I used to use a Rote Runner in that size but switched to the smaller A5 size a couple of years ago. Both sizes are only for six months and are not pre-printed with anything, even the calendar, so you can start with the month of your choice and configure the week as you like (my week starts on Monday, not Sunday as most calenders dictate. My new one arrived while I was out of town after Thanksgiving so I am filling it in now and adding the first few days’ activities and appts. I also keep a digital calendar but I keep the written one as a sort of diary of what, when and where.

I keep everything in the calendar on my phone. When I make appts while out (at the doctor, for example), I don't want to remember to write it in my calendar when I get home. Also, my phone can send me reminders/alerts which I definitely need.

I used to use a planner back in the day, and enjoyed it, but digital just makes it so much easier.

If I still had small kids at home I would get one of those things you can hang on the wall that keeps everyone's schedules and synchs with your phones. But I don't and I don't have that much scheduled anymore so that degree of technology is not needed.

I also use the A5 size. Mine has both monthly and weekly dates. i only use the monthly but i tear out the weekly pages for grocery lists, etc.

Ive tried using my phone but it just doesnt work for me. I keep my planner by my ipad and add reminders of events as I go.

My doctors send so many reminders its impossible to forget!

Totally digital, because I like reminders and I like being able to search.

Still a fan of paper! My planner is also about the size of an A5. I keep it on the small computer table in the family room along with my laptop and iPad. It's a discbound notebook with a 12 month calendar but there are also additional pages where I jot down all the weird things that pop into my head when I'm watching TV or reading. It's also where I keep my to-do list and write down all the books that I want to read from Annie's 'What are you reading' post - or all the great gift ideas or shopping finds or recommendations on shows or films to watch etc.

I also carry a small calendar (3.5 x 6) in my purse. It's one of the free calendars that you can pick up at Hallmark. When I'm out it's handy to jot down appointments and I also add important dates (birthdays etc) .

At home DH and I jointly maintain a 15 x 12 monthly calendar on the counter in the kitchen - and hopefully we can avoid scheduling conflicts that way. Although one of us (no names here) often forgets to add his appts.

I can’t remember the last time I used a paper organizer. Whenever I got an iphone and could sync it with my Outlook calendar at work - maybe 15 years? I remember I used to have a big planner for work, a small calendar for my purse plus an address book for the purse along with a calculator. Since I retired I keep everything in Google and DH does too - everything accessible on the phone, ipad and computer. I do have a ToDo list app with tasks by date that’s only on my phone.

I have the smaller leather planner from Levenger that I keep open out on my dining table-and when have company it's easy to close and doesn't look bad sitting there since it's a nice leather. And recently, I keep all appts and days I work for my best friend-one day a week...helping them out until their optometry business sells, as they are moving to Florida and didn't want to hire anyone knowing it would be on a temporary basis. I'm also the Treasurer of a women's club that has a few meetings a month that I have to keep track. So far, my memory LOL and my planner are working for me-and I like the smaller one vs the larger one I use to have.

For some reason (I need to look into more) my iphone calendar doesn't alert me of my appts anymore-I use to always use it, but I can't depend on it anymore.

Maire cate, i have not seen one of ghose little Hallmark calendars in years. I loved them! Not sure where Id find one now.

That is the troll. It argues with everyone.

The one thing I never could get into doing electronically is my grocery list. I used one when I was working because I didn't want to carry the paper grocery list back and forth to work with me but it just didn't work well. Now that I'm retired I'm happily using my favorite hard copy grocery list - a steno pad with the vertical line down the middle. I accidentally bought some without the line and it threw me off. If I have something really big going on I switch to a full-size legal pad. We're all dinosaurs in our own way.

Until about a year ago I was old-school wall calendar in the kitchen. Just like my mom. The thing I love about that is that I walk past it all day long and it tells me what's going on today, tomorrow, next week, etc.

But I couldn't take it with me. Sometimes I'd take a pic on my phone and consult my photo app when out and about. I was missing stuff. I switched to the phone as my primary calendar. So great for reminders (as many as the event warrants), recurring events, beginning and ending. Because I'm still attached to my wall calendar (365 Kittens) I keep putting things on it too. Double entry, yes, but I love walking out to the kitchen each morning and looking at my calendar to see what's on tap.

My grocery list is in google docs.

Ded - there are 3 Hallmark stores that I can easily visit but only one carries the datebook. . The calendar starts in November and runs through Dec of the following year so you have to get them in November before they run out. The cover is very plain and so I add a photo to the front then cover with a laminating sheet for a little protection.

One day I asked the sales person why the Datebooks weren't available at all the stores. She said the corporate ones don't carry them, only some of the independent stores. I get mine at Norman's and they mail out catalogs with coupons during the year. Do you have one near you?

This is the before 2026 Datebook - and then the after.

Look at Filofax online. I have a small red leather refillable book that I love.

https://us.filofax.com/

As part of the paper planner set, sometimes termed dinosaurs by the digital set, I took this opportunity to choose the dinosaur that would represent me. Other dinosaurs can of course choose their own representation.

Anchiornus Huxleyi

Very pretty for a dinosaur and only four ounces to a couple of pounds. I probably wouldn't need the extra large planner though if I was only four ounces.

I understand why a lot of people organize their lives digitally. It just won't work for us, even for list-making given our personality traits. We keep a Verizon landline. Most of our year-round neighbors bundle a landline with their internet through Comcast, but then when power goes out their landlines don't work. Our lives are quite different from that of a certain derisive cartoon character. It was against my better judgement to reply over there.

Alexa maintains my shopping list. It's so handy when I open the fridge and see I need something and just call out to Alexa without having to find pen/paper.

We keep a shopping list on the refrigerator. Not much more old school than that! Anyone can add something at any time, with indicators of how urgent the need is (an exclamation mark). Sometimes I take a photo, sometimes whoever is shopping brings the list. My dad used to get little note pads as ”thank yous” from various organizations, now I have them. Shopping lists, to-do lists, “someday” household projects as we think of them.

For a planner, I used a DayTimer for several years, really liked it. I preferred the unruled calendar and planner pages, but one year they said they were doing only ruled from there on out with times. Ruled and too many times didn’t work for me, I really used and needed only ”morning noon night”, and needed as much space for weekends as for weekdays. So many planners squeeze Saturday and Sunday into one space. (Of course, it makes the pages even, having six spaces instead of seven.) The other sections of my set, I kept, but no more of the time-planning.

I use Google Calendar and keep grocery and other lists in Notes on my phone.

I keep short term losts like grocery shopping lon apple notes. Chores and errands are subsets of my next actions node in Workflowy, and all appointments are in my Weekcal app that syncs across phone, laptop and ipad. Each week I transfer appointments and chores and errands into my rote runner so that everything is in one place written down, and I check things off as they’re done. It sounds more complicated than it is, 😬and

I do it bc the physical planner with all the extra notes and checkmarks, revisions and additions of things I do on the fly leaves me with a pretty accurate account of my life.

We do a combo of both digital and paper calendars. It works for us. The only time paper didn't work for us was when we pencilled in the dates of a vacation on our large format paper calendar and a couple who had asked to join us (we declined) saw our travel dates on the large calendar and booked the same dates anyways. Nervy!