Clever Fox Planner Daily PRO - 8.5 x 11" A4 Size Daily Life Planner and Gratitude Journal to Increase Productivity, Time Management and Hit Your Goals - Undated - Lasts 3 Months (Mystic Blue)
I**I
Honest Review from a Journal Expert.
I review many journals...I wish I could give this 5 stars because the journal layout, function and design are lovely BUT, this is only a 90 day journal. You have to buy 4 of these for a complete year. That’s $128 at their price for 4 journals. My biggest negative, they cold have put in another month with the 30+ pages of blank paper they give in the back. (Picture enclosed) I would have preferred an extra month instead of 30 blank pages!! Really like this journal but cringing at buying 3 more planners to complete a year that’s too much money Clever Fox!!
M**E
I thought I loved the Daily Planner
I just received my CF Daily Pro Planners (I purchased two; amber yellow and mint green absolutely beautiful and vibrant) in the mail and after inspection, I love it more than the Daily planner (smaller version) I originally purchased to start 2020 off.PROS: The planners are really well made, the colors are vibrant and the paper stock is thick.I love the layout, its large and there is plenty of room to write. ( I write big and I tend to need more room)The vision board is large as well. I really love the space. I love the softcover, its thick and solid without being too heavy and bulky.I love the blank dotted sheets in the back that offers plenty of room for note-taking. I love the week in review and the month in review pages.Its a really nice, well-made planner.Cons:It is costly, If you want to use the daily pro for a year it will cost approximately 100 dollars for the year.Because it is large and it's a daily planner. It only holds 3 months' worth spreads.The daily pro planner does not have a pen holder which would be nice. Hopefully, they will add one in the future.Other than the cost and the lack of a pen holder, i really have no complaints about this planner. I really love it! If you really like having daily pages with loads of room, as I do, then you will love the daily pro planner.
K**A
Knew it Was a 3 Month Planner...
I actually have several versions of Clever Fox Planners, and this one is the same level of quality as the Planner Pro Weekly and the Goal Achiever planner (which are both very good quality!)I changed a couple of the goal categories, and have yet to "mind map" anything, but while I don't necessarily "pre-plan" my workdays, I've found that the daily spread lets me put together a more constructive work day, and if I determine which days I'm using the bus vs. driving, I'm better at getting up appropriately. I like having the extra space for writing little "drabbles" (think story in a paragraph...) to wake up my brain first thing in the morning, and with the larger overall notebook, I can just chuck this in my backpack and begone!And while $30 isn't cheap multiplied by 4, I used a FOXPLAN_ discount code and got a year's worth of these which saved me at least a little, and I pulled it from my self-investment fund so it's not so bad.The main trick with any of these planners though (that I have to keep telling myself!) is to ACTUALLY USE THEM!Good Luck!
S**N
Compared Many Many Planners, This is MY Favorite!
*update: so I made it to the end and I was wrong. They have four months worth of monthly calendar reviews. But not four months worth of daily pages. If they would take out the 29 dotted note pages at the end they could definitely add another month in there!!!! Hey Clever Fox! Fix this! No one needs that much space for notes! And then it could be a four month planner!! But I still give it a 5 star cuz I love it.So I love planners. Maybe a little too much. But I also love customization. I've used other brands in the past (Tul, Blue Sky Planners, etc.) but I always end up coming back to Clever Fox. I've also tried digital but writing is more personal for me and I tend to stick with it more than digital. I even made my OWN planner!!! For me I was specifically looking for a planner that had months, week reviews, and daily pages to plan my day out as it is not the same every day. But I also wanted room to incorporate a journal feel to it. This book delivers on all of that. I love all the choices in colors (i'm planning on making a rainbow on my bookshelf out of them all) For me the selling point was the best layout for the daily sheets. I loved the setup and use pretty much every section.So I've been using this planner for 3 months now and one thing I wanted to point out is that it is actually a four month planner, not three as advertised and stated in the reviews. I have the purple and lavender ones and they both have the same layouts inside. 4 months and it looks like there is enough pages for four months of daily pages as well. So really you only need 3 of these cuties for a full year. I think the price is worth it because the quality is there.The ONLY thing that I do not like is that compared to every other Clever Fox planner out there this is the only one that seems to NOT have an elastic pen/pencil holder on the side and I do appreciate that feature on their products so I thought it odd that this one does not have it.Ultimately I recommend really looking at the layouts in each one of the Clever Fox Planners and seeing which will fit your lifestyle best. But if you want almost a journaling and in depth daily planner along with weekly reviews and monthly calendars, this is definitely a must! It even has the added bonus of reviewing your goals and helping you to break down you life goals and what you're doing all this planning for!!
