2020 How I use Hobonichi Cousins for Functional Planning and Memory Keeping | Sterling Ink
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This year, I have fell in love with the Hobonichi cousin planner, but struggled to find a way to use it to its fullest potential. Just as I was going to give up, something clicked in my mind so I decided to try it out this week. It has been one of the most productive week this year, and I can really sense a change in the way I think of time. I have also decided to memory keep in a brand new Hobonichi cousin and that has been so much fun also because I just really gravitate towards this notebook.
I wanted to share with you how I have set up my Hobonichi cousin for both functional planning and also memory keeping and hopefully it can give you an idea or two if you are like me and also struggled with this planner.
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I like that colour coding and underline combo. I’m going to try that 🙂
Thanks! I love how you focused just on business - and it helps me see some ideas how to use this more without focusing so much on the decoration (which is awesome and cute - but too cluttered for my brain and make some lose track!) I love some of your ideas.
I love your ideas here! I am totally following your videos to pick up anything and everything that's working out for functional planners!!
Thank you so much!
Oh my goodness, found your videos just in time! I have the exact situation, Hobonichi 5 year, Weeks and Cousin and kind of struggling how to work with them together. Your ideas are perfect for my needs, so thank you. I will be catching up on all your videos!
I literally took notes to make the transition to two cousins as I realized after one month I needed two. Thanks for explaining so well. This is so helpful!
Thank you so much!
Aw your little guy is very cute! Thx for sharing 🤗
Thank you!
You are making best present for your son right now.☀️
New subscriber. Love the video. I am awaiting my first Hobonichi and am watching YT videos to get ideas. Thank you. 🙌🏼
I loved every minute!!
😘😘😘 You are so sweet!
Just switched to the Hobo Cousin Avec jul-dec and I’m still working out the kinks but your video has helped!
this was super helpful! 💕 i was just worrying about my time management
Thank you! I am glad it helped!
Great video! I'll use several of your methods 😁
I'm finding your videos about the hobonichi cousin really helpful (just got my first hobonichi yesterday). Would you please consider doing a video about which pens you use?
I was thinking about doing photos in my silhouette too lol. Two days at a time is a good idea though I’m afraid it’ll just be a backlog I never get to. (So far that’s true lolol) and I agree, I love flipping through photos, it’s not the same on a phone! 😭
Should totally try using silhouette for photos, it solved 80 percent of my problems hahaha
Do you have a video going over how you use your ring binder? Thanks!
Awesome dear keep it up😍
Thank you!
Absolutely loved the tips and your process for each of your planners! I gained so many ideas and tips to use in a similar planner in regards to time management.
Thank you so much for your comment. I would love to hear how you will be setting up your planners!
Sterling Ink I have an EC life planner for my weekly overview, a Happy Planner setup for grad school & Reading Journaling. My goals are currently managed in the Cultivate Power Sheets, which is great tool. Your video caught my attention because I purchased the PP Weeks in 2019 and still haven't used it. I think after watching this video, I can utilize it for tracking my time and important events to help me better manage and track my time each day and see where I'm wasting time, since I have so much going on and so many goals lol.
@@rebekahstinson8511 Aww that's great! I believe that we all have the mental power to achieve all of the goals we set for ourselves. Just have to take action! Good luck Rebekah!
Can I ask which notebook you use in 37:15 (the black one)?
Do you carry one of these with you , working on my decision for 2021😊 thank you~ great ideas
No I don’t. I think to carry around weeks is better. But if you had a slim cover cousin could work as well.
I’d love to watch your process to print/cut your photos with Sil Studio!
Sure I will figure out how to screen record and I will make a video about this.
Hi Catherine! Great video :) I am curious with your purple things though -- maybe I missed it, but you said that your weekly is for your things that you have done during the day. Does the purple dot mean that you had started to do those things but somehow ended up not finishing it?
Hi I love your question as it’s making me re-examine my system haha. It’s definitely a work in progress. What I meant was I write out my schedule with tasks that I would like to complete. Then as the hours go by I would highlight the hour mark with colors based on what I actually did. Usually I do go by the schedule so it’s just a confirmation that I worked on a certain thing in a certain category (I have two businesses where I put most of time in so I wanted to track how much time I spend on each at a glance) the purple one is just for me to highlight the tasks I didn’t complete due to procrastination lol. What I found during that first week was there was a specific task I kept on pushing back and pushing back due to procrastination lol. I also was able to see that there are certain times of the day that I am more likely to procrastinate so now I try to schedule something fun but productive during that time period. Hope that makes sense
this inspired me to buy the cousin! i was wondering if you could possibly make a video for your weekly planning system explaining the colour code system, or if you could explain it
I think I will be doing some plan with me videos in the future. Basically I divide my life into different areas and assign a color to each. I don’t always color code it. It’s just for me to see how much time spend on what and see if I need to readjust anything if it seems like I am wasting too much time doing something not so important.
