I just want to say that you work sooo hard and if you did spend $700 that’s not our business and you deserve it. Thank you for everything! Your creativity brings so much joy.
I felt the same way. It still surprises me when people feel like they need to tell someone else about their budget. You are right- it is none of our business. and Helen and her team work so very hard and deserve what good things come their way 😍😄
Welcome to business 101: the channel caters to people that can't afford more than 2 months of cable bills on a planner so sharing a $700 planner is not going to fit the demographic of the channel. That means goodbye income as they leave because it is too far out of range. It also says people who support the channel to help are less inclined to do so. Less views equals less money, less sales, and sitting with a planner that hurt the business. Honestly I wouldn't say a word to her, but the extra videos that play in the background or the regular views would end and I would find another channel that fit the demographic I joined for. It would be no where near the 1st channel I would have ditched for shifting from the demographic to showing off massive amounts of income as if that is the point of the channel.
Honestly I think that "it makes me happy" is all the reason you need. You don't owe anyone an explanation. You don't have to justify your decisions. People don't do enough of what makes them happy. Keep doing what brings a smile and let's you feel some peace or joy or whatever you call that good feeling that you get when you're doing what you want to do.😁💖
I found that you said unnecessary a lot but then you said it makes you happy. So girl, there’s no shame in how you do what you do to make you happy. Totally necessary if it works for you and makes you happy. Thank you for sharing your ideas on how you’ll use your planners. Honestly made perfect sense to me. I hope it all works out the way you’re thinking.
Helen, I just want to express my gratitude to you and your team and what you’ve accomplished over the years. I have been watching you for about 2 years now and it’s amazing to see how far you’ve come. I await for these Sunday videos because you inspire me so much to keep up in my Hobonichi! 💕
2024 is the year I am forcing myself to use only ONE planner. Its the hobo cousin. Just as you said, you really can fit everything you need in it so I feel it will be easier to keep it all in there.
Thank you for the disclaimer! I find a lot of planner videos have people showing excessive amounts of stuff, and it's hard to not get FOMO or inspired to try them out. I love your message of keeping within your own budget and DIYing things, while also allowing yourself to be happy when you can purchase something special. The Cousin is my dream planner, and one day I will justify spending the money to get one lol.
I enjoyed my cousins for 2023 however for 2024 I went with the sterling ink planner. I like that it feels like a planner and a bujo in one. With the tomoe river paper.
Your videos are so warm and relaxing and such a treat on Sunday mornings. You inspire me so much, as I’ve recently returned to journalling after a long hiatus. It’s lovely to see someone young and tech-savvy also embracing analog journalling so passionately. I’m much older than you, but I’ve gone back and forth from digital to analog many times. I just purchased my first beginner’s fountain pen, a Kaweco Sport, and am anxiously waiting for it to arrive. Your love for fountain pens helped me take the plunge. Thank you for being a warm corner of TH-cam. ❤
indeed, every brain works differently and you need to try different planners to know which one is best for you. as a user of hb weeks, I just want to thank you for the tiny icons you created this year and which fit so well into small space. I hope 2024 brings you the best, you deserve all the luck and happiness in the world. Un abrazo desde Barcelona
This was so satisfying to watch. An it’s so cool that you’re trying new things for this upcoming year of 2024. Also don’t feel bad for not connecting with hobonichi weeks;it isn’t for everyone. For me I love it an gives me something todo;as well I don’t have to stress about writing to much in it. I have my line up for 2024!! It’s hobonichi weeks,5 year hobonichi,and weekly pocket Moleskin. I can’t wait to use them all.
I'm a hobonichi cousin girly through and through, but absolutely love watching how other people use them. I only carry two other bullet journals outside of my cousin and my cousin is the "HOLY GRAIL KEEP ALL" with everything in it
This year I used a Hobonichi Weeks as my planner and it really served me well because I don’t usually do much, my days are pretty repetitive, but I like to keep track of my days and plan ahead, and I really loved using it. But for 2024 I’m going back to the bujo (will use an A5 Leuchtturm), because I adore the bujo and it’s the best method for me. For daily journaling I will use a Hobonichi A6 original (only monthlies and dailies), because once again I don’t do much but I love journaling and want to keep track of my crochet and embroidery projects (beginner here). Let’s see if this lineup serves me well! Happy Holidays Helen, your lineup sounds great (for me it would be hard to use so I admire you for keeping up with that)!
"Questioning my spending choices" oh boy, you are a kind soul. I can imagine how this questioning looked like. I do not encourage anyone to buy stuff all the time, because in the end we really do not need that much, but YOU- you are using everything very mindfully, everything has a purpose, so for you I say: get everything you want! All the best for 2024, Janette
I scored big last week & got a 2024 Hobonichi Cousin for $36 on Atlas Stationers. They are out of stock atm, but keep your eyes peeled! It’s a great price & they shipped within 1 business day❤
Yes, I seem to switch it up every year. I went from a LEUCHTTURM bullet journal, to a hobonichi weeks, to an a5 slim jibun techo plus the daily version (which I only kept up with for half the year). This year I bought the b6 compact common planner but I’m having last minute aspirations towards the midori Hibino. Planner peace is hard. Much love from Texas.
I am so excited you uploaded this video! I’ve been wanting to see your full detailed lined up 🥰 I keep changing my mind and switched couple things again, but I think I am finally at a place where I’m content with my line ups 🤣
I absolutely love your videos and your choices for 2024. My planner lineup is extensive, but I like to keep everything in its own compartment. LOL I can’t wait for your future videos!! Dear Helen’s Dmers questioning her spending choices. Please don’t. Ever. If Helen chooses to spend $149877 USD on anything at all, that is up to her and not you. I know you mean well and it’s probably totally unintentional, but it happens to be rude into the extreme.
Thank you so much!!! Bahahaha it would have to be a dang good planner! Most people were moreso understandably shocked, but I got a few... hostile messages XD
My 2024 lineup Audrey Okeya TN sized notebook Gratitude Hobonichi Cousin Avec Main planner/journal A5 A&O notebook Morning pages and writing journal Passport notebook Weekly overview/currently pages Random lists of books, to buy, music ect. Wonho Season's Greetings planner Memory keeping and fun TCMC pocket Commonplace book Quotes or thoughts about media consumed It feels like a lot to me now, especially since I'm not a very busy person. Check back in 6 months to see what I actually kept up with. ❤
Watching your videos has made me want to switch to the hobonichi cousin for such a long time. I've been using the weeks for the past few years and will be switching to the cousin for 2024! I'm really excited to use the cousin for the first time. ❤️
i am using an EC focus weekly vertical planner this year for my daily planning. i just missed the size of the vertical layouts and after setting it up and looking at everything i may try an hourly planner in 2025. we'll see. but i'm also using a b5 A&O black out doted notebook for my reading journal. that serves as my creative outlet for now and keeping track of what i read all year. and finally i'm using a Moleskin doted notebook for my budget planning which is VERY minimal especially for me.
This actually helped me a lot to figure out how I want to use my planners. I have a bullet journal that I haven’t finished yet but still plan to use, but I’m also using a bigger brand new journal for this year too. The way you explain how you use your journals is so so helpful! Hope you have a great new and thanks for sharing your setup with us! ❤
Helen, I love your thinking for the Take a Note planner. I now wish I had bought one of those instead of a different planner for my personal journaling because once I received it, I realized it won’t work for me. However, for the cost I need to make it work.
Finally finished my lineup for this coming year and I've decided to use a Hobonichi Hon (cat and me colorway) as my everyday planner and journal. And adding an a6 (inspired by you!) to supplement pages. I'm also using a muji undated planner as a language planner for Japanese and Korean!
It really made sense to me. I have looked at the Take A Note planner before and it didn’t work for me but I’m looking forward to what you do. Thank you for your inspiration! I love watching you and listening to you ramble!
