My ✨unfiltered opinions✨ on Hobonichi products
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 มิ.ย. 2024
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 intro
02:45 the flagship
06:16 a note on the paper...
07:15 the binding can do WHAT?!
08:18 techo original
10:06 iiiiiitty bitty weeklies
12:16 my ride or die hobonichi
19:48 accessories!!!!
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I think my ideal Hobonichi would be a weeks cousin - a wider weeks with a bigger monthly section and the mega amount of notes pages
Same!!! Away with the daily pages😂
Traditionally the year in Japan starts with the spring cleaning on April 1st. It's a very important day and many locations have festivals dedicated to it. So Japanese diaries/agendas often start on April rather than on January. Japan is a country that it's very good at adapting and adopting, so they also know & use European-style calendars with January 1st as first day. Personally I find it useful bc most of my activities start or gather speed in March/April.
Thank you. Sadly had to scroll to far to find this.
@@melindadawngarren5137 You're welcome! You can sort messages by newest, sometimes it reveals interesting new comments =)
Yes, in Japan we start school in April
I was really surprised to learn this from my partner. Couldn’t wrap my head around it for a while 😂
@@b.l70 Yeah, it's pretty unique. We have a couple of weeks off in between March and April to end and start the academic year.
In Colombia, we start in the end of January-First week of February and depending on if it's private or public school we would end anywhere between mid-November to First week of December
April start would suit those who want a yearly journal aligned with a financial year.
In australia (and Nz) we finish academic year in dec (how early depends on level) and start at the start of feb. Financial year however is 1 jul-30 Jun. I can’t remember Nz but I think it might be start of June to end May. Nothing lines up so jan start works best for me lol.
Indian schools in the Middle East also start in April. In India the new academic year starts on June 1.
I find the simplicity of the Weeks really helpful for my functional planning style. It's practical and highly portable 😊
Happy Hobonichi Day, Rachelle and all others who "celebrate"!
Hi! I'm wandering around the TH-cams watching all the 20204 Hobonichi videos ^_^ As a Day-Free user, I'm excited to see how you like it! For me, it's the perfect planner for someone who feels pressured by having too many pages to fill out. I alwasy felt like I "failed" at plannering, because I couldn't manage to fill in every day in weekly spreads and the idea of doing DAILY pages was just terrifying. So I had just accepted that I wasn't a "planner person". I ended up being gifted a planner without weekly or daily sections and it changed EVERYTHING because of how I had to approach it. This year I got a Day-Free and it's a perfect combination of monthly planner and free-form journal that you can use for whatever, without the pressure of filling out weekly and daily pages. If I need a weekly spread or daily journal page, I can just create one! Absolutely my forever planner I think.
Thanks for the videos! I'm going through them now and enjoying them
I just wish the daily-free ones looked pretty ughhh theyre so utilitarian even the covers are boring blue and black 😣
I LOVE the Day-Free (A5) for all the reasons you mention!
I'm excited for the HON - I love the Weeks decorated covers but really only need one Weeks planner, so I intend to get a Bow & Tie Weeks and a Tomitaro Makino HON so that I can have the best of both worlds 😀
The black cover English planner is a collaboration with Japanese lifestyle brand Arts and Science and is informed by their design aesthetic. This is not an only collaboration either, every year’s lineup features several Arts and Science covers.
When I first heard about Hobonichi I bought all the sizes to try. FOMO is real ya know. Anyway, I absolutely hated the Weeks, could NOT get into it no matter how many times I tried. So about 3-4 years later I tried it again (don’t ask me why) and I absolutely love the layout! I’m still shook over that. I’ve even turned my Sterling Ink Common Planner into that layout since I have the undated version. (Which is why the Common Planner is awesome, but that’s another topic.) Love your videos. This is a very good review and covers all the things so thank you!
Isn't that crazy how our brains can just flip a switch and SUDDENLY we like a layout that we have NEVER used successfully before??! I'm glad it's working for you now, and thank you for watching!!
