Hi there, Sara. I, personally, can confirm that the Hobonichi Original A6 is absolutely perfect for memory keeping. I've been using the avec version since July and it's been a blast. Never thought I would actually do some daily journaling, but I've been using it every day since I started it. There's something about sitting down at the end of a day and reflecting on everything that happened, sticking photos in there and basically having a diary filled with all the memories of your days. It's a perfect addition for me to become an archivist of my own life. 10/10 would recommend. 🖤
I love your method of journalling! I’ve been using hobonichi for the past couple of weeks and might look into using my travelers notebook for journaling and common placing ❤️
Thank you! Getting into hobonichi is quite the exciting experience so I hope you are having a good time and can find a nice way to integrate it with the tn☺️🌷
First, you have my favorite tea! 😊 Second, I've just switched back to my old Hobonichi weeks but I really love the traveler's weekly too! So many decisions...
2023 is my first ever year in a Hobonichi - and I picked up the Year of the Rabbit Bows and Ties to give it a try. It has been, after a decade of trying different planners, the first time I’ve ever stuck to paper planning and journaling. Hobonichi had really changed my life and how I plan - and I’m so excited to continue that in 2024. I ordered that blank gingham weeks, and the botanical HON, as well as a tonne of accessory and one of the drawer pouches for when I travel. I’m so excited for what next year will bring!!!
OH MY GOSH the secret line is so annoying at 6 spaces! It's also darker in the weeks than in the cousin. I'm moving from the weeks to the Traveler's Company notebooks (plus the monthly insert) because I want more space and that invisible line annoys me so gd much 😆
I’m glad I’m not the only one who doesn’t like it ahah, it’s not that annoying but I feel like I just don’t know how to use that space because I’ve never used margins before🥲 The tn weeks + monthly insert sounds like a lovely setup and I hope you enjoy it!
Ugh I feel the same! I want to use it to put days of the week but it confuses me when I go down my task list. I tried to make a darker line but it just looks weird. I’d love it if they could move it one space over 😢😂
I’m using the Take A Note A5 for 2024, I’ve been using it a good chunk of 2023 already so I know I enjoy it. If I go back to college next fall I’ll probably grab an extra weekly like planner- either weeks or a undated travelers notebook insert. When in school I need aloooot more space for assignments
I hadn't heard of their planners yet! And I feel you about the extra planner - I do most of my uni planning digitally because I end up moving things around so much, but if I were to do it in a notebook it would take up sooo much space ahah
Thank you for sharing your planning and lineup for 2024, I picked up some great tips on how I want to refine my pages for next year. I also track my food due to having lots of long term health conditions and as a mental health coach I also recommend to my clients with long term health, to track food, mood, pain - as it after eating what do your feel and where do you feel it in your body. Sometimes the best indicator on which foods you are more sensitive to will come from tracking your symptoms. Sometimes weather and other stresses play a factor so I am starting to track those too on daily pages. Good luck with your 2024 planner lineup an I wish you the best of health. ❤️🩹🎊🙏🏽
That is lovely to hear, I’m happy it helped! Often the smallest adjustment make such a difference and I’ve loved watching this kind of videos to pick up new tips. It’s really interesting to hear what you track as well and I’m curious to see if I can spot patterns for myself - also hadn’t thought about weather! Might need to add that to my tracker too🤔🥰
I decided to go with the weeks for 2024. My brain just has to see the whole week in front of me. I wouldn't be able to function with a page or two per day. I was ready to go for muted color or just plain black when I saw all the kittens, hahahh. I think my heart is set on the black one you talked about. It's subtle enough and…it has cat on it. I will definitely separate my personal and work-related journal. Maybe some things will overlap, but I don't want my work tasks and reminders staring at me all the time. It would just get too messy and stressful. I'm still not sure about my life journal, as I call it. It has to have thicker pages because I use a lot of ephemera in it. I have 2022 and 2023 in one notebook. It's huge and I can't even close it, so I guess 2024 will have to get it's own journal. From July I have been using passport-size notebooks for my travels and trips. I really like that, but then I also do have to transfer it to my life journal. Guess with weeks I'll probably transfer some highlights in it too. I've been journaling since uni, but just last year started with memory keeping. Probably the best decision ever. My memory is not that great and I find that writing and spending extra time processing things make them last a bit longer in my memory and of course, journal keeps them safe. It can sometimes get stressful and I start to overthink things aesthetically, but I know it doesn't matter as long as I can look back on it and remember the things I have probably forgotten.