Hi Helen, I also split my planner and diary into 2 books. The planner is just for planning and tracking, which I may discard after; and the diary is for personal thoughts, memories, dreams, book reading, psychic tarot reading, commonplacing, basically all the stuff that I’m more likely to keep. How I’ve solved the space issue is using the disc-bound Happy Planners, so I can add pages wherever I please. But I also really do love bound books as well. 🥰 Just something about books, right? 😊 For the diary, I use the section where you would habit track on your book, as an index, so I can find the pages easier later. And for the diary monthly pages, I put fun stuff like what movies/shows I’m watching, what books I’m reading, music and artists I’m loving, fun places I went, notable people and things I’m enjoying that month, etc. Just some ideas for those pages for your personal journal 💛
Thankyou so much for this video. I really struggled to keep up with my Hobo Cousin this year and hearing your acceptance about not finishing your Weeks helps me not feel so bad about my Cousin. So, thankyou for the peace of mind!
I adore what you do, and you are so incredibly transparent. Buy my gawd people, stay in your lane! You shouldn't have to justify your spending, especially when it's coming out of your pocket only.
I ended up buying two 2024 hobonichi weeks because I couldn’t decide what cover I wanted to use. So the cats one is going to be my book planner. Title and author on left side of page, and rating and review will be on the right side. Obviously I can’t read an entire book in a day so this journal will probably continue past 2024. For my actual planner I will use the red hobonichi weeks. And for daily journaling I will be using an A5 daily moleskine planner. For common placing notebook I have a partially used hobonichi techo. My plan is to start using up partially used planners and notebooks for common placing and just ignore the dates in the old planners. I’ve started covering up the old dates with pieces of washi tape so I am now utilizing some of my supplies that have accumulated as well. So that is my current plan for 2024. As anyone who loves stationary knows, intentions can change at any time!😊
I also use a hobonichi weeks as a book journal! I converted the weekly pages to lists of authors, my TBR, DNF's and 5 star reads and I'm using the notes pages in the back for small mini reviews. I turned the monthlies into perpetual calendars by covering the days at the top and log daily pages read on the days I read. Different color pen for different years. It's a mega so I'm expecting it to last a few years. I love seeing different uses for the weeks since I can't seem to stop buying at least one every year.
Love this! Thank you for taking us through your thought process. I will be using a Hobonichi weeks and cousin for the first time in 2024 as well as a few other supplemental notebooks, so this has helped me clear my mind about it all. I imagine the first few months will be the big test for us all!
I used the hobonichi weeks since November last year and put it in a travelers notebook with other inserts. I need a vertical weekly system however for keeping track of appointments so I have ordered a TN weekly insert to use instead of the hobonichi weeks, but I love the tomoe river paper. If I don't end up liking this system, I may go with the weeks system, but I need a place to keep work and personal notes and keep track of my finances. Thanks for your videos. I love your art and ordered several cute stickers yesterday.
This year I'm in several journals: prayer, gratitude, reading, training and creative writing. I'm living in a Wonderland222 All in One planner. I'm a new potato and have so many orders in! I can't wait to see how the pages fill!
I’m always impressed with how well you keep up with multiple journals. For that thank you. You provide me with ideas and inspirations. It just makes me want to keep on planning.
Thank you for all your hard work Helen (and thank you to the TCMC team!). I decided to buy myself a Hobo Weeks for 2024 thanks to you and I'm so happy with it !
Really love what you’ve been doing this year with the pocket journal. Thank you for this video, it’s always nice to see someone else’s process❤ I used a Hobonichi cousin for the first time this year and it was a perfect match, although I’m using the six months ones for 2024 because the Hobonichi gets too thick😅😂. Especially as a leftie it got a bit difficult towards the end of the year. I always use an extra Midori notebook to do more free personal journaling too. So excited for 2024!
I loved seeing which planners that you’re using this year and it makes sense to me. I always love seeing all of your doodles. Thank you so much for sharing this. Love you ♥️😘
I started using the hobonichi weeks 3 years ago after using a techo a6 and cousin on and off, not being able to find the perfect size for me. After I saw a spread you did in the weeks, I ‘copied’ the layout to try it out for myself and it’s been working so perfectly, it will probably be my perfect planner until I get married / have more things to keep track of. So thank you!! Glad you are able to find something new for yourself, I hope it’s going to work out, but there will always be more options in case it doesn’t 🥰
Thank you for sharing your lineup Helen! My lineup for 2023 was the cousin and a6 english - my cousin daily pages are basically blank although I filled up all the weeklies - my a6 was also an and on and off for me - I think my main use for paper planners are to memory keep and some visualisation of priorities/week ahead and it needing to be portable so for 2024 my line up is the Weeks (track things/quick jot down of highlights/gratitude/daily logs) + the a6 vertical weekly insert as I really liked the vertical layout. I do have an A6 HON that I got just because the cover was lovely... But I don't know how much use that one is going to have now... May you have a great rest of December! :)
First, I want to thank you so much for all your inspirational videos. It's not just about how to plan, but how to think and how to be creative. In 2023 I started to use the Hobonichi Cousin instead of the Hobonichi A6 planner. It's worked out well for me because I have to track my family's apppointments and activities as well as my own. I use the daily section only for journaling. That said, I use a separate notebook for the books I read and movies/TV series I watch and note things I may need in the near future (such as for my book club). I'm planning on using still another notebook to learn or relearn languages. (I studied French, Russian, and Italian when I was young and forgot most of what I learned.) I will use a spare Moleskine to track my son's ADHD and keep notes on what works. Thank you again for all you do for us. It has been an honor to follow your journey as a person, a student, and a businesswoman.
I love your planner videos and ideas for 2024 plans. It's good to switch things up every now and then! I used to be a hardcore bujo junkie, but creating all the spreads every month took too much of my time/energy. I'll be starting my wonderland 222 b6 planner for the 3rd year in 2024! Then for project planning and ideas, I'm using an A5 dot grid notebook. I use an A6 notebook for spiritual/gratitude journaling and another b6 notebook as a video game/reading/TV & movie journal. Yay for 2024 planner peace!
I posted my lineup in FB which you commented 😊. I have cousin, sterlingink commonnplanner and lechttreum. I like weeks but it was too small for me, although it is portable. I like Stalogy too for daily journal prompts but will try to do this on cousin like what you will do. Most of my inspiration comes from you, so thank you Helen! 😊
Always a great day when you post a video! You got me started on my journaling/planning obsession, and I recently purchased my first ever fountain pen and am loving it. Can't thank you enough for all the work you put into the shop and creating videos for all of us ❤I'm changing up my line-up next year; going from a hobonichi cousin to bullet journaling in a Takkti notebook, and daily journaling in the hobonichi yamazakura notebook!
I look forward to seeing what you in the year ahead with these planners! I went for my first every Hobo, I got a weeks! Starting small and see how I go… maybe I’ll graduate to cousin next! Thanks for the inspiration as always!
Lovely lineup Helen and great ideas to combine and simplify but also balance that with what brings you joy. Your spreads are always #goals. I shared my lineup recently too. The W222 A5 unstacked all in one is my main everything planner. It’s similar to the Cousin but bundled and with added functional spreads I love. The Franklin daily will be my work planner and I’m very excited for it.
Love all the thoughts that went into your line up and completely understanding the struggle of combining vs separating certain aspects. I’m doing a Hobonichi Hon for my main squeeze 🍋🥰 I’m continuing to use a 2023 weeks until it is STUFFFFFFED as my health and fitness tracker/planner. I have a budget envelope system for finances. 😅 phew! AND….a tarot/spiritual planner. **and a Hobonichi 5 year in its 4th year!**
Thank you as always for a wonderful planning video. My planner line up are from the Aura Estelle collection. I bought only two of the weekly essential. One for my corporate job and the other for my journaling, which it is perfect because I am not a daily journaling person. One weekly reflection page is just enough for me to express my weekly thoughts. In addition, I have an a6 planner from stationery pal that I had bought for 5 dollars for my finances and a weekly vertical complete from Aura estelle to brainstorm my priorities and time blocking schedule. Lastly, I have an a6 on the go notebook for quick notes from create with pen. This year I really had to narrow down to the one brand that had planners that would bring me joy in 2024 and a system that would keep me going.
