Letts Academic Festival A6 diary/planner

Hello all!

Today I have decided to review the only planner I have ever come across that has been close to putting my Filofax into retirement: the Letts Academic Festival A6 diary.  You can buy the current 2012-2013 version here.

Despite the fact that I’m not a student (but my daughter is so I do have school holidays to make a note of), this really is a little beauty.  In my opinion, the best features are:

1. Lovely bright colour.
2. Elastic closure.
3. Page ruler marker.
4. Pen loop (with gel pen included).
5. Spiral bound so lays flat.
6. A6 size (15cm X 11.5cm - also comes in A5 though).
7. Pull-out year planner.
8. Plastic pocket to store bits and bobs.
9. A brilliant layout.  Read on . . .

The layout is a week on two pages plus a box for notes after Sunday.  All eight boxes have equal space (hallelujah!) and the weekdays are divided up by: Time, Activity, Location and Reminders.  So you can put your appointments on the left and reminders on the right.  The Notes box (with a small calendar of the month in it) can be used to mark down things to do for that particular week.


Here come the pictures . . .

Check out that ugly mark where I peeled the label off!  Yuk!

Fold-out year planner (2011/2012 on the reverse)

Plastic pocket for 'bits 'n bobs'

As well as a brilliant layout, it also has the following features:

1. Two year calendar.
2. Conversion tables & factors.
3. Sunrise & sunset.
4. Religious festivals.
5. Notable dates.
6. Useful contacts.
7. Travel information.
8. National information.
9. London attractions.
10. Notes.
11. Addresses.
12. Deadlines & exams.
13. Timetables.

This year, the cover is slightly different.  I don’t like it quite as much but I’m more bothered about the other features than this particular aspect.

The only thing I don’t like about this planner is that Letts insisted on putting a great big ugly sticker on the front cover that took some of the colour off when I peeled it off (very carefully I might add).  I hate these stickers so much!!!

This is a great diary with some brilliant features.  I also love it because it’s so small and light, but big enough.  What do you think?


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