While technology has taken over in most aspects of my life, I love having a planner to keep track of everything. I recently got to try Plum Paper Planners, and I'm so excited to share them with you! I've partnered with Plum Paper to bring you this review and a chance to win your own 2017-2018 planner.
Now that I'm a mom, I literally can't keep track of anything without writing it down. For the past few years, I've been trying different planners to find one that is the perfect fit for my life, and I think I've finally done it! Plum Paper Planners allow for so much customization that I can't imagine not having one in my life. I wanted to share some of my favorite features with you!
Plum Paper Planner
One of the best things about the Plum Paper Planner is that you can essentially create a one-of-a-kind cover. They have hundreds of designs to choose from. Whether you like neutrals, geometric, or wood patterns, the sky is the limit! I chose the Bouquet design because I'm loving all things floral lately. Once you've got your design, you can further personalize with text. With various font and color options, you can really make the planner your own.
The water-resistant, tear-proof cover has a clear protective sheet which is great when you take your planner everywhere like I do. You can also choose 7x9 or 8.5x11 dimensions. I chose a 7x9 ME Planner because I feel like it's big enough for my needs and is most relevant to my life out of the various options available (more on those later!).
Once you open the planner, you get a nice spread of the current and following years by month. I wish I could explain to you how buttery soft the paper is! It's heavenly. You can choose a colorful option or monochromatic as you're designing a planner. I, of course, love a lot of color!
The next spread is special dates, and I really appreciate having this feature in my planner. I have a hard time remembering people's birthdays and anniversaries (and our friends' kids' birthdays now!) so I write all important dates in this section. As I turn to a new month, I look back at this and add those important dates to my monthly calendar spread.
I love these goal planning pages also, and that they're so open ended. I can organize them by month, or by topic. For me, personally, these pages will become fitness goals as I am working on implementing more exercise into my life!
As we head into the monthly spreads, check out these gorgeous colors and details. I love how clean everything looks in Plum Paper Planners! Also, the colors just make me happy. You can start the ME Planners in any month, so I started mine up to finish off 2017 and go through 2018.
Plum Paper Planner Monthly Spread
Each month starts with goals, birthdays, events, and things to remember. I like having this general overview to start my month, and can add to it as the weeks go on. The notes page is great. Sometimes I use it for meal planning, but most of the time I use it to write down funny things to transfer to my kids' baby books. I always have my planner with me, so it's a great place to jot notes down.
Here's my favorite (and most used) portion of my planner. I like having a big monthly spread so I can see everything I have going on at once. Plus, I love making it colorful! I use Paper Mate felt tip pens and they don't bleed through at all.
Plum Paper Planner Weekly Spread
Following the monthly spread, the month is broken down by week. You can customize your planner to be laid out in a few different ways for this. If you like an hourly spread, that's an option. Or, if you prefer morning, afternoon, and night, you can do that too! If a horizontal layout is your thing, Plum Paper does that too. I personally like utilizing the ME planner option and customizing the rows on the left with my priorities.
As you can see, these are the seven things I find that I need to keep track of most. When you create your Plum Planner, you can change these to whatever is most important to you! I like having this breakdown of the week-it's just a more organized way of looking at all of the things I have going on.
At the end of each month, there is a bills section where you can keep track of due dates and exact amounts you paid. These pages are going to be an awesome resource for me as I budget out our electric and heating costs year by year. As you can see, I have a 'blog' tab in my planner. This is one of the add-ons available in Plum Paper planners, and there are TONS more depending on your needs.
With the blog add-on that I have, I can keep track of monthly blog tasks, post ideas, to-do lists, advertisers & sponsors, and a yearly overview with sections for all social media platforms.
Add-On Sections
Here are the options available to add into your customized planner: my home, meals, baby, wedding planning, and budgeting. On top of that, if you have a business there are add-on sections specifically for that too! Think direct sales, party planning, photography, social media, etc. Endless personalized options for your needs is really what makes Plum Paper planners stand out from competitors!
You can also choose from lifestyle add-ons (prayer, travel, fitness, gratitude), educational add-ons (my class and homeschool), notes, lists, and pages to be dispersed monthly (bill tracking, cleaning, checklist pages).
At the end of the ME planner, you've got a section for passwords and contacts. You can also choose to add stickers which I think are adorable and make things POP on my calendar pages. I chose two pages of the decorative stickers, but there are so many fun options.
The very end of the ME planner has two pockets to keep track of small items. I like to keep my pens in them, or receipts that I need to hold on to.
