I think most people started with happy planner -- I did. It's how I knew of the planner community... But with all the options, it was just too much... I wanted everything, and it cost so much to keep up with!
What drew me to the JustScribbles is how the pages are organized. The months, weeks, and days are collated or intermixed. Your week is immediately followed by the daily pages for the week, instead of having all the weeks and monthly layouts together. I also like the idea of the quarterly planning layouts in the JustScribbles.
I enjoyed the bundled months while using Aura Estelle. I would have gone with JS, but I will waste the dedicated dailies. Loved her ideas for it though!!
Part of the reason the Kinbor price is low besides being made for the large Chinese market is because the middle man doesn't mark it up as much as they do in the West. I wouldn't assume that because something is more expensive the labour practices are any better. I think it's more likely they've paid the manufacturer the same prices and just added a massive markup. I was trawling reddit and saw someone mention that they found the factory they thought was making stuff for A&O . When you went to this factory's web page the starting price for 100 A5 dot grid notebooks 160gsm paper with 160 pages was $199 without any customizations. That's less than $2 for an A5 160gsm notebook. If you bought in bulk I imagine it would be cheaper.
Yes and to be fair most of the time we are paying for the branding. A&O is priced more expensive because it positions itself as more luxurious brand than other notebook sellers, even though their manufacturers may be the same. I also feel like just because a brand is a chinese brand people are quick to assume poor labour practices etc even though a lot of “western” products are manufactured and imported from the same sources
Thank you for that response! Let's not shame products for being affordable! We should shame brands for overcharging for products that could cost half or less. Paying for a brand is something that is really not appealing to me. But also I would buy Hobonichi if not for the quotes and they have no such option so I choose an alternative and save money. Also not being from US a lot of your fancy planners are not an option due to shipping costs so please don't turn your nose up on an affordable option.
I've ordered a Kinbor weekly couple of weeks ago just because I couldn't order a hobonichi from anywhere because of our country's taxes policies etc. And I am really impressed by Kinbor since it doesn't feel like a cheap product at all to me. The cover, the paper... Idk I really liked it and I will be using it for 2025 (mine is the bread and coffee cover which is super cute)
For the kinbor if this is your first purchase they give you a crazy discount on the first item you purchase, they normally retail for 10-15 dollars(the weeks) , I’ve used a multiple sizes before from them and used a hobonichi, the hobonichi is more high end, you can see the difference in the details like the sewing and alignment of the pages etc, the paper isn’t the same as trp, its slightly different but still a very good paper, compatible with lots of pens and fountain pens They started as knock off of hobonichi but with time they started doing some things of their own, they even have collabs with Disney, Sanrio and other big brands and characters of their own , and they’ve been branching those couple of years and started introducing diffrent cover and accessories (it used to be only black and red covers) As for the price difference, kinbor is a big brand in china, which is a big market that helps reduce costs, and as I said it’s not as high end as the hobonichi so the price point is really acceptable
I just bought an A6 Kinbor from Allixpress... I got the A6 AND clear cover for only $4.30!!! I used the hobo A6 this year and as much as I wanted another one, I simply couldn't afford it so I'm excited to hear good things about the Kinbors which have gone viral all of a sudden this year lol
From what I understand, the characters for Ba Chuan translate from Chinese to Japanese as "Tomoegawa." I don't speak or write Chinese or Japanese, but I've seen multiple people on TH-cam and Reddit say that they are the same characters, just pronounced differently because Chinese and Japanese are different spoken languages with some overlap in the written forms. That said, I have *no idea* whether or not Ba Chuan paper is manufactured by the same company in the same factory as Tomoe River paper. It's an interesting question that I'll probably pursue down a rabbit hole this afternoon, LOL.