The English Planner design was done with Arts & Science in 2013 inspired by but not a copy of the original and the new English version retains the design of the optional list changed the language
For my productivity, the Weeks is the choice. I don’t need much space for each day, BUT I would love to keep track of all my workouts and nutrition (plus health) with more pages… Thought about getting a Mega, BUT I really need the cats cover, so maybe just the regular Weeks 😂 your content is GOLD! keep going! cheers from Brazil ✨
it’s maybe too late but you can buy a regular Weeks (with the cats cover ^^) and buy the « weeks supplement » wich is 3 note taking notebooks in the weeks format (sorry if it’s not clear, english isn’t my firts language 😅). Well, I think it’s a good idea to have thz hobonichi weeks and the supplements ✨
I love the crinkly feeling of the ink on the paper as well! Gives it an old / antique feel and aesthetic. Also makes it feel well loved ❤
Yesssss it’s so nice
Love to use my Pokémon weeks for my tarot readings ❤ and the cousin was ideal for my bakery work placement, where my hours were often during the night, so the 24-hour lay-out was great ❤
The timing of this video is everything! Iv been watching this sort of content sense yesterday 😅! Thank you ma’am for the content! So helpful!
You are so welcome!!
this is really fascinating, I'm thinking of getting into bullet journaling so this is super helpful ❤
I found your comparison between the hobonichi planner A6 black cover and the techo original A6 cream cover very helpful. I was surprised at their differences when you showed the inside of them side by side. I was under the impression that they weren’t so different but after i watched your video, i was proved wrong. Thank you so much!
april 1st is the start of the academic year and also the fiscal year in japan 😊
What country are you from? Our academic year has always started from mid-July or late August. That's interesting.
@@mxwitcher hon, it says Japan right there 😭
@@spacebar9733 oh I didn't realize that ☺️ I thought it's another sentence with the fiscal year. Thank you for clarifying.
Oh my goodness...the more I watch, the more I want! :) I am most definitely a planner/paper nerd...I have been trying to figure out how to build my own planner with what I need and this seems to be the one! I've got my shopping list going of what to get LoL...thank you! :)
thank you so much for sharing all your thoughts, i've been visiting the hobonichi website a lot trying to figure out what type of planner to get for 2024! i'm very much a monthly + weekly planner as i feel like keeping up with large daily pages would stress me out so i may get the weeks or a6 techo 👀
YES I would say if you are choosing between something that has exactly what you need + things that would stress you out, go for something that doesnt stress you out even if the layouts are a bit different. Size really matters for me in this context. Glad this helped!
LOVE this, fantastic video, and also, HAPPY HOBONICHI DAY!!! Hope you get everything you want, love!
This was a great video. I am in a Happy Planner and have been for years and am looking to explore with the Hobonichi so thank you for your review
I use the weeks for mealplanning, grocerylists and the finances weekly, monthly and yearly. I use the a6 for functional planning, to do's, list's. The a5 is used by al the familymembers, everyone can/will put there appointments down on paper. The rest is used for commonplacing. Notes 📝 when scribbled during phonecalls and all that kind of stuff. So i'm a enthousiast
I watched your video, I had a plan, I made a list, and I still spent $125 more than I needed to avoid $35 shipping 😭why am I like this
I couldn’t decide on the Cousin or using the A6 with a supplement. I decided on the cousin so I can have the all on one. Thank you for going over the supplement for the a6! Also the Animal crossing cover is adorable! I have it in A6 but I wish I got that in A5 instead.
I’ve been so excited about the launch! I was able to order everything I wanted EXCEPT the Little Gifts cover, which sold out sooo fast. This was my first time ordering directly from the Hobonichi website, but then I discovered that the US retail partners had everything I was looking for and I could have saved $35 on shipping. Lesson learned. I will say an advantage of the Day Free is that the pages are numbered! I think it’s the only book of theirs that is.
New to your channel. Very helpful content as folks are navigating the delightful madness of hobonichi season, thank you!
2024 will be my 4th year with the A6 Techo planner (the Arts & Sciences collab) which I love for the slightly larger grid size and streamlined page layout. Not a fan of all the colours in the Original which I find distracting rather than helpful. I also love the weekly supplement (I know!! 😂)!! I used to use a Kokuyo Jibun Techo planner but after I got laid off in 2020 that once super useful weekly vertical + project tracking grids, etc. felt ... well, oppressive. So I switched to a format that felt less regimented / more free and open to a wider range of creative uses including journaling and memory keeping. When I began working again as an independent contractor I knew I wanted to add something simple to track work projects and hours. For me, the Weekly supplement is perfect for this use. It was also quite useful as a class scheduler (language classes in my case) as it's very "toss in your handbag/backpack" portable. Plus it is a rather inexpensive item in the hobonichi range, a good "add on" if you're trying to meet a free shipping threshold for example. Personally I give it 4-1/2 stars. 😊
thanks for this video, i was planning on my next hobonichi. i had the original in english for 2022, then i had for 2023 the cousin (because of the layout). i prefer the A6 size, but wasn't happy with the english layout. i ma glad they are doing the original a6 in english !