I bought an undated Aura Estelle in October because it was cheaper than the Hobonichi Cousin but seemed to be somewhat similar in layout. I may try a Hobonichi for 2025, but for now, I’m really enjoying the AE. I also love soft pink and bought a pink AE cloud cover to hold it. The AE covers have a few pockets for my ruler, a few pages of stickers, and miscellaneous notes. I tuck an A5 Leuchtturm in the left side that I use for daily or guided journalling. I’m not very good at creating pretty spreads in the planner, so it’s trial and error (more the latter than the former), but it’s a process, I know. Hope you enjoy the AE in 2024!
@designchik I am the same, and I do enjoy using AE planners even though I had ups and downs with my 2023 planning. Hopefully, we will have a great and simple planning year in 2024. I am trying to keep things minimal and simple.
@@michellehoang576I had a lot of ups and downs as well; I experience decision paralysis fuelled by perfectionism, so blank pages are very intimidating sometimes. I don’t have an active social life, so I don’t really need a planner outside of work. However, I enjoy the process most of the time. Here’s to a good 2024! 🥂
You need no justification for what you choose to do. Life is about trying things for you, not for anyone else, but through that you can share what you've learnt with others and that's exactly what you do and for that I am grateful.
amazingly enough, it was your videos that made me want to try the Weeks layout this 2024 because having an A5 is way too much space for me and I do not even have much to go on with both work and personal life. I hope you continue still though to make weeks kits even though you don't want to continue with it. I love the week tabs alot. :D
I was inspired by your Hobonichi Cousin layouts and got the Common Planner in B6 to try it out next year, without the size commitment of the A5 size. So it's kinda funny that you're changing the way you use your Hobonichi. I'm trying to keep as much as possible into one catch-all planner without going back to discbound or bullet journals. (Though I have other notebooks for specific things such as recipes, reading journal, health journal etc.)
Thanks for sharing! It's great we have so many options for planners. It's not really anyone else's call to question your spending choices, but I can understand the wonder of what would make the Take A Note planner worth $700 USD! 😂
Thanks for explaining how you will be planning and journaling next year. I decided to go to the Sterling Ink B6 full year 2volume for my journaling and memory keeping as I found my A6 Hobonichi was a tad small some days. I also be Using a N1 for daily tasks etc and it is a compact version so I can keep any trackers, lists collections in it. It is also vertical so I will see how it goes.
I love this kind of videos. It’s nice to see what works and what not work and other kinds of planners that I didn’t know existed… last year I had both hobonichi cousin and a6 and weeks to explore (that’s before I become pregnant). So I have so much time journaling in the cousin and calligraphy and I was testing a6 for maybe some calligraphy/quote writing- but it didn’t really work much. But the cousin I love for journaling and memory keeping plus todo list… I had the weeks too but I didn’t know how to really use it in 2022… but when I gave birth on Sept 2022, I realize I won’t have so much time with the big cousin. So for 2023, I realize to just get the weeks to condense my planning and some journaling. And it worked. I struggled to find my rhythm in the beginning of the year but I found my flow eventually. And now for the 2024 set up, i still love the weeks and want to continue it, but I do agree that I didn’t like the unnecessary quotes in the bottom, so I’m excited to be getting sterling ink weeks the mega one, and a6 this time for my prayer journal which is something new I want to try. 2 is enough for me having 2 little kids around the house.
The only planner I am using now for 2024 is the Hobo Cousin. I condensed everything into one. It makes me happy and feel less stressed. I guess right now, I officially have planner peace. I guess I'll know for sure once 2024 starts! :D
Hi Helen! Thank you for sharing. I will be using the Cousin for the first time , I am actually new to the Hobonichi so I am so excited. Wondering if you will bring back the light purple notebook you show here and sold out on your website? Thank you so much for all you do, you are amazingly talented and such a joy to watch. Have a great day and an awesome 2024!❤
If people want to spend their money, more power to them. I love being able to see what all of the different planners look like and there's no way I could afford to do that
I love all of your videos especially these ones where you go in depth about what did and didn't work :) So excited for what you have planned for the new year! By the way, where do you buy your Hobonichi planners (Amazon, or do they have a website)?
I have one bullet journal (a Scribbles that Matter) that I try to keep up with. I do have a re-usable layout system that I'm working in my current one, and that is going well. I also will run this journal until it is full and then simply pick up with the next one - the pressure of trying to match up with someone else's idea of a spread, a week, a month, a day, AND make it a single year for one book is just too much 😅 I also added to the line-up in the past couple months a Leuchtturm that I'm using as a reading journal. Both of these will carry on to next year.
Thanks Helen for your video. I'm excited for your new line up and to see how you use everything in 2024! Mainly for me, the Hobonichi Cousin again this year, but I will change some of the ways I use it. I have taken notes in it for work meetings and I realized that these notes need to be in a separate book, so I'm going to use a plain Hobonichi notebook for that. No other changes to the Cousin. I also added a Weeks for things like grocery lists and and travel expenses tracking and as a 'capture' tool for random ideas and thoughts on the go, because I can carry around to it more easily than the Cousin. Thanks for inviting us to post about our 2024 lineups!
I love these types of videos! It gives me good ideas for planners I’m thinking of using😅 I liked your idea of using a planner for tracking personal life things and I’ll be doing the same next year more as a habit tracker! I’m going to be using a Sanrio weekly planner for that because I wanted a cute planner for something so mundane lol and I’m still looking for a good school planner but I need to wait to see my next schedule to properly decide! Anyways, have a lovely week ahead and I hope you like your new planning system next year❤
Next year will be my first year trying out the Take a Note! I love the idea of it & the layout, so I’m excited 😍 the avec will still be my main planner, though. I’ve also had the hardest time this year trying to make the Weeks work for me, my brain can’t seem to….*do* it either!
I'm still trying to decide if I want the avec or if I want the cousin again for next year. I already have my A5 dot grid for my bullet journal next year and I got a 2023 weeks to re-date for next year :D
I'm currently using the Sweet Freckled Designs Weekly Diary. I started it on August so it's gonna last until next July. I got my inspiration for how to use it from your videos. I'm seriously trying to improve my handwriting cause I love how your pages look with your amazing handwriting. It's been very rewarding to flip back the pages and see how far I've come and realize this all is my life. It feels good. In July I'm switching to the Coffeemonstezco Leuchtturm Pocket Notebook and for the first time in my life I'm actually trying to use it as the original bullet journal was meant to use. It's gonna be a journey of its own.
My lineup is a hobo weeks for planning and taking notes on the go, a leuchtturm pocket notebook for todo's at work and a filofax a5 planner that I'm not quite sure how to use yet. Might just use it as a memory keeper/diary like thing.
I can see that as the work grow, your need for empty planning space grow as well. I think your Hobonichi cousin slowly evolving to dedicated work/time planer only while growing out your journaling needs elsewhere. Great to see the flow and change. I assume later in time we may see your non fiction going back to reading journal. As well as Hobonichi weeks, I am using it as health journal. At the age of 30 my unhealthy habits and interests caught on me. I used food/exercise journals in empty notebooks in the past, but with many other things going on I decided that this year I better use a weeks mega as dedicated health journal and it worked wonders. I will be using in 2024 as well. (Can send you a photo of the layout if you want) Other than health journal, I can only see it as dedicated home planner with weekly home tasks, daily chores and focuses, maintenance, repair, change and renovations… Or as a budget planner with daily budget and spending, income, bill dues, subscriptions, weekly shopping lists, wishlists etc. otherwise it gets too complicated due to size and layout.
