I've used these planners for at least six years and plan to continue as long as they're available. Perfectly portable, plenty of room for notes, and blank pages to hold everything for ready access throughout the year. Almost half the book is dedicated to notes and unstructured pages for sketches, lists, and things best kept at one's fingertips. Plan your months, plan your weeks, and customize the planner to your specific needs, even when they change from year to year. The color combinations, cover art, interior fonts and graphics, and overall layout is cheery and delightful without being distracting, trendy, or juvenile. The cover is substantial enough to protect the pages inside, and the smooth, heavy paper quality prevents ink bleed-through. The corners are rounded so nothing catches on them. The elastic strap holds everything together, and the accordion style pocket inside the back cover keeps the inevitable loose bits and pieces of paper corralled. While watching me note an upcoming appointment at a recent office visit, someone commented on how very old-school my planner was. I took that as a great compliment -- no learning curve, no charging, no risk of damaged screens or any kind of technical malfunction. Sometimes old school is the very best education of all. Give yourself the gift of days -- treat yourself to one of these elegant little planners and enjoy the time you'll spend customizing the undated months to your particular year. If you like someone very, very much, you might gift them one of these planners. That's how I received my first one, and it's a gift I seek out for myself year after year.