Tackle Your To-Do List With These 10 Best Planners for 2025

Behold, the do-it-all planner to help you stay on top of your schedule for 2025 while you stay on track toward your goals. It features thick, 80lb paper to resist ink bleeding through and a sturdy laminate cover to get you all the way to 2026. At checkout, you select a series of customizations to make your planner work best for your needs. For instance, the weekly schedule layout is available in a vertical view, an hourly format, a wider horizontal option, and a more compact vertical. You can’t go wrong, but there are many ways to go right.

In addition to your weekly scheduling pages, you get mini-months, monthly quotes, monthly productivity pages, and extra lined pages in the back for planning, goal-setting, or productivity tracking.

One Well+Good editor previously said she buys a new Day Designer planner each year, not only because it keeps her organized, but also because it helps her feel productive and inspired. That’s because, in addition to the daily-planning pages that let you perfect your schedule down to the hour, the Daily Planner also features daily inspirational quotes, goal-setting worksheets, and stickers for literally gold-starring yourself when achieving a goal and flagging extra-important dates like payday and birthdays.

While this planner offers a lot of different views (daily, monthly overview, weekly overview, yearly overview), its monthly tabs make getting to the current dates simple. Plus, theres’s a bookmark to make things as frictionless as possible.

If your 2025 resolution is to get your life together and make it look chic while doing it, Papier’s Monogram Planner might just be your new organizational MVP. With its timeless, elevated design, this planner feels as polished as your goals. The monogram customization option lets you add your initials for that personalized touch, transforming an everyday essential into something uniquely yours.

Inside, Papier nails the balance of form and function: weekly and monthly views make planning seamless, while additional pages for goals, notes, and to-dos ensure nothing slips through the cracks. The smooth, thick paper means no dreaded pen bleed-through (a must for the stationery obsessed), and the durable hardcover design guarantees it will look pristine through December 2025. Also available in a pocket version ($50).

A key benefit of spiral planner is that the pages lay flat, letting you write more comfortably, whereas softbound options might have you fighting to crease down a page. While there are plenty of high-quality softbound options (keep reading!), this planner from Laurel Denise stands out as a spiral winner.

The unique horizontal layout offers a clear view of your week with plenty of space for daily to-dos, notes, and appointments. Thoughtfully crafted with high-quality, smudge-free paper and a sturdy cover, it’s durable enough to handle daily use while looking effortlessly chic. Bonus: you can choose between Monday or Sunday weekly start dates to fit your planning style.

Rifle Paper Co.’s 2025 12-Month Planner combines timeless beauty with everyday functionality. The bookbound cover, wrapped in it a pretty English Rose print, gives it a vintage feel while ensuring durability for a full year of use. Inside, you’ll find monthly and weekly layouts, ample space for notes, and gold foil accents that make every page feel extra special. Plus, the ribbon bookmark lets you know exactly where you left off.

The Hobonichi Techo might be on the smaller size at 8.3-by-5.8 inches, but it packs a big organizational punch. This graph-paper planner features a number of helpful views for the year: A yearly calendar; a monthly calendar; weekly calendars that vertically organize each day by hour; and dedicated daily pages broken down by hour, with designated spots for a to-do list. And despite its soft binding, this planner is designed with 180-degree lay-flat capability, so you don’t need to crease the page down or hold it with your hand.

While any day is a good one to start a healthy habit or create a new intention, it’s no secret that the top of the year is a popular time to check in with yourself about your fitness routine. This 3-month fitness planner from Ink+Volt aims to help you along that journey. It’s organized in a weekly layout that has space for goals, tasks, and a full-page fitness log that captures the activity, reps, and how long you worked out. After the week’s over, the planner serves up guided prompts for reflection about how things went so you can introspect, pat yourself on the back, and plot out what’s next.

The Happy Planner’s classic vertical layout is designed to keep your eye on the prize with its fun aesthetic and dedicated spaces for organizing your months, weeks, and days. You can drill down even further into planning your days, which the planner breaks into thirds for a morning, afternoon, and evening agenda. Each month has its own page for a priority list, notes, and a grid-lined box for adding in whatever feels particularly important. You can also customize your planner and choose matching stickers (an extra $20 for the value pack) and open the disc binding to add in any extension accessories or added pages.

One of Well+Good’s 2025 Wellness Trends is prioritizing financial wellness, and creating a budget is one of the best ways to start. “Budgets can be liberating, and once you get the hang of following a budget, you’ll automatically develop a healthier attitude toward money,” Sabrina Rosh, CFP, director of financial planning at Ellevest, previously told Well+Good.

The Erin Condren A5 Budget Planner can help by prompting you to jot down your income, expenses, and any debt, all in pursuit of setting, tracking, and achieving your financial goals. This planner also offers dedicated pages for debt, savings, and special occasion budgets. (Hot tip: It’s also a great gift for the goal-oriented Taurus in your life.)

If you don’t think you’ll benefit from seeing your schedule in a bunch of different formats—monthly, weekly, daily, and beyond—a to-do-list focused planner might be a good fit for you. This straightforward planner from Ban.do has daily pages divided vertically down the middle with one side leaving space for you to outline your schedule and the other side dedicated to priorities and your to-do list. If you’re not one for completion nostalgia, make use of the perforated pages by tearing out each day when it’s done. Your to-do list will get literally smaller and more compact as the year moves forward.

More concerned with how you’re doing than what you’re doing? This planner centers self-care, with daily prompts and guided journal worksheets to help you check in with yourself. It asks you to consider questions like what’s influencing your mood, what feels challenging, and what you plan to accomplish on any given day. There’s also a dotted-line portion of each day’s page so you can add in whatever visualization helps you process your feels, whether it’s a list, a chart, a drawing, or otherwise.

The brainchild of productivity consultant Vande Krol, the ProAction Planner is your companion tool for bringing short- and long-term goals to life. In addition to its weekly agenda layout, which is organized in a to-do list format, the planner offers detailed guidance for drilling down into your biggest intentions for the year. With pages for both professional and personal annual goals, the planner helps you break down each item into action-oriented milestones marked by target completion dates and status updates. At the end of the month, there are guided prompts for reflection on progress to help you review and reset.