20+ Holiday Hacks for Each Everyday Planner Page

Happy holidays, now start planning.

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7 min readDec 15, 2021

Let’s start with a quote by Robert Burns:

“The best laid plans of mice and men oft go awry.”

So whether you’ve made resolutions to not eat an exorbitant amount of apple pie or personal plans to have started a new workout regimen on January 1, those plans will probably–as Robert suggested–go awry.

That’s why we’ve created this list of 20+ use cases for the Everyday Planner template. Use these use cases to help keep to your plans in 2023. Of course, if you eat too much apple pie or forget to exercise, the Everyday Planner’s undated and erasable pages make that a non-issue. Happy Planning!

3-Month Overview

Set Some Resolutions: Start the new year off right with some categorical resolutions. Pick some concrete goals, write them down, and stick to them! (Or don’t stick to them, erase, and adjust. That’s perfectly fine, too.)
Be a Therapist: Let’s say you’ve got 124,293 elves working for you. And during the holidays, they work overtime. Talk to them and keep notes on the stressors in their lives to make sure they feel supported. This might be a very specific use case for one white-bearded person, though.
Keep a Record: Use the 3-Month Overview to look back on your progress in each category. After each month, reflect on your major accomplishments and what you’re grateful for in each section. You’ll feel warm and fuzzy inside like you just put on a brand-new pair of winter socks.

Year

Plan 2023’s Holidays: The start of the year takes a lot of prep work. So get a head start on the rest of the year by filling in important dates or big family events early in 2023.
Wish Happy Birthday: Everyone has their own special holiday: their birthday. Fill in the birthdays of everyone in your life so you never forget to say those hallowed well-wishing words. And yes, unfortunately, you still have to send a card.

Month

Learn to Play the Harp: Use the focus section and the rest of the monthly page to set realistic timelines on what you want to accomplish in the next 30 days. (Is the harp hard to play? It seems like it really is.)
Schedule Your Work Life: Returning to work after the holiday break is tough. A little planning makes it less tough. Keep track of meetings, deadlines, and important to-dos. Never miss a meeting again (even that Monday morning with Greg you keep “accidentally” forgetting about).
Join a Book Club: Need to finish a book by a deadline? Map out a reading schedule based on your read speed to stay on track. Set page goals for each week, or just aim to read a certain amount of days per week. Or there’s always the backup plan: watch the movie.

Week

Meal Plan Merrily: Schedule your meals for the week to make the holiday season less stressful. Use the layout of the Weekly pages to go all out and map out your breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Yum, yum, holiday fun.
Time Block Your Day: Organize your day using time slots with the time blocking method. Time blocking is a great way to eliminate wasted time in your day and to be as efficient as possible. For a more in-depth look at time blocking with Rocketbook, see our full article about it.
Plan A Warm Winter: You’ve heard of Christmas in July. How about Christmas in Hawaii? Plan a week-long vacation to go somewhere warm this winter and have something fun to do every morning, afternoon, and evening. Literally–the Week pages are split into 3 sections for easy visual organization.

List

Get After Goals: The first step to achieving any goal is writing it down. The first step to achieving multiple goals is writing them all down. So list out the goals you want to accomplish in the next week/month/year and check back with the list as you complete them for the satisfying check-off!
Cook New Year Hors D’oeuvres: If you’re cooking up tiny hot dogs or something else, list the ingredients on these pages. Then, scan with the Rocketbook app to activate Smart Lists. Wow, now you’ve got an interactive grocery list on your phone and are the coolest person at the grocery store.
Be a Gifting Guru: Sitting around the tree with your family on Christmas morning was the wrong time to realize you never ordered your Mom’s gift this year. Get better for the 2023 holidays by creating a gift list you can scan and edit on your phone. Learn more about how to use Smart Lists for the holidays here.

Custom Table

Resolute to Get Fit: The classic New Year’s Resolution is achievable…create a table to track your workouts. And if you don’t get to it, no judgment. Erase the page and start again next month. Or the next month. Or the next — you get it. See our fitness tracker guide here.
Map Out Your Class Schedule: For easy reference, copy your weekly class schedule to your planner so you don’t need to use up space on the Weekly pages and so you always have it handy. Now, you’ll never miss class again (at least, not accidentally).
Keep the Family Together: What better way to use the Custom Table page than to plan wedding table seating arrangements. Map out your table and make sure to keep Uncle Aaron away from Grandma Bertha so we don’t have the same disaster as last year’s Christmas. Let’s just move on.

Lined

Write Your Novel: Start writing the chapters of your novel by hand. When you have some chapters ready to go, you can scan, transcribe, and upload them online for easy editing. Imagine if Shakespeare had that power!
Scrap Notes: Quick notes-to-self or reminders or small calculations can be perfectly done on lined pages. No need to take up a full sheet of paper for writing down an address…or 7.7 billion addresses if you happen to have a lot of deliveries to make this December.
Keep a Diary: “Tonight, I roasted chestnuts by the open fire.” “This morning, Jack Frost was nipping at our nose.” Those are some holiday memories you don’t want to forget. So write, scan, and send them to your cloud destination of choice to create a digital journal.

Dot-Grid

Design Clothes: The best outfit is one made with love…or at least made by you. Sketch your ideas for a new dress or outfit using the subtle guide of a dot-grid page. And remember–this isn’t Project Runway, so you can take your time (and erase if you need).
Storyboard A Movie: Use the subtle guide of the dot-grid to help sketch out the scenes of your video. If you don’t like where the movie is going, just erase the page and start over, we won’t tell.
Create Art: Sometimes a blank page is intimidating. Use the dot-grid as a subtle aid for sizing or perspective in your art. Draw a snowman or an igloo or literally anything else.

Planner Party

There are many more ways to use each of the Everyday Planner’s undated, reusable pages to your notetaking advantage. For instance, each page has a built-in Title Bar where you can write what you want your files to be named automatically when you scan with the Rocketbook app.

Want more of the Rocketbook Everyday Planner? Watch the full video here to learn more about the ins and outs of our minimal planner.

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