@@SterlingInk ah I see, thank you so much! I'm looking to gather ideas on how to use the cousin for uni, so this will really help!
Ahhh I am so jealous that you get to use it for school. I think it’s perfect for that. You can use a color per class, then for the daily pages you can either take notes if you write small or just summarize the stuff you learned that day maybe?
@@SterlingInk hahaha thank you so much for all your ideas, and for taking time out to respond!! I will definitely keep this in mind, thank you!! 😁
Hi great video! Is your memory keeping book the Hobonichi cousin avec or full year? Also which cover do you have on it? Thanks!
Thank you Arianna. I am using the full year, and I am using gfeller natural leather cover.
Sterling Ink thank you!
Great vid
Thank you!
I have been going back and forth for a month about whether to memory keep in a stalogy or hobonichi cousin! I went with the stalogy so I could skip days or use more pages if needed, but now I’m second guessing 🤔
Also I recently tried to print some photos on my Epson printer for memory journaling and they came out terrible. What printer would you recommend?
Thank you!
Hi I have also done memory keeping in an a5 stalogy which is also nice, but not having the dates made it more ok to skip the days haha so I quickly fell behind. I am liking the structure that the hobonichi cousin has set out for me so I am just filling in the blanks. I am using a Canon pixma printer, I think any photo quality printer would work and just remember to save a setting for photo printing so that you can select that option when you are printing photos. Have fun!
thank you so much for sharing! I especially enjoyed the memory keeping part
Thank you so much! Stalogy does not use tomoe River paper. The paper used in hobonichi and nanami paper co are tomoe River paper.
@@SterlingInk thanks so much for your quick reply! Now I know better. I think I'll go for the Hobonichi... never heard about nanami though. Have a lot of fun with your most cute son
You gave me a great idea- why not combine the planning and memory keeping into one notebook? The weekly can be the planner and the daily can be memory keeping. xoxo
I know lol I wish I could do that. But I don’t really like mixing my messy planner with memory keeping lollll. It gives me extra pressure to make the planner portion really neat and presentable for the future whoever is looking at my book, even if it’s just me haha 😂. Is that silly?
@@SterlingInk not silly at all! I get it
I do exactly that, but in my weekly. I try to put in one small photo for each week.
Gloria Thomas in a cousin?
@@ssd1453 No. I'm using a junior size disc planner with a dashboard weekly spread. I made my own half page daily inserts. It's a bit of a hack, but I like planning my day with the week in mind, and this lets me see both.
At the end of the week, I add thumbnails from highlights for the week.
What is reference material in your binder? I haven't heard the term before with planning.
Oh it’s just things I need to reference long term. It has a section for my business (ein number, expenses, product ideas, vendor info, etc) and personal sections (my son, family, home, finance, etc) I don’t like to keep that information in my bound notebooks/planners plus this gives me an excuse to use ring binder.
@@SterlingInk Where did you get the ring binder from and what is the name of the cover again please?
What is the five year notebook you are using??
What is the brown cover for your a5 cousin memory keeping? Thank you.
It’s gfeller case maker cover
@@SterlingInk thank you so much 🖤🤍🤎
I have been searching for the best method, for me, of keeping track of my life. I think Hobonichi is the way I want to go. However, I am afraid, since it is so popular, that come September 1st, 2nd and 3rd, the new 2021's will sell out so fast that it will be hard to acquire one. I want to get a cover for the Hobo.. but I don't like using leather. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to jump into the Hobonichi waters and be successful about it?
I ordered my hobonichi planners in November December and also in January. I ordered through jetpens and also Etsy. I think you should be fine and they restock I believe. I bought my second hobonichi cousin just recently in July too from the us amazon. I think there are a lot of cover options for hobonichi that’s not leather from hobonichi website.
@@SterlingInk Thank you so much for taking the time to respond to my questions.
You are welcome. If you have any other questions, you can dm me @sterlingink on Instagram
I ordered mine in October directly from Hobonichi and it look about a week to arrive. I absolutely love it and have barely scratched the surface of my planning
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tracking procrastination is perfect. ouch
Loll yea I needed to keep my procrastination under control. It’s either that or get no sleep haha