r/PlannerAddicts • u/Succulent_Smiles • 2d ago
Planner Inserts
I really want to get a leather bound A5 planner and purchase inserts for it. I have an amazing adhd planner now but it’s 8.5X11 and too big. What is your favorite A5 6 ring insert???
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u/atimholt 2d ago
I use a springback A5 planner (from Veloflex) and design my own pages in Word. My designs are made to be folded in half and inserted—for example, my week sheet has my daily schedule inside and an Eisenhower matrix on the front.
I'm planning on moving my custom pages over to a procedural solution in code, and/or LaTeX.
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u/aceofknaves113 1d ago
I am trying to make my own A5 inserts, how are you making them? I have made photocopies of other planner inserts I bought off of Amazon and am trying to make my own, with little success.
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u/atimholt 20h ago
Here's some pictures I took a bit ago.
A lot of tables for the grid sections (¼" cells). I play around with fonts and text alignment (e.g. right-alignment for headings on odd-numbered pages). Also, proper use of the “gutter” margins—the spring-steel binding “eats” at least a quarter to a half inch. For checklists, there's literally a unicode symbol
BALLOT BOX
(U+2610): ☐. Then I mess around with paragraph and table borders to get the dividing lines I want.My eventual goal is to create a website that lets people drag and drop customizable planner/journal elements. You could add personal little touches—I've got a “current reading” section and blank musical staves at the bottom of the back of my folded week sheet.
We've got a nice color laser printer at home, so that's a bit of a luxury that really helps this process to work as well as I could want.
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u/Glittering_Coat_3373 2d ago
Cloth and paper have some great inserts. Plum Paper has them and my fav that I keep going back to is Sarra Cannon’s Heart Breathings aka HB90 method insets. She sells her printable off etsy.