Intelligencer - How 17 Famous People Stay Organized

Noted fancy ladies Le Bernardin co-owner Maguy Le Coze and Who What Wear Co-Founder Katherine Power both love Hermès’s Ulysse refillable notebooks. While Le Coze uses the Mini Notebook Cover to write down all her appointments, Power uses the Medium Model.

Debi Mazar, Marie-Louise Scio, Hugo Guinness, and Bevy Smith are all fans of Smythson agendas. They all opt for a different size though – Smith likes the portable Soho Weekly Vertical Agenda (and buys a colorful Moleskine when it runs out), while Guinness likes the ultra-slim Memoranda Weekly Agenda. Scio opts for the larger Portobello Agenda and Mazar prefers the Premier Daily Fashion Agenda. Mazar is fanatical about her planner – she calls it the “adult version of a Filofax”.

Phoebe Bridgers likes her planner by Open Sea Luminaries so much she asked the designer to do the fonts for her album Punisher. “I love how much freedom this gives me,” she says. “There’s no daily mantra or section where I have to write what I’m grateful for.”

​​Belinda Carlisle has been using a Filofax for over 30 years: “I keep all of my old ones in a big envelope so I can revisit everything I’ve done in past years.”

Musician Yaeji uses four to six different journals, but this (Strategist-recommended) Hobonichi 5-Year Techo is her favorite. “I chose this one because it’s really lightweight for something that contains five years,” she says. “It’s so insightful and just really powerful to see the passage of time on each page.”

Baz Luhrmann carries his golden monthly planner with him everywhere, and tucked within is a “tiny wooden Japanese pencil by Ohto.” Luhrmann selected it specifically for the fact that “it fits in the back of the notebook.” “I make crucial notes of things I must not forget,” he says. “I photograph notes and my schedule on my phone too, but unless I actually write it down myself, I don’t remember things.”