K**S
Nice daily planner
I ordered one of these because I love the smaller daily version so much. Like all clever fox products, these are well crafted planners, nicely designed, and help with organization. The size is much larger (8.5 x 11) so there is lots of room to write on each page. Wonderful color selection. Literally the only down side is that it only covers 3 months (I still have to figure out how to make a 3 month system work, since i do a lot of scheduling ahead of time). If you already use CF planners, this is pretty similar to the daily planner that already exists, with more room on each page and blank writing space on each page (a huge plus). Highly recommend
S**M
Good enough
UPDATED: Original review below...After further use, I still don't like how prescriptive the goal section is, but overall it's pretty good, however...I won't renew after going through this one as I don't use the schedule section which takes up a massive area of each page. If you use the scheduling section I think this would be great. If you don't, a massive amount of each page is wasted and left blank. They could take that out, make the dotted section smaller and do two days on each page and make it a six month one and it would be a lot better :)Initial thoughts...Just started using it so will update if things change after more use, but overall it contains the main ideas with goal setting type planning, nothing innovative but packs a lot in. I think most people will love this, as I basically I do this with patients for a living I think it's a touch clunky but I'm probably a bit picky with this type of thingProsNice cover, and great choice of coversIncludes most of the basic goal setting ideasMoves through macro to micro goal/value/tracking ideas wellNice use of extra pages for adding in extra thingsNice and big with plenty of space, a little too big if anythingWhat you lose in flexibility from a Bullet journal you save a lot of time in not having to draw out new templates everydayConsI really am not keen on how the goals have prescriptive areas assigned for you, so either you have set goals for areas you might not be interested in, like Business and career etc, or leave big gaps in your goals and have limited room for goals you actually want to set. I don't get why these aren't left blank and included in the guide if people want to add their suggested onesIt boasts 'designed in Europe', and yet it shipped from the US which meant an import charge and higher shipping costsA little big and expensive for my tastes, but some people will like thatNo pen holderThe gratitude section is odd, my use/understanding as an ACT therapist is of gratitude as an on-going process rather than 'write some things here at the start of the journal and we can never mention it again', feels like it's kind of stuffed in without thought of how it actually fits (there's a few bits like that actuallyI don't think this will be my permanent journal going forward as too expensive for the flaws mentioned, but overall pretty good, gets the job done :)
A**R
I don't need anything else
I absolutely love love love this journal, I must have bought just about every journal from the clecer fox range and by far this is the best one, because its A4 size there is loads of room to write, because it's only a 3 month version I'm not going to get bored with it, I can plan my day down to the very last detail, the extra bullet pages in the back are fantastic so I won't need any other notebooks, I think this is going to be the one that finally helps me get my life in order, the only little thing is the cover is flexible unlike all the other journals I've bought in the past so you will need a hard surface to write on but other than that this is as always a beautiful journal and very usable.
M**S
Great product
Came promptly from overseas to uk, very well designed planner with high quality materials used which you expect for the price. Very happy with my purchase.
D**H
Really impressed
Great prompts, beautiful color, lots of space for your own ideas, well worth money will buy more
A**R
Grande y poderosa
El muy grande, pesada y blanda. Es perfecta para el escritorio pero no para llevarla a ningún lado.Los apartados para revisar el mes están padrisimos.
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