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That’s a great idea! 💡 The layout I use would be so easy to replicate. Thanks!

That’s a good idea!! Is this one called a quad? If not, what is a quad like?

Listen. 22 planners isn’t enough. Have you considered having 23???

And yay and thank you and hiiiii!!!

No kidding!! That didn’t even occur to me (that they were for monthlies)! Thank you for telling me. 🤦🏻‍♀️ Makes me more excited actually. Hehe. 😜 And it sort of sounds like you need another planner for your stickers. 🤭Just sayin’.

Oh good! Are you going with a Happy Planner? I reviewed and compared several different ones. I have a huge line up for 2025 (insert face palm here) but I'm excited to use EVERY.SINGLE.ONE. :D

Nice! Have you used them before?

@ yes! And for next year I got the A5 for work and A6 for my on the go.

Ih good! It’s good to hear from people who have experience with them. I have an A5 8-grid Kinbor I may try for work. I’ll be doing a video of it soon.

Those are all great specific ideas that I’m going to write down. And just “15 minutes” of doing email clean up, for instance. Even if it’s just 15 minutes a day, it’s more than I’m doing now! Thanks for those. Keep ‘em coming too. I really hope I stick to it. I have way too much shit 😂

Right?!? You know people are doing it - so they’re gonna track it!🤣 Thanks so much for being here!

Yesssss!!!! I’m excited for you too! Come back and tell me how it’s going. ❤️❤️❤️

It is true they take up a lot of space and I RARELY even read them. I'll slap washi over them a lot of the time. Though I appreciate the "normal-ness" of them. :)

Thank you!!! It’s great you say that. I felt these ones were “off” from my usual. I can’t pinpoint what makes them different but they are (if you go to an earlier flip through, you might notice too). I’m glad the algorithm sent you here! I hope you come back. Thank you for commenting. 🤗❤️

YAAAAY! Thanks for being here. ❤️🥹😘

You and me both. I have no real concrete way I know I’ll use it except that it will be for writing and hopefully used everyday. I can “plan” on a certain way all day but inevitably, the part of me that knows will do whatever it wants as soon as I put a pen to it. A little mystery and adventure! So let’s see what happens! 🤗

🥹🥹🥹 thank you so much for this! I am still new to taking migraine meds and the first time I took it, it was only after crying for a while and calling a friend (seasoned with meds). I still hesitate - “is it a migraine or a headache?” I think I end up waiting too long for the triptans to work 🤦🏻‍♀️ I have Benadryl on hand so I am definitely going to try this. And you’re right about the rapid weather changes. I notice that too. In September, I started tracking allergens and barometric pressure and temp to see if those could somehow help me make migraine predictions. I didn’t notice any patterns though. Have you ever had an infusion?

Nice! I want to know what covers they’ll have. Makes me already impatient and 2025 hasn’t even started yet. 🤭

Thank you for saying so, Kate. I really appreciate it. I hadn’t posted a flip through in a while and I was like “Is anybody into these?” But I like going back and seeing how it evolves. I think I’ll do a full year one too. That will be fun!

I don’t. I’m sorry. They have bundles with clear covers on Ali Express and I did see fabric covers as well. Please come back if you find some and let me know!

I’m a texture person too. Thank you for the reassurance!

I personally do not know but someone on Hobonichi FB groups may. I tried my clear weeks cover over the Papertess and it’s a definite no. But I do not have a cover meant for a mega so perhaps that would work better. If you find something, please come back and let me know!

It really is. Thank you for being here!

🥹🥰Thank you so much! I’m glad you’re here! Who knows: maybe the space difference will inspire you to do something different that you love. Here’s hoping! 🤞

Thank you for subscribing! I’m glad you’re here! Your ideas for the Papertess sound awesome. 2025 is going to be a great year! 🫶

Oh! Can you tell me about your decor in the cover? Do you have stickers on it? Do they stay well?

@@sherbidabbles I have some stickers that are cotton stems and dried roses. They are all long stem. After I put them on I put a sparkly clear jelly cover from Salty Katy Co over it. I also have a butterfly sticker… I will have pics on instagram in a day or so. Darla_fhadley

Right?!? And they have so many! Some are definitely not what I expected but most are pretty fabulous. SHEIN too!

Be aware, the shipping takes a while. It’s one woman based out of Germany. She must be soooooooo busy!

My pleasure!

