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May 20, 2019

Simple Elephant Weekly Planner Review (Pros & Cons)

The Simple Elephant weekly planner has long been on my planner review to do list!

Quick Facts

  • Page size: 5.75″ wide x 8.25″ high
  • 2 page monthly calendar (starts Sunday)
  • 2 page weekly spread (starts Monday)
  • Goal planning pages
  • 1 small sheet of icon planner stickers
  • Pocket folder
  • Pen holder
  • 3 ribbon bookmarks
  • Undated
  • Lasts 12 months
  • Plenty of notes pages (58)

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The Cover

The usual hardcover that all sewn bound notebooks have.

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Just under 1″ thick

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Goal Planning

There aren’t that many goal pages in this planner and there’s no monthly notes / monthly review / monthly planning either.

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Monthly Spread

The monthly calendars are all clustered together at the start (which I wish more planners did!)

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The Sunday month start is not consistent with week starting on Monday.

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Weekly Spread

With this layout you loose the traditional notes section in favor of the goals / review boxes. However there are tons of notes pages at the back of this planner.

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Saturday and Sunday share the same space as a weekday.

The planner is undated so start planning anytime!

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Lined Notes Pages

There are heaps of notes pages in this planner (58) – much more than most. Plus the pages are numbered. For this reason it makes me think this would be a good student planner. You could keep your class notes at the back, draw up an index with your class list – then add the page numbers where you’ve taken notes for each class.

As it’s undated, you could start using it anytime. And if you don’t need a planner during term breaks then you’re not ‘wasting’ any pages.

Most planners are made in the USA – it can be difficult if you live in Australia (like I do) to find a student planner that starts at the start of the year (i.e. non-academic year) so this could be an option.

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Pros of the Simple Elephant Planner

  • Undated – start planning anytime
  • Plenty of lined notes pages
  • Lined writing space on weekly spread
  • Gender neutral / minimalist colour scheme
  • Sewn binding but the pages lay relatively flat on their own
  • Pen holder
  • No tabs but there are 3 ribbon bookmarks
  • Affordable ($30 USD)
  • Multiple cover colors to choose from

Cons of the Simple Elephant Planner

  • Plain / boring cover & no cover personalisation
  • Difficult to get outside of the USA
  • Paper is ivory (not bright white)
  • Not enough goal planning pages

Would I use this planner?

No. It’s layout is too simple for me and the page size too small. I do like the review question boxes on the weekly but I’d need these to be bigger and separate list space. I don’t think there’s many creative ways to use this layout.

If you like this notebook, it’s available on Amazon (affiliate link)

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  • Live Whale Daily Planner Review 
  • Clever Fox Daily Planner Review

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