@@TheCoffeeMonsterzCo haha please don’t if you don’t need/want to! I know the hype and fomo. But not every planner is perfect for everyone. On the other hand, you can even use this year’s one for doodling on the days without looking at the days. Might even doodle emoti throughout the day as timeline of the day as emoti. Like on pc then walking then drinking coffee then pc again then dinner table with emoti family. Idk. I did something similar with stick figures in high school and was super fun. Maybe I will do it at the bottom of cousins daily pages… hmm 🤔
I love the take a note planner. Unfortunately, my brain functions much better with catch all bullet journal. I did have to split work and home into two different bullet journals because boundaries are important. The take a note would be an amazing memory keeping. I don't know how to make it functional for me.
Hi Helen, great set up for next year. I am using my cousin for a picture a day in the monthlies, daily journaling in the weeklies and using the dailies as a book journal. Using the a6 One Piece HON as my family planner and a bullet journal for lists 😊 With your cousin, where do you get the prompt questions please? Such a great idea to fill space!
I love the idea of a Hobonichi, and I know people love the paper. For me personally, the paper is too thin for the pens I use. I stick with A&O or Moleskine dot grid notebooks and just put my two days per page and write my tasks out that way. I want to try the cousin, but I am not sure I would get much use out of it.
For personal -> I will be trying a Hobonichi A6 HON, a Weeks, and I'll be in my 3rd year of a 5 year. I've been using my Weeks somewhat like a Cousin, where I use the weekly spreads properly, then use the notes in the back as dailies (just much smaller than a cousin :D). For me, it's the perfect size, since I don't have too much variation in my life and I've moved journaling into its own place (a notebook). I've been thinking to try and emphasize daily planning a bit more again so I'm trying the A6 again, but being too scared to leave the weeks behind I ordered both, lol. The 5-year is kind of a very brief memory keeper. For work, I use a pretty cheap japanese planner, but I'm honestly not too fussy about work stuff, mainly just use it for notes.
I love the cousin too but this is my first year using it and compared to dupes it’s not that much more expensive I have weeks also n kinda wish I wouldn’t have made that purchase but I will have to think of some way to use it next year it will be either the hon or avec
I am so looking forward to getting the purple Emoti notebook. I will use it as my TCMC orders book. So I can keep of my wishlist and what I have ordered. Love the videos. Look forward to them every Sunday.
Wow, I can't wait to see what next years brings. If you do get a pocket printer, I can't wait to see what you get. That is something that I've been considering, but never got around to. Part of me can't wait for next year, and another part is just nervous about starting things again. Doing things just because it makes you happy. I feel like that needs to be a sticker or something. The Hobonichi Weeks to you is like Hobonichi Cousin to me. I was able to keep up with it last year, but this year it just didn't work out for me. Thank you for sharing your planner plan. For next year, I have 3 physical planner, and maybe one digital. I'm keeping my Hobonichi Weeks as my scribble, on the go planner. It was the first planner that stayed with me for most of the year, so I'm sticking with it for now. A Sterling Ink in B6 for journaling, like this year. Yes, I am behind, but I plan on working on that. It makes me happy to get things out of my head and put pretty stickers down just because I can. A pocket Common Planner for my language practice. I want to learn how to read and write Chinese (Cantonese, maybe some Mandarin too but that might be too ambitious). The one that I am really not sure about is the digital planner. I want to try to use it as a goal planner, and a way to keep all my appointments and stuff together. But there is something about physical planners that make it that much easier... I got the 2023 version of the Maske life digital planner, and want to try to use that system in my digital planner if I ever get around to everything...
Thank you for always sharing your thoughts like this ^_^ My planner this year is the same and new - sticking with the Day-Free Hobonichi but adding a Weeks specifically for my language learning. I"m excited to get started already 😊
I'm trying the A5 Common Planner Compact because while I love the Hobonichi Cousin layouts, I couldn't deal with the daily pages. I just don't have enough personal stuff to write and it gave me some stress. I also tried the wonderland222 this year, but I didn't like the stacked weekends layout. I also tried the Hobonichi weeks and felt it was too constrained for me and the Jibun Techo which I felt the weekdays felt too narrow. I am only doing one single planner this year too so hopefully it works!
Hi Helen 👋 first of all love your planners and the old and new layouts, you are always an inspiration to me. I wanted to ask you if you have any tips on starting to doodle?
I just want to say that you work sooo hard and if you did spend $700 that’s not our business and you deserve it. Thank you for everything! Your creativity brings so much joy.
Aww haha thak you Caitlin! It would have to be a dang good planner XD
I felt the same way. It still surprises me when people feel like they need to tell someone else about their budget. You are right- it is none of our business. and Helen and her team work so very hard and deserve what good things come their way 😍😄
I just thought the same thing. It is really an absurd how ignorant people can be 🤯
I thought the same exact thing!
Welcome to business 101: the channel caters to people that can't afford more than 2 months of cable bills on a planner so sharing a $700 planner is not going to fit the demographic of the channel. That means goodbye income as they leave because it is too far out of range. It also says people who support the channel to help are less inclined to do so. Less views equals less money, less sales, and sitting with a planner that hurt the business.
Honestly I wouldn't say a word to her, but the extra videos that play in the background or the regular views would end and I would find another channel that fit the demographic I joined for. It would be no where near the 1st channel I would have ditched for shifting from the demographic to showing off massive amounts of income as if that is the point of the channel.
Honestly I think that "it makes me happy" is all the reason you need. You don't owe anyone an explanation. You don't have to justify your decisions. People don't do enough of what makes them happy. Keep doing what brings a smile and let's you feel some peace or joy or whatever you call that good feeling that you get when you're doing what you want to do.😁💖
Ahh thank you, I so agree and it applies to everything! (well, every harmless thing haha)
TCMC is the Bentley of the planner community! We love you
I saw what you did there. 😂
I don't know what this means but I hope it's good 😭🤣
@@TheCoffeeMonsterzCo i think Bentley is a much loved, amazing quality, car 💜
Like a Bentley? yuck!
@@MissyLouVlogs just a play on those Bentley Instagram skits. Nothing dramatic.
I found that you said unnecessary a lot but then you said it makes you happy. So girl, there’s no shame in how you do what you do to make you happy. Totally necessary if it works for you and makes you happy. Thank you for sharing your ideas on how you’ll use your planners. Honestly made perfect sense to me. I hope it all works out the way you’re thinking.
AWE Thank you Jacqueline!!!!
Helen, I just want to express my gratitude to you and your team and what you’ve accomplished over the years. I have been watching you for about 2 years now and it’s amazing to see how far you’ve come. I await for these Sunday videos because you inspire me so much to keep up in my Hobonichi! 💕
Omg this means SO much, thank you Kaylan!!! Won't miss a Sunday upload!!!
2024 is the year I am forcing myself to use only ONE planner. Its the hobo cousin. Just as you said, you really can fit everything you need in it so I feel it will be easier to keep it all in there.
I sooo agree! One of these years I'm going to just use one planner haha
Thank you for the disclaimer! I find a lot of planner videos have people showing excessive amounts of stuff, and it's hard to not get FOMO or inspired to try them out. I love your message of keeping within your own budget and DIYing things, while also allowing yourself to be happy when you can purchase something special. The Cousin is my dream planner, and one day I will justify spending the money to get one lol.
I enjoyed my cousins for 2023 however for 2024 I went with the sterling ink planner. I like that it feels like a planner and a bujo in one. With the tomoe river paper.
