2023 diaries, calendars and planners: The best ways to plan out your 2023

Jun 13, 2023

Welcome to the new year!

Make a strong start with a yearly planner made just for you. From calendars and diaries to journals, these are the best 2023 has to offer.

NOTE: Prices are accurate at time of publishing.

The diary with a cult following (thanks to its gloriously soft paper stock), Moleskine has a little bit of everything. It has your day-to-day notes sections, monthly and weekly planner, full moon schedule, global map with time zones, ribbon bookmark and three sheets of stickers. It's a simple and classic design that will most certainly help you track your days, month and year.

This memory book will save the day for every forgetful soul. It has each day of the year covered with space to write down who's birthday it is or those pesky anniversary dates.

There are also sections to write down your passwords and usernames for different websites, what you've let people borrow and if they've returned it, as well as a pre-written packing list so you won't forget anything before you go on your next holiday.

No matter how busy you get, time is always spent in the kitchen. This magnetic and erasable calendar measuring 43cm x 30cm will no doubt remind everyone in the family what the day's plans are.

No accessories come with this calendar, so you'll need to buy some whiteboard markers if you don't already have them at home.

This diary is designed for kids aged between six and 12 to express how they feel about the day, what they learnt and how to work and deal with their feelings and emotions.

Each page in the diary has space to both write and draw their day. There are also drawings of faces they can circle or colour in to identify how they feel. As a way to help them see the positives in a bad day, the bottom of the page has a tip to improve their day and a section devoted to finding something positive to add.

A lot of people want to journal more and even make it their resolution, but not many have the time or patience. This one line a day journal helps you recount your day quickly in one line, over five years. It's less of a 'I'm going to do this' planner, and more of a 'this is where I am, where I have been and where I'm going' planner.

Keep an eye on your day-to-day as well as the ever important public holidays with this stylish purple desk calendar – a great option to keep by your side at work.

If purple isn't your aesthetic, it also comes in green, blue and beige. 

The Australian Women's Health Diary is used as a guide to help women improve their day-to-day health and routine with information on diet, exercise, skincare, heart health, breast health and finance as well as all the features of a standard diary. Most important of all is when you buy this diary, money from the purchase will go towards funding breast cancer clinical trials and research. Enter 2023 the right way.

This simple looking diary is nothing but. It has all the little bits and bobs needed to managed your plan for the day like the a day-per-page layout separated by 30 minute intervals. You've also got plenty of time to use it, with three years covered from 2023, so you're set for a couple more years.

Clean and crisp, the Filofax planner is one of the simplest to use. It's plain and simple with no frills and does what it says and sometimes that's all you need.

If you're having a bad day and need a bit of cheering up, learning about all the dumb, silly and downright mad things other people have said, done or written might just be the pick-me-up you need. Turns out there's a stupid comment for every day of the year. 

If you've got a big family, writing everyone's daily info nice and tidy in one little calendar box per day won't really work. Instead, this Busy B calendar has space for you to organise the plans of everyone in the family in columns and write what they're up to for every day on the month.

Designed for teachers, this planner has all the necessities needed for looking after kids, dealing with school and homework, and preparing for meetings. It lays out the 40 weeks of schooling per year, with seven periods per day to plan your lessons. It comes undated, so you can add in the dates, or what school week it is depending on how you organise. It also includes monthly planners and stickers to arrange due dates, assemblies, and all the other 'fun' logistical tasks a teacher has to work on on top of the classroom.

Some thoughts are better kept to yourself, especially if they are written in your personal journal. If you have a pesky sibling or housemate who likes a sticky beak around your belongings, this diary is a good way to avoid the arguments. Lock away all your plans and ideas with this combination lock.

A more traditional and standard yearly planner, the Busy B diary is small in size but packs a lot in. The year is separated week-to-week across two pages. On either edge of the pages is a separation between work and home life, which helps determine your professional and personal goals outside of the standard to-do list.

For some, astrology is some weird craze that doesn't actually affect their lives. For others, it is an extremely important factor for determining what they should set out to do – this journal is most definitely for the latter.

Included is your standard week-per-page planner to write on, but has additional information on what is happening in the various planet orbits that could affect your day's outcomes based on star sign and time. So plan wisely and utilise that space energy to get all the right things happening on the correct days.

This is the perfect calendar to hang in any kid's (or big kid's) room. It's simple, easy to read and most importantly – fun! Every Lego fan will want this to not only plan their day-to-day routines, but also work out the days for when they plan to build.

This simple yet effective to-do list sorts out your days to a tee. It's one-page-per-day, and segmented into hourly lines to fill. On the left includes a general to-do list outside of your hour-by-hour plans and a section to organise your food and water intake – something often forgotten when super busy.

We all know that the shape of the moon's reflection to earth changes day-to-day and throughout the month, we get full moons, half moons and crescent moons (can you tell I'm not a space expert?). Some believe that the shape of the moon can reflect certain aspects of the day. This moon phase calendar lays out what shape the moon will be on what day of the year.

Based on astrology, each formation affects how people act and feel and determines what they should be doing. This guide can help people plan when they should be doing certain activities – like asking for a promotion at work early on the the moon cycle, or plan your next move in the later stage. The energy the moon creates is believed to affect these choices, so plan accordingly!

Sometimes the best way to let it all out is to write it all down, and then burn it. No? Not for everyone, this journal is just trying to help.

There are some people that need everything in one place, and this is the perfect way to sort out your 2023. It's simple, it's clean and it gets the job done.

What planner is better than a well laid out, easy-to-use book with additional writing areas and notes? One with dogs on the cover!

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