The very best planners and journals have the distinct ability to ignite an immediate incentive to get motivated and organised for the year ahead. There’s just something super satisfying about having a good old-fashioned diary to keep track of your daily to-do lists, curate your monthly calendar, and most importantly, cross something off when it’s completed.
Plus, writing down your resolutions, aims, thoughts and plans is a sure-fire way to keep your energy and motivation flowing. So much more so than typing notes into a phone or keeping track of plans on a Google calendar. We have far too much screen time as it is – so spending time with a trusty notebook and pen can only be a positive.
The best planners and diaries 2025 at a glance:
- Best Overall: Papier Wonder 2025 Diary
- Best Weekly Planner: Lowland Forest 2025 Diary
- Best Leather Planner: Aspinal of London 2025 A5 Week to View Leather Diary
- Best Under £30: Joy 2025 Diary
- Best Goal Planner: Raspberry Blossom A5 Rainbow Hearts Daily Planner
So, with the new year creeping up on us, the search for something we can keep close all year is on. Of course, for the stationery fanatics among us, choosing the right 2025 planner is a high-pressure task. Not least because you need to use it for a whole 365 days.
Ahead, we’ve hand-picked the best 2025 planners and journals that we think you’re going to love for every one of those days. Some of them focus on mental health alongside planning, complete with space to jot your daily thoughts, rate your mood and note what you’re grateful for (a bit like a gratitude journal). Others are for the creatives, with spaces to create a daily doodle or drawing that represents your mood, and some fall strictly on the calendar side of the spectrum – spanning across week-to-view, day-to-view and month-to-view diaries.