Your videos are so warm and relaxing and such a treat on Sunday mornings. You inspire me so much, as I’ve recently returned to journalling after a long hiatus. It’s lovely to see someone young and tech-savvy also embracing analog journalling so passionately. I’m much older than you, but I’ve gone back and forth from digital to analog many times. I just purchased my first beginner’s fountain pen, a Kaweco Sport, and am anxiously waiting for it to arrive. Your love for fountain pens helped me take the plunge. Thank you for being a warm corner of TH-cam. ❤
Omg thank you so much!!!! I'm so glad you found journaling again
@@TheCoffeeMonsterzCoThank you, Helen. I hope that 2024 brings you all the happiness you deserve.
indeed, every brain works differently and you need to try different planners to know which one is best for you.
as a user of hb weeks, I just want to thank you for the tiny icons you created this year and which fit so well into small space.
I hope 2024 brings you the best, you deserve all the luck and happiness in the world. Un abrazo desde Barcelona
I'm so glad you like the tiny icons!!!!
This was so satisfying to watch. An it’s so cool that you’re trying new things for this upcoming year of 2024. Also don’t feel bad for not connecting with hobonichi weeks;it isn’t for everyone. For me I love it an gives me something todo;as well I don’t have to stress about writing to much in it. I have my line up for 2024!! It’s hobonichi weeks,5 year hobonichi,and weekly pocket Moleskin. I can’t wait to use them all.
Thank you so much!!! Oooo I have been thinking of a 5 year hobonici too!!!
OMG!! I'm so happy that you got the TakeANote planner! I switched this year from the hobonichi cousin to the TakeANote planner
We'll figure it out together!
I'm a hobonichi cousin girly through and through, but absolutely love watching how other people use them. I only carry two other bullet journals outside of my cousin and my cousin is the "HOLY GRAIL KEEP ALL" with everything in it
It's perfect for everyyyyything! I think maybe for 2025 I will challenge myself to stick to just 1 planner haha
This year I used a Hobonichi Weeks as my planner and it really served me well because I don’t usually do much, my days are pretty repetitive, but I like to keep track of my days and plan ahead, and I really loved using it. But for 2024 I’m going back to the bujo (will use an A5 Leuchtturm), because I adore the bujo and it’s the best method for me. For daily journaling I will use a Hobonichi A6 original (only monthlies and dailies), because once again I don’t do much but I love journaling and want to keep track of my crochet and embroidery projects (beginner here). Let’s see if this lineup serves me well! Happy Holidays Helen, your lineup sounds great (for me it would be hard to use so I admire you for keeping up with that)!
"Questioning my spending choices" oh boy, you are a kind soul. I can imagine how this questioning looked like. I do not encourage anyone to buy stuff all the time, because in the end we really do not need that much, but YOU- you are using everything very mindfully, everything has a purpose, so for you I say: get everything you want! All the best for 2024, Janette
Gah thank you Janette
I scored big last week & got a 2024 Hobonichi Cousin for $36 on Atlas Stationers. They are out of stock atm, but keep your eyes peeled! It’s a great price & they shipped within 1 business day❤
P.S. - Hiiiiii Helen🥰
Oooo that is awesome!!!! I hope you love it
Yes, I seem to switch it up every year. I went from a LEUCHTTURM bullet journal, to a hobonichi weeks, to an a5 slim jibun techo plus the daily version (which I only kept up with for half the year). This year I bought the b6 compact common planner but I’m having last minute aspirations towards the midori Hibino. Planner peace is hard. Much love from Texas.
It really is hard!!! I ope you enjoy your planners next year!
I am so excited you uploaded this video! I’ve been wanting to see your full detailed lined up 🥰 I keep changing my mind and switched couple things again, but I think I am finally at a place where I’m content with my line ups 🤣
I absolutely love your videos and your choices for 2024. My planner lineup is extensive, but I like to keep everything in its own compartment. LOL I can’t wait for your future videos!!
Dear Helen’s Dmers questioning her spending choices. Please don’t. Ever. If Helen chooses to spend $149877 USD on anything at all, that is up to her and not you. I know you mean well and it’s probably totally unintentional, but it happens to be rude into the extreme.
Thank you so much!!!
Bahahaha it would have to be a dang good planner! Most people were moreso understandably shocked, but I got a few... hostile messages XD
My 2024 lineup
Audrey Okeya TN sized notebook
Gratitude
Hobonichi Cousin Avec
Main planner/journal
A5 A&O notebook
Morning pages and writing journal
Passport notebook
Weekly overview/currently pages
Random lists of books, to buy, music ect.
Wonho Season's Greetings planner
Memory keeping and fun
TCMC pocket
Commonplace book
Quotes or thoughts about media consumed
It feels like a lot to me now, especially since I'm not a very busy person. Check back in 6 months to see what I actually kept up with. ❤
Love your plan!!!! So many fun planners to play with hehe
I saw the notification and I super excited 😊
Watching your videos has made me want to switch to the hobonichi cousin for such a long time. I've been using the weeks for the past few years and will be switching to the cousin for 2024! I'm really excited to use the cousin for the first time. ❤️
I hope you love it!!!!
I'm using an A5 Take a Note for the first time this year. Looking forward to how you use yours!
Yayy we will figure it out together!
i am using an EC focus weekly vertical planner this year for my daily planning. i just missed the size of the vertical layouts and after setting it up and looking at everything i may try an hourly planner in 2025. we'll see. but i'm also using a b5 A&O black out doted notebook for my reading journal. that serves as my creative outlet for now and keeping track of what i read all year. and finally i'm using a Moleskin doted notebook for my budget planning which is VERY minimal especially for me.
This actually helped me a lot to figure out how I want to use my planners. I have a bullet journal that I haven’t finished yet but still plan to use, but I’m also using a bigger brand new journal for this year too. The way you explain how you use your journals is so so helpful! Hope you have a great new and thanks for sharing your setup with us! ❤
Helen, I love your thinking for the Take a Note planner. I now wish I had bought one of those instead of a different planner for my personal journaling because once I received it, I realized it won’t work for me. However, for the cost I need to make it work.
You will do great!!!
I have some times daylies I dont use at all so I use them for the moments I dont have enough space on the current day
Finally finished my lineup for this coming year and I've decided to use a Hobonichi Hon (cat and me colorway) as my everyday planner and journal. And adding an a6 (inspired by you!) to supplement pages. I'm also using a muji undated planner as a language planner for Japanese and Korean!
The cats cover is SOOOO cute!!
It really made sense to me. I have looked at the Take A Note planner before and it didn’t work for me but I’m looking forward to what you do. Thank you for your inspiration! I love watching you and listening to you ramble!
Hi Helen, I also split my planner and diary into 2 books. The planner is just for planning and tracking, which I may discard after; and the diary is for personal thoughts, memories, dreams, book reading, psychic tarot reading, commonplacing, basically all the stuff that I’m more likely to keep. How I’ve solved the space issue is using the disc-bound Happy Planners, so I can add pages wherever I please. But I also really do love bound books as well. 🥰 Just something about books, right? 😊 For the diary, I use the section where you would habit track on your book, as an index, so I can find the pages easier later. And for the diary monthly pages, I put fun stuff like what movies/shows I’m watching, what books I’m reading, music and artists I’m loving, fun places I went, notable people and things I’m enjoying that month, etc. Just some ideas for those pages for your personal journal 💛
I would love to see your latest pens used for your planners/journals.
I really enjoy hearing your thought process and how you plan to use your planners/journals. Thanks for always sharing and inspiring us 💕💕💕
Ahh thank you so muc for being here Ilana! What a lovely compliment
adore these kind of videos and it was so interesting to hear you talk about what worked for you or didn't and all of the changes you're making
Thank you so much!!
I will be using the Cousin for everything and I will be using a Weeks strictly for meal planning and grocery shopping list
Oh that is a wonderful idea!! Grocery list on the right notepage!
