How to Set Up the Best Planner on Your reMarkable
The reMarkable is a brilliant planning device, but it ships with very little structure. This guide walks through building a complete, layered planning system out of free templates — from a year-at-a-glance calendar down to a single focused daily page.
Think in Layers, Not One Giant File
The best paper planning systems work because each view answers a different question. Your year answers “when is it?”, your week answers “what’s coming up?”, and your day answers “what am I doing right now?” Recreate those layers on your reMarkable and you get the focus of paper without the bulk of five physical notebooks.
The Recommended Stack
Five templates cover almost everyone. Add them all to your device, or start with the all-in-one planner and layer in the rest as you need them.
All-in-One Planner — Your hub
Start here. The all-in-one planner combines yearly, monthly, weekly, and daily views into a single hyperlinked PDF, so one file covers most of your planning without juggling separate documents.
2026 Calendar — The dated backbone
A fully dated year. Use it as the long-range view for deadlines, trips, and recurring commitments. Because the dates are printed, you never have to write them in by hand.
Weekly Dated Planner — Week at a glance
Each spread already carries the correct dates for the week. This is where time-blocking and weekly priorities live — the middle layer between your month and your day.
Habit Tracker — Consistency layer
A grid for the routines you want to build. Pair it with your weekly page so reviewing habits becomes part of your normal planning rhythm.
Daily Focus — The execution page
One page per day for your top tasks, schedule, and notes. This is the page you actually look at while you work, kept deliberately simple so it stays useful.
Dated vs. Blank Pages
Dated templates print the actual date on every page, so there’s no setup and no risk of skipping a day by mistake. Blank templates let you write the date yourself, which is ideal if you plan irregularly or want to reuse the same layout for years.
- Choose dated if you plan most days and want zero friction — the 2026 calendar and weekly dated planner are ready to go.
- Choose blank if you skip weekends or want a planner that never expires — print pages on demand from the daily focus layout as you go.
Why Hyperlinked PDFs Matter
On the reMarkable, a hyperlinked PDF lets you tap a date on the monthly view to jump straight to that day’s page, then jump back. That navigation is what turns a stack of static pages into a planner that actually feels like an app. The all-in-one planner is built around this idea, with its year, month, week, and day views linked together.
Getting It Onto Your reMarkable
Every template here generates a standard PDF, which reMarkable opens natively. Send it over USB, the reMarkable desktop or mobile app, the cloud, or by email-to-device. Our transfer guide covers each method step by step.
Build your planner
Start with the hub, then add the dated calendar and weekly pages.