I love Midori Hibino as a dairy. 1 day 2 pages.Totally minimalistic . Perfect for brain bump, morning pages, memory keeping. I also love the Papertess designs pocket daily. Lots of pre made trackers, quarter over view,weekly etc. Both have Tomoe River Sanzen paper
Hello, from Brazil!! I love watching your videos about productivity and they have helped me a lot! But I have to say some things about The Kimbor planner. I understand your worries related to the paper and how they are produced... But as a person who lives in a 3rd-world country that charges us from 40 to 96% in imported products, buying a Hobonichi is waaaaaay out of our league. I have never seen one! And I'm not even sure if I ever will! The closest we can get is the Kimbor planner. And even these ones are expensive to us (the price you saw is probably for the first purchase on the website), around R$120,00 before the taxes. It's really sad to watch these videos knowing the closest you can get is a Chinese version of the products, and now not even that is affordable anymore... Our country taxes policy sucks...
YES we should be voting with our dollars. 16:54 Pitbull Mom and Paper Joy PH does go over the Kinboor, the Hobonichi weeks dupe. If you are interested in their their thoughts of paper quality, etc. It is a product out of China. I gave up on moleskin about 8 years ago when I was playing around with bullet journaling. The narrow size. I do not mind the paper because it gives me kinetic feeling of the teeth in the paper. 20:54 I was hoping you would go over the Jibun Techo days and their vertical weeks.
Personally, IMHO, voting with our dollars is the ONLY way to vote on products. Writing even a personal email to the company with a complaint is worthless. Companies only care about sales.
Thank you for making this video! I am ordering the hybrid Twines and Paper right now! This is the planner of my dreams :) I also saw another video of yours where you walked through the Papertess Manager's notebook. I am also planning to get one of her planners as well :) I love your videos :)
I have the a6 just scribble planner for next year! I really liked it as an alternative to the hobonichi original avec that also includes weekly pages. I also loved that the hourly format includes half hour. My only complaint is that the design is a little less polished than other options. I've also bought the creffective paper a6 daily planner and it looks almost exactly the same but it's in 1 book and the design is clean and aesthetic. I'm waiting til it comes in to see if I think it being all in one book will annoy me too much. But the layout of both are perfect for me, esp in a6 size and I'm so excited that they exist!
Hi, this is so not a big deal but wanted to point out that happy planner uses DISCS not rings which are different. I prefer discs because they are easier to move around vs. rings. Great video otherwise!
Love my Sterling Ink! But this year I’ve added a Happy Planner I leave in my kitchen to use just for bills and meal planning. Love the disks for this, I’ve merged two planners into one.
I bought the Just Scribbles A5 vertical. I agree with Rachelle about all the goal-planning pages. I don't care for them all that much, but I can repurpose them. What I love about this planner's layout is the Quarterly-month-week 1-Dailies for that week-week 2-Daily for that week, etc. This is the layout I absolutely love. I was so glad that Just Scribbles planner comes in two books. I currently use a Hobonichi Hon, but I bulk up a planner too much for one book. I love the idea of one book for the year, but in reality just doesn't work well for me. I had planned on going to the Avec or the Sterling Ink Commonplanner (2 books) for 2025, but when I saw Plans by Just Scribble, I knew I had to try it. That said, the paper is not good. I appreciate she's been upfront about it, but it is so very thin. Ghosting doesn't really bother me, but this ghosting is heavy. What I don't like is bleed-through. My mildliners do bleed through. That's a bummer. I'm still giving it a shot because I like 95% of the layout SO MUCH, and hopefully, the paper gets worked out for future planners. As @cls3282 said, I also hope the font style gets an upgrade. It isn't as sophisticated as I would like either.
I started out on my official planner girly journey with happy planner and do tend to come back to it time and time again. I’m currently using an 18 month dashboard layout and I love to use that to broadly plan and then get specific in my other planners. Made the switch from hobonichi to sterling ink this year because of your investigation and I’m so excited! Mostly because of the fact that I could do a larger size with a horizontal layout AND undated daily pages. Love the idea of you investigating the Tomoe River paper changes in a future video!
Every year I’m tempted by the MD 1 day per page but the Hobonichi Weeks is so wired into my planning brain that I can’t break away - and I can’t handle multiple planners. I looked at Leuchtturm too but that’s as far as I can go - great to have choice but it’s become overwhelming.
