Need Help - Daily Planner 12 Month 5X8

[Bill P]

I need to call upon the FPN knowledge base to help me find a 12 month Daily Planner with High Quality paper that is less likely to have bleed thru when using my Fountain Pens..

 

Description:

5x8

Daily Planner

Calendar Year

lined (No times)

Separate page for each day of the year

Paper that will minimize the likelihood of ink bled thru

 

I use my Daily Planner all day long...

 

I currently use a Moleskin, but I get bleed thru with almost every ink and FP.

 

I am located in the US, but will not hesitate to order from anywhere..

 

Need a good solution..

 

Thanks in advance for your help.

Edited April 12, 2014 by Bill P

[yogalarva]

Hopefully someone else will chime in who owns one, but I've heard the Hobonochi planners are fantastic, though you have to order them from Japan I believe and it can be tricky to get them.

 

Otherwise, I use a Barnes and Noble weekly planner which behaves well with fine nibs. Alternatively you could get a big fat notebook and just write the dates on the pages yourself. I did this with an A5 Webbie and I think I was able to fit in six months of day-per-page space and that paper is fantastic, as would be expected. :-)

[willard]

In a recent video I saw, pelahale had good words for Rhodia Webnotebooks:

 

http://rhodiapads.com/collections_boutique_webnotebook.shtml

 

You will need to create your own calendar, though.

 

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If you prefer the Ikea way, you may like Circa or Arc planners. These systems (it's the same, basically) can let you create anything you want as a planner. For instance, here could be the lined pages you want:

 

http://levenger.com/Circa-smartPlanner-Meeting-Notes-Letter-%28set-of-2-13119.aspx

 

Circa and Arc holes are compatible.

 

That route lets you use the more FP-friendly paper, at the expense of making it yourself with a printer (for the grid), a cutter (to cut 8x11 pages in half), and a punch.

 

That's the route I took and there's no turning back. It is the cheapest one. The only caveat is that the system is less portable.

 

I like it so much that I stopped printing anything and write directly on white pages. But then I'm not an agenda guy. I simply use Exacompta index cards in a Pocket Briefcase to zen things done.

[wikeh2004]

Like Willard, I use Circa discs to print and punch my own pages. Levenger.com has pre-made planners that would fit your needs, but you can save some money, over time, by making your own pages with good quality paper like HP Premium. If you want one-page-per-day, you would need need a pretty thick binder for a full year, or use something like a disc or ring binder and keep three months at a time.

 

I use a leather cover that fits the Circa notebook to protect it and carry pens and cards. (Hint, I sometimes buy the outdated Circa agendas cheap and re-use the discs and covers).

 

diyplanner.com has templates you can use to print your own pages.

[migo984]

Definitely the Hobonichi Techo. They are not difficult to get hold of at all. Ordering is on an English web-site https://www.1101.com/store/techo/2014/planner/ and delivery to me in UK took 6 days. Not quite the size you specify, they're actually a standard ISO size A6. Being Tomoe River paper, they are surprisingly light weight for a page-per-day planner. For a fixed cover planner they are the bees knees Lots of accessories available too.

[wikeh2004]

Like Willard, I use Circa discs to print and punch my own pages. Levenger.com has pre-made planners that would fit your needs, but you can save some money, over time, by making your own pages with good quality paper like HP Premium. If you want one-page-per-day, you would need need a pretty thick binder for a full year, or use something like a disc or ring binder and keep three months at a time.

 

I use a leather cover that fits the Circa notebook to protect it and carry pens and cards. (Hint, I sometimes buy the outdated Circa agendas cheap and re-use the discs and covers).

 

diyplanner.com has templates you can use to print your own pages.

 

Sorry, diyplanner.com seems to be offline. Not sure if that's permanent.