121 Things to Track in Your Planner That You Never Think About

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Last Updated on May 16, 2023

Looking for things to track in your planner? This comprehensive list has everything you could possibly want to jot down and keep tabs on!

If you have a billion reminders floating around in your head like I do, you know how much better it feels to get those thoughts out of your head and onto paper! Just last night, I couldn’t fall asleep because I had a thousand different to-do’s racing around in my mind.

But when I utilize my planner to track all these things instead, my mind is WAY less overwhelmed.

With so many things to keep track of in adult life, you’ve got to keep them somewhere! You can think of it as decluttering your mental space. Not to mention how ultra-organized you’ll feel when you’re tracking everything you could possibly think of in a planner. (Not that you need to track all of these things, but I’m giving you plenty of ideas!)

When life gets chaotic, your planner is your best friend! So let’s buckle up, get organized, and dive into allllll the things to track in your planner throughout the year!

Here are 121 things to track in your planner that you NEVER even think about!

Personal & Self Care

The best part about personal things to track in your planner is that it can include fun things too! It doesn’t always have to be serious business here. If you have a list of books you’ve been dying to read but just haven’t gotten around to yet, you can jot them down in a list or even schedule them into your free time!

Anything’s game here!

Personal goals (ideas for personal goals here!)
Daily affirmations
Inspirational quotes or bible verses
Gratitude list
Self care activities list (it’s helpful to schedule self care activities throughout the month! Here’s a 30 day mental cleanse challenge for ideas)
Usernames/passwords
Bucket list items
AncestryDNA results (cool to refer back to if you have a lot of nationalities!)
Parties and social events
Movies you want to see
Books you want to read
What season/episode you’re on of your favorite TV show
Recipes to try
New restaurants to try
Blogs and podcasts you love
Packing lists for upcoming trips
Brain dumps
Your Christmas list (remember to add to it throughout the year!)

Business or Work

Whether you work a 9-5 or own your own business, there’s several different metrics and milestones of things to track in your planner! I know that with my blog, I’m always tracking affiliate sales, page views, product sales, and other stats and it helps to check in on my growth!

Work schedule
Brainstorming work/business ideas
Usernames/passwords for emails and platforms
Track your blog stats or business stats
Social media stats
Business income and expenses
Mileage log
Business trips
Upcoming social media or blog posts
Meetings
Marketing trends
Contacts list
Work projects
Career goals (ideas for professional goals here!)

School Things to Track

If you’re a student, staying organized helps all your classes and assignments flow so much smoother! There’s nothing worse than forgetting about an assignment or exam, so at a minimum you must have an assignment tracker!

Class schedule
Assignments and deadlines
Exams
Homework and projects
Notes
Academic Goals
Degree tracking (how many units do you have left?)
Courses to take in future semesters
School events
College application deadlines
Graduation application deadline
Letters of recommendation tracking
Professors names and contact info

Schedules to Track in Your Planner

If you have a lot of different obligations, tracking your schedule for each obligation is probably the main reason you have a planner in the first place. Don’t forget to include these things to track in your planner!

Work schedule
Class schedule
Hobbies and extracurriculars (zumba class? Meetings?)
Upcoming vacations
Your significant other’s schedule
Cleaning and housework schedule

Finances

Bills and budget tracking are a super crucial area of your life, so make sure you’re living within your means and staying on top of bills! (Better yet, I just keep all my bills on autopay, but you do you!)

Budget and savings tracker (I have a budget tracker template here!)
Debt tracker (and how much you’ve paid off)
Due dates for bills
Pay day tracker
Usernames/passwords to financial accounts
Contributions to your savings and retirement
Work-related expenses
Tax due dates

Health and Wellness

Health and wellness can sometimes be overlooked, but they definitely shouldn’t be! Make sure you’re prioritizing both your physical and mental health too. I like to track my anxiety symptoms to check in on the severity and type of symptoms I’m having so I can monitor how I’m doing. Your health is super important, so make sure you’re including it in the things to track in your planner!

You can grab my (free!) printable anxiety tracker below to start doing the same! It really is a big help in determining the course of my anxiety improvement.

Anxiety, depression, or other mental illness symptom tracking
Therapy and psychiatry appointments
List of medications and dosages (medication history isn’t a bad idea either if you’re trying out different medications to find the right one!)
Dental appointments
Doctor’s appointments
Menstrual cycle tracking
Weight loss tracker
Exercise tracker (best exercise routine ideas for mental health here!)
Step tracker
Food diary
Water intake
Mood tracking
Body measurements
Meditation tracker

Just a careful side note: I know that eating and weight loss can be a touchy, sensitive subject. Don’t feel like you need to be tracking things like measurements and food to be healthy! I only include these on there for those who have a (healthy, reasonable) goal of weight loss, but don’t get caught up on these stats if they are triggering for you to monitor!