Thankyou so much for this video. I really struggled to keep up with my Hobo Cousin this year and hearing your acceptance about not finishing your Weeks helps me not feel so bad about my Cousin. So, thankyou for the peace of mind!
I'm glad it helped!!! I know all too well wanting each spread to be perfect!
I adore what you do, and you are so incredibly transparent.
Buy my gawd people, stay in your lane! You shouldn't have to justify your spending, especially when it's coming out of your pocket only.
I ended up buying two 2024 hobonichi weeks because I couldn’t decide what cover I wanted to use. So the cats one is going to be my book planner. Title and author on left side of page, and rating and review will be on the right side. Obviously I can’t read an entire book in a day so this journal will probably continue past 2024.
For my actual planner I will use the red hobonichi weeks. And for daily journaling I will be using an A5 daily moleskine planner.
For common placing notebook I have a partially used hobonichi techo. My plan is to start using up partially used planners and notebooks for common placing and just ignore the dates in the old planners. I’ve started covering up the old dates with pieces of washi tape so I am now utilizing some of my supplies that have accumulated as well.
So that is my current plan for 2024. As anyone who loves stationary knows, intentions can change at any time!😊
I also use a hobonichi weeks as a book journal! I converted the weekly pages to lists of authors, my TBR, DNF's and 5 star reads and I'm using the notes pages in the back for small mini reviews. I turned the monthlies into perpetual calendars by covering the days at the top and log daily pages read on the days I read. Different color pen for different years. It's a mega so I'm expecting it to last a few years. I love seeing different uses for the weeks since I can't seem to stop buying at least one every year.
Love this! Thank you for taking us through your thought process. I will be using a Hobonichi weeks and cousin for the first time in 2024 as well as a few other supplemental notebooks, so this has helped me clear my mind about it all. I imagine the first few months will be the big test for us all!
Ooo excited for you!!!! I hope it's the perfect system
Love the take a note set up! 👀👀👀 I’m definitely intrigued by it
I'm so excited to dive in!!!
I used the hobonichi weeks since November last year and put it in a travelers notebook with other inserts. I need a vertical weekly system however for keeping track of appointments so I have ordered a TN weekly insert to use instead of the hobonichi weeks, but I love the tomoe river paper. If I don't end up liking this system, I may go with the weeks system, but I need a place to keep work and personal notes and keep track of my finances. Thanks for your videos. I love your art and ordered several cute stickers yesterday.
This year I'm in several journals: prayer, gratitude, reading, training and creative writing. I'm living in a Wonderland222 All in One planner.
I'm a new potato and have so many orders in! I can't wait to see how the pages fill!
Thank you for orderingggg! I need to look into the Wonderland planners!
I love how your pages look. The handwriting is so consistent. Very satisfying to look at. What pen do you use? I love how black the ink is. ❤
Thank you so much! I either use a fountain pen or the energel clena gel pen ^_^
I’m always impressed with how well you keep up with multiple journals. For that thank you. You provide me with ideas and inspirations. It just makes me want to keep on planning.
Awww this means so much, thank you!!!
Thank you for all your hard work Helen (and thank you to the TCMC team!).
I decided to buy myself a Hobo Weeks for 2024 thanks to you and I'm so happy with it !
Thank YOU! I hope you love it!!!
I adore TAN planners. They are just lovely!
Helen, you’re amazing ✨ I really loved the thumbnail you made for this video 🤗 Here’s to 2024 🥳
hehe thank you Michelle!
Really love what you’ve been doing this year with the pocket journal. Thank you for this video, it’s always nice to see someone else’s process❤ I used a Hobonichi cousin for the first time this year and it was a perfect match, although I’m using the six months ones for 2024 because the Hobonichi gets too thick😅😂. Especially as a leftie it got a bit difficult towards the end of the year. I always use an extra Midori notebook to do more free personal journaling too. So excited for 2024!
Thank you so so much!!!
I'm glad you love it and it seems like we both migrated to the avec system haha
@@TheCoffeeMonsterzCo hope it works for both of us haha!😊
I loved seeing which planners that you’re using this year and it makes sense to me. I always love seeing all of your doodles. Thank you so much for sharing this. Love you ♥️😘
Love you more Charissa! Thank you for watching!
I started using the hobonichi weeks 3 years ago after using a techo a6 and cousin on and off, not being able to find the perfect size for me. After I saw a spread you did in the weeks, I ‘copied’ the layout to try it out for myself and it’s been working so perfectly, it will probably be my perfect planner until I get married / have more things to keep track of. So thank you!! Glad you are able to find something new for yourself, I hope it’s going to work out, but there will always be more options in case it doesn’t 🥰
Thank you for sharing your lineup Helen!
My lineup for 2023 was the cousin and a6 english - my cousin daily pages are basically blank although I filled up all the weeklies - my a6 was also an and on and off for me - I think my main use for paper planners are to memory keep and some visualisation of priorities/week ahead and it needing to be portable so for 2024 my line up is the Weeks (track things/quick jot down of highlights/gratitude/daily logs) + the a6 vertical weekly insert as I really liked the vertical layout. I do have an A6 HON that I got just because the cover was lovely... But I don't know how much use that one is going to have now...
May you have a great rest of December! :)
One day I really want to try the A6!!!! I hope you have a wonderful December as well!
First, I want to thank you so much for all your inspirational videos. It's not just about how to plan, but how to think and how to be creative. In 2023 I started to use the Hobonichi Cousin instead of the Hobonichi A6 planner. It's worked out well for me because I have to track my family's apppointments and activities as well as my own. I use the daily section only for journaling. That said, I use a separate notebook for the books I read and movies/TV series I watch and note things I may need in the near future (such as for my book club). I'm planning on using still another notebook to learn or relearn languages. (I studied French, Russian, and Italian when I was young and forgot most of what I learned.) I will use a spare Moleskine to track my son's ADHD and keep notes on what works. Thank you again for all you do for us. It has been an honor to follow your journey as a person, a student, and a businesswoman.
Omg you are SO sweet, a belated thank you Sherry! I am loving your plan! And wow, that is a lot of languages!
I love your planner videos and ideas for 2024 plans. It's good to switch things up every now and then! I used to be a hardcore bujo junkie, but creating all the spreads every month took too much of my time/energy. I'll be starting my wonderland 222 b6 planner for the 3rd year in 2024! Then for project planning and ideas, I'm using an A5 dot grid notebook. I use an A6 notebook for spiritual/gratitude journaling and another b6 notebook as a video game/reading/TV & movie journal. Yay for 2024 planner peace!
Thank you Karen, and I so agree about switching things up! I really need to look into wonderland planners!
Thank you for explaining the process for which you chose your line up Baby Bear. Love you!!! ❤❤❤❤❤
I love the take a note! I used the a6 last year
I'm excited to play with mine hehe
I posted my lineup in FB which you commented 😊. I have cousin, sterlingink commonnplanner and lechttreum. I like weeks but it was too small for me, although it is portable. I like Stalogy too for daily journal prompts but will try to do this on cousin like what you will do. Most of my inspiration comes from you, so thank you Helen! 😊
Aww I'm so happy to hear this, thank you for making my day!
Always a great day when you post a video! You got me started on my journaling/planning obsession, and I recently purchased my first ever fountain pen and am loving it. Can't thank you enough for all the work you put into the shop and creating videos for all of us ❤I'm changing up my line-up next year; going from a hobonichi cousin to bullet journaling in a Takkti notebook, and daily journaling in the hobonichi yamazakura notebook!
Thank you for watchingggg!!! And no need to thank me at all
Im using the TAN A5 as well! That and a B6 Travelers Notebook.
Oooo! Excited to hear how that goes!
I look forward to seeing what you in the year ahead with these planners! I went for my first every Hobo, I got a weeks! Starting small and see how I go… maybe I’ll graduate to cousin next! Thanks for the inspiration as always!
Thank you for watching Anna!!! I hope you love it!
