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March 13, 2019

Plum Paper Horizontal Priorities Weekly Spread Review (Pros, Cons, Pen Test and Video)

Plum Paper is one of my all time fav planner companies – personalised, lots of layouts to choose from, nice cover designs, affordable price + cheap international shipping. One of the newer planner layouts is the horizontal priorities.

Quick Facts

  • Paper Size: 7″ x 9″ (other sizes available)
  • Choose your cover + cover personalisation
  • Start planner in any month
  • Choose from 12-18 months
  • Month & Year-at-a-Glance Pages
  • Monthly Planning Pages + notes page
  • 2 page monthly calendar
  • Starts on a Monday
  • Weekends combined
  • 2 page weekly spread
  • Double Sided Pocket Folder
  • Aluminium Coil
  • Tabs
  • Plenty of optional extra pages to choose from

LET’S TAKE A CLOSER LOOK!

To enlarge the screen of the video, click the square icon in the bottom right hand corner of the video (it will say ‘full screen’ when you hover your mouse over the icon).

The Cover

I couldn’t say no to this flamingo pattern for the cover!

The cover material is the same as previous years – smooth matte with a clear cover to protect it (much prefer that to a laminate cover as it’s less prone to scuffing and the corners are rounded so don’t get bent)

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Horizontal Priorities Weekly Spread

I opted for the colorful inside layout. I’ve used the neutral and it got boring really quickly. Plum Paper have been using the same colors for a few years now and while I like them, it would definitely be great if they released an option for different colors for each month or different colorways.

Related: Plum Paper Horizontal Lined + Notes (and a comparison or colorful versus neutral)

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As with past years, when a month ends midway through a week you get the grey shaded days of the previous month. The days are then repeated on the following month (i.e. duplicate days). You choose if you want to plan the start of January with the end of December. Or the end of December with the start of January.

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<3 the purple!

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I think this layout would be ideal for a student (as the weekends are combined) or if you’re self-employed.

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Apart from the weekly spread, the rest of the planner is the same as past years

  • Important dates page
  • Monthly calendar
  • Monthly planning & notes pages
  • Choose from colorful or neutral
  • Plenty of add on / extra pages to choose from
  • Monthly tabs
  • Pocket folder

If you haven’t seen the inside of the Plum Paper Planners, here’s what it looks like:

At the front

is the dates at a glance, annual planning and goals / projects overview pages:

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Monthly Calendar

The company is USA based so has US holidays printed. The monthly calendar starts on a Sunday (not consistent with the weekly spreads that start on Monday)

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Unfortunately they’re still doing that annoying thing where they split boxes into 2 rather than just re-starting the numbering on the top row

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Monthly Planning & notes

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Tabs for each month

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Pen Testing

The paper quality of Plum Paper Planners is really the only letdown. It’s good but not great. It’s bright white and smooth to write on and there isn’t much ghosting for ballpoint pens.

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However highlighters, marker pens and some of the thicker gel pens are prone to showing on the other side.

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Pros of the Priorities Plum Paper Planner

  • Nice colors
  • Affordable
  • Cheap international shipping
  • Cover personalisation
  • Plenty of cover options to choose from
  • Smooth white paper to write on
  • Functional weekly layouts
  • Monthly planning & monthly notes page

Cons of the Priorities Plum Paper Planner

  • Weekends are combined into the same space as a weekday
  • Paper quality could be better
  • Monthly calendars start on Sunday but the weekly spreads start on Monday

More Plum Paper Reviews

  • My 3rd Plum Paper Haul!
  • Ultimate Comparison: Erin Condren Life Planner versus Plum Paper Planners – Which planner is better? 
  • Creating a custom recipe book with Plum Paper

Planning tips

  • Arcing my Plum Paper Planner – everything you need to know if you’d like to try it yourself! 

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Comments

  1. Lucy says

    March 14, 2019 at 05:26

    Can you please tell me the main difference between the PP horizontal & PP Me. And what does the term “arcing” mean ? I would really like to try this planning/organizing craze however I am not a super busy person as my kids are all grown & gone, but I would still like to become more organized.

    • Rachael says

      March 14, 2019 at 23:07

      There are currently 2 Plum Paper Horizontal:
      – 1 with open ended boxes for each day (2 sections – lined and unlined)
      – Another with the priorities section including habit tracker (that was this review).

      The Me Planner has multiple sections for each day (I call it a ‘categories’ layout as it’s structured). The Me Planner is good if you have the same things each week e.g, school subjects, or in my case blog post, meal planning, cleaning, travel planning etc. or as a mom planner with a different box for each family member. I did a review in this post: https://allaboutplanners.com.au/plum-paper-me-planner-review/

      Arcing isn’t really an official ‘thing’ it’s what I call converting a standard planner into discbound. When you order through Plum Paper you have the option of leaving the pages unpunched i.e. without the coil. I then took the unpunched pages and punched them with the ARC discbound punch. I did a post on it here: https://allaboutplanners.com.au/arcing-my-plum-paper-planner-everything-you-need-to-know-if-youd-like-to-try-it-yourself/ a cheaper alternative to the ARC is MAMBI

      If you don’t have a lot to plan I’d go with a horizontal 1 page for weekly planning + notes page on the right (good for list making). E.g. this layout: https://allaboutplanners.com.au/how-and-why-i-pre-plan-the-week-using-the-plum-paper-horizontal-lined-with-notes-layout/

      Another option would be bullet journaling. If you use sewn bound notebooks they’re smaller than most planner page sizes so you’re likely to feel less like you’re ‘wasting’ paper. You also have more room to do decorative spreads.

  2. Janis says

    March 18, 2019 at 11:41

    I recently considered Plum Paper versus Agendio, and I opted for Agendio because I could purchase it unpunched, leaving me free to punch it for my discbound planner. I greatly prefer this Plum Paper layout, and it comes with tabs, which Agendio does not offer for unpunched planners. Plum Paper either did not offer an unpunched option, or I just didn’t know about it at the time I made my purchase decision in early January 2019. I’ll stick with Agendio for now because it’s a dated planner, but it looks like my next refill will be from Plum Paper!

    • Rachael says

      March 19, 2019 at 19:37

      Hi Janis, if it doesn’t have an option to select when checking out just leave them a note that you’d like the planner unpunched. I too have purchased the Agendio – definitely a close tie with Plum Paper!

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