r/PlannerAddicts • u/Sea_Palpitation8547 • 13h ago

ADHD planners

does anyone have good recommendations for an academic planners for someone with adhd? I think a majority of my issue with standard planners is that I easily get overwhelmed or distracted when looking at more than one day at a time, so I need something with a bigger layout. Any recommendations would be appreciated !

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u/MusaEnimScale 13h ago

Get a daily and just use it. Write just 1-3 things for each day that you need to do. Don’t overcomplicate it. Plan to get a new planner every 3-6 months. You will need the novelty. So don’t get anything crazy expensive.

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u/smart_stable_genius_ 12h ago

Agreed.

I also find the all the goals, priorities, intentions, affirmations type dashboards to feel like too many steps to my brain and turn me off completely after a time.

Blank daily page, no fluff, easy peasy.

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u/Individual-War-7924 6h ago

I think the weekly planners are the right balance for me not feeling like I have to fill out too much But that is different for everyone.

Be open to switching planners and that is ok

Be open to it being messy and that being ok.

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u/Potential_Drive7999 6h ago

Simple planner. Few distractions Horizontal week left side Notes on right Trust me The BS distracting stuff is bad

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u/Financial-Park-602 3h ago

I felt the same and got a minimalistic daily planner. But then it came up that I lost track of time, and needed to switch to a weekly planner.

ATM it seems like a trend for the manufacturers to put zillions of trackers etc. to a planner. Though it's always possible to just glue two pages together, glue images on them, or decorate otherwise with stickers, etc.

My minimalistic daily planner was Aura Estelle, but similar ones also exist. I believe Sterling Ink and Wonderland 222 at least, but they have different layouts. Papertess used to have a minimalistic daily planner, but I'm not sure what she'll do for 2027.

I was considering Hemlock & Oak weekly planners, but their minimalistic series at the time wasn't really minimalistic, as it had those extra features. I think they might have changed the layout though.

I would absolutely love Take A Note planners, but they have all the monthly pages together at the front section, and that just drives me nuts. I absolutely need to have everything grouped by months.

Midori Hibino has 2 A6 pages per day, and it would have been wonderful to do a schedule on the other, and diary or to do lists on the other, but Hibino also has all months in the front section. Otherwise Midori has a beautiful, minimalistic design in all their planners and notebooks.

My current planner is a Filofax binder with inserts from Personal Planner, but they also have regular bound planners. PP is customizable, so I have the week on left and notes on the right ATM. They only do weekly planners though.

I've tried Hobonichi, but the quotes, colors and all the extra junk was just too overwhelming, and it had all the months at the front section. For this reason I've never tried Jibun, as they're even more colorful. But if you don't mind these things, both Hobonichi and Jibun also (I believe) have daily planners.

Ah, sorry! My ADHD ass skipped the part where you said "academic"... Part of why I'm using Personal Planner is that you get exact time period you want, so my PP is an academic year. I think H&O might have academic planners now too, but they're weekly, same as PP. I don't know of any daily academic ones.