How to make your own planner refills

by Jen (April 20, 2008)

Spotlight Site: DIY Planner

Those clever littler personal organizers with the neat-o pages of all sorts are expensive. Especially when you go to buy refills and realize how much the whole package costs per year.

Some lovely people have created an alternative. It’s a collection of free DIY planner pages you can print yourself, and they’re gorgeous. There are several different styles to mix and match - calendars, contact info pages, several types of to do lists and action item lists, note pages, journal pages, pages for logging your exercise and calories burned… oh, just everything. You can even print off a receipt envelope.

The templates are designed for A5 paper or “Classic”, which is half a US letter size page. If you don’t have a planner, you can print “2-up” versions, which means two pages will appear side by side on your landscape oriented sheet of paper. You can trim these with a paper cutter, or you can just hole punch them into a three-ring binder and use them horizontally.

If you do have a six-ring binder, you’ll have to punch the holes in these pages yourself. This is not terribly difficult as long as you have a pre-punched page to use as a guide.

While you’re still paying for paper and ink, you can save a ton of money printing your own pages. Also, you can get exactly the number of each kind of page that you want so none of it goes to waste and so you don’t have any just-before-closing mad dashes to the office supply store.

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