The Just Scribble planner is really nice quality and it comes in 2 books like the avec. I think that's what the commenter was asking about. Personally 2 books doesn't really bother me, but I can understand why it might bother others. I LOVE all the extra note pages included in this planner in particular. It ends up being way thicker than a full year SI or hobonichi (but split into 2 books because it's so chonky lol). 100% agree with you about Moleskine. Hard pass for me with their paper inconsistency. Totally baffling to me. Twines and Paper has had really bad CS complaints over the last few years so I'd be hesitant to talk them up (personally experienced this myself actually). But they do make good looking planners!
Another thing I think about when I see a super cheap price on something new is that it could have been made using harmful chemicals (that probably got dumped in the ocean after)
I purchased a kinbor weeks and a Paper Tess Designs chapter 25 planner this year. With all of the paper worries, i was scared id spent alot of money and i may not have beem able to use it, but pen tests have come back the same as this years SI common planner. I have loved this planner, but i wanted horizontal weeklies, and i absolutely love that the month, weeks, and daily sections are together, not separate.. i hope this works better for my brain in 2025 😊
I've been using the Midori Professional Series (vertical weekly) for 2 years now and just bought the Midori 1 Day 1 Page in September because i needed all that extra space. Love the clean, minimalist layout and it pairs so well with fountain pens. I'm using this for personal journaling and again the Professional Series for work.
I ordered a twines and paper weekbook hybrid! I have tiny gripes with it but I like it way better than sterling ink, especially because the months are bundled with the weeklies
You might like the Work+Life line at Happy Planner. Neutral color, disc has circular instead of heart and the layout is similar to the Productivity layout you showed here.
I love Happy Notes- Happy Planner notebooks. It’s a never ending notebook which is very customizable and you can buy so many different papers to fill. I love Moleskine daily because I bullet journal in the pocket! Just a pen and paper. Later I go back and add stickers. And I’m a Travelers Company girl. What do You think about that?
The ch in bachuan is like the English ch like chair I might actually look into the happy planner for wedding. I was gonna make a wedding binder but happy planner might make it easier with templates.
LOL, Racheal it 11.11 Sales ( 11 November Sales) in Asia. Think Black Friday every month. Every time when the day happen to be same with month there will be sales. For this instant 11 November - 11.11 Sales. Hope this help
I think the low prices on the Kinbor planners is because the Chinese are trying to break into the planner market. I read somewhere that the Bachaun paper was similar to Tomoe River paper. I'm curious what your take on them will be when you receive them.
Any thoughts on the website/planners from Agendio? Their customization options are almost overwhelming, but you can generally make exactly the planner you might want to use. My biggest beef with them were their covers, and the overall price (I customized one once that was almost $100!). The faux leather covers were fine, but the covers for the spiral-bound notebooks/planners basically felt like plastic-y, flimsy things and they gave me the heebies and the jeebies, and for the price felt super cheap. I won't deny the massive amount of customization one can do with their builder, though.
I’m trying The Daliee planner this year it’s like a all in one it’s pretty thick but I am hopeful that’s the only con would love to see your thoughts or hear from any one else
As someone who bought the just scribble the 2 book thing is it like the avec. It’s 2 books for the year. Her planner was so throughout and wonderful I want to jump in early but I won’t
Kinbor has similar layouts to Hobonichi but it does NOT have thin paper. With Kinbor, you get what you pay for. It's cheap stock paper and I hate it. Give me any planner with Tomoa River paper and I'm a happy camper.
I'm rather invested in a discbound system, since I like being able to load it with the part of the year I need, and only carry the project pages and notes that are current. But I've found most of the pre-printed pages available in this format to be pretty underwhelming. Following your advice of last year, I made my own pages, using a more spare, Hobonichi-esque aesthetic, and incorporating all the layouts I want to try out. And of course I landed on a horizontal weekly that has the workweek on the left page and the weekend on the bottom of the right page, with notes sections above that ... a layout that really works for me, and is not actually available for purchase. This means I spend a great deal of time (if not as much money) on my planner set-up. Also, I think I'm going to need to make my own covers, because I can find zero options that are more than just laminated cardstock (looking at Happy Planner here), are affordable (the Levenger Circa system's $70-120 price point is prohibitive) and are aesthetically pleasing to me (I'm more of a bright orange dress with pockets and chunky silver jewelry gal than a sleek champagne suit and gold chain girlie, which appears to be the taste of a large swath of plannerdom). So, my customization journey continues.
