A shared household calendar only works if there is somewhere for everyone's plans to actually go, which is where a single-column daily grid usually falls down the moment more than one or two people are trying to use it.

This Family Planner is a wall-mounted planner decorated with puppy photography, laid out with five vertical columns for each month rather than one. That gives space for up to five family members — and, as the design puts it, even your pets — to each have somewhere to note things down. It is sized at 30 x 30cm.

• 30 x 30cm wall planner
• Five vertical columns per month
• Space for up to five family members, or pets
• Decorated with puppy photography

One thing to check. the makers do not tell us whether the columns are pre-labelled with names or left blank for you to fill in, so if you want named columns out of the box, check the actual product photos before ordering.

Who it's for: households with several people (or several pets) whose schedules need separating out, who want a planner rather than a plain single-grid calendar.