The 10 Best Daily Planners for 2023 That’ll Have You Ditching Your Google Calendar

Available in two sizes, Blue Sky’s spiral-bound daily planner is the favorite of thousands of reviewers for its simple, spacious layout and affordable price. We’ve deemed it our best overall daily planner because its simple design works for all planning needs, no matter what your schedule is.

Printed entirely in black and white with no excess ornamentation, the planner features tabbed months and a ruled weekly view that takes up two pages. The front of the book also contains monthly views, yearly goal-setting, and pages to write out notes and important dates.

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This undated planner is meant to help you keep your biggest personal goals in check, integrating actionable items right alongside your daily calendar. It also functions as a diary, starting each day with a morning mindset prompt and ending it with an evening journal.

There are also a ton of assessment features, like weekly and monthly check-ins, so you can track your progress over time. We love that you're not beholden to a start date with this daily planner, just in case your new year's resolutions start a few months later than expected.

There’s nothing better than a daily planner that’s as straightforward as it is stylish. This spiral-bound pick from Day Designer breaks 2023 down into monthly and weekly views, with each page filled with ruled lines, so it stays neat and organized (even when your schedule is anything but).

Each hourly scheduled day also contains a series of to-do list checkboxes, so you’ll get that satisfying feeling of crossing things off time and time again. These planners are available in a colorful range of patterns and designs, so you can pick the one that best suits your personality.

If you're not looking for a one-size-fits-all planner, then consider the customizable Erin Condren LifePlanner as your new go-to. This weekly/monthly tabbed tome will help streamline your schedule, no matter what the year has in store.

The power of personalization is in your hands. On their website, you can choose everything from the planner's size to its cover design and color palette to the interior layout to even the color of the coil that binds the agenda together!

For those who plan their life from project to project, this daily planner from ANECDOTE gets down to the nitty-gritty. It's like a pared-down bullet journal for those who just want to start planning right away.

Its layout is undated but still corresponds to the days of the week, starting with a weekly overview page that allows you to list out your goals and to-dos for the 7 days ahead.

From there, each individual page allots space for an hourly schedule, priorities, to-dos, and notes. It snaps closed with an elastic band and has two ribbon bookmarks to make picking up where you left off as easy as can be.

The Joy Planner from Papier comes in both a standard and pocket version, but we're partial to the latter for its petite, portable size.

This dated hardcover, outfitted with a ribbon bookmark, is as streamlined as it gets: It has a blank weekly view for every week, monthly calendar pages, and space for goals, important dates, and note-taking that are separate from the planning pages. Want a closer look at the format? Check out Papier's convenient flick-through feature.

Aside from the planner's sturdy yet cheery cover, we also like its comfortably thick 100 gsm paper weight, which can accommodate most writing utensils without bleeding through.

This softcover pick from Lemome offers nearly everything you could want in a dated daily planner. It features monthly and weekly page layouts, includes two ribbon bookmarks and an elastic closure, and it even comes equipped with a pen loop at the spine to keep a writing utensil at the ready.

Reviewers appreciate its “no-nonsense layout” and love that it was clearly designed with paper enthusiasts in mind, citing the lay-flat construction and bleed-resistant pages as major plusses.

How often does a daily planner encourage you to look back at your week? The Clever Fox planner might be for the productivity-obsessed, but it doesn't let you leave your weekly wins unappreciated!

This daily planner is undated for your convenience and features 54 weekly spreads. Your 7 days are planned out all on one page, with the opposite functioning as a goal-setting hub, keeping your to-dos, habit tracking, and monthly priorities at the forefront.

It's also equipped with an elastic closure, inner pocket, pen loop, and six sheets of stickers (!) for making the day-to-day grind a little more fun.

This small hardcover Moleskine offers just the right features for fans of minimalism and streamlined planning. It comes in three different sizes, though we're partial to the small Pocket size shown here for its light weight and portability.

This planner's weekly orientation is displayed on one page, with a ruled page for note-taking on the opposite. The book snaps securely closed with an elastic band, and just one bookmark helps you find your place easily.

If you love using daily planners, but you hate having to toss or find storage space for the book after you're done using it, then it's probably time to switch to a binder-style planner that you can continually use from year to year.

This faux-leather binder from Antner is compatible with A5-sized planner inserts, it contains plenty of pockets and even a pen loop, and it has a magnetic closure. We like that it affords you plenty of versatility — not just in the layout but in how you want to organize the binder itself, too!