Too many choices! I actually had a bit of a break done this morning - I have made my "system" so complicated I can't remember where I put everything...so ... I'm back to blank books and making my own layouts...back to bullet journalling. Not real happy about it but after finding the perfect 2024 journal (SI A5 common planner) only to I learn that changes were made - true not big one, but ones I consider useless and ugly I was plunged into the "perfect planner/journal rabbit hole" and comsumerism. Not fun. Oh well....I'm pleased to be back to Hobonichi - a Weeks in the kitchen and a couple of blank H. blank notebooks all in one beautiful cove, the Keiko Shibata: Emotional Reunion with Kariya-san
Room many planners which is actually great so those who need specific planners can bit for people like me with major fomo I want it all this year iv only pitched 2 pre order and I 2 more this month but no more I didn’t get my weeks which I used all year the most so idk I’ll make it work.
I had a hemlock and oak, and while the layout was perfect for me, I found the paper to be horrible. It’s thick, sure but it makes all of my highlighters and felt pens look like crayola marker on construction paper 😬
Happy Planners feels more overwhelming for me imo, and very live laugh love to me which isn't my taste
I think most people started with happy planner -- I did. It's how I knew of the planner community... But with all the options, it was just too much... I wanted everything, and it cost so much to keep up with!
What drew me to the JustScribbles is how the pages are organized. The months, weeks, and days are collated or intermixed. Your week is immediately followed by the daily pages for the week, instead of having all the weeks and monthly layouts together. I also like the idea of the quarterly planning layouts in the JustScribbles.
I enjoyed the bundled months while using Aura Estelle. I would have gone with JS, but I will waste the dedicated dailies. Loved her ideas for it though!!
Part of the reason the Kinbor price is low besides being made for the large Chinese market is because the middle man doesn't mark it up as much as they do in the West. I wouldn't assume that because something is more expensive the labour practices are any better. I think it's more likely they've paid the manufacturer the same prices and just added a massive markup. I was trawling reddit and saw someone mention that they found the factory they thought was making stuff for A&O . When you went to this factory's web page the starting price for 100 A5 dot grid notebooks 160gsm paper with 160 pages was $199 without any customizations. That's less than $2 for an A5 160gsm notebook. If you bought in bulk I imagine it would be cheaper.
Yes and to be fair most of the time we are paying for the branding. A&O is priced more expensive because it positions itself as more luxurious brand than other notebook sellers, even though their manufacturers may be the same. I also feel like just because a brand is a chinese brand people are quick to assume poor labour practices etc even though a lot of “western” products are manufactured and imported from the same sources
Thank you for that response! Let's not shame products for being affordable! We should shame brands for overcharging for products that could cost half or less. Paying for a brand is something that is really not appealing to me. But also I would buy Hobonichi if not for the quotes and they have no such option so I choose an alternative and save money. Also not being from US a lot of your fancy planners are not an option due to shipping costs so please don't turn your nose up on an affordable option.
2 Book Idea is like Hobonichi Avec - a year split in two books
The kinbor page says 96 cents because its the price of the clear cover, the cheapest option in the advertisement 🤣
Yeah i can’t believe she didn’t try to play with the options to double check the price!
The .96 cents was for the vinyl cover not the planner. 😀 I like Kinbor, I’ve not had any issue with their planners.
I've ordered a Kinbor weekly couple of weeks ago just because I couldn't order a hobonichi from anywhere because of our country's taxes policies etc. And I am really impressed by Kinbor since it doesn't feel like a cheap product at all to me. The cover, the paper... Idk I really liked it and I will be using it for 2025 (mine is the bread and coffee cover which is super cute)
Me too! I'm going to use the A6 bread and coffee theme this year
For the kinbor if this is your first purchase they give you a crazy discount on the first item you purchase, they normally retail for 10-15 dollars(the weeks) , I’ve used a multiple sizes before from them and used a hobonichi, the hobonichi is more high end, you can see the difference in the details like the sewing and alignment of the pages etc, the paper isn’t the same as trp, its slightly different but still a very good paper, compatible with lots of pens and fountain pens
They started as knock off of hobonichi but with time they started doing some things of their own, they even have collabs with Disney, Sanrio and other big brands and characters of their own , and they’ve been branching those couple of years and started introducing diffrent cover and accessories (it used to be only black and red covers)
As for the price difference, kinbor is a big brand in china, which is a big market that helps reduce costs, and as I said it’s not as high end as the hobonichi so the price point is really acceptable
Also as someone who bought 4 kinbor planners they are great. The paper is just as good as my 2024 hobo weeks planner.
