Here are some of the new features:
Spiral binding, which allows the planner to be thicker. This accommodates their new page-per-day planners, and planners with added extra pages (more on that in a minute).
Elastic closure accessory with your choice of metal charm, or plain. I chose the celtic knot! The elastic is not attached to the book, so you can use it year after year.
Custom cover, allowing you to choose your cover's design and color. You can also add your name, initials, year, etc.
I'll walk you through the planner I created. I chose the weekly planner with monthly pages, with two notes pages after each month. You can choose to have the monthly pages embedded in the weeks, at the front of the book, or at the back. I chose to have the monthly pages all together at the front of the book.
This planner is the medium size, with the Model number 32116 weekly layout.
The paper in this weekly planner is pure white, 105 gsm paper which is excellent with any pen.
I apologize for the quality of these photos! It's hard to get good light this time of year. Trust me when I tell you these pages look much better in real life. You can click on the photos for a larger view.
You choose which month to start your planner. I chose a January start. The first two-page spread is the current and future year, starting with your starting month.
You can choose extra pages to go before your planner pages. I chose a couple of pages of Contacts, which I did not take a photo of for some reason. Anyway, I find it convenient to have a place at the beginning of my planner for frequently-called numbers.
Next I have my monthly pages. Look at those nice big day spaces!
There are lots of things to customize on the monthly pages. I kept it pretty basic, but there are loads of options you can add.
Another new feature I love is that you can choose colors for your planner pages. You can have the same color throughout, or choose a different color every month. I chose a different color each month. I love that the colors are pretty without being obtrusive in any way.
Between each monthly spread I chose Notes pages. You can choose which types of pages you want: lined, blank, dot grid, Budget, etc. I added custom titles. Between each month I have a lined page for Personal notes and goals, and a dot grid page for Work notes and goals.
You can choose exactly which holidays to print in your day spaces, or none. You can choose holidays for any country in the world. You can choose all the holidays for that country, or just some. You can also choose which religious holidays you want, and moon phases, or none.
You can also add events and activities to your day spaces. I added all kinds of things. Many of them have personal information that I didn't want to show, but below you can see some of the things in my day spaces: blog posts, whether it's Trash or Recycling day (I mark out the one it's not. This keeps me from rewriting "Trash" and "Recycling" week after week.), holidays, days of note, etc.
I added all kinds of things to my day spaces. I realized it was easier to type in the days my kids have no school than to flip through my planner pages and write them in by hand, so I have all the No School days pre-printed in the days. I added things like when it's time to submit monthly invoices, paying bills, when insurance payments are due, when my dog is due for vaccines, and annual events in addition to the usual birthdays and anniversaries. Agendio saves your important dates so you don't have to type them in year after year, they can automatically be printed in your next planner.
After my weekly pages I have several extra pages, another new feature. I added some lined pages for Personal notes:
I customized a Budget page to create a Giveaways Tracker for the blog:
I customized another Budget page to have a page to record my credit card payments.
I chose other options like perforated tear-off corners, and pockets in the back.
I'm very excited by all of these new options! Agendio allows you to truly create exactly the planner you want, with additional custom pages and loads of customizable features.
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I received this planner for free in exchange for a review. I chose all the custom features myself. I am not affiliated with Agendio in any way. My personal opinion: I am extremely impressed with the quality of these products and with the numerous custom options.
How come, since it utilizes basically the same amount of area, I find I can use vertical day format better than horizontal. Doesn't make sense, but I'm a vertical girl!
ReplyDeleteI used to be all-vertical all the time because I needed to schedule my days to the hour. Now I work in chunks of time and don't need that level of detail, so the horizontal works better for me now. It's interesting how my planner needs have changed over time!
DeleteAnd by the way, Agendio has vertical formats to choose from too. Timed, not timed, blocked am/ pm/ evening -- you create them however you need them to be.