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February 1, 2021

Always Satisfied Planner Review (Monthly calendar, weekly checklist and daily planner)

A planner without a traditional days of the week spread! The Always Satisfied planner has monthly calendars, weekly checklists and a day to a page layout.

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Quick facts

  • Size: A5 (approx. 5.75″ wide x 8.5″ high)
  • Hardcover
  • Sewn binding
  • 2 page Monthly calendar (starts on Monday)
  • 2 checklist pages for each week plus a procrastination worksheet page
  • Day to a page scheduling layout
  • Neutral inside pages
  • Comes in a gift box with an erasable pen
  • Ivory paper
  • Dates to remember
  • 80 gsm paper
  • Undated
  • Lasts 6 months
  • Comes with an erasable black pen
  • 1 Ribbon bookmark
  • Pocket folder

Price: $15.50 USD on Amazon

Note: There is also a loose pages / refills version to use with their ring bound faux leather cover ($35 USD on Amazon). Refills for the ring binder are $13 USD on Amazon

Let’s take a closer look!

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The Cover

A very plain black cover – and no other colors to choose from 🙁

You can’t see it very well in the photo (video shows it better), but there are vertical ‘grains’ in the cover

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Approx. 1″ thick

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Dates at a glance

Line spacing is a bit smaller than most planners at 5mm.

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Monthly Calendar

All 6 of the monthly calendars are clustered together at the front of the planner.

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Starts Monday. Each box is about 1.25″ wide x 1″ high

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Track up to 3 habits

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Next are the weekly planning pages with the daily interspersed between.

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Weekly Planning

The weekly planning pages are the reason I wanted this planner. Instead of days of the week there are 2 checklist pages where you can rank your tasks in priority order and also separate work and home tasks.

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In addition to these pages there’s a procrastination worksheet. This page is a good idea but the instructions take up a lot of space. If this was transferred into a little information card / page marker so there’s more room to write that would be helpful.

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Daily Planning

Each day (including Saturday and Sunday) gets their own page. This is an undated planner so you can stop and start using anytime (although the planner will last 6 months if you use it every day).

The schedule runs from 6am to 10pm in half hourly intervals.

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The right column of the spread includes:

  • My focus
  • My Goal today
  • My action list
  • Today I hope for
  • Today I feel grateful for
  • Notes

I think some of these sections could be removed to give more space to write, as there’s only room for a few words in some of the sections.

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There’s a habit tracker on both the daily and the monthly spread which seems like an unnecessary double up. I guess you could use the daily habit tracker for water intake, 5 minute stretches / work breaks or tracking pomodoro sessions.

The line spacing on the daily page is also 5mm.

Extras pages

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At the back of the planner is a projects section. There is space for 3 projects with 2 pages to plan each project:

  1. Project steps and action plan
  2. Contacts, expenses, helpful resources

I like this page but 2 pages with more room to write would be great.

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There’s another section called ‘notes and helpful forms’ with 4 double sided notes pages.

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There is also a daily routines (AM and PM) and goal tacker.

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The pages lay flat on their own, no matter where you open the planner.

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Pros of the Planner

  • Portable size
  • Very cheap for a 6 month planner
  • Pages lay flat
  • Readily available on Amazon
  • Comes with an erasable black pen

Cons of the Planner

  • No tabs
  • No cover personalisation
  • Only 1 ribbon bookmark
  • Black cover only
  • Dual pocket folder (although the pocket is cut on a diagonal so not sure if smaller pieces of paper will fall out)
  • Needs more notes / goal planning pages
  • Thin paper – can see the ink of the backside of the page
  • I don’t like the mustard / olive green color scheme
  • 5mm line spacing is smaller than most planners
  • The proportions of some of the pages is not quite right

Would I use this planner?

No. I like the weekly checklist pages and the goal pages at the back would be good if there was more room to write. I don’t use traditional box calendar format or day to a page planners so would only use about 1/3 of the planner.

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  • Mi Goals ‘Goal Digger’ Weekly Planner
  • Clever Fox Weekly Planner
  • Plum Paper Grid Weekly Spread

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