This is a fascinating thread because I am also planner challenged. The sheer number of abandoned planners and notebooks in my house is alarming.
The problem is that I spent the entirety of my adult life in the military, where my planning was organized by their organization. At the executive level, I had assistants to organize my calendar and print each day for me to leave on my desk. (That's not indulgent, but necessary when your days are 18 hours long at a minimum).
Once I retired to write full time, my ability to plan took a serious nosedive. What the heck? I can keep it in my head...generally...but that isn't actually conducive to productivity or my enormously long, and growing, to-do list.
I do have a planner, 5x8, spiral, with months, then the days in the next pages timed out, plus notes pages, which I use for lists. It just doesn't work for writing well though.
So...I recently changed everything. I put all my completed books in their own binders with all their backups on chip, plus data sheets on their status...etc. New binders for all WIP and upcoming projects, with sections for blurb, ad plans, the drafts, the data log...etc. It works like magical magic.
I have a single binder with my Writing Work, which has my task lists for each book, series, etc. It also has worked to make me forget fewer things and be more organized at getting things done in the right order at the right time.
I think I found myself trying so hard to have ONE single place where all my info was that I was making a mess of it. The truth for me was that I have a life, a house, and a writing career, so I needed to separate those things.
Bullet journals are very cool, but not enough for me. I naturally do something like that with my task lists anyway, so a hybrid works for me.
I love to see how others manage, because yeah, there's always a better way.
