Three planners, three date structures, one question: which one is actually right for you? Here is the honest decision guide, including when the answer is "none of them."
The short answer
- You want a clean January start and you plan by real dates — the Dated 2027 edition.
- You want to start today, not in January — the 16-Month edition (September 2026 – December 2027).
- You want to start any week, pause, and never waste a page — the Undated edition.
Dated 2027: for people who live on the calendar
A dated planner does one thing better than any other format: it removes decisions. Every page already knows what day it is. You never write a date, never wonder which week you are in, and the month grid always matches the calendar on your wall.
The trade-off is real, though. A dated planner has an expiry date. If you buy it in October, two months of pages will never be used. And if you stop planning for three weeks, those pages sit there, blank and slightly accusing.
Buy dated if you plan by actual dates, use a planner most days, and are starting near the beginning of the year.
16-Month: for people who want to start now
The 16-month structure exists to solve one specific frustration — it is August, you want a planner, and every dated planner on the market starts in January.
Covering September 2026 through December 2027 means you get the rest of this year and all of next year in a single file, with no seam in the middle. It is the format academic planners have used for decades, for the same reason: the year that matters to most people does not start on January 1.
Buy 16-month if you are shopping in the second half of the year, or if your life runs on a school or fiscal calendar rather than a calendar year.
Undated: for people whose weeks are not identical
An undated planner replaces printed dates with blank date slots you fill in. That sounds like a small difference. In practice it changes the psychology completely.
Nothing expires. Nothing is wasted. If you plan hard for six weeks, stop for a month, and come back, you pick up on the next blank page rather than flipping past a month of blank days. The same file works in 2027, 2028, and beyond.
The trade-off: you write the dates. It is about fifteen seconds per week, and some people find that ritual grounding while others find it friction.
Buy undated if your planning is seasonal or project-driven, if you have abandoned dated planners before, or if you simply do not want to buy a new file every year.
Side by side
| Dated 2027 | 16-Month | Undated | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Date range | Jan – Dec 2027 | Sept 2026 – Dec 2027 | Any |
| Pages | 445 | 588 | 443 |
| Write in dates? | No | No | Yes |
| Expires | End of 2027 | End of 2027 | Never |
| Best for | January starters | Starting mid-year | Flexible planners |
When you should not buy any of them
If you only need a blank page to write on each day, your reMarkable already ships with templates that do that, for free. A hyperlinked planner earns its price when you actually want month, week, and day views that talk to each other — tapping a date to open that day, tapping a header to zoom back out. If you never navigate between views, the structure is overhead rather than value.
That is a genuine answer, not false modesty. A tool you do not use is expensive at any price.
Still deciding?
Most people who write in asking this question end up with the 16-month edition, for a simple reason: it is currently the only one that starts today. But if you are reading this in December, buy the dated 2027.
All three are instant downloads, all three work on reMarkable 2 and reMarkable Paper Pro, and all three use the same interior layout — so this choice is purely about dates, not about design.