Free Digital Personal Growth Planner for Smartphones

Want to try digital planning without dropping a lot of cash and improve your life in the process? Grab your free hyperlinked personal growth planner!

This digital planner is designed for smartphones and will help you evaluate your life, make a plan for improvement, and achieve your goals by keeping your planner easily accessible on your phone.

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What is a personal growth planner?

A personal growth planner helps you evaluate your current life, create a vision for what you want your life to look like, set goals, and track your progress.

This "new vision for myself" digital phone planner includes 58 hyperlinked pages with tabs for:

"Me 1.0" (current life evaluation)
Vision
Goals
Challenges (where you record any challenges that come up along the way
Notes

The pages include habit trackers, wheel of life pages, daily goals, weekly goals, monthly goals, a bucket list, and so much more. Instead of boring you with dozens of bullet points, I invite you to take a look at the index page for the planner:

An image of a white smartphone with the index for a digital planner on the screen

This digital planner is packed with actionable pages to help you set goals, track and reflect on progress, and even take time for gratitudes. It has a total of 58 pages.

Preview of there pages from a digital smartphone planner including a wheel of life evaluation, goals planner, and weekly goals planner

How to use a digital planner

Digital planning combines the "look and feel" of paper planning without cramming your paper planner into a bag (and risking damaging it).

If you'd like to try a more traditional dated planner, make sure to stop by this post with a free digital planner for 2024.

A smartphone with a monthly overview digital calendar page showing on the screen.

Digital planning isn't difficult, but there are a couple of steps to get your planner onto your tablet.

You will need:

A compatible smartphone
A stylus, optional (such as the Apple Pencil)
A planning App. Goodnotes and Noteshelf are the most popular
Your digital planner!

How to import a digital planner into Goodnotes

After downloading the PDF file, the planner will open in the Safari browser of your Iphone.
Click on the Share button on the top right corner.
You might have to scroll and select copy to Goodnotes.
In Goodnotes, choose a location and click the import as a new document button.

How to use the Goodnotes app

Sometimes people have trouble and aren't able to get the hyperlinked tabs to click when they use Goodnotes.

How to use hyperlinked tabs in Goodnotes

For the tabs to work, you need to be in the Read-Only Mode in Goodnotes. You should see an icon of a pencil with a line through it.

This mode lets you navigate through your pages easily.

All other inputs, like the pen/stylus, are blocked when this mode is active.

How to write on your digital panner in Goodnotes

To be able to write on your planner, you need to deselect the Read-Only Mode in Goodnotes. You should see an icon that looks like a pencil drawing a loop.

You can use the writing tools like the pen and highlighter in this mode.

Pin this infographic to your planner board now to make sure you remember how to use your digital planner:

text: How to use the Goodnotes App with your digital planner - how to click the tabs and write. Below are two columns. On the left is a grey circular icon with a pencil and a line through it. A bulleted list is below: For the tabs to work, you need to be in the Read-Only Mode in Goodnotes. The pencil icon should look like the icon above.

This mode lets you navigate through your pages comfortably.

All other inputs, like the pen, are blocked when this mode is active.

On the right is a column with a grey icon with a pencil drawing a circle. Below the text: To be able to write on your planner, you need to deselect the Read-Only Mode in Goodnotes.

You can use the writing tools like the pen and highlighter in this mode.

So, make sure the pencil icon in the top right corner of Goodnotes looks like the one above.

A video is worth a million words when it comes to importing and using your digital planner.

In the video below, my digital planner mentor Michelle from Secret Owl Society shows you how to use a digital planner, including how to import the PDF into your app. The video demonstrates using an iPad, but the process is the same on an Iphone.

I don't have personal experience using an Android phone or tablet, so I found a video for you showing how to import a digital planner onto an Android device:

Free personal growth digital planner with hyperlinks

This planner is for personal use only. Even though you're getting it for free, you are not licensed to share the file with others. Instead of sending them the PDF, please send your friends to this blog post so they can download their own copy.

If you agree to this license, you may click below:

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Although the planner printables linked below are not hyperlinked PDF documents, you can import them into your digital planner to personalize your digital planning experience: