Spring Planner Reviews: Small Niche Brands! EP 191
Mar 25, 2024
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Discover unique planners from small businesses like the Halo Planner with quarterly grids, Biz Mom Planner for women and moms with luxe paper, and Grow & Flourish Planner for gardeners. Learn about She Plans inserts, NOLTY, and April-start Hobonichis. Bonus: special offers from sponsors PrepDish and Jenni Kayne!
The Halo Planner offers a quarterly grid layout with various features and formats, targeting comprehensive organization.
Biz Mom Planner provides customizable disc-bound planners with ample space for busy moms and entrepreneurs to plan and track their goals.
The Grow & Flourish Planner caters to gardeners and homesteaders with custom inserts for organizing gardening tasks and daily routines, integrating digital and paper planning methods.
Deep dives
The Halo Planner - Unique Quarterly Layout with Various Features
The Halo Planner, created by Rebecca, offers a unique quarterly layout that combines elements of popular planners like Full Focus and Wonderland 222. This planner, not yet available for purchase, features a leather-like cover, cream-colored gel pen-friendly paper, and a plethora of layouts. From yearly goals to habit tracking, the Halo Planner includes pages for inspiration, quarterly goals, monthly brain dumps, and detailed weekly and daily pages. With no monthly spread but extensive weekly planning sections, this planner aims to provide a comprehensive organizational tool.
Tiffany's Business Mom Planner Co. - A Large, Undated Disc-Bound System
Tiffany's Business Mom Planner Co. offers a large, undated disc-bound planner designed for busy moms and mom entrepreneurs. Featuring an 8.5 by 11 inch letter size format, this system allows for flexible customization and includes thick, luxurious paper ideal for planning and note-taking. With sections for habit tracking, monthly planning spreads, and functional weekly layouts, this planner caters to individuals undergoing career shifts or seeking a spacious canvas for organizing tasks and goals.
Laura's Gardening and Homesteading Planner - Custom Inserts for Disc-Bound System
Laura, a homesteader and gardener, designed custom inserts for her disc-bound planner to facilitate comprehensive planning for her garden and various jobs. These custom pages tailored to different seasons provide daily rhythms, weather-related information, harvest records, and egg production tables. Combining digital and paper planning, Laura's innovative approach showcases the use of a disc-bound system to organize specialized content for gardening alongside personal and work-related tasks.
She Plans Inserts - Variety Pack for Disc-Bound Systems and Planning Exploration
She Plans offers a sample pack of inserts designed for disc-bound systems, providing users with a range of layouts to experiment with and explore their planning preferences. Priced affordably, this pack includes monthly layouts, daily grids, vertical time grids, and various task management options. Ideal for individuals seeking to test different planning structures and find the most suitable layout for their organizational needs.
Nolty Planners - Japanese Brand Introducing Diverse Layouts via Jet Pen Retail
Nolty, a popular Japanese planner brand known for quality paper and diverse layouts, has gained attention among planner enthusiasts. Available through Jet Pen, Nolty planners offer unique designs and functional features, attracting users looking for alternative planning options. With a range of layouts and April-start planners catering to specific preferences, Nolty presents an exciting opportunity for individuals seeking innovation and creativity in their planning tools.
In today's episode, Sarah reviews 3 planners from small business - one of them so small it hasn't been released yet!
The planners are:
1) The Halo Planner by Rebecca Brosnan, thehaloplanner.com (shop not open yet, but will be soon) - quarterly gridded planner with a ton of features and both daily + weekly layouts
2) Biz Mom Planner by Tiffani - she describes her business as "woman, minority, and mama-owned"! Hand made small batch disc-bound planners, very open ended and undated, thick luxurious-feeling paper. Great for a fresh start and lots of space to write!
3) Grow & Flourish Planner by Laura Millat, creator of The Girly Homesteader - she shares her own planner peace and her Grow & Flourish planner for gardeners + homesteaders!