I just bought an A6 Kinbor from Allixpress... I got the A6 AND clear cover for only $4.30!!! I used the hobo A6 this year and as much as I wanted another one, I simply couldn't afford it so I'm excited to hear good things about the Kinbors which have gone viral all of a sudden this year lol
From what I understand, the characters for Ba Chuan translate from Chinese to Japanese as "Tomoegawa." I don't speak or write Chinese or Japanese, but I've seen multiple people on TH-cam and Reddit say that they are the same characters, just pronounced differently because Chinese and Japanese are different spoken languages with some overlap in the written forms. That said, I have *no idea* whether or not Ba Chuan paper is manufactured by the same company in the same factory as Tomoe River paper. It's an interesting question that I'll probably pursue down a rabbit hole this afternoon, LOL.
I love Midori Hibino as a dairy. 1 day 2 pages.Totally minimalistic . Perfect for brain bump, morning pages, memory keeping. I also love the Papertess designs pocket daily. Lots of pre made trackers, quarter over view,weekly etc. Both have Tomoe River Sanzen paper
Hello, from Brazil!! I love watching your videos about productivity and they have helped me a lot!
But I have to say some things about The Kimbor planner. I understand your worries related to the paper and how they are produced... But as a person who lives in a 3rd-world country that charges us from 40 to 96% in imported products, buying a Hobonichi is waaaaaay out of our league. I have never seen one! And I'm not even sure if I ever will!
The closest we can get is the Kimbor planner. And even these ones are expensive to us (the price you saw is probably for the first purchase on the website), around R$120,00 before the taxes.
It's really sad to watch these videos knowing the closest you can get is a Chinese version of the products, and now not even that is affordable anymore... Our country taxes policy sucks...
YES we should be voting with our dollars.
16:54 Pitbull Mom and Paper Joy PH does go over the Kinboor, the Hobonichi weeks dupe. If you are interested in their their thoughts of paper quality, etc. It is a product out of China.
I gave up on moleskin about 8 years ago when I was playing around with bullet journaling. The narrow size. I do not mind the paper because it gives me kinetic feeling of the teeth in the paper.
20:54 I was hoping you would go over the Jibun Techo days and their vertical weeks.
Personally, IMHO, voting with our dollars is the ONLY way to vote on products. Writing even a personal email to the company with a complaint is worthless. Companies only care about sales.
Yes! This is why I don’t support fast fashion and try to thrift all my clothes
Thank you for making this video! I am ordering the hybrid Twines and Paper right now! This is the planner of my dreams :) I also saw another video of yours where you walked through the Papertess Manager's notebook. I am also planning to get one of her planners as well :) I love your videos :)
The two books is like the hobonichi avec where each book is 6 months.
I have the a6 just scribble planner for next year! I really liked it as an alternative to the hobonichi original avec that also includes weekly pages. I also loved that the hourly format includes half hour.
My only complaint is that the design is a little less polished than other options. I've also bought the creffective paper a6 daily planner and it looks almost exactly the same but it's in 1 book and the design is clean and aesthetic. I'm waiting til it comes in to see if I think it being all in one book will annoy me too much.
But the layout of both are perfect for me, esp in a6 size and I'm so excited that they exist!
I have the twines and paper B6 and I love it
Hi, this is so not a big deal but wanted to point out that happy planner uses DISCS not rings which are different. I prefer discs because they are easier to move around vs. rings.
Great video otherwise!
Love my Sterling Ink!
