Reddit reviews Katie Daisy 2020 On-the-Go Weekly Planner: 17-Month Calendar with Pocket (Aug 2019 - Dec 2020, 5" x 7" closed)

I start with what I want/what I need. I use Google Sheets. I make all the columns the same width as the row height, then draw/re-draw experimental layouts. Then I try to find something that will fit. The backup plan is always to get a blank dot grid journal and draw in my own layouts, but I think it's nice if there's a pre-printed one that's not too expensive where the pages won't go to waste.

My latest thing is for my daughter when she starts Kindergarten in September. I need something that I can put all her school dates and reminders in, so I can't live without some sort of future log. It didn't have to be a Ryder-Carroll-style future log, just somewhere that I can write down future stuff.

I used to track the weather in her Baby Log books (pic 1: newborn to 9 months, pic 2: 9 months to 2 years). I'd like to do it again if I have room.

She's starting piano lessons in September, so I want somewhere to log whether she practiced that day or not and whether I feel like she's getting anything out of it. I'm worried about her eating lunch by herself at school, so I want somewhere to keep notes about whether she ate or not, what worked and what didn't.

I know that her Kindergarten class does a Word of the Day. I thought it would be cute if I kept a log of her words every day. And she picks 4-5 books for her bedtime story, so I'd like to log her reading too. She also constantly borrows and returns books from the library, so we need to stay on top of it (school or public library, book title, check out date, due date and return date, blank means we still have it) to keep the overdues to a minimum.

I ended up with the Katie Daisy 2019-2020 planner. For every month, there's a Month-on-2-Pages view plus 4.5-ish Week-on-2-Pages views. I'm going to use the monthly views as the Future Log for the year. The weeklies are a horizontal layout, each box for the day of the week is going to get sectioned off into something that looks like this.

And I have the Library Book tracker layout that I want, but I'm still thinking about how to work it into the planner. The current plan is to just print out a 5"x7" sheets and glue them onto the September 2020 - December 2020 pages that I won't be using.