Daily Planner 2.0

I love this planner. I love the color. I love the quality, I love the price! Helps me feel organized and more on top of my day!

I fell in love with Panda a while back and have since had every size and variation and am LOVING the spiral binding on this one. Spiral means lays flat so that's always a plus. This one is quite a bit lighter than the bound one too so it doesn't feel like a brick in my purse.I like that the daily pages have more room for notes than before and the grateful & excited sections are not numbered so I can write freely.It is an UNDATED planner guys. It says it in the description, but people always get bent over that like it wasn't very clear. However, I really like this because I don't always use the weekend days and it makes my planner last longer.And it has a handy pen holder tab with it unlike the bound one so that's a nice addition. The ONLY thing I miss is the ribbons to mark exactly where I am in the planner. There are some dividers which you push into the spiral binding for each section, but I'm wondering how much off/on that the one for the Daily pages will be able to handle or will it start to break down with all the bending. So far so good though. It also has a little pocket folder in the front to replace the back flap in the bound one so that's nice, but I foresee my items sliding out of this and wish it was something that held the items securely or had a flap.Overall I'm very happy with this new, lighter version and love price point!

(In case anyone wants to know why anyone would want to use an old-fashioned appointment book since smartphones can do everything, I have one word to say: RADIATION EXPOSURE. If you are using your phone too often for everything with zero protective measures, you are over-exposing yourself. Plus screen time for your eyes - another health issue to think about...)I bought this after seeing it had all of the features I wanted in a planner: compact & lightweight, sturdy, waterproof covers, has a full monthly calendar to write down appointments, ample spaces to write notes for each month and on the back of the whole planner. Bonuses are the transparent plastic pocket in the front and all of those journal pages in the back that force you to record what you are grateful for and wins for each day. This actually was a big surprise to me in terms of what a blessing this has been since I am a recovering perfectionist and tend to be too hard on myself with everything so I tend to wax pessimistic of how my day went. I didn't realize how badly I needed to acknowledge whatever DID go right - in other words count my blessings each day - until I got this journal. If you look carefully, it does NOT ask you to record WHAT WENT WRONG or mistakes you made.The ONLY reason I had to remove one star is because this company that designed this appointment book made the mistake of not creating 6 rows of boxes to fill in the calendar, it only has 5. This resulted in me handwritiing/ squeezing in an extra box for certain months into the page. (See photo) This is a huge mistake that shouldn't stop you from buying this but should be brought to the attention of the manufacturer. (Is anyone there reading this??)Other than this one point, it's great! It may be more helpful to meet your needs this year than you think!

I can relate to the creater of Panda Planner - Lyme, neuro-immune condition, lost job, house, ability to work, then my dog. Full of infection and finally got the d/x of rare immune disease that infiltrates the entire body - brain included. To say I am confused is an understatement. Brushed off my knees and bum, and decided to work on my attitude. Panda planner seemed perfect! AND - what I took for granted before is impossible now. It was too much, I'd be stoked Sunday night, then a week would pass and I'd accomplish 1/4 of 3 minor tasks, no time to exercise or meditate much less do any 'feed my soul goals', so the original just seemed to rub in my face what a failure I am. I've defaulted to using Blue Sky weekly to keep track of my uneventful life that takes fills my days. Weekly is all I need, and barely touch the weekly pages unless I get overwhelmed. (Have 4 things coming up in the next 3 weeks, for instance).Seeing this scaled down one that was weekly and a WHOLE YEAR! I looked at the pages and it seemed to be missing all the juice of the originals, but I ordered it anyway.It has NONE of the juice of the heavy-bound 3-month weekly planners.5x8 is a perfect size for my needs. The bookmarks are full pull-out plastic page dividers. Even though it's a full year, I get why it's undated - start whatever month you want. But it's SO simple that there's no need to put all the months up front, the the weeks, then the notes. They could have just stuck 5 weeks per month the paper is so thin. I realize they were going after the budget market, hence the low price. But they skimped. They could have added 1/4" to the wire diameter to include weekly overviews and monthly check-ins/planning in between each month or 5 weeks. There is none of the so-called "science-backed methods" to get one's life and attitude back together.Just a tiny space for a monthly habit, and an 'H' checkbox on the monthly view. Then each day, only "grateful" and "win" - in a bland box on top of each day.The plan I guess was to just leave tons of note space to let folks do their own "feel-good bullet journal" type of thing? Thumbs up on the dot grid paper vs lines for notes. I write in pencil anyway so can work with the super thin paper (I always seem to write appointments on the wrong day or week, or write the time wrong, so I need to erase a lot).But the thin paper...... Wow.Option A) thick hard-bound, luxury smooth paper but only 3 months for almost $40- or -Option B) portable spiral bound for a full year with no "science-based" prompts with pages so cheap and thin the machine that took the stack of papers and punched holes for the spiral essentially sealed each page into the next along the entire line of holes.I can see it will be a mess in a few months, unless I meticulously separate each piece of paper and gently flip the page, and pulling to re-align on the new side.One extreme to the other.The irony is it came with 3 thick marketing schwag postcard notes in color, thanking the buyer, and commenting that "there are a lot of cheap knock-off's on Amazon but you chose the real thing."I'd suggest keep going, and look into those cheap knock-offs. They will be better quality than this.I'm holding out that they went with a new manufacturer (it says 'made in China' - what's NOT made in China?) and got the 'bait and switch'. Or maybe they approved a different design or somehow got a bad deal. This is definitely not up to Panda standards, even for the budget model. Sorry guys!