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August 5, 2019

MAMBI Student Weekly Planner Review (Pros, Cons & Video Walkthrough)

Time for another Happy Planner Review! This time it’s the student planner (academic year). It has a very similar layout to the Color Block Happy Planner.

Quick facts

  • Size: 7″ wide x 9.25″ high
  • Reversible laminated cover (i.e. different patterns printed on each side)
  • Disc binding – add and remove pages as often as you please
  • 2 page Monthly calendar (starts on Sunday)
  • 2 page weekly spread (starts on Monday)
  • Tabs
  • Colorful inside pages
  • 12 month duration
  • August to July (academic year)

Let’s take a closer look!

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The Cover

The usual laminated cardstock cover that all Happy Planner’s have:

MAMBI Happy planner student edition review

Approx 0.75 thick

MAMBI Happy planner student edition review page weight thickness

The cover is MAMBI’s usual style with a different design printed on the back

happy planner student edition pros and cons video flipthrough

At the front of the planner are 2 class schedule pages which are really the only student specific pages in the entire planner.

happy planner student edition class schedule

Next is the future log / annual planning pages that could be used for exam dates, vacations, birthdays etc.

mambi happy planner annual dates calendar color coding

Then the planner jumps straight to the monthly & weekly planning.

Monthly

Each month has a monthly planning page, divider with tab and 2 page calendar followed by weekly spreads.

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Differnent color schemes & dividers throughout.mambi happy planner student edition review colorful monthly planning page

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The monthly calendar starts Sunday (not consistent with the weekly spread).

mambi happy planner student edition monthly calendar 2019 2 pages per month sunday week start rainbow confetti

There isn’t anything student specific on the calendar except for the little light bulb box at the bottom which could easily be covered up with a quote sticker, bill stickers etc.

happy planner student planner sunday week start rainbow confetti to do list monthly goals

Unfortunately like all the other MAMBI planners, it has split boxes (forgot to take a photo but it’s when they split a box diagonally into 2 rather than restarting the dates on the top row).

happy planner pros and cons video flipthrough 2 page monthly calendar sunday start

Weekly Planning

Starts Monday (not consistent with the monthly calendar that starts Sunday).

There’s 7 sections for each day which could be used for your 7 classes or 6 classes and a misc section.

I’m not in school or university anymore but I still like these types of layouts for categorised planning. E.g. cleaning, meal planning, travel planning, blog, miscellaneous, most important tasks, appointments, bills etc.

Related: 50 Category Ideas for Color Coding Your Planner

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happy planner student edition weekly spread monday week start

There isn’t much on the weekly that is student specific other than ‘upcoming tests’ which could easily be covered up with a header sticker (tutorial on how to make them here).

happy planner student edition weekly spread

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At the back is 1 lined notes page. If MAMBI could make an entire refill pack with just these notes pages that would be great 🙂

mambi student planner lined notes rainbow discbound planner review

Tabs

The tabs are MAMBI’s usual big cardstock tabs with different colors for each month.

happy planner student edition planner tabs divider pages

Pen Testing

I didn’t end up keeping this planner but have done pen testing in other Happy Planners I own. Here are the results of that pen test:

The Happy Planner has one of the thickest (best) papers I’ve come across. There is really only ghosting (and a little bit of bleed through) for the marker pens (Staedtler Triplus Color & Sharpie Fine Point).

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Pros of the Planner

  • Very few student oriented pages – anyone could use this planner
  • Nice colors used throughout the planner
  • Monthly planning page
  • Discbound – add, remove and rearrange pages as often as you like
  • Affordable
  • Thick paper resistant to pen ghosting
  • Different dividers for each month

Cons of the Planner

  • If you want to use this as a student planner, there aren’t many student related pages

Would I use this planner?

Yes. I love the flexibility of discbound planners and the weekly spread is very functional.

If I was a student thinking about using this planner, I probably wouldn’t. There aren’t enough student oriented pages.

If you’re not a student, you may prefer Happy Planner’s Color Block layout (very similar but without any references to study).

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More planner reviews:

  • Kikki K Student Weekly Planner Review  
  • TUL Student Planner Discbound Notebook
  • Bloom Teacher Planner

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Comments

  1. Tanja says

    August 7, 2019 at 04:34

    I haven’t seen MAMBI note paper with this specific rainbow dot design on it, but they do offer a bunch of lined, grid and dot grid notepaper refill packs with different designs on them, so you might be able to find a design you like amongst the various offerings!

    • Rachael says

      August 7, 2019 at 18:13

      Hi Tanja,

      Yes, I have plenty of their refill pages 🙂 I just specifically <3 that note paper. Time to make a printable!

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