30 Sections to include in your weekly planner
If you’re interested in creating your own bullet journal spreads or are thinking about making a DIY planner, I assume one of the main reasons is being unable to find a weekly spread that works for you. There are plenty of generic horizontal and vertical weekly layouts with sections like to do, meals and habits, but here are some other sections you may want to include in your weekly spread.
I’ve also included some planners with unique weekly spreads later in the post, and some recommended planner supplies if you need to ‘hack’ a planner to make it work for you.
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30 sections you could add to your weekly planner
- Weekly focus
- Habit tracker
- Pomodoro tracker
- Checklist
- Recurring tasks / weekly routine list
- Quick tasks list
- Water intake
- Meal planning
- Mood tracker
- Rate the week / reflection
- Pros and cons of the week
- How can I improve for next week
- Journal
- Gratitude
- Exercise
- Inspirational and motivational quotes
- Project tasks
- Budget
- Bills
- Work schedule
- Food diary
- Home maintenance tasks for the week
- Cleaning routine
- Appointments
- Steps
- Daycare schedule
- Class times
- Laundry schedule
- Social media schedule
- Vitamins & medications tracker
- Sleep tracker
- Hydrate tracker
Recommended Supplies:
- Frixion erasable stamps are great for checklists and habit tracking, they’re not as inky as other stamps (like the Happy Planner)
- Frixion Erasable highlighters (the bright version only, the pastel colors are too washed out)
- Erasable pens
- Happy Planner checklist stamp (for the sidebar) – if you write small you can squeeze 2 lines of text per task
- Speedy stencils – mini monthly calendars can be used for habit or pomodoro trackers
- DIY planner stickers – especially text stickers
- Whiteout tape so you can change existing sections in a planner into any of the sections above
- Doodlebug washi tape – for dividing up one big blank sidebar into smaller sections, or to cover up existing sections on the page. I recommend this washi tape in particular, as it’s 8mm which is not a common washi tape size and is not too thin or too wide. It’s more expensive than other washi tapes but you get 12 colors for color coding, the tape has never frayed and the rolls seem to last forever
- Thin washi tape – If you want to divide the sidebar up into sections, thin washi tape (3mm) is the way to go. I did a list of my favorites in this post
Related post: 10 Functional Ways to Use Washi Tape in your Planner
Whistle and Birch weekly planner spread using the study layout
Want to try making your own planner? Learn how to make your own in Affinity Publisher
Planners with unique layouts
If you’re not ready to make a DIY planner, here are some planners that include some of the sections listed above (and aren’t just 7 boxes for each day and a notes section):
- Panda Planner Review
- Live Whale Daily Planner Review
- Law of Attraction Weekly Planner
- Passion Planner Review – Compact and Classic Sizes
- Power Planner (& Comparison with the Passion Planner)
- Full Focus Planner (Michael Hyatt’s 90 Day Undated Goal Planner)
- Plum Paper Vertical Priorities
- Roterunner Purpose Planner (vertical hourly)
- Clever Fox Pro Weekly Planner
- Prettysweeeet weekly planner
Passion Planner Review – Compact and Classic Sizes
Full Focus Planner (Michael Hyatt’s 90 Day Undated Goal Planner)
Mi Goals Weekly Planner Review
Weekly spread ideas
- 26 Non-typical 2 page weekly spreads to try
- 10 Bullet Journal weekly layouts if you want to keep work and personal in the same spread
- 52 Lessons learned after trying 52 different planners in 52 weeks
Plum Paper Vertical Priorities
Power Planner (& Comparison with the Passion Planner)
Roterunner Purpose Planner (vertical hourly)
If you don’t want to do bullet journaling, or make your own printables, or buy one of the planners I’ve listed above, then your last option is to use a company that will make a custom planner for you. The companies listed below do custom planners, but not everything on the weekly spread is customisable – unless you get an Agendio.
Read more: 5 Planner Companies that will make a completely custom planner for you
Custom Agendio Vertical Weekly Planner Review
My favorite sections in a weekly planner are different types of checklists. You can download 50 list ideas here. If you’re an existing subscriber this printable is in the library (click here to login).
Other things to incorporate into your planner
- 50 Expenses to track in your planner (and different ways to track them)
- 50 cleaning task reminders to add to your planner
- 50 Reminders to Put in Your Planner or Bullet Journal
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