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This video is so lovely and so cozy:)) Thank you! You helped me choose mine! ❤

How is this 2024 going?

Just found you :) I am relocating to a new country, so will be needing a portable stationary system for a while. Having fun planning this!

Fun video! ❤

did you have any problems shopping internationally directly from the hobonichi website?

Thanks for making the video and sharing your planner journey, I think we can all related when admiring others planner spreads and wanting to grow your own style. For a different size, maybe try Sterling Ink B6 size.

Thanks for your method…I’ve been thinking the same with my cousin to transfer to rings. Happy journaling 🙃👍

Very useful. Thanks for sharing Have a great day.62 likes 👍

I’m already mentally packing my stationary bag for a trip next month.

I love that you're doing this! 🥰 Love to see alternatives to **actual** 5 year journals (I'm using an A6 techo myself and just finished my first year in it as well) and I love how you set yours up. Here's hoping we can keep it up! 💪💪

I would do it differently. I would put the monday on monday, Tuesday on tuesday, etc, this makes more sense to me

11:22 you made a 5 year hobonichi for yourself. Continue to use it until it's full . That's what i eas thinking about

12:07 kinbor can compare to hobonichi cousin

I am loving your tarot learning journal. That is such a great idea

This video is sooo inspiring 🎉 I am also reusing a 2023 book in 2024 which I got discounted. I will use it as a common planner/notebook. I will be covering over the dates or using them as a page number to index on the year tracker page. I love the A Night of Falling Stars and so glad I managed to get it but haven’t completely decided if I will use it as a reading tracker or a language learning book or both!! Thank you for a lovely interesting and enjoyable video🎉

Love it! The Nolty for the win. The absolute piece I was missing for 24' . I'm in IT as well. Cloud infrastructure for like 9 years. Can't wait for your work planning video

You can order gold rings. My rings came in yesterday. 30 mm. I would like a personal wide if they get a color I like. Enjoy.

Where on earth do I recognize this song from and why does it make me emotional? Either way I really love how you say "good morning, good afternoon, good evening" to your planner 🥺

I have had my eye on this for a while. Thank you for filming this unboxing video

Recognizing your voice, I already know what you are going to state in your likes and dislikes. Why not just sell the one you dislike, if you cannot bother to plan by taking your book out of the cover like I do.

The one piece cover you purchased is absolutely gorgeous ❤

Love the tip! I might try it with one of mine as well. Just wondering, how do you plan to use those removed pages?

I loved hearing about the differences in your covers. They’re all beautiful. I’m going to be honest- I could never spend several hundred dollars in a leather cover. I feel the same way about shoes- there’s a limit to what I can feel okay about. I think it would make me afraid to use them. I have moterm covers- a black veg tan and a black croc. I pulled my croc out while you were talking about yours 🤓 and I see all the things you mentioned (your pattern looks much cooler and the pen loop is less visible), but I wouldn’t have noticed🙈. I dont like the moterm pocket lining material- the sound it makes is awful, but I don’t use the pockets much. I will stick with moterm for sure, but it is great to see a comparison and to hear your thoughts.

I like how you discuss why you got the things you did and not just what you got. I agree with you about that particular cover of the Hobonichi Weeks - I got the same one. Also, I have the Pocchito button stamps - they are so convenient, compact and useful (I use them every day). I am looking forward to seeing your plans for the H Weeks in the next video.

I have very similar needs. The flatability, the grid paper, the repeating patterns (I want minimal).. I found the Jibun Techo Days to be my sweet spot!

I love paper crafts, but memory ceeping in notebooks is not for me. Thanks for that reminder!

Happy to see your 2024 Hobonichi order! You share very nicely your thought process and budgeting which I love about your videos. Also I'm not sure when you hit it, but big congratulations hitting 1k subscribers ＼＼\(۶ ᐛ )۶//／／

Thanks for sharing. It’s nice to see an unboxing like yours where you set yourself a budget and got what you will actually use. I have yet to order because I always wait through the Sept-Oct chaos to make sure when I finally place my order I get what I need/want. I’m probably only getting a Weeks and an A6 original with one or two pencil boards. I am tempted on the Have a Nice day cover for my A5 notebook but I’m sitting on it until I’m feeling more certain either way.

I am autistic, I have sensory needs when it comes to planner and covers. The paper has to be smooth, it has to be in a book form. I cannot use rings because the rings get in the way. I hate ghosting but the smoothness of TMR and how light the book can be is more of a selling point. Do you go cross eyed looking at the gingham covers? I also have visual sensory issues with some plaids with lots of tiny lines in them. Bigger plaids on shirts and jackets do not bother me. My number one gripe is no PU leather interior. Which is why I do not buy Mina Perhonen covers. I feel the same about the pebbly leathers. Though, I am not sure about ostrich leather Sam Plans has this beautiful cover which she calls Fozzy Bear. Zipper covers on my weeks, I do not like how tight they get, and that the zipper part of the coin enclosure part dents my book eventually. So, I stopped storing my weeks in it, except when I travel. The A6 and A5 do not have interior zippers and I wish they would do away with it in the wallets. Also, I do take my weeks out to use it when I do carry it in a zippered wallet. I feel like the zipper scratches my arm as I plan. One of my big non-negotiable is that it needs to be in one book. The index, the monthly, the weeklies and the dailies. I also use supplements but the problem is i usually forget about them. Having just finished my thesis, I will be looking at my set ups and weather or not I really need the A5 anymore or if Sterling Ink common planner will work. Undated pages at the back, is what I worry about. I love the JT paper, but the whole system of 3 books, the weekly, the two half year daily just gets too heavy. The paper books are slightly heavier than the TMR books. Their idea books would be good for you and your meeting notes. I would also love to see hobonichi bring back the flip book art in the Day Free and get rid of the freaking quote. They went the wrong direction and many people have voiced their dissatisfaction of what they kept instead of the artwork. It is the quote that takes up the space, and frankly if you have another hobonichi book, why do you need to have the quote in this book. I stated before in your previous video, any cover on my planner does not work for me while I am writing in my planner. I always remove my cover to make my plans and return the book store them at night. That way i get the joy of the cover and the ease of use of my planner with my desk setups. The covers to me is to protect my book on the go, or from my cat. I also have the going merry, that I have an A6 journal in, and I do take out the book too. I still keep the whole set up in its dust bag. I have ordered the new one in the A5 this year. Oh and now that my thesis is submitted I can drown myself in reading the manga series I have been introduced to by Hobonichi. Have you read Komi Cannot Communicate? Being neurodiverse, it has been the one title I can find so far that has a main character who appears to be neurodiverse.