Thanks so much for sharing! My favourite Hobonichi items are the A6 Techo (that binding! Stellar! Also a really nice size if you want a manageable journalling/writing space) and the Stappo pouch (super versatile, holds planners up to B6 size and you can shove a LOT of stickers and ephemera in those pockets! Also great for holding brass clips from Traveler’s Company.) I ordered the Tomitaro Makino items that were new this time round. So curious about the A5 HON in English! I’m currently using the Eiji Mitooka Olive A6 HON as a diary and I still love it! Bought a clear cover, too, because I think I’ll want to keep the A5 HON as lightweight as possible. (The A6 HON fits into covers from other companies, such as a Moterm A6, so I’m assuming the same will be true for the HON in A5.)
I bought two day free because I think I’ll need that space for calendar and notes.
I put them back to back and taped the spines together to make one bigger book that is about the thickness of the Techo. I taped the covers together where they meet too. I plan to work straight through it. But if you want to use it to make one work and personal together but separated I can see that might work too.
I'm still torn between getting the Cousin or Original for next year. I have the Cousin and I use the daily pages for memory-keeping - but I'm tempted to get the Original because of its size and portability. I'll be watching this video a few times before making my purchase. Thanks for your informative videos, they're always a great help 🥰🥰
Love this video! ❤
Cool video!! I always have at least one in the mix. I think their flagship product though is by far the Original (A6) as it is the most used in Japan (they also offer more covers for it etc etc).
I broke my stencil too. Good to know, I'm not alone. Love your videos.
Lots of useful information, thank you. 😊
Tick, tick, tick... got my favorites all set to go! I'm trying an English version HON but they don't release until Nov. 1st so tonight I'm purchasing a Seahorse Weeks and a large drawer pouch. And for good measure one of those green stencils 🥰
I love the Hobonichi cousin~ Just brought the A6 Mother HON w/ the clear cover, the Day free planner, and the A5 Boing cover out of fear haha😅
Wow another great video...keep them coming
Selfmade books for the win 🙈 But Hobonichi & co. are wonderful inspirations
I love the weeks sooo much and tried out the weeks mega for 2023 for my bullet journal and adored it. BUT I didn’t like any of the weeks mega colors this year. Sooo, I may have to try the weeks size common planner from SI. If I can pick one up from their extras sale in October anyway. I usually pick up a Hobo A6 for journaling and love it though.
Weeks…always and forever! 💗
yessss!!!
I just ordered my planners and accidentally ordered the planner version instead of the original. 💀 At least it’s my first year with the A6 size so I’ll give it a try. I love the meal planning space at the bottom that it has. But I’ve been using the weeks this year, and I love it! I just wish there was more space to write in each day. But I love seeing the week at a glance. I got one to use for next year too so I’ll have to see what works best I guess. Yay, it’s Hobonichi season! ☺️✍🏻🎉
I actually prefer the black covered English Techo over the original layout- it’s simpler, not a lot of color and the grid size doesn’t bother me
I got the Weeks Mega in grey, and I’m saving up for a cover from Galen leather ❤
Ordered my Cousin tonight! I have the kitties Weeks in a cart and will probably cave and buy it tomorrow....
Man I still feel like an idiot for not grabbing the animal crossing cover! I picked up the shitajiki instead 😔 also. You definitely convinced me to get the weeks, I figured out what I'd like to use it for 😂 I think I want to try to use it for a health tracker/planner and the weeks pages for meal planning. I do this every week on a dry erase board, but I think it will be fun to move it into a book to look back on.
Oh! I'm also considering getting into TN for the first time with Sterling Inks announcement of their TN inserts. Will you be doing a reaction of that video as well? Your one on the common planner preorder was so helpful!
I just bought a 2023 weeks so i could experiment with it before I decide if I want one for next year!
I really love my weeks and cousin, but I can't deal with the wasted quote space! I went with common planner this year in both to see the binding is good enough to fully switch. I don't carry mine around or stuff it, so hoping it is okay!
My hobonichi fit my Oberon book cover which made me really happy
Hey Rachelle,
Big shoutout for putting together such an awesome video! I'm seriously thankful for the insights you shared on nurturing creative thinking and problem-solving. You've got a real talent for breaking down complex stuff.