But this year I’ve added a Happy Planner I leave in my kitchen to use just for bills and meal planning. Love the disks for this, I’ve merged two planners into one.
I bought the Just Scribbles A5 vertical. I agree with Rachelle about all the goal-planning pages. I don't care for them all that much, but I can repurpose them. What I love about this planner's layout is the Quarterly-month-week 1-Dailies for that week-week 2-Daily for that week, etc. This is the layout I absolutely love.
I was so glad that Just Scribbles planner comes in two books. I currently use a Hobonichi Hon, but I bulk up a planner too much for one book. I love the idea of one book for the year, but in reality just doesn't work well for me. I had planned on going to the Avec or the Sterling Ink Commonplanner (2 books) for 2025, but when I saw Plans by Just Scribble, I knew I had to try it.
That said, the paper is not good. I appreciate she's been upfront about it, but it is so very thin. Ghosting doesn't really bother me, but this ghosting is heavy. What I don't like is bleed-through. My mildliners do bleed through. That's a bummer. I'm still giving it a shot because I like 95% of the layout SO MUCH, and hopefully, the paper gets worked out for future planners. As @cls3282 said, I also hope the font style gets an upgrade. It isn't as sophisticated as I would like either.
Happy Planner is a disc-bound system, with some spiral options. Love this video ❤
I started out on my official planner girly journey with happy planner and do tend to come back to it time and time again. I’m currently using an 18 month dashboard layout and I love to use that to broadly plan and then get specific in my other planners.
Made the switch from hobonichi to sterling ink this year because of your investigation and I’m so excited! Mostly because of the fact that I could do a larger size with a horizontal layout AND undated daily pages. Love the idea of you investigating the Tomoe River paper changes in a future video!
Every year I’m tempted by the MD 1 day per page but the Hobonichi Weeks is so wired into my planning brain that I can’t break away - and I can’t handle multiple planners. I looked at Leuchtturm too but that’s as far as I can go - great to have choice but it’s become overwhelming.
I would try happy planner, if they had a size in between mini and classic. Preferably B6 or A5.
You should try Aura Estelle! I think you will like them
The Just Scribble planner is really nice quality and it comes in 2 books like the avec. I think that's what the commenter was asking about. Personally 2 books doesn't really bother me, but I can understand why it might bother others. I LOVE all the extra note pages included in this planner in particular. It ends up being way thicker than a full year SI or hobonichi (but split into 2 books because it's so chonky lol).
100% agree with you about Moleskine. Hard pass for me with their paper inconsistency. Totally baffling to me.
Twines and Paper has had really bad CS complaints over the last few years so I'd be hesitant to talk them up (personally experienced this myself actually). But they do make good looking planners!
Another thing I think about when I see a super cheap price on something new is that it could have been made using harmful chemicals (that probably got dumped in the ocean after)
I purchased a kinbor weeks and a Paper Tess Designs chapter 25 planner this year. With all of the paper worries, i was scared id spent alot of money and i may not have beem able to use it, but pen tests have come back the same as this years SI common planner. I have loved this planner, but i wanted horizontal weeklies, and i absolutely love that the month, weeks, and daily sections are together, not separate.. i hope this works better for my brain in 2025 😊
I've been using the Midori Professional Series (vertical weekly) for 2 years now and just bought the Midori 1 Day 1 Page in September because i needed all that extra space. Love the clean, minimalist layout and it pairs so well with fountain pens. I'm using this for personal journaling and again the Professional Series for work.
I ordered a twines and paper weekbook hybrid! I have tiny gripes with it but I like it way better than sterling ink, especially because the months are bundled with the weeklies
You might like the Work+Life line at Happy Planner. Neutral color, disc has circular instead of heart and the layout is similar to the Productivity layout you showed here.
I love Happy Notes- Happy Planner notebooks. It’s a never ending notebook which is very customizable and you can buy so many different papers to fill.
I love Moleskine daily because I bullet journal in the pocket! Just a pen and paper. Later I go back and add stickers.
And I’m a Travelers Company girl. What do
You think about that?
The ch in bachuan is like the English ch like chair
I might actually look into the happy planner for wedding. I was gonna make a wedding binder but happy planner might make it easier with templates.
