The Projo is another minimal planner option if you are looking to focus on weekly. I have been using the Projo for over 6 months now and it has been working well. I would highly recommend it. I recently completed my second Projo planner.

I am enjoying the minimalistic nature of the planner and notebook (as well as the protective sleeve which is incredibly useful when using the notebook on the go and in coffee shops etc). So I am regularly using it and I am glad that I ordered so many as part of the original Kickstarter Campaign. Don’t worry you can buy refills online.

The Projo is a three months at a time (undated) planner combined with a notebook in a clear plastic sleeve so you can easily carry both the planner and notebook together and basically have two separate places in one – a place to plan and a place to write.

As time has gone on, I found that although I was consistently using the Projo Planner I kept going back to using monthly notebooks and other notebooks on the go and not the Projo Notebook. Although I have found it useful for keeping master to-do lists.

Additionally, when approaching the end of the planner it was actually more useful for me personally to have two planner books in the sleeve so that I could plan ahead. As the main downside is that there isn’t a future planning section at the end of the notebook.

The Project Planner

As a reminder the Project Planner includes:

• table of contents;
• vision board;
• goals roadmap (space for 5 goals) and for forwarding planning (3 months, 6 months, 1 year);
• project timelines;
• 3 monthly layouts (which includes a monthly planner, key projects, blank grid page and reflection page);
• 15 weekly layouts
• 10 grid note pages.

Minimal Plan: Projo | €20.00

The planner is undated so you can start it anytime and is uses a weekly layout. This is great, but I do recommend starting it at the beginning of a month due to the monthly pages.

However, instead of using a column a day in the weekly planner section I have been using is as different categories of things I would like to get done during the course of the week.

This is because it has become less predictable my working week so I am not always sure which days I have time to do things. If something does need to be done on a particular day of the week – I will note the day beside it. This has been working very well for me the past 6 months.

The project planning at the front of the notebook keeps your goals in check and the overall project timeline. However, in the monthly planning section it would have been useful to have an extra page for planning ahead for the next month. Instead I’ve been straddling two Projo Planners towards the end of the month (as mentioned above).