It’s 8.5 by 11 inches and less than 0.5 inch thick, so it has plenty of space for writing and doesn’t add much bulk to a backpack, but it’s still big enough that it won’t get lost or squished surrounded by textbooks, notebooks, and folders on a desk. Why it’s great: The Blue Sky Academic Student Planner is the best out of the eight academic-year planners we’ve tested because it has the most useful features for middle school, high school, and college students, the cover is sturdy, and it’s inexpensive-at this writing, it’s the second-most affordable planner we recommend.

Wherever possible we’ve chosen options that are widely available and come in different sizes and colors. If you’re not sure which type of planner is for you, we cover how to choose the right planner you can also see how we made our picks. Our picks include an academic planner for students, a highly customizable traveler’s notebook, a simple book-bound planner, a minimalist calendar, a refillable ring-bound organizer, an option for memory keeping, a goal-tracking planner, and a bullet journal. We set out to satisfy a range of planning types-from simple scheduling to more artistic uses like journaling and sketching. We’ve researched 122 planners and tested 44 since 2017, and we’ve discovered that most (but not all) of the best planners cost $50 or less. There are so many good planners that we can’t recommend a single standout instead, we’ve found eight, in a range of styles, that people with different priorities will love. You can’t beat the satisfaction of crossing something off your to-do list with a sharp pencil or a smooth pen-and shouldn’t everybody use their phone less anyway?

You can find plenty of phone apps to help you keep track of your life, but stationery lovers know the power of writing it all down on paper.

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