LOL, Racheal it 11.11 Sales ( 11 November Sales) in Asia. Think Black Friday every month. Every time when the day happen to be same with month there will be sales. For this instant 11 November - 11.11 Sales. Hope this help
I think the low prices on the Kinbor planners is because the Chinese are trying to break into the planner market. I read somewhere that the Bachaun paper was similar to Tomoe River paper. I'm curious what your take on them will be when you receive them.
Any thoughts on the website/planners from Agendio? Their customization options are almost overwhelming, but you can generally make exactly the planner you might want to use. My biggest beef with them were their covers, and the overall price (I customized one once that was almost $100!). The faux leather covers were fine, but the covers for the spiral-bound notebooks/planners basically felt like plastic-y, flimsy things and they gave me the heebies and the jeebies, and for the price felt super cheap. I won't deny the massive amount of customization one can do with their builder, though.
I would LOVE to hear her thoughts on this... I went to their website once but got overwhelmed lol
I’m trying The Daliee planner this year it’s like a all in one it’s pretty thick but I am hopeful that’s the only con would love to see your thoughts or hear from any one else
As someone who bought the just scribble the 2 book thing is it like the avec. It’s 2 books for the year. Her planner was so throughout and wonderful I want to jump in early but I won’t
I'm looking forward to using a Passion Planner weekly for the first time in 2025! Do you or anyone in the comments have thoughts on it?
Kinbor has similar layouts to Hobonichi but it does NOT have thin paper. With Kinbor, you get what you pay for. It's cheap stock paper and I hate it. Give me any planner with Tomoa River paper and I'm a happy camper.
For a fountain pen user, it works great so I suppose it depends on ppl
I'm rather invested in a discbound system, since I like being able to load it with the part of the year I need, and only carry the project pages and notes that are current. But I've found most of the pre-printed pages available in this format to be pretty underwhelming. Following your advice of last year, I made my own pages, using a more spare, Hobonichi-esque aesthetic, and incorporating all the layouts I want to try out. And of course I landed on a horizontal weekly that has the workweek on the left page and the weekend on the bottom of the right page, with notes sections above that ... a layout that really works for me, and is not actually available for purchase. This means I spend a great deal of time (if not as much money) on my planner set-up. Also, I think I'm going to need to make my own covers, because I can find zero options that are more than just laminated cardstock (looking at Happy Planner here), are affordable (the Levenger Circa system's $70-120 price point is prohibitive) and are aesthetically pleasing to me (I'm more of a bright orange dress with pockets and chunky silver jewelry gal than a sleek champagne suit and gold chain girlie, which appears to be the taste of a large swath of plannerdom). So, my customization journey continues.
Too many choices! I actually had a bit of a break done this morning - I have made my "system" so complicated I can't remember where I put everything...so ... I'm back to blank books and making my own layouts...back to bullet journalling. Not real happy about it but after finding the perfect 2024 journal (SI A5 common planner) only to I learn that changes were made - true not big one, but ones I consider useless and ugly I was plunged into the "perfect planner/journal rabbit hole" and comsumerism. Not fun. Oh well....I'm pleased to be back to Hobonichi - a Weeks in the kitchen and a couple of blank H. blank notebooks all in one beautiful cove, the Keiko Shibata: Emotional Reunion with Kariya-san
Love happy planner but not for planning! 😂
Lol! I'm gonna trying planning in HP for the first time. I purchased the hourly weekly for 2025.
Room many planners which is actually great so those who need specific planners can bit for people like me with major fomo I want it all this year iv only pitched 2 pre order and I 2 more this month but no more I didn’t get my weeks which I used all year the most so idk I’ll make it work.
Huh? I'm sorry I don't understand what you're trying to say in your comment.
I can’t figure out if we can still order from twines and paper? It still says pre order but that was from months ago? 😩 *confused*
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would love a review of the Hemlock and Oak planners : their new horizontal or the minimalist!
I had a hemlock and oak, and while the layout was perfect for me, I found the paper to be horrible. It’s thick, sure but it makes all of my highlighters and felt pens look like crayola marker on construction paper 😬
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