Are you comparing planners for the New Year or halfway through the year and deciding that the planner you bought in January isn’t getting you as organised
as you’d hoped and the layout isn’t quite right?
You may have recently discovered the HELLO TIME Planner or are just finding out about us now. Our undated life planners are the award-winning, all-in-one option
for busy people whether you are managing a household, running a small business or climbing the career ladder. Planning obsessive and into the detail, or you’re a conceptual, big-picture thinker. This planner will support you all.
Inside our planners, there is heaps of space to keep track of your schedule, to-do lists, notes, goals, ideas, and plans in one place. You may have read that they come with two different diary layouts, but you may be wondering what the main differences are and which layout would work better for you.
Let me explain in a little more detail.
The HELLO TIME planner comes with either a Horizontal Week-to-View Diary page or a Vertical Week-to-View Diary page. Both are perfectly planned and meticulously designed, but if you want guidance on which would suit your needs better, you’ve come to the right place.
Both work really well for organising your time and are equally popular. It all depends on what you do for a living and how you plan your time.
After designing the Horizontal layout, I realised that it wouldn’t suit everyone, and lots of you were asking for a timed layout. So, a year or so later, out came the vertical design.
Let me explain the differences so you can make an informed choice and start as soon as possible (both options are undated) to get organised and feel better about how you are spending your time.
THE HORIZONTAL ONE
The Horizontal Diary Layout is our original design and was created around my need for something I couldn’t find on the market. Something smart, clean and universal.
A place to schedule appointments and projects on the left-hand page and a clean page on the right to doodle, pop in daily to-do’s and weekly reminders to keep me focused and on track. I didn’t want pre-prescribed prompts and additional boxes to fill in that I didn’t need, which you’ll find in many other planners.
You can see from the image above just how simple the layout is, so you can use it in the best way for you. It gets its name because the days run horizontally across the page. I use this layout as I don’t have many things to schedule in one day. I love to write the ‘have-to-do’ tasks by the corresponding days; this keeps me super focused and productive. I then use the right-hand side of the spread to log weekly tasks and reminders of things that need to be done at some point during the week.
Summary:
This layout is good for people with fewer scheduled things but who like a page to scribble on next to their week. Social media managers, product-based businesses, and creatives love this layout. Apart from the week-to-view page, all other pages are the same in both planner options.
THE VERTICAL ONE
Our vertical layout came out because although people loved our planners, some were looking for a timed daily layout where they could schedule lots of meetings and calls or use it to block time.
So, two years after the original planner was designed, this new layout emerged.
It gets its name because the days run down the page and are timed from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. It's the perfect layout for people who like to see their week laid out at a glance. It’s also the ideal layout for time blocking. If you haven’t heard of time blocking, it’s key to effective time management.
If you want to know more about time blocking, read our blog here.
You can see from the image above that this option, although it does have some space for a to-do list, meal planning, or daily reminders, is smaller as the priority on this layout is being able to see clearly what’s scheduled at what time.
Summary:
This layout is good for people who have many meetings or calls to schedule or who like to allocate a task to a time frame. Photographers, teachers and service-based business owners prefer this layout. Apart from the week-to-view page, all other pages are the same in both planner options.
We hope this comparison of our two unique diary layouts is useful but if you still have questions email us hello@hellotime.com or send us a WhatsApp message and we’d be happy to offer some further guidance and help.