To all you folks tuning in, trust me, this video is worth every second. It's not just theory - Rachelle's tips can genuinely help us level up our creative skills and tackle challenges like a pro. Don't miss out on it!
Rachelle, you rock! Thanks a bunch for this killer content.
After trying out many different planners and even trying to go without this year, I decided to definitely get a Weeks again as my "get sh*t done" planner and a Cousin as a diary for next year. I also thought about getting a Day Free for fun stuff and I really love the new Mother/Earthbound cover... but it's so expensive 😭and then there are also these beautiful notebooks with the same Tomitaro Makino cover as the HON and the notebooks are much cheaper than the Day Free with a cover.. so it would probably be wiser to get one of those. Sigh. This is difficult.
Consider Kinbor for it all
i’m *stressed out* because i already ordered TN-sized Common Planners for 2024. but FOMO, I’m getting a Hoboweeks in Yellow and a BUNCH of accessories…. AND a HON in the Liberty Weeks cover (for my fellow hobofriends - an HON is a Cousin with a hardback cover and slightly different formatting)
Hey Rachelle could you do one for how an athlete journal or plans/goals must be layout as
Getting the multi Jetstream from jetpens; what type/brand of highlighters do you use for timeblocking?
I love everything about the Hobonichi Cousin except for the shaded weekends. Was very disappointed when they came out with the English Cousin they kept this feature even though they eliminated it from the English Techo. I ended up switching to The Common Planner this year and am enjoying it. I'm likeing the undated notes pages more than I thought I would.
Ready for the spicy takes 🌶️😛🤣
Oh my god I have used a Hobonichi A6 cover for years and I never realised that the two loops are so you can close it 😂😭
I do wish they’d make the cousin in A6. While I realize a supplement is made to go with the a6. I prefer it all in one but A6 size.
I've used the weeks and A5, and while I did enjoy them, I found them way, wayy too expensive (up front; for a whole year, they're not bad). To the point where I swore off buying notebooks and just started making them myself. They have really great layouts though, which allows for a good bit of versatility.
In europe there is a affordable planner called A journal with vertical weekly
For me the cousin is a bit overrated as a planner. It's a perfect journal if you want al the premade monthlies and weeklies but it has too much space for a planner. An a5 page a day is quite a task to fill and I am not flipping to the yearly index and monthlies and weeklies and days so a whole section of the cousin will be wasted on me. For this year i got the english a6 planner and I am a fan! Much easier to travel with, easier to fill and less flipping and less wasted on me ❤
thank you so much. It was beneficial. I watched Twis
Same thoughts on the weeks!!! idk if its bec i dont really have that much to plan, but i also jut love the size/shape of it its so cute (and its cheaper than the others!)
Thank you for such a helpful, informative video! I’m so on the fence! The vertical week layout on the cousin is making me hesitate. I’ve had horizontal layout for many years. The weeks is too small for me.
I would recommend seeking a different planner, or making your own! Other planner shops have the weeks-memo layout. Personally, the Moleskine planner has the same layout and I love that planner and used it for years before Hobonichi. Thanks for watching and commenting!
@@RachelleinTheory Thank you for your suggestion! I will look it up. Been using Marshall’s and TK Max Planners. They are very scare so far this year. My teacher uses the Cousin.. that’s what made me investigate. The Moleskine artist sketchbook is my go to for drawing and I use them regularly. Will check it out ! Thanks so much!!
I don't know if anyone else has already said this, but the Original and Cousin are also available in Simplified Chinese. The 1101 website doesn't show me the Simplified Chinese version, but JetPens carries it.
Also, the layout of the Planner has always appealed to me because it's more minimalist (I wasn't a fan of all the colors in the Original), and also because I like being able to read the quotes without having to translate them. But - I am going to try the new Original in English this year, and as soon as I decided to try it I got really excited about it - including the colorful layout. Go figure. It probably has something to do with how my use of the A6 book has shifted over the years. Whatever the reason, I'm now counting down the days until November 1st, LOL.
One more "also," sorry. My frustration with the small size of the weekly supplement led me to consider the new Common Planner...but I didn't like it, oddly, despite it being more minimalist than the Hobonichi Planner. I picked up a discounted Jibun Techo Biz Mini in June and I fell completely in love with it. I like having a more spacious vertical weekly layout, but I also like that it's in a thin, standalone book that is thin, portable, thus easy to carry in my bag every day. I love the Mio paper in the Biz version. It handles fountain pens just fine, but I pretty much only use Mildliners and 0.4mm gel pens in it (Juice Up, Hi-Tec-C Coleto multipens, or Uni-ball One).
