Page a day planner recommendations?

[smammaler]

Looking for some recommendations for an A5 Daily Planner. I like the layout of the Luddite daily planner, but I would like to find something with fewer pages (to fit in my traveler-type notebook) and not TR paper (if possible). Any recommendations would be appreciated!

[Karmachanic]

Errrr.  Luddite has 176 pages.  You want a page a day planner.  That's 365 days = 365 pages, but you want it to be less pages than the 176 page Luddite.  How that work?

 

Anyway, besides that, best thin 365 day per page planner, in my view, is Stalogy.  14.5mm

[smammaler]

It doesn't need to have 365 days worth of pages (just one day on each page (e.g., not a weekly planner)). This version of Luddite is closer to what I'm looking for, but isn't sold in the US as far as I can tell, but maybe I'll end up ordering it anyway ($16 is a bit much for shipping on a $5 notebook).

 

 

[Karmachanic]

OK.  How many pages does your ideal page a day planner have?

 

add: The note book in your last link covers 9 weeks. Order 6, which will last you a year. This may reduce the postage cost per unit.

[arcfide]

Have you looked at the TN Free Daily notebook possibly in combination with something else? There's also the Kokuyo DAYS which is very slim but has a different type of 52gsm paper (THIN) that you may or may not like better than TR (I personally would probably take THIN over TR). If you want to go more freeform, then you may also like the Midori MD Diary Thin, which has I think about 80 pages. Both the Kokuyo and Midori books are laid out quite well, IMO. Kokuyo's IDEA booklets might also work well for a TN style notebook as a daily schedule with their grid design + small margin. 

 

Have you considered just getting a Japanese style University notebook with grid? That has a date and number field at the top and usually a title field, with a grid or other format at the bottom. They come in various formats, but there's the Kokuyo Campus MIO, which has A5 80 sheet sizes with title, date, and no. fields at the top and 24 lines per page. It also has column markers at the top and bottom of the page for drawing different layouts. It uses 60gsm MIO paper and is very thin and easy to work. There's also the smaller 30 - 34 sheet versions from Apica, Kokuyo, and others, which have a similar format but are very slim. Kokuyo has this dotted line format which would work well as a free daily schedule. 

 

Finally, even though this probably isn't your first choice, if you have a specific layout you want, you can make an A5 staple bound notebook that is thin really easily, and it might work well for you to find the paper you like and then print and bind your own.