REVIEW – Do you have your 2025 all planned out yet? If not, the Baron Fig Planner 2025 can help. It’s part planner, part calendar, part journal, and has a few extra features to boot. Let’s check it out!
What is it?
The Baronfig Planner 2025 is a cloth hardcover year-long planner/journal for the year 2025 that includes Year, Month, and Week layouts, plus a perforated dot grid section in the back and a cloth bookmark.
What’s included?
- Baronfig Planner 2025
- 2025 calendar card
Tech specs
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Cover = Cloth hardcover with rounded corners that opens fully flat
Size = Baronfig’s Flagship size: Medium Size • 5.4″ X 7.7″
Page paper material = Acid-free fine grain 90gsm paper
Page count = 192 pages (with 12 perforated pages in the back)
Dot grid pages = 5mm grid spacing
High quality cloth bookmark
Design and features
First, some background. I’ve been a fan of Baronfig since I reviewed The Baronfig Confidant Notebook back in 2017. Since then, I’ve had the opportunity to review several more of their products, including the original Baronfig Squire Rollerball Pen, the Baronfig Vanguard Softcover Notebook, and most recently the Baronfig Squire Hex Rollerball Pen, and found each of these products to be well designed and constructed, and I was expecting nothing less from the Baronfig Planner 2025.
Packaging
The Baronfig Planner 2025 arrived in a sturdy, high-quality cardboard box with the Baronfig’s typical whimsical, upbeat art on the front of the box.
The back of the box describes the features of the Baronfig Planner 2025.
Cover
The Baronfig Planner 2025 is in the style of what is arguably Baronfig’s most popular product, their Confidant Hardcover Notebook.
Baronfig admirably sticks to simple, minimalist styling for many of their products, and the Planner 2025 fits right in.
The cover of the Planner 2025 is has a Charcoal Gray colored fabric exterior that also closely mimics the Confidant Hardcover Notebook. Above you can see the texture of this fabric up close, as well as the subdued “2025′ embossed in block numerals in the lower right of the cover.
Inside cover
The inside cover of the Baronfig Planner 2025 has two grid pages, with a spot where you can write anything you like, such as your name, address, phone number, and so forth.
Year Overview section
The first section of the Baronfig Planner 2025 is a “Year Overview” section that shows all of 2025 at a glance across two pages, which is handy as a quick reference.
Month-a-Glance section
The next section of the Baronfig Planner 2025 is a “Month-at-a-Glance” section, which contains includes a 2-page spread for each month of 2025.
Week + Day section
The third section of the Baronfig Planner 2025 offers a “Week + Day” view. This section includes two pages for each week of 2025 year and provides quite a bit of space to write in appointments, make to-do-list, or jot journal notes. In the photo above, you can also see the Planner 2025’s high-quality grey cloth bookmark.
It’s worth noting that the Baronfig Planner 2025 take another page (pun intended) from its sister product, the Baronfig Confidant Notebook: its cover is capable of lying fully flat, as seen in the photo above. Additionally, the pages of the Baronfig Planner 2025 are made from an off-white acid-free fine grain 90gsm paper, which is the same type of paper used in the Baronfig Confidant Notebook.
Notes section
At the back of the Baronfig Planner 2025 follows is a Notes section.
The Notes section contains 54 blank, perforated pages with a dot grid background. I appreciate that Baronfig included so many blank notes pages in the Planner 2025, because this allows you to jot ample free-form notes outside of the other, more structured sections if you wish.
The Baronfig Planner 2025’s dot grid pages have a 5mm dot grid spacing, which lends a lot 0f versatility to not only jot lines of text, but can aid in sketching, doodling, and the like.
As mentioned above, the Baronfig Planner 2025 has the same dimensions as the Baronfig “Flagship” (Medium) sized Confidant Notebook, which is 5.4″x 7.7″. I’ve found this to be a very handy size for a daily-use notebook—not s0 small that it can’t hold enough info, and not s0 large that it doesn’t fit easily into bags and packs (it fits nicely into my EDC pack), or for carrying to meetings.
Baronfig also included a handy 2025 Year Overview card that mimics the Year Overview section in the book.
What I like about the Baronfig Planner 2025
- High quality look and feel
- Simple, minimalist style
- Layout of each section is well thought-out and useful
What needs to be improved?
- Nothing. Solid product all around.
Final thoughts
The Baronfig Planner 2025, like their other products, has a simple, minimalist style and a high-quality look and feel. Its sections are well laid out for the user, and each section is useful in its own way. This planner has a lot of versatility and has the potential to be a very useful tool for someone who is looking to plan their schedule, journal their days, take notes, and other activities to help keep their life organized. The Baronfig Planner 2025 is a good value at $34, but as of this writing, it is only $28, which is a steal for a planner of this quality.
Price: $34
Where to buy: baronfig.com
Source: The sample of this product was provided for free by Baronfig. Baronfig did not have a final say on the review and did not preview the review before it was published.
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