Quo Vadis means “Where are you going?” and was born from a young man’s desire to plan ahead. Francis George Beltrami, a doctor in Marseille, France, frustrated with traditional day-per-page appointment books, developed his own planner format by laying out a full week across two pages. The invention was so successful that Dr. Beltrami quit his medical practice to found Editions Quo Vadis in 1954.

Today, Quo Vadis planners are still designed in France and produced with Clairefontaine paper, the finest writing paper in the world.