Name: Double Schedule (Progress)
Maker: Midori
Size: B6
Format: monthly Gantt chart
Paper: Midori
Style: lined note pages
Price: $21
Planner Nerd tested: yes
Details:
The Double Schedule planner has innovative cutouts in its pages so that when you flip to the current month while holding one tab, it automatically opens to the monthly calendar view, but if you hold down a different tab, you’ll open to a view of the same month with a 2-page Gantt chart spread. (Gantt charts are handy to track how projects stagger and overlap over time.)
The book features fewer than 10 sheets of lined paper in the back, so it’s slim in addition to being a compact B6 size, and very portable if all you need are monthly views. The Double Schedule series comes with other layouts each with their own name.
Review:
I used digital Gantt charts a lot in my work because I have to manage complex projects with lots of moving parts and people doing different things, so I love the format. That said, my projects aren’t often contained in days or even weeks so it would be better if there were also a year-long or even just a quarterly view broken up into weeks rather than a monthly view broken up into days.
That said, I’m trying it for a year (the 2024 book actually starts in October) to see if it can help me measure the actual time it takes for certain workstreams to fully conclude, so when I plan similar projects again I have a record of how long each component has taken historically and use that for timing projections.
The note pages are not enough for anyone to use this planner to take notes throughout an entire year. So I don’t think I’d recommend this as anyone’s primary planner because I can’t imagine a use case where you need to track projects on a daily Gantt chart but never need more than a monthly view or a handful of notes pages. I’ve tucked mine into a B6 Roterfaden to hold along with some other B6 books I’ll use for team management and note taking.
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