A planner cut to the reMarkable screen.

Template or planner? The difference matters on a reMarkable

A search for "reMarkable template" mostly turns up single background pages: a dot grid, a weekly layout, a habit tracker. To install one you need a third-party tool and a connection to the tablet, and a software update can remove it. What the Planner Builder makes is a planner, a PDF document with a cover, a year overview, month grids, week spreads, daily pages and back matter, all linked to each other. It goes onto the tablet the same way any PDF does, it survives every update, and you can have as many as you like.

The trade-off is that a PDF planner has fixed pages rather than an infinite notebook. For a planner that is the point: the pages are the plan. Notes pages at the back (dot grid, ten or more) cover the overflow.

What the file looks like on the tablet

Every page has an edge tab strip (start, the months, week, reset, notes) and a header with previous and next arrows. Tapping a day in a month grid opens that day; tapping the week column opens the week; the header on a day page takes you back to its week. Tabs are on the right by default and can be moved to the left for left-handers. Form lines are drawn at the gray the reMarkable renders cleanly, with margins kept clear of the edge where the pen gets unreliable.

The ink theme is the default on every reMarkable because it is drawn for grayscale. On the Paper Pro you can switch to the amber theme; its accents are rendered inside the device's twelve-tone palette so they don't dither.

Getting it onto the device

Download the PDF for your model from step 7 of the builder. Open the reMarkable desktop or mobile app, or my.remarkable.com, and import it like any document; it syncs to the tablet. Open it, and tap tabs and dates with a finger (the pen writes; a finger navigates). The download comes with a one-page read-me that says the same thing.

If you own more than one model, download a file for each. The Paper Pro Move in particular has its own layouts, because its screen is much taller than the others; the Paper Pro file would waste the space.

Paper Pro and Paper Pro Move get their own layouts

The seven free planners

These download complete, with no watermark and no signup, in every format including reMarkable:

• Basic Planner. Month grids, week spreads and a daily page with priorities, schedule and to-dos (about 445 pages for 12 months).
• Weekly Proof Sheet. A week page only: what you controlled, learned and are proud of, with an execution score (about 70 pages).
• Done List. A daily done list, five small wins and three short identity lines, undated (about 96 pages).
• Monthly Reset. Plan, focus and habits, then a review, one month at a time (about 46 pages).
• Mindset Habit Tracker Pack. A monthly grid, a 66-day chain, a year in pixels and the never-miss-twice rule (about 17 pages).
• Mindset Audit. The wheel, a life audit, a values sort, a mission and a roadmap (6 pages).
• Year / Birthday Reset. Four pages looking back, a word for the year, a letter to your future self (6 pages).

The other thirteen (The Reset (daily), Six Lines, One Page One Thing, the 90-Day Mindset Sprint, the Stoic Reset, the Mindset Lock-In, the January Reset, the Reseller Reset, Alcohol-Free Days, Midlife Restart, Small Wins + One Kindness, the Goal Workbook, and the faith edition of the Reset) and anything you customize, down to a planner started from a blank cover, are $9 one time. That buys the exact planner you built for every device and paper size, with unlimited re-downloads from the license key in your receipt. Only the device, orientation and tab side stay adjustable afterwards; changing pages or dates makes a new planner.

Build one for reMarkable

Questions

Planners are reflection tools, not a substitute for professional support. Editions that touch hard subjects carry a resources page and the 988 line.

By The Motivational Hub · Updated September 14, 2026