Lovely lineup Helen and great ideas to combine and simplify but also balance that with what brings you joy. Your spreads are always #goals. I shared my lineup recently too. The W222 A5 unstacked all in one is my main everything planner. It’s similar to the Cousin but bundled and with added functional spreads I love. The Franklin daily will be my work planner and I’m very excited for it.
I need to look into the Wonderland planners!!
Thank you so much for watching!
Thank you so much for sharing.
The little Breaking Bad doodle in your pocket journal is the cutest thing I've ever seen Helen. 😭
Love all the thoughts that went into your line up and completely understanding the struggle of combining vs separating certain aspects. I’m doing a Hobonichi Hon for my main squeeze 🍋🥰 I’m continuing to use a 2023 weeks until it is STUFFFFFFED as my health and fitness tracker/planner. I have a budget envelope system for finances. 😅 phew! AND….a tarot/spiritual planner. **and a Hobonichi 5 year in its 4th year!**
Hehe main squeeze
Thank you as always for a wonderful planning video. My planner line up are from the Aura Estelle collection. I bought only two of the weekly essential. One for my corporate job and the other for my journaling, which it is perfect because I am not a daily journaling person. One weekly reflection page is just enough for me to express my weekly thoughts. In addition, I have an a6 planner from stationery pal that I had bought for 5 dollars for my finances and a weekly vertical complete from Aura estelle to brainstorm my priorities and time blocking schedule. Lastly, I have an a6 on the go notebook for quick notes from create with pen. This year I really had to narrow down to the one brand that had planners that would bring me joy in 2024 and a system that would keep me going.
I bought an undated Aura Estelle in October because it was cheaper than the Hobonichi Cousin but seemed to be somewhat similar in layout. I may try a Hobonichi for 2025, but for now, I’m really enjoying the AE. I also love soft pink and bought a pink AE cloud cover to hold it. The AE covers have a few pockets for my ruler, a few pages of stickers, and miscellaneous notes. I tuck an A5 Leuchtturm in the left side that I use for daily or guided journalling. I’m not very good at creating pretty spreads in the planner, so it’s trial and error (more the latter than the former), but it’s a process, I know. Hope you enjoy the AE in 2024!
@designchik I am the same, and I do enjoy using AE planners even though I had ups and downs with my 2023 planning. Hopefully, we will have a great and simple planning year in 2024. I am trying to keep things minimal and simple.
@@michellehoang576I had a lot of ups and downs as well; I experience decision paralysis fuelled by perfectionism, so blank pages are very intimidating sometimes. I don’t have an active social life, so I don’t really need a planner outside of work. However, I enjoy the process most of the time. Here’s to a good 2024! 🥂
You need no justification for what you choose to do. Life is about trying things for you, not for anyone else, but through that you can share what you've learnt with others and that's exactly what you do and for that I am grateful.
amazingly enough, it was your videos that made me want to try the Weeks layout this 2024 because having an A5 is way too much space for me and I do not even have much to go on with both work and personal life.
I hope you continue still though to make weeks kits even though you don't want to continue with it. I love the week tabs alot. :D
Hahaha I hope you love it!!!! I will definitely keep making weeks kits!
@@TheCoffeeMonsterzCo I am coming from a square journal so I hope I do. 🥰
I was inspired by your Hobonichi Cousin layouts and got the Common Planner in B6 to try it out next year, without the size commitment of the A5 size. So it's kinda funny that you're changing the way you use your Hobonichi. I'm trying to keep as much as possible into one catch-all planner without going back to discbound or bullet journals. (Though I have other notebooks for specific things such as recipes, reading journal, health journal etc.)
I hope it works well for you!!!! B6 is a great mid-size!
Happy Sunday Helen❤❤❤
Happy Sunday Kimiko! Hope you have a great day!
Another cozy video! ❤ I just use a dot-grid notebook with at least 200 pages in it and of a pretty colour.
Keeping it simple, love it~
Thanks for sharing! It's great we have so many options for planners. It's not really anyone else's call to question your spending choices, but I can understand the wonder of what would make the Take A Note planner worth $700 USD! 😂
Thank you Cory! I knowwww so many options this year!
I just adore the characters on your notebooks. We don't have those here in Mexico city.
Thanks for explaining how you will be planning and journaling next year. I decided to go to the Sterling Ink B6 full year 2volume for my journaling and memory keeping as I found my A6 Hobonichi was a tad small some days. I also be Using a N1 for daily tasks etc and it is a compact version so I can keep any trackers, lists collections in it. It is also vertical so I will see how it goes.
The b6 is an awesome size!!
I love this kind of videos. It’s nice to see what works and what not work and other kinds of planners that I didn’t know existed… last year I had both hobonichi cousin and a6 and weeks to explore (that’s before I become pregnant). So I have so much time journaling in the cousin and calligraphy and I was testing a6 for maybe some calligraphy/quote writing- but it didn’t really work much. But the cousin I love for journaling and memory keeping plus todo list… I had the weeks too but I didn’t know how to really use it in 2022… but when I gave birth on Sept 2022, I realize I won’t have so much time with the big cousin. So for 2023, I realize to just get the weeks to condense my planning and some journaling. And it worked. I struggled to find my rhythm in the beginning of the year but I found my flow eventually. And now for the 2024 set up, i still love the weeks and want to continue it, but I do agree that I didn’t like the unnecessary quotes in the bottom, so I’m excited to be getting sterling ink weeks the mega one, and a6 this time for my prayer journal which is something new I want to try. 2 is enough for me having 2 little kids around the house.
The only planner I am using now for 2024 is the Hobo Cousin. I condensed everything into one. It makes me happy and feel less stressed. I guess right now, I officially have planner peace. I guess I'll know for sure once 2024 starts! :D
One of these days, I need to just stick to 1 single planner haha
@TheCoffeeMonsterzCo it'll be a challenge but definitely a fun one if I must say!
Hi Helen! Thank you for sharing. I will be using the Cousin for the first time , I am actually new to the Hobonichi so I am so excited. Wondering if you will bring back the light purple notebook you show here and sold out on your website? Thank you so much for all you do, you are amazingly talented and such a joy to watch. Have a great day and an awesome 2024!❤
Omg yessss I hope you love it!!!! Unfortunately likely not as it was a collaboration :(( Thank you again for your support!!!
If people want to spend their money, more power to them. I love being able to see what all of the different planners look like and there's no way I could afford to do that
I love all of your videos especially these ones where you go in depth about what did and didn't work :) So excited for what you have planned for the new year! By the way, where do you buy your Hobonichi planners (Amazon, or do they have a website)?
a fantastic review, I loved the video ❤❤
I have one bullet journal (a Scribbles that Matter) that I try to keep up with. I do have a re-usable layout system that I'm working in my current one, and that is going well. I also will run this journal until it is full and then simply pick up with the next one - the pressure of trying to match up with someone else's idea of a spread, a week, a month, a day, AND make it a single year for one book is just too much 😅
I also added to the line-up in the past couple months a Leuchtturm that I'm using as a reading journal. Both of these will carry on to next year.
Oooo I need to look into those notebooks!!!
Thanks Helen for your video. I'm excited for your new line up and to see how you use everything in 2024!
Mainly for me, the Hobonichi Cousin again this year, but I will change some of the ways I use it. I have taken notes in it for work meetings and I realized that these notes need to be in a separate book, so I'm going to use a plain Hobonichi notebook for that. No other changes to the Cousin.
I also added a Weeks for things like grocery lists and and travel expenses tracking and as a 'capture' tool for random ideas and thoughts on the go, because I can carry around to it more easily than the Cousin.
Thanks for inviting us to post about our 2024 lineups!
