Tips for tools and apps for planning/organizing?

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Hello all.

My executive dysfunction seems to have worsened this last year (depression). I feel I'm just barely scraping through and have no overview of life. I'm in a bit of a rut and need some tool or app to help me (and motivate me) to start organizing my life again. Especially now that we're coming up on Christmas soon, which is an expensive and social holiday and I need to get things together, to be prepared. I've used regular diary planners before but I'm just not motivated to use them.

I need to plan absolutely everything, at least for a while until I get into a routine again, so I'm looking for something to encompass both work, free time, family, excercise, meals and so on ... to-do-lists, shopping lists, birthday lists etc. Does something like this exist? I don't even know how I want the layout to be like ... Which tools/apps do people here on WP use? I have an Android smartphone ...

By the way, I'm also open for suggestions about physical planners, though I did check out certain popular ones like Sugar Paper Planners and Erin Condren life planner but they're madly expensive and some don't ship to my country.

I use wunderlist for planning due date things, like essays. Though you can put to do lists and other lists in it too. For me its the best laid out one but there are plenty free ones.

I don't use actual planners because I never look in them. I like wall planners as it's easier to see them, there is plenty of them on amazon and ebay and similar, you could probably made one in word or similar and print it off.

White boards can be quite good as you can reuse them again and again.

There is a life planner app type thing for disabled people, though I think you had to pay for it and I can't remember what it is called nor have I used it.

If you have appointment cards or make reminders notes, I stick these on the fridge and freezer with magnets, so I can see them easily. Though you could do this with a corkboard. I also have a magnetic shopping list thing, so if I run out of anything then I can write it on the list and then I can see what I need to buy. You can also buy these that have a shopping list section and a meal planner section.

You can also get calendars that have different columns, usually family planners, though you can use them for anything.

Word and excel and similar have lots of themes for planning and organisation, you can pretty much get a theme for everything. You could search through them and see if anything would work for you, plus they are free and you can change them on the computer and then print them off.

Thanks for all the great tips!

I didn't know about Word and Excel having planner themes. Will definitely look into that.

There is tons of them. Just search in the templates bit and loads come up. If you are good with word and excel you can create your templates or files but I have no idea how to do that.