I feel you about needing to see the whole week together! A page per day definitely doesn’t work for me either planning-wise, but I think it will be nice for memory keeping. Also, I agree on what you said about writing things down: I too find it helps with remembering them, and knowing they’re kept safe somewhere I can revisit in case I can’t remember is incredibly comforting. The cat one is sooo cute, I hope you have a great time using it next year!🌟
Thanks for this video. I know that I want to journal in 2024 and I've been watching TH-cam all weekend trying to decide what I want to use. I think I want the hobonichi weeks in a traveler's journal so I can keep subjects separate. Yours was the first video I found that really helped solidify my choice. And showed the different sized items in the cover. One question - will you keep your HON separate or will it also fit in? Because now you've thrown some extra decisions in there 😂
That's so lovely to hear and I hope you have the best time journaling next year! The HON will most definitely not fit in the cover: it's quite thick, so it barely fits on the TN cover on its own (obviously with a lot of eccess at the top and bottom because they're just two entirely different formats). I don't really mind it as I feel like with the hard cover and the cover on cover it will be protected enough for me to carry around when needed, but I don't plan on bringing it with me on the daily anyways, so it will be more of a home memory book!
Thanks for making this video. Hearing about how your system is evolving has given me some ideas for my own 2024 lineup. I too have a travelers notebook that I can’t leave behind yet… I have fallen in love with the Hobonichi 2024 lineup.
That is lovely to hear, I hope you find a system that works well for the new year! And I feel you, as much as I love hobonichi planners I can’t bring myself to leave the traveler’s notebook, it’s so practical for so many things
I love your journals. Yours make me tempted to switch to travelers notebook but I worry I’d go through soo many. I thought I had 2024 figured out which uses alot of hobonichis. However, over the last few weeks I feel my system is needing change. So I’m not sure what I’ll be using.
Ah yes, because the notebooks are usually about 64 pages each it’s easy to go through them quickly which and be great because you get a lot of fresh starts, but also it’s annoying if you need to keep referencing things in older books. I hope you can figure out a system that works well for you!
this was such an interesting watch! i can't wait to see how you use the a6 format (and i know i will be living vicariously through you and everyone else getting the tomitaro makino hon and/or the hiroko kubota weeks)! despite loving several of the weeks and hon designs i'm going to stick with my tried and true system of a hobonichi a6 original for planning/memory keeping/journaling/collecting ephemera plus a standard tn for commonplacing :-)
I am veeeery excited to start using it so thank you!👀 Honestly you’re making the smartest decision, it’s so easy to want all the cute notebooks but ultimately a system needs to be functional for your life, not just aesthetically pleasing! I actually considered the original for a while but I wouldn’t have wanted to also get a cover for it so the hon felt fitting in my case🥰
we got the same weeks cover! im also not a huge fan of the design, but its fine as a make do! im waiting until the april spring release for a new one (my brain thinks in seasons) and im just going to cover the numbers for january and february. im using the notes pages as a commonplace until then (i hope i have enough space, if i dont, i'll get the set of weeks memo books), but when spring hits i'll be getting a plain hobonichi book as my commonplace, though i'll miss the taller and thinner format. i have a separate midori b6 slim for more memory keeping/pretty journalling and i cant see that changing any time soon!
Aaa glad I’m not the only one - it’s such a beautiful fabric but a bit overwhelming and so I just find myself ignoring it😢it will be nice to move into a weeks I actually love. Also, on the topic of ‘my brain thinks in seasons’ I would jump on a September start weeks because for me that’s when the new year starts ahah Your setup plan sounds lovely and I hope you get on well with it! Changing commonplace format might also be interesting and inspiring in terms of the new layouts you can explore
Your videos have definitely inspired me to fall back in love with my traveler’s notebook system! And I love your commonplace books! Where did you get your dot stickers? I’ve been having a hard time finding smaller size dot stickers
Oh that is so lovely to hear🥺 I’m glad you found your way back to journaling! I get my sticker dots from a shop called JarteaDesigns on Etsy, though I had a look the other day and the small ones seem to be sold out🥲 definitely worth keeping an eye on though!
second comment sorry, i wonder if the hobonichi weeks mega might be good for you? it depends on how many pages you've gone through in the travellers notebooks. i think especially if you have a dedicated memory keeping book rather than using a commonplace for that?
No worries! It’s a good suggestion and something I have thought about, however for me the cons outweight the pros at the moment: I’d be afraid to stick too much in because of the bulk (and I carry this around with me everywhere, so the slimmer I can keep it, the better), I actually don’t like/use the margin on the hobonichi weeks pages and I feel like it would get in the way of commonplacing and, most importantly, I’m finishing my fourth commonplace this year and they’re 64 pages each (so about 256 pages filled so far, with still four months left of the year🫠) so I don’t think I would have enough pages, especially considering how much smaller they are! Also, while having a bigger, dedicated memory keeping book might reduce my commonplace pages slightly, the amount of memory keeping I do in there is really quite minimal compared to everything else that goes inside it. I also just like moving onto a different commonplace every couple of months because it’s nice to start fresh🤔 Sorry for the ramble! It’s something I thought about quite a bit and wanted to give a detailed explanation^^
@@untitled_paintings ahh dont worry about rambling i love hearing what works and doesnt work for other people, it's so fun ^^ that makes a lot of sense! that definitely makes a lot of sense if you don't use the margins, i would definitely be annoyed by them in that case. the fresh starts make sense too, its always so fun to make small changes in a fresh notebook ^^
Thank youu I could talk about it for hours ahah, and yes! Also so cool to see how each looks a bit different from the previous one and in some way reflects the period I was going through at the time!
