2026 Monthly Planner - JAN 2026 - DEC 2026 Planner/Calendar,12 Monthly Planner with Contacts & Passwords, 8.5" x 11" Planners 2026, Colorful Tabs, Thick Paper, Black

This planner is a monthly planner is similar to planners titled "Academic Year." The bonus is that it takes 2020 all the way to the end. If you like a full-size, but minimalist planner (light weight, as few pages as possible), then like me, this planner might be for you! I need a quick-access visual view of my schedule. As long as you don't need daily and weekly pages, a monthly planner is a good fit, but not always easy to find.The pages seem to be printed in grayscale. I went with the black cover because I didn't need to pay a little more for another color. The monthly tabs have a glossy laminate just over the tab part. The month abbreviations are printed on the front side of the tab, but not the backside.Favorite Features:This planner was pretty much exactly what I wanted. It's a no-nonsense planner without colors and graphics. The designers did a pretty good job of maximizing the space to put one month on two side by side pages, making the daily boxes just about as large as they can be. The size of the planner makes it really easy to slip into my laptop bag right behind my laptop.The spiral binding allows you to fold the planner in half on any page, which makes it easier to write on a flat surface (versus standard book binding). The front and back cover are thick plastic covers that are large enough that none of the pages or tabs stick out.The daily boxes contain the day of the month in the top left hand corner. In the top right hand corner, it has the "number of days since the beginning of the year" / "number of days until the end of the year." I could do without that information. The rest of the box is unruled and open for you to add your activities. To the right of each monthly spread, there is a notes column that is a little over 1.75" wide. At the top of each spread, it shows 6 months of calendars (the prior month, the current month with a box around it and the four following months).Extra pages:Yearly Overview: 2019, 2020, 2021 (1 pg)Personal Information (1 pg)Important Contacts - labeled Medical, Financial, Insurance, Household (4 pgs)The monthly tabbed pages (Aug 2019 - Dec 2020)Contacts (8 pages; 4 per page)Passwords (3 pages; 5 per page)Notes (5 pages; ruled)Holidays (1 page; lists of holidays for 2019, 2020 & 2021) -- thicker page. On the back of the holidays page, there is a timezone map with states and capitals.Things you might want to know:Month abbreviations not printed on back side of tabs. On each calendar page, the only part that seems to be solid black in color are the month names on the tabs. The rest is printed in shades of dark grey. If I'm being really picky, I'd like the name of the month and the number for each calendar box to be solid black. The planner contains one plastic page with a pocket on the front and back of the page. It will be good for throwing in notes or business cards, but it is a little too small for a full letter size piece of paper. The biggest size it will hold is 7 15/16" x 10.75".Because of the price point of this planner, I'd recommend choosing this one if you need/want a 2020 planner since it goes all the way until December 2020. If you buy it after August 2019, just carefully tear out the months which have passed.I think this planner is great for students (all grades) and people who don't need to fill daily agendas into their non-digital planner (it's good for personal use). If your work/life revolves around making appointments at specific times, a different format (weekly/monthly or daily/weekly/monthly might be for you). I like to easily see the big picture of my life and plans in a visual format that I can hold. My calendar apps just don't cut it.The only place I found any mention of a brand, is the back cover has a small etched "Artfan®" on the back cover. This planner is similar to monthly planners I have used in prior years by BlueSky or "AT-A-GLANCE®", only without the pastel pages and swirly designs. This one is a better price and is very similar is overall layout and quality. The paper thickness/bond seems to be the same between my old planner and this new one.This is one of my favorite planner styles. This is the best price-point I have found for the monthly format.Thanks for reading. I tried to include as much specific detail as possible so you can evaluate whether this planner meets your needs. For my needs -- it is perfect!Month Range: August 2019 - December 2020External size: 9.25" x 11.25".Spiral diameter: 1/2".Planner thickness excluding spiral binding = 1/4".Number of pages = 30

Love the simplicity of this planner. Not much to it but that’s what I wanted. Heavy plastic cover to protect it. Month tabs are covered in plastic, too

Perfect for what I need

Great size, color is nice,

As expected considering a physical album is difficult to find now.

Great Planner! Just what I was looking for! I will definitely buy again when I need a new planner for next year.

Perfect

Exactly as described