January 1 is on its way and along with a new year, this time the clock striking midnight will also see us enter a brand new decade.
While you may use your phone’s calendar app to keep track of important events and appointments, there’s something quite nice about a diary with completely blank pages.
It’s a physical way of looking at the year ahead, holding all the days as pages in your hands, all blank slates on which to start afresh.
Whether you’re looking for something practical to keep track of important events or a planner to help record your thoughts and achievements, we’ve rounded up some of the best diaries around to get your 2020 off to a cracking start.
See our favourites below
Papier x Desmond & Dempsey The Jag
Stationery obsessives are likely already familiar with Papier – their notebooks and personalised writing sets are highly coveted. Naturally their 2020 diary offering is superb, with hardback diaries and planners covered in gotta-have-em patterns that are a result of collaborations with the likes of fashion brands Desmond & Dempsey, Mother of Pearl, House of Holland and artist Luke Edward Hall. It costs the same to personalise the diary as it does to get it plain, so go to town on the personal touches and make it yours.
£21.99 | Papier | Buy it now
Smythson 2020 Panama Diary with Pocket
With a solid gold reputation that stretches back to 1887, Smythson is the first name on our lips when it comes to luxe stationery. This dinky pocket diary is from the Panama Collection and is available in eight shades, although we like Nile Blue best. It's a diary in the traditional sense, to be used for recording birthdays, parties and other important events on your calendar from November 18 2019 to January 24 2021.
£47 | Smythson | Buy it now
Christian Lacroix Curiosities B5 Journal
If this journal was in an American high school it would leave with the accolade 'most beautiful', because it really is a treasure. As well as high quality lined paper, the B5-size book features stunningly detailed illustrations from Christian Lacroix. All 132 pages are gilded with gold and the hardback cover comes with a chevron-print ribbon place holder as the finishing touch. One to display pride of place on your desk.
£46 | Amara | Buy it now
Paperchase A6 A Question a Day 2020 diary
Enter a year of learning about yourself with this clever pink and red diary, which proposes one question for you to ponder and respond to every day. Think of it as a journal that speaks back; you'll find out more than you thought about yourself than you thought. Questions promote mindfulness and self-care a third of the way down each page with the rest left blank for your other diary needs.
£12 | Paperchase | Buy it now
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Emma Bridgewater Rise & Shine 2020 Slim Calendar
Give yourself some get up and go with this egg-celent wall calendar which has a wire handle so you can hang it up, ideally in your kitchen.
Months are displayed in their entirety on one long page, finished with an on-brand illustration of chicken, cockerels and other cheerful egg-related drawings.
£4.95 | Emma Bridgewater | Buy it now
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Kikki K 2020 Cute PVC Time Planner with Zip Medium Holographic: Be Kind
One for the young - or young at heart - this cute planner comes in a shiny holographic casing and colourful divides as well as a couple of sheets of stickers to help you personalise all through the year.
There's a diary section as well as divides for to-do lists and a place to store your addresses and contact book without worrying about low battery. Old school, yes. Cool - definitely.
Best of all, this is a ring binder, so just buy a refill for 2021 when the time comes and continue to shine on.
£18 | Kikki K | Buy it now *On sale from £33
Amrams and Chronicles Books Daily Master Plan Planner
2020 is your year. We feel it in our fingers, as well as our toes. Conquer the upcoming 365 days with this 88-page planner, named fittingly enough Master Plan in gold coloured embossed letters. The striking red cover is made with vegan leather and encases lined note pages and postcards.
Weeks are laid out across double pages but do not bear dates, so you can start using this planner when you're ready, as opposed to Jan 1.
£10.99 | Liberty London | Buy it now
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Paperchase Spectrascope desk planner
If you're the kind of person who needs to section everything or likes things clearly marked out, welcome to your favourite new desk accessory - the Spectrascope desk planner.
Essentially a notepad, the brightly coloured planner is made up of 52 tear-off sheets, each divided into sections for each part of the day as well as a to-do column for all your tasks.
Ideal for the days when you have a lot to keep track of, this planner will prove to be a life-saver during busy days.
£5 | Paperchase | Buy it now
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2020 Diary A6 Week to View Diary
This smart pocket diary has a luxe look thanks to the tan leather-look cover and gold lettering but it's a bargain buy at less than a tenner, making it a winner in our book.
It's full of helpful features including an inner pocket to squirrel away receipts and tickets and pages are a mix of monthly and weekly layouts to help you plan the year's events with ease. There's even an elastic pen loop to let you jot down events on the fly.
£8.99 | Amazon | Buy it now
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2020 Illustrated Wall Planner/Calendar/Organiser/Poster (Compact A2 Size) with Stickers
This super sweet wall planner is perfect for children with seasonal illustrations dotted around and inbetween important dates of the year like Valentine's Day, Easter, the Queen's official birthday and Guy Fawkes Night. There are handy markers to show where the clocks change and seasons are colour blocked, with summer in a cheery yellow.
Best of all, this planner shows the days of the year all across a single A2 page so there's no faffing about with pages. Hang it up at home and use the stickers to mark your personal events.
£5.99 | Amazon | Buy it now
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One Line A Day: A Five-Year Memory Book
Low effort, and in five year’s time, a high reward. All this diary asks is that you record one sentence every day for five years and you’ll be left with a micro-journal snippeting the best bits of your last half decade. The fact that there’s limited space should help focus your entries to the most important or amusing part of your day. It’s easy to think nothing changes day to day, but when you look back at 1,825 days in one go you’ll see how far you’ve come.
£14.99 | Oliver Bonas | Buy it now
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Anthropologie Productivity Planner
We know it, you know it: 2020 is your year. Meet all your goals (and then some) with this chic organiser that champions productivity above all else.
Wave goodbye to the procrastination of the last decade, this 243-page planner is here to help you conquer all your dreams, big and small.
£24 | Anthropologie | Buy it now