Great video! Although this things do change in my case, I often find myself liking something I couldn't tolerate earlier. Just recently I started using vertical weekly for my health tracking and planning and I love it! But I am completely disregarding the hours. I found I like smaller formats for planning like A6 or even weeks but A5 for journaling and longer handwriting. Seems similar to what you said about writing in A6.

This was really funny!!!! Everyone has their own list of “things you hate”. For me it is everything with a vintage aesthetic (I’m a pastel girl, it doesn’t matter if vintage is popular, I simply can’t pull it off), any pen for writing in my journal (I write my dailies with a blue ball point BIC, I know it is a trash cheap pen but I like it), alphabet stickers (I hate when i finish some letters and then can’t write what I want. Also, most of the time their colours don’t match to the page)

An interesting take, when I started watching I didn't expect to see what you don't want or like to have in your planning system, but rather what you wanted, needed to have, the necessities. But it was interesting to see from this perspective.

Your list = my exact list. I thought i was the only one!

Loved the video. A6 is my favorite lol! I love the variety in taste and options in the planner community.

I don't think this was meant to be funny. But, I found this hilarious because... I AM THE EXACT SAME WAY. The sensory issues with planning are not talked about enough. I loved this so much. Also, this is my first video. I am so glad I found you. Thank you for your amazing chaotic thoughts <3

What a great list. I also HATED the vertical weekly planning until I played around in my bullet journal and forced myself to vertical plan. I actually abandoned my cousin in 2022 for this reason I could not plan that way. However, this year I started drawing lines across horizontally on my page. My brain connected it with categories. If you take a look at one of my A5 weekly plan with me you’ll see how I overcame that and I fell in love with it. I did not expect that. I knew i was moving back to hobo or sterling ink and needed to be content making it work for me. Oh my gosh yes trifold haha they are way too much. Oh yes the zip covers 😂 I feel the same way. I do not like them. They feel like wallets. My favorite closures are the snap ones.

Oooh, I needed this! I havent bought any planners/notebooks for 2024 yet so I got to do some reflecting on that. Thanks for sharing ❤

Your sketches are so pretty! How far along are you on learning Japanese?

Oh, there! Now I know the spelling of your name! 😀

It's great to have a list like this to remind you of what works and what doesn't - saves time and money! Is Soo Mi your name? Sorry, new subscriber and this is just my second video watched on your channel. Love your content; will be watching some more before bedtime. 👍

New subscriber here! 👋🏼 I wish you good luck on staying strong. I see that you have a new video (15 hours ago). I'll watch that right now to see if you've made decision/s on what to use next year. 🤗

Your list = my list. I so need to make the effort to write it down because I continually make the mistake of repurchasing something that I’ve hated before thinking I might like it this time 🙃

I just brought an A6 after watching videos for two days, telling myself no. I failed I also have a HP MINI sz a personal and several notebooks 😮. I need to be stopped.

❤ things I’ve done something similar but called it my planner lessons

🤣🤣🤣 I have done this before. I had to repeat daily that A6 is not my thing when the Hibino came out last year. I’m really really glad I resisted. No TNs- I bought a cover and like 8 inserts and realized it doesn’t lay flat. I don’t think enough people point that out on TH-cam videos. I also have to talk myself down about buying notebooks. 1) I have plenty 2) binding quality is super important (nanami, hobonichi, and midori have got me covered) 3) do NOT fall for the cover colors (I end up decorating mine anyway). This was difficult when sterling ink released the notebooks- I resisted😏. I remind myself that I’m really happy with my Cousin and Weeks- why gamble? Any little things I don’t like in them I just change manually. I like your idea of writing this all down as a reminder!❤

What a great idea! I should do one and re-visit it when I do my techo kaigi. I feel the same about A6, even though I adore holding one. It's the perfect palm size! I am also comfortable in a weeks/TN size, which leads me to think that it might be the length of the page and not the width that gives me this feeling of the hand falling off the page. That being said, I've been eyeing the MD 1d1p in A6. I must resist!

This was really funny and insightful 😂

You could always supplement with the memo pads for those extra analog lists. They have them in a5 that fits right into the back page inside your cousin. Oh you just pulled your extra weekly ones out. So that’s great you have 2 left. As for the weekly. I also don’t like the schedule format either. Im using a5 stalogy and making all of my weekly setups exactly like hobo vertical, but I’m sectioning them out horizontally and adding sections. I did this to train my brain to change my mind about the hourly layout as I knew I was going to continue that style in my 2024 planner with Sterling ink or hobonichi. (I chose the hobonichi a6) but bought the weekly supplement to mimic the cousin (using them together as 1) An idea for your unused pages in your cousin is you could find inspirational lists on Pinterest and add them to your current planner. Or something you can reference for 2024.

Thank you for the anti-FOMO motivation :) I hope it works for you as well :)

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