Hi Rachelle, really love this video. Thanks for making it so informative. Quick question: I actually like the ideas of the Weekly Supplement because I LOVE the vertical weekly layout over two pages; but the Supplement doesn't have a monthly view. Do you know if Hobonichi has a product that includes a monthly view AND a vertical weekly view? Hobonihi Weeks has the horizontal weekly view, which I don't favor as much. Basically, I am asking if there's such as thing as the Cousin without the daily pages. Perhaps from different company? And I do want the thin Japanese paper, too (Tomoe River or its replacement). B6 or A5 would work for me. Does anyone else know? Thanks in advance.
You might be interested in the Mark's Weekly Planner - it has a monthly view and vertical weekly view. While it's not quite as thin as the Tomoe River (~50gsm) paper, it's still respectable at ~60gsm. Comes in an A5 size and has a zipper pocket on the front, too.
I'm a fountain pen lover, and I love Tomoe River paper, but I worry that in a diary/planner the ink would never be dry by the time I was ready to close the planner and would smudged. Any thoughts?
Thank you for the video.🙂
A Hobonichi cousin in an A6 size would be ideal.
I can't tell if the dotted line on the green ruler is supposed to be that way, or if it's actually broken lol.
Hiiii! Could you link the shop for the girl sticker for time stamp 7:02-7:03 please?
Have you considered a Kinbor planner?
Has anyone ever just used the clear cover on the original a6? I ordered a cousin the accompanying cover for planning and I would like to buy an original a6 for journaling. I want to protect the cover, but I'm not necessarily wanting to purchase another cover for a such a small size since I don't intend on taking it outside too much. Thanks!
Do Muji gel pens work well with the Hobonichi papers?
Do you use all of them or were they used and só you just keep them as old journals?
Do they (or any other brand) make a planner that is the same full size vertical weekly setup as the cousin but without the daily pages? So like the monthly calendar view and the vertical weekly hours but no daily pages?
They don't, but Sterling Ink does! Her preorders are over, but she will likely have another sale later in the year when she gets the extras in stock. Keep up with her insta or website for info.
She has some undated ones as well, I believe 😊
Hobonichi doesn’t. Jibun Techo has it for A5 size but the hourly print is too small. I used it for work, just because it doesn’t have dailies which I personally don’t need for work - rather more on activity tracking- monthly + weekly vertical from Monday to Sunday 24 hourly print
Hi! What index stickers are those?
the mega is actually TRIPLE the amount of blank note pages!!!
69/73 versus 213/217 pages in the JPN(&CHN)/ENG.
You’re in your hobonichi era, girly 😂 your swiftie nails had me totally distracted!
I always thought the Mega is the same size as the normal weeks.
This video prove me wrong 🤡
Does the day-free have a spring start version?
I belieeeeeeeeve so? Not fully sure
I’m interested is a “sneaker weeks” to put in a wallet I have b/c size would fit better. I get the impression that the sneaker version is only available as a mega?
I swear by the Cousin!!!!
Do you still have that other channel about money?
I've been using the Hobonichi cousin since 2017. I got the common planner this year...I think it's better than Hobonichi cousin.
The cover I wanted sold out in 11 minutes :(
which one???
@@Jaidey600 The A6 "Yumi Kitagishi: Little Gifts". I put it in my cart at 1 min after launch then by the time I went to check out a few min later it said it was sold out.
@@sarahmayfield5135 oh my goodness that’s awful. I put everything in my cart in 3 mins and when the website made me make a password and kept denying my password choices I was sure I was going to lose some things. Luckily I wasn’t going after the A6s because it sounds like those are way more popular. Sorry friend! Hopefully they restock 😭
@@sarahmayfield5135Hobonichi restocks pretty much everything. There is no need to stress yourself out during the launch. Last year I placed my order sometime in November and got everything I wanted, and I was after several covers and pouches/accessories.
Hobonichi cousin is EXTREMELY overrated!!!
I'm about buy my first hobonichi techo but idk which one I should get?? I'm debating between all of them since they are all good options 🤔🩷
As a everyday hoboweeks user, every year I tell myself I don't need one day one page and end up getting one in either Feburary or March🥲