Within Undated, 90-days duration, and “Daily” Planners, the Daily Planner (by Passion Planner) has provided the unique approach to support flexible format availability to adjust to your preference.
Note that I classified it as one of my Best Daily Planners for Business Professionals.
However, any planner has pros and cons. This Daily Planner is missing the Weekly Plan & Review concept by default, and got the lowest score in the “Productivity” category.
In this Daily Planner (by Passion Planner) review,
you will see its unique features, pros and cons,
and why I think it is a flexible format planner based on my test.
Such that you will finger out if this planner is the right one for you.
Note: Among 3 different sizes available for Daily Planner, this review is based on the A4 size.
Exterior
The Daily Planner provides multiple options for exteriors from basic black to embolized colorful colors. Additionally, you can select the preferred size from the 3 different sizes – A4, B5, and pocket.
From the accessory perspective, this planner covers all (1 bookmark ribbons, back pocket, elastic band) except for the pen holder loop.
Productivity
This planner focuses on Monthly and Daily activity.
The Weekly Plan and Review is available only from Free Printable from their website.
Monthly Plan & Review
This planner provides 4 monthly calendars, and each month is associated with
1. Monthly Plan (called “THIS MONTH’S GAME CHANGER GOAL”)
2. Monthly Plan (Monthly Calendar with Prompts)
3. Monthly Review (called “SELF CHECK-IN”)
4. Monthly Review (called “MONTHLY REFLECTION”) – through Free Printable
Let’s review 1 by 1.
1 . THIS MONTH’S GAME CHANGER GOAL
It has a dedicated page where it comes with helpful prompts. While many planners provide simply 3 goals of the Monthly Planning, this planner provides multiple great prompts to organize my thoughts for the upcoming month.
Starting with “DEFINE” the goal, “BRAINSTORM” tasks, make it “MEASURABLE” and “PRIORITIZE”, “INCORPORATE”, “COMMIT” the time, define “WHY” and “VISUALIZE” the achievement.
Following these prompts from the top to down will lead you to set a well-thought monthly goal.
2 . Monthly Calendar with Prompts
As you see in the picture, alongside the monthly calendar, the remaining space will suggest you to consider personal projects, work projects, relationships, and self-grow.
3 . SELF CHECK-IN
This also has a dedicated page where you have plenty of space to view your last month with 4 prompts:
- WHAT’S ON YOUR MIND?
- MEMORABLE MOMENTS
- ACCOMPLISHMENTS I’M PROUD OF
- HOW I’VE GROWN BIGGEST LESSENS
The one I liked the most is “WHAT’S ON YOUR MIND?” section at the top. Every time I start to review the last month, there is some analytical data that I want to quickly review.
For instance, I briefly log my hourly usage every day, esp. key projects. So at the end of the month, I want to quickly check how much time I spent on those projects. I quickly jot down the total hours, where it took time, where it did not take time, and why and how I can improve… just writing down provides me good insight.
Therefore, dumping all out into the paper helps me to look back at myself subjectively and retrospectively.
4 . MONTHLY REFLECTION (Available from Free Printable Format)
This is the unique approach of this planner. If the proper format or layout is not available in the planner, you can download from their website for free.
Monthly Reflection is 1 of them that you can download & print it out.
Some prompts are similar to the ones provided within the planner, but some are unique to this paper, such as
“How are you different between this past month and the month before it?”. – pretty good prompt !
Daily Plan & Review
The Daily page comes with 2 spread pages, as you can see in the picture above.
For Planning,
- Today’s’ Focus
- GameChanger Goal
- Personal to-dos
- Work To-dos
- Free space to Grow
- Self-maintenance
For Review
- Best things that happened
- Today I learned
- Today in one word
- Mood
Firstly, the timetable covers 5:00 to 11:00, which is great. That is useful for the people who are in the global business with strange time meetings.
Additionally, the right page is an entire free space that I can jot down anything while execution of the day. Therefore, no separate note is required.
Weekly Plan & Review (through “Free Printable”)
Weekly Plan and Review is available only from Free Printable on-line.
You can download and print it out.
Weekly Plan and Review is available within those Free Printables.
1. Weekly Plan (called “WEEKLY OVERVIEW”)
2. Weekly Review (called “WEEKLY REFLECTION”)
1 . WEEKLY OVERVIEW (Available from Free Printable Format)
Weekly Plan & Review comes with minimal prompt and format.
I can cut and paste into the Monthly Calendar page where I can view both Monthly and Weekly at the same time, which is a unique and efficient experience.
2 . WEEKLY REFLECTION (Available from Free Printable Format)
Weekly Reflection comes 2 pages long and provides unique prompts.
As a business person, I prefer to review what went well as not go well as minimum. Therefore, these prompts are appreciated for gaining additional insight to reflect my past week.
Organizations
This planner is truly Undated incl. Weekly day label. You can start this planner on Sunday or Monday. Either works.
Also, the structure of the planner is all monthly pages first, followed by all daily pages. Therefore, even if you missed days or did not use the pages for whatever reason, you will never see unused pages left.
They provide various formats as “Free Printable” on their website including
- Habit Trackers
- Finance Tracker
- Gratitude
- Yearly Overview
and so forth…
Customization
There are plenty of blank (dotted) pages. You can get it every day, and >10 pages at the end.
Pros and Cons
Pros
- Thick and high quality paper (120 gsm paper)
- Good enough size(A4) to keep the planner open on the desk while working.
- Various cover design options
- Digital version is available
- Undated (You can start any time)
- 90 days (you can test-trial only for 1 quarter)
- Powerful Monthly Planning across over 4 pages
- Monthly Review is provided with 4 unique prompts.
- The Daily Page includes an hourly table
- Daily page includes, Today’s Main Goal, Priorities, and To-do List to organize your day
- Daily page also comes with free dotted page where we can use for any creative idea
- Unused pages (skipped days) never been seen.
- A week can start on Sunday or Monday in the monthly calendar
- Free dotted page is provided every day
- Approx 10 Free dotted pages are provided at the end
Cons
- May be over-sized & weight for people who travel a lot
- Weekly Plan / Review is available only from “Free Printable”
- Habit Tracker is available only from “Free Printable”
- Quarterly planning / review is not available
- Page numbers are not available.
Conclusion:
The daily planner is a great choice for those who plan and review daily life with Daily and Monthly rhythm. Also, This planner provides the most flexible format to fit to your preference with their hybrid approach – Minimal format is provided by default and additional various unique free formats are provided on-line.
If you have easy access to the printer, then you won’t be disappointed with this planner.