By Bookstorez · Updated
The best planner ideas are built around one routine a buyer repeats: a week, a budget, a meal plan, a school term or a goal. Below are fifteen planner types buyers look for, the pages each one needs, and how to choose between dated, undated, printable and digital editions.
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Planner ideas buyers look for
| Planner type | Who uses it | Pages to include |
|---|---|---|
| Weekly planner | Anyone running a busy week | Week on two pages, to-do list, notes |
| Daily planner | People who plan hour by hour | Hourly schedule, top three tasks, notes |
| Budget planner | Households and people paying off debt | Monthly budget, spending tracker, bill calendar, savings goals |
| Meal planner | Families and people cooking to a diet | Weekly menu, shopping list, recipe pages, cupboard list |
| Teacher planner | Teachers | Term calendar, timetable, lesson plans, marking tracker |
| Student and revision planner | Students | Timetable, assignment tracker, revision schedule, exam countdown |
| Fitness planner | People starting a routine | Weekly plan, workout log, progress tracker |
| Habit tracker | People building a new habit | Monthly grid, weekly reflection |
| Wedding planner | Couples | Budget, guest list, supplier contacts, countdown checklist |
| Travel planner | Holiday planners | Itinerary, packing list, bookings, budget |
| Small business planner | Sole traders and creators | Content calendar, sales log, income and expenses, quarterly goals |
| Homeschool planner | Home-educating parents | Year overview, weekly lesson plan, attendance, reading list |
| Cleaning and home planner | Households | Cleaning schedule, decluttering checklist, home maintenance log |
| Reading journal | Readers | Reading list, book reviews, yearly tracker |
| Journal and gratitude planner | Anyone who likes to reflect | Daily prompts, gratitude pages, monthly review |
Digital planner ideas
A digital planner is a PDF used in an annotation app on a tablet, with tabs and links that jump between pages. Some ideas suit digital especially well:
- An undated all-in-one planner with a tab for each month, so it never goes out of date.
- A student planner with a tab for each subject.
- A small business planner that links the content calendar to monthly goals.
- A reading journal where each book on the list links to its own review page.
How to make a digital planner walks through building one with working links.
The pages most planners need
- A contents or index page
- A year overview
- Monthly pages
- Weekly or daily pages, depending on the routine
- One or two trackers that fit the planner's purpose
- Notes pages
- A short how-to-use page at the front
Every page should earn its place. A planner with fewer, well-made pages is easier to use than one padded with extras nobody fills in.
Dated or undated?
A dated planner feels finished and ready to use, but it goes out of date, so you make a new edition each year and most buyers want it before the year begins. An undated planner can be bought and started at any time of year. If this is your first planner, an undated one is the easier place to start.
Choose one planner and make it well
One tested planner beats ten untested ones. Use yours for a week, notice where you run out of space or skip a page, and fix it. How to sell planners online covers testing files, sample pages and the product page. When it is ready, list it on Bookstorez, a global marketplace where buyers browse planners alongside ebooks, printables, workbooks and templates. See how selling on Bookstorez works.
What selling on Bookstorez costs
Bookstorez is a global marketplace where creators sell ebooks, printables, planners, workbooks and templates, and buyers browse every seller's work in one catalogue. The Free plan has no monthly charge: 3 live products and 10 drafts, at 12% + 30¢ per sale with card fees and tax handling included. The fee is the same whether a buyer arrives through your own link or finds you in the catalogue.
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Questions
- What planner ideas do buyers look for?
- Weekly, daily, budget, meal, teacher, student, fitness, wedding, travel and small business planners are all types buyers look for. Pick one you would use yourself and make it well.
- What are some digital planner ideas?
- An undated all-in-one planner with monthly tabs, a student planner with a tab per subject, a business planner that links goals to a content calendar, or a reading journal with linked review pages.
- Should my planner be dated or undated?
- Undated planners can be bought and started at any time of year. Dated planners need a new edition every year. Undated is the easier place to start.
- What pages should a planner include?
- A contents page, a year overview, monthly pages, weekly or daily pages, one or two trackers, notes pages and a short how-to-use page.
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