C U Next Tuesday 2026 Planners

2018 was the last year I made my then-short-lived CUNT planner for the public.

Now, unemployed and after six weeks straight of fairly grueling design and spreadsheet work and learning curves on new software, I present to you… CUNT 2026!

I’m proud of this one, ya’ll. I think it came out good. Thank you to everyone who expressed interest ahead of release. =)

I want to say, this is the culmination of damn near 18 years working at a boutique design and stationery store, to the point I became the creative director, where constant, necessary exposure to so much of the planner and stationery community made me well-attuned to the features, needs, and trends that paper planner users appreciate.

But I’ve been a stationery and planner freak long before that job (shout out to my now retired stepdad who worked as a master level paper bindery operator and would always be bringing home scratch pads he bound), and I’ve been someone who’s customized my notebooks with all sorts of DIY treatments (shout out to my mom always with the crafting and art supplies at hand). So I could say this planner is the culmination of being a paper freak DIYer who now has the skills to make something of this level.

Can I tell you that designing and producing a planner has not been easy work? There are so many factors like where to get good paper, how will you print it, how will you bind, and the meticulous work of designing the actual layout itself. This is the production of a tool, and should therefore be well-constructed (says the wordsmith whose tools include pen and paper). I laid this one out using Affinity by Canva, which is free, and that was a simultaneous fabulous/aggravating learning curve. So it’s now my fifth or sixth go-round with designing/printing/binding/distributing a planner, and I’m settling into the patience needed for the practice.

I knew a lot of punks in the late 2000s who carried the Slingshot organizer, and I remember being excited to help a friend at the time hot glue-bind them with a hand-crank machine in a West Philly studio once… a binding machine not too uncommon or hard to get. Do you know what it takes to consistently get every single page evenly covered in that binding glue, though? I was not prepared.

When I watch bookbinder youtube, I see people going to great and meditative lengths over long hours and many days to prepare and sew and press signatures of paper into gorgeous books that lay open with ease. I tell myself now that I don’t have an interest in going there, but it has been good to learn a few techniques for making more crisp and intentional printed matter.

Back in high school I would be in the Morning Glory store near 5th and Godfrey buying mini binder refill papers and cute memo pads for making origami notes to pass in the halls. I’d have my little address book from the Sanrio store in Chinatown. I owned a single notebook at a time and would fill it up to almost the end, and then feel like I needed a different type of notebook to stoke my desire to write anew.

I share these memory capsules to say that this project gave me a bit of magic back to myself and I’m very happy to share it with y’all. I set about to make the 2026 C U Next Tuesday planners look and perform as good as possible while still making them on pedestrian equipment in my house, and I look forward to forging future iterations. Now onto the specs:

Sizes

× A5 = 5.8″ × 8.3″
× A5 NARROW = 4.5″ × 8.3″ [coming next week]

Time Frames

× by GREGORIAN months (aka January ~ December)
× by ZODIAC solar “months” (aka Aries ~ Pisces seasons) [coming by end of Capricorn season]

Paper Types

× Kokuyo Business Paper (white) = smoother & recommended if you write with fine tip gel pens [limited print run]
× Color Copy Paper (varies) = scratchier for aforementioned pens & not recommended if you use really inky rollerball or felt tip pens like Le Pen. Takes a ballpoint pen and a pencil great, tho. [coming soon]

Formats

WEEKS +NOTE

• One year over 2 books, 6 months per book
• Monday-start
• Has most pages and space for writing & appointments

It has

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MONTHS +REVIEW

• One year in one book, one month per two pages
• Monday-start
• Just the months, plus some reflective prompted writing space

It has

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MONTHS

• One year in one book, one month per two pages
• Monday-start
• Just the months

It has

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