Organizing and planning can be fun, especially with the perfect tools to fit our needs and our lifestyle. There are hundreds of companies and creative minds developing forms and guides to keep you on top of your life. Printable planning solutions are one of these tools.
Printable forms are a great alternative to purchasing a hardcover planner and tend to be more specialized and adaptable to the tasks and projects that need to be completed.
The following list links to printable forms that are all free. Here are my favorites and ones that worked for me:
- Blank calendars — every type you can imagine: monthly, weekly and booklet formats with blank or lined boxes. These calendars are perfect for brainstorming schedules on the fly before entering them on a permanent calendar, or print out different variations to create your own planner!
- Habit list — Productivity 501 has developed a mini course on developing and sticking to new habits that comes with a great, free PDF chart for tracking. Personally, I’ve used this as a daily checklist form for items that go beyond tracking personal development habits, and there are many other uses as well.
- Organize literally everything — I LOVE these planning pages, and this would be my top recommendation if you’re looking to explore printable productivity tools. The free planner page on the site links to new forms each month for daily and monthly planning, organizing your blogging schedule, plus some productivity jump starter pages. Build your own combination of these pages for the ultimate planning tool!
- Daily planning — If you’re an Excel lover like myself and are also very particular about what your planner looks like, consider this daily planning page by Vertex42. The Excel sheet is customizable, so you can start from a great system and tweak it to fit your perfectionist needs! Also check out their daily checklist form.
- Planning with fun concepts — WhiteHatBlackBox has designed some incredible planning and productivity forms linked to on their productivity gear page. Choose from habit lists and daily checkbox forms or the “shoot ‘em down” form set where you shoot down colored invaders as you complete tasks! Also highly recommended.
- For index card lovers — the mind depositor system is designed to print out on index cards or on 4×6 papers that can be affixed to index cards. The concept works well with any GTD system you have developed.
- Build your own planner — an entire site is devoted to the concept! D*I*Y Planner has some great templates and documents, plus an entire system with directions to get you started. They have more than one post and lots to see, but starting here is a good bet.
- Be an effective CEO — David Seah has created an incredible series of forms that can turn you into a highly productive and organized CEO! The Printable CEO series is a must-consider and also check out the compact calendar idea that is perfect for blank brainstorming pages.
All of these free resources are fantastic and I encourage you to try out and test which one works for you. In my case, I use a combination of these resources to build the perfect system for my needs. Much thanks to all of these folks for fantastic resources that can help me and you reach our goals!
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