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The Essential Daily Planner – Your Productivity Dashboard

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Are the projects and goals that are most important to you getting lost in the busyness of a day or in too many different apps, calendars, and planners?

If so, you’re so not alone in that. Most planners and apps focus only on the tasks you need to do or the places you need to be, but they don’t do a great job of keeping your most important projects and goals top of mind and coherent. It’s so easy to find yourself busy but not really effective.

To be effective and successful, you have to stay focused on the right projects and goals. You need a system that helps corral your creativity and expertise into worthwhile pursuits, rather than into just sitting in meetings, checking email, or getting lost on the Internet. Time wasted is time lost.

You need a system that helps you:

  • Keep track of what your big goals and projects are
  • Translate those big goals and projects into action items you can do during the day
  • Plan when you’ll be able to get those action items done
  • Remind you of the progress you’ve made on those goals and projects

That’s a tall order, but the Essential Daily Planner is based on the core productivity principles that will help you with each of those needs.

A Focus on the Essentials

We’ve been making planners and productivity tools for creative people since 2007, and these tools have been downloaded over a million times. We’ve looked at how you’ve used our planners, and we’ve incorporated your feedback to create the Essential Daily Planner.

Our Essential Daily Planner isn’t just a simple calendar or appointment tracker. It encapsulates a planning system that helps you stay focused on the projects you need to do, rather than just on where you need to be. It’s thus great for students, creative people, entrepreneurs, leaders, and change agents whose success depends on finishing their projects.

The Essential Daily Planner focuses on three core principles that may simultaneously support and frustrate you:

  1. The best way to get Big Goals done is to break them into smaller doable parts.
  2. We need different levels of detail at different altitudes of perspective.
  3. Constraints help us focus on the things that really matter because they account for the fact that our reach always exceeds our grasp.

That’s all fine in theory, you say, but how does it actually work and what does it look like? Great questions. Rather than tell you, I’ll just show you in this quick video:

We designed the Essential Daily Planner to be a handy 5×8 size so you can throw it in your bag, purse, backpack, or coat pocket. It’s spiral bound, so it’s easy to use on the go from the get-go. That way you’ll always have a place to capture those great ideas, figure out what you need to prioritize and finish, and update your project list so you finally get a chance to celebrate that you got something important done.

Ready to Get Your Own Essential Daily Planner?

The Essential Daily Planner costs $44, with free shipping to U.S. customers. That’s a cup or two of coffee a month – surely finishing more of the stuff that matters to you is worth a couple of cups of joe a month. (Especially since that’s probably one of the reasons why you’re drinking coffee in the first place!)

You’re not just purchasing the planner, though. You get useful tips, reminders, and inspiration delivered regularly to you via email. Many of our customers tell us that these emails make a big difference to their productivity.

Your Essential Daily Planner will be shipped to you within two days of purchase and normally takes 3–5 business days to get to you.


We’re excited to see how the Essential Daily Planner helps you start finishing the stuff that matters most to you.

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Want to See How Other Creative Giants Feel About Their Planners?

Looking for a printed daily planner that’s easy to use and to carry with you — and that’s more than a simple calendar and appointment tracker? Our Essential Daily Planner contains the core productivity system to keep you focused on the work that matters most. | The Essential Daily Planner //productiveflourishing.com/essential-daily-planner/Libby O’Loghlin of RowingGirl.com says: “One of the things about being self-employed is that you have to be your own Boss, Strategist, Research Team, CEO, CFO, HR, PR, Marketing, Comms and Creative Bureau. Throw parenting into the mix, and you realise at some point that if you’re not smart about managing time, energy and tasks, you’ll end up extremely busy–but not necessarily productive. It took me some time to realise that my style of working in a non-linear fashion is okay, and I just have to be smart about how I do it. I like to think of the Action Planners as the Boss, and I check in with them frequently to stay focused on the tasks and objectives at hand. They’re especially great for clarity when working concurrent projects with staggered timelines”
Collette Schultz of Savvy Subcontracting says: “These are absolutely the best planners for my subcontracting biz. It keeps me on task with my own projects and multiple clients. Thank you.”
Jen Vaughn says: “I started following Productive Flourishing years ago and tried out the free planners a time or two. Recently when I became overwhelmed at work, I decided it was time to purchase the Premium Digital Planners. Rather than constantly trying to figure out a structure to keep myself organized, I finally realized that someone has already figured out the structure! Charlie provides the structure for me to be super-effective, organized, creative, and pro-active. All I have to do is show up and do the work. I’ve found the blog planners incredibly valuable. Now that I’m using the planners, I’m finding and scheduling content much easier. Before using the planners, I was struggling to source and find content. With the planners I feel freer to explore. I expected the planners to help me get more organized. I didn’t expect the planners to help me feel more creative as well. The planners force me to prioritize and pick what I’m going to focus on. Because I can schedule out for the month, it’s also given my bosses more realistic time-frames on when projects will be delivered. That’s sanity saving for all of us! If you’re thinking of buying the planners, my advice is to do it. You really can start to think longer-term knowing that you have them all there and ready. You can buy the entire year’s worth of Digital Planners for the cost of five cups of coffee. It’s just $2 per month!”
Laurie says: “These planners are fantastic for folks who work by project/ task rather than hour by hour. And I love being able to break projects down from the big annual picture down to quarterly, monthly, weekly, daily and to the time when I work best. Absolute genius.”
Kim Robson says: “I’ve just downloaded the planners. I plan on printing either the annual or quarterly planners for writing down this year’s surprises to alert me for 2014. I am setting up my life on paper, and your pages are the best to use in conjunction with my digital life. I am trying to schedule a teacher conference, so I know exactly when I can see her due to the empty slot, instead of trying to mentally fit her in on the calendar. I’ve decided to limit my “busyness” to five items, with one being appointments, one being housework (which NEVER ends), leaving three for all of those loose ends I create tons of lists to remember. This morning, my boys (11 & 8) dragged their feet, were not prepared for the day, missed the bus, and I had to drive them to school. They know the after school routine, yet, after all my prodding, will not get ready the day before. Now they will start using your weekly action planner to get prepared for school.”
Lee P. says: I can’t begin to tell you just how much I’ve used your planners this year. I’m now an Air Traffic Control Support Specialist, in that I’m formulating and designing air traffic plans and procedures. To bring either to fruition, the amount of work involved is significant. Enter your planners. The Project Planners help me keep on task with individual projects, and the Action Planners help me keep up with my other commitments for the day, week or month.