Overall, I'm absolutely in love with the ME Planner and I plan to continue using Plum Paper Planners for years to come! The fonts are so appealing and the quality is phenomenal.
Here's a little video I put together so you can see
more of the inside of this amazing Plum Paper planner!
If you're looking for more organization ideas for your home and lifestyle:
Check out our monthly budget worksheet
Lauralee Hensley says
I think I like best their Large Verticle 2-Hourly Layout 8.5" x 11" weekly Spread Days. Divided Hourly from 7am -9pm. It would really keep a body organized as to where they were suppose to be at a certain time, whether going somewhere physically, online, or whether needing to do a project, make a phone call etc... Of course with a daily planner like this you can always put family birthdays in as well.
Nancy says
I like the Large ME Planner.
barbara brown says
I like the planner
Angela P says
I love their planners, stickers and adds on, notepads are awesome too
Amber Ludwig says
I love that they have interchangeable covers!! How fun!! I have design ADD so something I could change around makes me super happy!
Jacqueline Diaz says
I love all their planners especially the blog extension no other planners seem to have it.
Robyn Embe says
I like the 8 1/2 x 11 Large Horizontal Planner.
melanie huttner says
I really love their large planner in the print cotton blossom!
denise says
https://www.plumpaper.com/shop/group/8-1-2-x-11-planners
Linda Madden says
I like the Spiral Notebooks. My granddaughter wants to start a journal so I think she would love this!
Randi S. says
In addition to the planner itself, I LOVE the My Home Section of the planner. It's something that's missing from most planners today, so I appreciate that they have that option.
HilLesha says
I love the Large Me Planner.
Jeffrey says
8 1/2 X 11 PLANNERS is a great looking item.
Diane Ricahrds says
BOUQUET PATTERN - LARGE MONTHLY looks awesome!
Karen Propes says
I love their 7"x9" planner. I love how you can design it how you want, I have so many different items to keep up with throughout the day that would really make my life so much easier. Between doctor appointments, quilting, reviews and teaching craft classes, it all goes together at the end of the week. I love how you can keep everything noted and not have to search through a bunch of notebooks to find one thing you didn't finish. Their planners are beautiful, like a personal assistant right at your fingertips.
MC Kershaw says
I think the personalization of the 7X9 planner is brilliant! We are buying a new home and I hope to use my planner to keep projects, contractors and expenses in check!
Jan Lee says
I like their WEEKLY NOTEPAD 🙂 I think the weekly notepad is something I could carry in my purse to take with me to make take notes and keep appointments in for a daily basis 🙂
Vivian says
Boutique large planner
Nicole H says
I love the large ME Planner. There's so much I could do with it.
Danielle Phillips says
Oh my goodness! It's so hard just to pick one of their products as my favorite! I love the planners and they would be ideal for a mom like me who is doing so many things at once like being a mom, a wife, blogger, student, and working part time! I also love the notebooks!
Leela says
Large ME Planner.
april says
I would love to get the Large Monthly Planner in Boardwalk Stripe. I need a planner in my life. 🙂
Stacy Renee says
I like the 8x11 planners because they have more space for detailed tasks and to-do lists!
Melissa Jones says
I love the spiral notebooks.
Katie Bellamy says
I like the Lily pattern the best!
mami2jcn says
I love the lily pattern ready to ship planner.
Brandy King says
I love this cover design the most! I need a ME planner, and a notebook with graph pages!
Daisy Navarrete says
I love their large monthly planners. As a mom to a 19 month old little girl, I need something to keep track of all of her appointments, and events she attends. And with her dad and I having opposite work schedules, I need a good planner to make sure we don't get our schedules wrong, and make sure we have a babysitter for her.
VALERIE GUERRERO says
LARGE ME PLANNER
Melissa Storms says
I really like the LARGE ME PLANNER. I have tried doing all of my planning digitally but there is nothing like pen and paper.
cheryl s says
the large ME planner would be perfect for keeping work meetings organized
chrissy c says
I love the 2018 Ready to Ship 8.5 x 11" Planners .
CHRISTY SWEENEY says
i really like the LARGE ME PLANNER!
Lindsey T says
A record keeper book is just the thing I need,plus that it's within my budget.
Shelley B says
I love the style and look of this planner! I love that is has plenty of room for notes, etc. I also love office products! Staying organized makes me happy and this planner would definitely help me do that!
ellen beck says
Such a pretty planner. I write everything down sometimes more than once! I like how it has different sections and is divided . It would make life more organized.
ellen beck says
Such a pretty planner. I write everything down sometimes more than once! I like how it has different sections and is divided . It would make life more organized.
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