🥹 thank you so much! I thought my morning voice was so weird at first in this one and you put that at ease. I really appreciate it. Now if only I could afford more unboxings! 🤣 I do have a box of Happy Planner stuff to unbox and I have to do it soon because the new year is coming. Plus: I want to use the stickers! But I can’t until I unbox it! 🤦🏻‍♀️🤣 Thank you for being here 🤗

@ im looking forward to it <3 happy to be here whatever you put up

Sorry I meant A5 for the first book. That’s meat and potatoes of the book or Bible. Then A6 for compass.

Awesome! I’m so excited to see how everyone uses the Just Scribbles. I had already bought too many planners for 2025 so will have to wait but by then, I think we’ll have a lot of great ideas out there and spreads to see. Do you post yours anywhere? If you do, please drop a link! And thank you for being here. 🤗

@@sherbidabbles no I don't have the equipment to post any videos at this time. May consider it though. Still undecided.

@littleraven1600 if it helps, I use my phone! Keep me posted in case you ever do.

@@sherbidabbles love to thanks 🥰

I love the feel of it too - I didn’t even think about the dirty factor. I have been hemming and hawing about a cover. Same for the weekly I have in the same color. I have a Sterling Ink in tweed and feel absolutely okay with that with no cover. Also feels good. Not as smooth as this but a nice grippy sort of texture.

Thank you so much for the Super!! I’m thrilled you found this helpful in making a decision. I’m using it as my EDC as well. I hope you love it! We’ll have to confer later and see how it did for us. 🤗❤️ Thank you for being here!

I’m ADHD too! If you didn’t notice. 😂 I need to change things up but sometimes wish I could stick to one thing. What does “responded to minimal cues for focus” mean? I’m curious if this is something that could help me or my son.

@ sorry, I’m a speech/language pathologist and that is a way that we describe how our patients or students respond. Minimal cues might include using a gesture to get them back on track, part of a word, small gesture, e.g., pointing, pointing to your eyes to indicate watch what you’re doing, softly tapping lightly on a page or the table to get focus back when your attention wanders, etc. Hope that helps (and yes, I try to catch myself, especially when working on paperwork or housework

Yes! If I were a “normal” planner, the vertical would be great but I tend to write things out. Using those back pages for recreating other planner layouts is super handy. A little frustrating when I mess up but what are you gonna do? 🤷🏻‍♀️🥸🫠

Interesting! I wonder if that was by design or just circumstance. I don’t mind either way - it’s in a comparison that I notice any of it at all, honestly.

Full year = more blank pages at the back, yes?

My pleasure!!

Ooh. Good eye!

Excellent! Thank you for adding all these extra details! It really helps. It’s too bad they don’t stay consistent in layout and available options. I’d personally find the challenge to adapt a little fun (maybe frustrating too) but only because the price is low enough to deal with it. Now if Hobonichi wasn’t consistent, that would be worse. 🥴 Thanks so much for taking time to offer this extra info about Kinbor. I appreciate it!

So - I do think the Hobonichi is definitely worth the investment, but so far, I also think the Kinbor can do the job without having to invest all that $$ in the Hobonichi. You know what I mean? I do not regret splurging on my Hobonichis for 2024. They’re great. But I sure am glad I have cheaper alternatives for options. I have found only the Hobonichi weeks has cream color paper. It seems the rest are more on the white side with slight variations. Also, I do think when side by side the Hobonichi is darker. But when looked at individually, the Kinbor doesn’t appear too light. Does that make sense? They each stand up pretty well on their own. I think there’s a point in the video when I say the Kinbor is darker but I think I was meaning to say the gray box. I’m honestly not sure and have to rewind and look again 🫠. I caught that when I was editing. In the end, they’re both solid options. I’m glad I decided to try the A6 Kinbor for next year (and the weeks and A5) because I could not afford more Hobonichis, especially without having a solid plan on how to use them. Kinbor is going to make me happy, I think. Now let’s see how they hold up over the year! Come back and tell me what you decide. If you use them, I think you’ll be happy either way (unless you’re like me and keep wondering what the other option would have been like 🤦🏻‍♀️ I do that all the time and it makes me nuts).

Thank you so much for sharing this. While I do not like that you had a stressful day, I am glad we closed it out together ❤️ I appreciate you. And as much as I can, I am sending chill, calm, peaceful days your way. Thank you for being here!