Memories to Track In Your Planner

Back to my earlier point about how your planner should still be fun, why not use it as a place to store the memories you care about?! You can have a section that can be treated like a scrapbook! You’ll be glad you have a special place dedicated to the sentimental things to track in your planner.

Photos (did you know you can print Polaroid photos from your phone with the Polaroid Lab?! Go check it out! This is a great way to get planner-sized photos to paste into your planner.)
Small blurbs of fun activities with friends and family
Funny quotes said by friends and family
Movie ticket stubs, plane tickets, or other momentos
Memories of goals you’ve reached and things you’ve accomplished

Home and Car Maintenance

Because household maintenance and car stuff is sooooo fun….you probably think about it 24/7! (Totally kidding.) It’s super useful to keep track of oil changes, cleaning schedules, and more because I know I barely remember the last time I took care of certain infrequent chores!

Cleaning schedule (I like to organize this by room)
Tracker for infrequent household chores (changing the HVAC filter, smoke alarm battery replacement, cleaned behind the fridge, etc).
Tracker for car maintenance (oil changes, tire rotation, tire replacement, battery replacement, full maintenance check)
House projects or room transformations to do
Menu planning
Grocery lists
Pantry inventory
Fridge inventory
Freezer inventory
Household supplies inventory (paper towels, dish soap, etc.)

Family and Relationships

Don’t forget about date nights or family activities! If you feel like you’re running out of things to do with your significant other, you might want to keep a running list of new things to try together! Date night ideas and other important relationship-boosters are always great things to track in your planner!

Date night schedule and ideas
Family birthdays
Little notes about your partner (their likes, dislikes, favorite things)
Anniversaries (not just your “official” date, but the date you moved in together or anything else significant!)

Entertainment

It’s always nice to look forward to concerts, movies, and other entertainment you love! Writing down upcoming concert dates and the like is a great way to give yourself a little burst of joy!

Upcoming concert or music festival dates
Upcoming dates of movies you want to see in theatres
TV show premiere dates
Video game release dates
Music album release dates

To Do Lists and Habits to Track in Your Planner

I am passionate about alllll the to do lists and habit trackers! I think these are a great way to get your routines in check and make sure you’re being productive. You can consider things like your morning and night routines, healthy habits you’d like to pick up, and random things you’d like to get done! It’s all about using the things to track in your planner to keep you organized.

List of habits you want to break
List of habits to create your “ideal life”
- Then, organize those habits into a habit tracker
“Master to do list” of all the things you’ve wanted to get around to
Hobbies you’d like to get into (list of 100 hobby ideas here!)
Goal tracker (you can grab my free printable goal planner below!)

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Morning routine activities (productive morning routine ideas here!)
Night routine activities
Weekend routine activities

Traveling

If you enjoy travel, you should totally track upcoming trips and travel memories! This is also another fun way to give yourself a reminder of something fun to look forward to in the middle of your busy schedule!

Dream destinations
Upcoming trips
Packing lists (maybe a go-to summer and winter packing list)
Map of places you’ve been
Travel photos
Trip itinerary
Travel journal
Favorite places visited in each location (restaurants, coffee shops, etc.)

Contacts

Chances are you don’t have all your contacts written down somewhere in a safe physical location, but you absolutely should! Phones can get lost and backups can sometimes be unreliable, so definitely keep your contacts somewhere in your planner as an extra safety measure!

Family contacts
Friends’ contacts
Work and business contacts
Former employers that you’d like to keep as references
People who provide services to you (hair stylist, massage therapist, maintenance team, etc.)
Doctors, dentists, therapists
Emergency contacts

Tools to Keep Track of Things In Your Planner

Taking it one step further by keeping your planner as organized as possible for all these different areas of your life helps things run so much smoother (or just to add a lil decoration)!

Here are some fabulous tools to consider to help you keep even better track of things in your planner:

Divider tabs
Colored pens so that you can create a color-coded system
Washi tape
Planner stickers
Sticky notes
Flag stickers
White out
Bookmark

How to Choose What to Track

I know, this is quite the hefty list of things to track in your planner! To help you figure it out, you should ask yourself: what purpose do you want your planner to serve?

It could be…

To help you focus – narrow your trackable items down by what you know you need to focus on. While it might be fun to add some scrapbooking into your planner, if that makes things too cluttered or time-consuming for you, you don’t need to do it! Creativity is fun, but keeping a clean and simple design might be easier on your brain.
Keeping memories – whether this be important information or the details of the perfect date you went on, let your planner serve as a way to record the sentimental things you never want to forget!
Organizing everything all in one place – if you are guilty of using a thousand different notebooks for different things, you might just be creating more disorganization instead of organization! Keeping sections for different things within one planner will make things far more streamlined.

So keep those points in mind as you sort through this list of things to track in your planner! You don’t have to track it ALL, just keep it geared toward the important stuff.

This post was all about things to track in your planner.

Now you have plenty of ideas for things to track in your planner! You won’t miss a beat with this level of organization. Let me know which of these ideas you’re most excited to start tracking in your planner!

Happy planning!

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