If you’ve been thinking about buying the Mini Happy Planner and want to take a peek at what’s inside to decide if it’s right for you, let’s take a closer look!

The Mini Happy Planner measures about 5.25″ wide x 7.5″ high. The inside pages are about 4.75″ wide x 7″ high.

Overview of the Mini Happy Planner

2 page Weekly spread
2 page monthly calendar
Dates at a glance
Notes page
Monthly planning space
Colorful dividers for each month
Pretty gold discs!

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Pros of the Mini Happy Planner

Great size for your purse or handbag
Lined writing space
Lots of pretty covers to choose from
Discbound system – discbound planners are my favorite type – love the flexibility they offer with the ability to add and remove pages as you please. The happy planner punch is the most affordable of all the discbound planner systems
Affordable – planners seem to keep getting expensive these days which is most likely one of the reasons the Happy Planner is so popular – it’s super affordable
Weekend boxes are shaded in the monthly calendar
Pattern is printed on the front and inside of the back and front cover
Laminated front and back cover, as well as tabs
The laminated cover feels fairly durable, as long as you didn’t throw it around too much

Cons of the Mini Happy Planner

It will fill up quickly – it’s ideal if you don’t have much to plan but there probably wouldn’t be enough space if, for example, you’re planning your day and your family’s
The weeks start on a Monday but the monthly calendar start on a Sunday
The monthly planning page doesn’t leave much room to plan – the font size is basically the same as the larger Happy Planner sizes
One thing to note is that unlike some calendars that move the last day/s of the month to the top row of the calendar, the Happy Planner splits one of the bottom boxes. This is one of my all time hates with calendars – if you also can’t stand calendars that do this (I can’t understand the logic – you can’t write anything in the half triangle!) then what I do is whiteout the line and date and re-write it on the top row of the calendar
Other than a notes page and the monthly planning space, there aren’t any extras pages such as password logs, additional notes pages etc. although you can add your own printables using the MAMBI discbound punch. I shared a tutorial on How to print printables at MAMBI Happy Planner Size

Interested in the classic size Happy Planner? Read my honest review.

2 Page Weekly Spread

Week starts on a Monday
All days get the same amount of planning space
Simple, clean, minimalist design
Lined writing space
Different colors between the months

2 Page Monthly Spread

2 page spread with the month starting on a Sunday (this doesn’t really make sense to me since the week’s start on a Monday)
Lined notes sidebar
One thing to note is that unlike some calendars that move the last day/s of the month to the top row of the calendar, the Happy Planner splits one of the bottom boxes. This is one of my all time hates with calendars – if you also can’t stand calendars that do this (I can’t understand the logic – you can’t write anything in the half triangle!) then what I do is whiteout the line and date and re-write it on the top row of the calendar