If you’re determined to make this your most organised year yet, finding one of the best planners and journals should be high on your agenda. There’s just something super satisfying about having a good old-fashioned diary to keep track of your daily to-do lists, curate your monthly calendar, and most importantly, cross something off when it’s completed.
Plus, writing down your resolutions, aims, thoughts and plans is a sure-fire way to keep your energy and motivation flowing. So much more so than typing notes into a phone or keeping track of plans on a Google calendar. We have far too much screen time as it is – so spending time with a trusty notebook and pen can only be a positive.
So, with the new year creeping up on us, the search for something we can keep close all year is on. Of course, for the stationery fanatics among us, choosing the right 2026 planner is a high-pressure task. Not least because you need to use it for a whole 365 days.
Ahead, we’ve hand-picked the best 2026 planners and journals that we think you’re going to love for every one of those days. Some of them focus on mental health alongside planning, complete with space to jot your daily thoughts, rate your mood and note what you’re grateful for (a bit like a gratitude journal). Others are for the creatives, with spaces to create a daily doodle or drawing that represents your mood, and some fall strictly on the calendar side of the spectrum – spanning across week-to-view, day-to-view and month-to-view diaries.
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