Shopping for a new planner is an annual tradition! One reason people love inkWELL Press (besides our highly coveted, super-thick 140 gsm paper), is that they can customize their entire planner: the cover design, disc color, and of course, the inserts.
Our premium planning inserts, each pre-punched for a 9-disc configuration, come in five different layouts that can be customized and rearranged to meet your needs. The question is, which one is best for you?
Let’s break down the basics of each layout.
Classic Weekly
The Classic Weekly offers a vertical weekly view. This style is ideal for people who like to plan their days by priority. Instead of planning from morning until night, our vertical layouts start with an Escalate section for urgent to-dos, then a Cultivate section for less urgent items, and finally an Accommodate section for important tasks without a looming deadline.
Classic pages offer a narrow planning column for each day (weekends get equal space!), so this layout is best for short task names. If you use clear, concise notes, Classic is the insert for you!
There’s room for your daily top 3, weekly focus, and extra notes space in each two-page weekly spread. At 199 pages, the Classic insert creates the full-size planner experience when all the pages are used. It offers monthly views for all 12 months and all the extra planning pages that we’re known for (link to Feature Chart graphic when complete). Classic Weekly is perfect for first time planners who aren’t sure how much (or how little) they will plan each day.
✅ Good for beginners
✅ Easy to use
✅ Offers a variety of pages
✅ Best for priorities and mono-tasking
🔗 Shop the Classic Weekly insert here.
Flex Weekly
The Flex Weekly offers a horizontal view and does not include the Escalate, Cultivate, and Accommodate sections that the Classic view does. Each day includes long lined sections that look like index cards, and unlined color-coded blocks for the daily top 3.
The Flex layouts are ideal for note-takers who plan in sentences because there’s so much clean writing space! They like to plan one day at a time and add notes as they go.
There’s room for weekly focus and extra notes space in each two-page weekly spread. At 199 pages, the Flex insert creates the full-size planner experience when all the pages are used. It offers monthly views for all 12 months and all the extra planning pages that we’re known for (link to Feature Chart graphic when complete).
Flex is popular with writers and memory-keepers because of the openness. If you edit your plans throughout the day or have used traditional bound planners or journals in the past, Flex is for you.
✅ Good for users of store-bought or traditional day planners
✅ Easy to use
✅ Offers a variety of pages
✅ Best for note-takers, multi-taskers, and
editing throughout the day
🔗 Shop the Flex Weekly insert here.
Monthly
At just 93 pages, the Monthly planner is significantly lighter and has a slender silhouette featuring 12 monthly spreads, plus all the extra content pages that are also included in our Classic and Flex layouts.
Monthly is perfect for those who simply want to see each month at-a-glance. If you’re a Big Picture kind of person, and you just want to open your planner, see what you must do that day and be done with it, the Monthly insert may be all that you need!
✅ Good for people who plan ahead or just note big events on their calendar
✅ Quick and easy to use
✅ Offers a variety of pages
✅ Best for big picture-planning
🔗 Shop the Monthly insert here.
Daily
Our non-dated daily layouts are best purchased as an add-on to the monthly or weekly designs because they do not include monthly views, notes pages, or the fun extra pages like the gift list or automations. It provides 184 one-day planning pages for meticulous planning or use on the busiest days.
The Daily layout includes the Escalate, Cultivate, and Accommodate sections as well as an hourly planning list that starts at 5 am and ends at 11 pm.
✅ Good for use on busy days
✅ An excellent add-on to our Monthly layout
✅ Does NOT include monthly views, notes pages, yearly overview, reference calendars, or the extra pages for gratitude, project planning, gift list, bucket list, bill tracking, or automations.
✅ Does include Important Dates, both goal-setting worksheets, 4 non-dated mission boards, 4 plan & focus pages, and 184 non-dated planning sheets.
🔗 Shop the Non-Dated Daily insert here.
Goals Insert
The Goals planner is non-dated and includes detailed planning pages for up to 12 goals. There are no monthly views or the usual pages you find in our weekly or monthly inserts.
The Goals planner makes an excellent add-on to our Monthly or Weekly planners. It’s designed for people who set (or want to set) big goals that need to be broken down into smaller goals in various parts of their life. The Goals planner is recommended for people who have read, or intend to read, Tanya Dalton’s 2021 book, On Purpose, which refers to pages in the Goals planner.
✅ Good for goal-oriented self-starters or entrepreneurs
✅ An excellent add-on to our Monthly layout
✅ Does NOT include monthly views, Important Dates, yearly overview, reference calendars, or the extra pages for gratitude, project planning, gift list, bucket list, bill tracking, or automations.
✅ Does include Important Dates, both goal-setting worksheets, non-dated mission boards, and lined notes pages.
When it comes to finding a new planner, always consider how you plan your days today. What do you like about your current planning system? What would you like to change about it?
As you shop, be sure to take your personality and goals into account too. If you need a little motivation to start new things, one of our dated weekly or monthly inserts may inspire you to get started before the dates run out!
Likewise, if your current planner doesn’t offer enough space for your daily tasks, adding our non-dated daily inserts may be just what your busy schedule needs.
Still not sure? We’re here for you! If you have any questions about which layout is best for you or someone you know, email us at hello@inkwellpress.com and one of planning experts will help you make the perfect choice.
