This is designed to be a group appointment book for up to 4 people and is "blank" (no dates). I'm a small business person who lives and dies by my planner and is too cheap and lazy to buy a new one every year, so I use this one just for me (not a group). One book lasts me +/- 3 years. I write in the days/dates in the box at the top of each column and have one column left over for notes for that week. If I weren't so lazy I'd print labels for each week, but it really doesn't take that much time to just write it in. My only real "complaint" is that the times are only listed once on the left edge of each page. It would be nice if they were listed in each column, but it's not a big deal and hasn't caused me to mis-schedule anything. I definitely give up some conveniences by buying the totally blank planner (holidays are not listed, have to put in the dates myself), but for me it's worth it to only have to replace it once every 3 years.