I love these types of videos! It gives me good ideas for planners I’m thinking of using😅 I liked your idea of using a planner for tracking personal life things and I’ll be doing the same next year more as a habit tracker! I’m going to be using a Sanrio weekly planner for that because I wanted a cute planner for something so mundane lol and I’m still looking for a good school planner but I need to wait to see my next schedule to properly decide! Anyways, have a lovely week ahead and I hope you like your new planning system next year❤
Next year will be my first year trying out the Take a Note! I love the idea of it & the layout, so I’m excited 😍 the avec will still be my main planner, though. I’ve also had the hardest time this year trying to make the Weeks work for me, my brain can’t seem to….*do* it either!
Oooo excited for us to figure it out hehe. I so relate XD
I'm still trying to decide if I want the avec or if I want the cousin again for next year. I already have my A5 dot grid for my bullet journal next year and I got a 2023 weeks to re-date for next year :D
I'm currently using the Sweet Freckled Designs Weekly Diary. I started it on August so it's gonna last until next July. I got my inspiration for how to use it from your videos. I'm seriously trying to improve my handwriting cause I love how your pages look with your amazing handwriting. It's been very rewarding to flip back the pages and see how far I've come and realize this all is my life. It feels good. In July I'm switching to the Coffeemonstezco Leuchtturm Pocket Notebook and for the first time in my life I'm actually trying to use it as the original bullet journal was meant to use. It's gonna be a journey of its own.
My lineup is a hobo weeks for planning and taking notes on the go, a leuchtturm pocket notebook for todo's at work and a filofax a5 planner that I'm not quite sure how to use yet. Might just use it as a memory keeper/diary like thing.
Love love love!! I'm tempted to set-up a ring planner too haha
I can see that as the work grow, your need for empty planning space grow as well. I think your Hobonichi cousin slowly evolving to dedicated work/time planer only while growing out your journaling needs elsewhere. Great to see the flow and change. I assume later in time we may see your non fiction going back to reading journal.
As well as Hobonichi weeks, I am using it as health journal. At the age of 30 my unhealthy habits and interests caught on me. I used food/exercise journals in empty notebooks in the past, but with many other things going on I decided that this year I better use a weeks mega as dedicated health journal and it worked wonders. I will be using in 2024 as well. (Can send you a photo of the layout if you want)
Other than health journal, I can only see it as dedicated home planner with weekly home tasks, daily chores and focuses, maintenance, repair, change and renovations… Or as a budget planner with daily budget and spending, income, bill dues, subscriptions, weekly shopping lists, wishlists etc. otherwise it gets too complicated due to size and layout.
I so agree with you!! And thank you for sharing how you use your hobo weeks! Haha maybe I will try it again for 2025 XD
@@TheCoffeeMonsterzCo haha please don’t if you don’t need/want to!
I know the hype and fomo. But not every planner is perfect for everyone. On the other hand, you can even use this year’s one for doodling on the days without looking at the days. Might even doodle emoti throughout the day as timeline of the day as emoti. Like on pc then walking then drinking coffee then pc again then dinner table with emoti family. Idk.
I did something similar with stick figures in high school and was super fun. Maybe I will do it at the bottom of cousins daily pages… hmm 🤔
I love the consolidation. Thank you for sharing!!
I love the take a note planner. Unfortunately, my brain functions much better with catch all bullet journal. I did have to split work and home into two different bullet journals because boundaries are important. The take a note would be an amazing memory keeping. I don't know how to make it functional for me.
I love everything you do! You are incredibly talented! Thank you for your beautiful videos!!! ❤😊
Ahhh thank you so much!
Hi Helen, great set up for next year. I am using my cousin for a picture a day in the monthlies, daily journaling in the weeklies and using the dailies as a book journal. Using the a6 One Piece HON as my family planner and a bullet journal for lists 😊
With your cousin, where do you get the prompt questions please? Such a great idea to fill space!
Thank you Samantha! Loove your plan so far!
I googled a list of 1000 journaling prompts, and I use a random number generator!!!
Didn't expect the ASMR 😮😊
I love the idea of a Hobonichi, and I know people love the paper. For me personally, the paper is too thin for the pens I use. I stick with A&O or Moleskine dot grid notebooks and just put my two days per page and write my tasks out that way. I want to try the cousin, but I am not sure I would get much use out of it.
Totally understand!!! It's a big jump to go from the thick A&O paper to the ultra-thin tomoe river paper hahaha
For personal -> I will be trying a Hobonichi A6 HON, a Weeks, and I'll be in my 3rd year of a 5 year. I've been using my Weeks somewhat like a Cousin, where I use the weekly spreads properly, then use the notes in the back as dailies (just much smaller than a cousin :D). For me, it's the perfect size, since I don't have too much variation in my life and I've moved journaling into its own place (a notebook). I've been thinking to try and emphasize daily planning a bit more again so I'm trying the A6 again, but being too scared to leave the weeks behind I ordered both, lol. The 5-year is kind of a very brief memory keeper.
For work, I use a pretty cheap japanese planner, but I'm honestly not too fussy about work stuff, mainly just use it for notes.
Ugh I was soooo close to caving in for the HONs and also a 5year >.
I love the cousin too but this is my first year using it and compared to dupes it’s not that much more expensive I have weeks also n kinda wish I wouldn’t have made that purchase but I will have to think of some way to use it next year it will be either the hon or avec
I'm so excited for you! I hope you love it
@@TheCoffeeMonsterzCo I do the cousin is perfect!
I am so looking forward to getting the purple Emoti notebook. I will use it as my TCMC orders book. So I can keep of my wishlist and what I have ordered. Love the videos. Look forward to them every Sunday.
Wow, I can't wait to see what next years brings. If you do get a pocket printer, I can't wait to see what you get. That is something that I've been considering, but never got around to. Part of me can't wait for next year, and another part is just nervous about starting things again. Doing things just because it makes you happy. I feel like that needs to be a sticker or something. The Hobonichi Weeks to you is like Hobonichi Cousin to me. I was able to keep up with it last year, but this year it just didn't work out for me. Thank you for sharing your planner plan.
For next year, I have 3 physical planner, and maybe one digital. I'm keeping my Hobonichi Weeks as my scribble, on the go planner. It was the first planner that stayed with me for most of the year, so I'm sticking with it for now. A Sterling Ink in B6 for journaling, like this year. Yes, I am behind, but I plan on working on that. It makes me happy to get things out of my head and put pretty stickers down just because I can. A pocket Common Planner for my language practice. I want to learn how to read and write Chinese (Cantonese, maybe some Mandarin too but that might be too ambitious). The one that I am really not sure about is the digital planner. I want to try to use it as a goal planner, and a way to keep all my appointments and stuff together. But there is something about physical planners that make it that much easier... I got the 2023 version of the Maske life digital planner, and want to try to use that system in my digital planner if I ever get around to everything...
I'm excited too!!! I will definitely keep you updated
Love the sleepy cat sticker so much.
Thank you for always sharing your thoughts like this ^_^ My planner this year is the same and new - sticking with the Day-Free Hobonichi but adding a Weeks specifically for my language learning. I"m excited to get started already 😊
I'm trying the A5 Common Planner Compact because while I love the Hobonichi Cousin layouts, I couldn't deal with the daily pages. I just don't have enough personal stuff to write and it gave me some stress. I also tried the wonderland222 this year, but I didn't like the stacked weekends layout. I also tried the Hobonichi weeks and felt it was too constrained for me and the Jibun Techo which I felt the weekdays felt too narrow. I am only doing one single planner this year too so hopefully it works!
I hope it works well for you!!!! The daily pages can be quite overwhelming!
Hi Helen 👋 first of all love your planners and the old and new layouts, you are always an inspiration to me. I wanted to ask you if you have any tips on starting to doodle?
Aww thank you so much Adriana! Doodle the things aroud you!!! Focus on big shapes rather than small details ^_^
i will miss ur old hobonichi cousin daily life spread which makes you unique, but i do love your new set up💛