2025 will be when I test it but I am sticking to my Hobonichi Cousin in 2025 as well - and that would be the biggest test as far as the binding goes. It’s good to know the binding didn’t hold up for you. How much did you put in your Kinbor? Is it mostly just pen, or do you add washi and stickers too? I want to gauge the usage limits. Thank you for saying something!

@ my kinbor wasn’t even chucking.. I’m very light handed when it comes to stickers and washi. Even then the binding didn’t hold up..but than again I didn’t baby.. since I use it for both work and home as my all in one planner it was really ‘loved’. I used the a6 years ago the quality might have changed. This year I’m testing out their a6 notebook. Let’s see how that holds up.

Excellent. Thanks for the details. This will be interesting. I am hoping they’ve improved since you last tried it (perhaps with the increases in popularity they have upped their standards?). Only one way to find out! Check in again later. I’ll be curious to know how it’s going. I’ll certainly post about my experience too. 🤗

You’re so welcome! Thank you for being here!

Will immediately search for Platinum Preppys. If I know they work for another lefty, I’m more apt to try it (knowing it may be a different experience so don’t worry! Haha). The cover of that Coffee Kinbor is so nice! I hope you love it. About the Hobonichi price: I struggled when deciding last year if I would do it. It was so pricey so I had to be absolutely sure I would use it. Thankfully, I do but oof - 💸

Oh! Those pens aren’t that pricy at all from what I can see. They’re all less than $30 with most around $10-15. Do I have the right one? Does that price range sound right? (US dollars, of course).

@@sherbidabbles Yep they are pretty cheap! I mean, they aren't the prettiest looking things in the world (I have a Platinum Plaisir as well which uses the same nib and is slightly less disposable-looking). What I like about them is they never seem to skip for me - even if I haven't used them for a little while.

@kerrym1979 Sweet. I might try one. Do you have a preferred ink?

@@sherbidabbles I mainly just use the standard black Platinum cartridges but I do have a couple of different coloured Diamine bottle inks as well.

Thank you so much! My son is on a great upswing, taking his time and eager to get back to all his sports. I’m really proud of him. ❤️❤️❤️ And thank YOU.

I also had brush lettering issues! I got a lot of practice in one of my weekly spreads. Got a smidge better but if I let up for a week, I feel like I have to start all over. There are lefties out there with videos, thank goodness. ❤️ I’d love to find a fountain pen that would work for me but hesitant to spend the $$ for a good one without knowing for sure. A Pilot Vanishing Point would be amazing. That extra fine nib is impressive. Also never thought there would be clickable fountain pens. Still seems crazy to me. Lol. Thanks for being here!

Thank you! I learned (thanks to your comment) that the Bachuan paper used in Kinbors is also Japanese made, with Bachuan labeled the “generic” version of Tamoe River Paper. “While often mentioned together, "Bachuan paper" is essentially a generic term referring to a type of paper very similar to "Tomoe River paper," both originating from Japan and known for their extremely smooth, thin, and bleed-resistant qualities, making them ideal for fountain pen writing; however, "Tomoe River" is a specific brand name produced by the Tomoegawa Paper Company, considered the gold standard for this style of paper due to its consistent quality and performance.”

I’ve never had a Hon but I have certainly been tempted, especially if I want to use one for just writing and minimal washing/sticker usage. The covers are also lovely.

Hello!! My son is doing much better. I’m so glad and relieved. Thank you for checking! I have not yet tested the 5-year. I typically use ball point when I journal, which is what I plan to do in the 5 year and don’t have any worries about the paper. I know a lot of people have concerns for all the 2025 Hobonichi planners and I confess I haven’t yet tested them. I am going to hope for the best. And since I don’t use fountain pens, I feel my odds are better. 🤞 Let’s hope I’m right!

Yay! What all will you be logging in the A6? Dailies or trackers or just notes? I’m going to use a Papertess Weeks for my health and financial wellness. Some days will be more full than others but the layout was too sweet to pass up. I have one Kinbor weeks, the A6, and an A5. I need to take the A5 for a spin at work just to see if it will work. I might sketch out the layout in another notebook and try it that way.

@ I actually made a video recently about my thoughts if you like to check it out. But mainly tracking weight loss, my meals, symptoms, habits, etc. I love the weeks for work. I actually still have a 2023 A5 kinbor for work notes. I cut it down to standard size and still using it. Excited to see how you use the papertess!

@@taranickoledesigns3340 I'll go find your video! if I get lost, I'll come back and ask for directions. 🤗

@ sounds good! 😂