Hi there, Sara.
I, personally, can confirm that the Hobonichi Original A6 is absolutely perfect for memory keeping. I've been using the avec version since July and it's been a blast. Never thought I would actually do some daily journaling, but I've been using it every day since I started it. There's something about sitting down at the end of a day and reflecting on everything that happened, sticking photos in there and basically having a diary filled with all the memories of your days. It's a perfect addition for me to become an archivist of my own life. 10/10 would recommend. 🖤
Thank you!! It’s really comforting to hear about others using it that way, makes me feel more secure in my decision🥰 now I can’t wait to start it!
I love the usage of the Travelers Notebook Weeky + Memo! It is very simplistic and I am trying to figure out how to use mine.
I find it’s a very versatile and functional setup, and lots of people use it in different ways so I hope you soon find the setup that works for you!
I love your method of journalling! I’ve been using hobonichi for the past couple of weeks and might look into using my travelers notebook for journaling and common placing ❤️
Thank you! Getting into hobonichi is quite the exciting experience so I hope you are having a good time and can find a nice way to integrate it with the tn☺️🌷
As an older adult returning to uni, the 3 month calendar you created: genius💯💥
It kept my life together for a good while! Hope it works well for you too🥰
I'm so happy you filmed this when you did! This is my third time watching it, I find it comforting and exciting for the new year :)
Oh that is the sweetest thing, thank you so much🥺🤍
First, you have my favorite tea! 😊 Second, I've just switched back to my old Hobonichi weeks but I really love the traveler's weekly too! So many decisions...
2023 is my first ever year in a Hobonichi - and I picked up the Year of the Rabbit Bows and Ties to give it a try. It has been, after a decade of trying different planners, the first time I’ve ever stuck to paper planning and journaling.
Hobonichi had really changed my life and how I plan - and I’m so excited to continue that in 2024. I ordered that blank gingham weeks, and the botanical HON, as well as a tonne of accessory and one of the drawer pouches for when I travel.
I’m so excited for what next year will bring!!!
Seems like we had a similar journey then! Happy to hear you’re enjoying Hobonichi and your 2024 lineup looks sooo beautiful🥺
What about the Sterling Ink common planner in the standard size?
I prefer the look of the Hobonichi spreads😅 and the weeks is working so well for me, I really don’t want to change for next year☺️
OH MY GOSH the secret line is so annoying at 6 spaces! It's also darker in the weeks than in the cousin. I'm moving from the weeks to the Traveler's Company notebooks (plus the monthly insert) because I want more space and that invisible line annoys me so gd much 😆
I’m glad I’m not the only one who doesn’t like it ahah, it’s not that annoying but I feel like I just don’t know how to use that space because I’ve never used margins before🥲
The tn weeks + monthly insert sounds like a lovely setup and I hope you enjoy it!
Ugh I feel the same! I want to use it to put days of the week but it confuses me when I go down my task list. I tried to make a darker line but it just looks weird. I’d love it if they could move it one space over 😢😂
I’m using the Take A Note A5 for 2024, I’ve been using it a good chunk of 2023 already so I know I enjoy it.
If I go back to college next fall I’ll probably grab an extra weekly like planner- either weeks or a undated travelers notebook insert. When in school I need aloooot more space for assignments
I hadn't heard of their planners yet! And I feel you about the extra planner - I do most of my uni planning digitally because I end up moving things around so much, but if I were to do it in a notebook it would take up sooo much space ahah
I’m hoping to grab a sterling ink common planner when the sale happens next week 🤩 Excited to get back into planning in 2024 😊
Good luck then!! And have a great time planning and journaling ^^
@@untitled_paintings thank you! And your channel has definitely been a new source of inspiration 😄
I’m so happy to hear that🥺🥺🤍
Thank you for sharing your planning and lineup for 2024, I picked up some great tips on how I want to refine my pages for next year. I also track my food due to having lots of long term health conditions and as a mental health coach I also recommend to my clients with long term health, to track food, mood, pain - as it after eating what do your feel and where do you feel it in your body. Sometimes the best indicator on which foods you are more sensitive to will come from tracking your symptoms. Sometimes weather and other stresses play a factor so I am starting to track those too on daily pages. Good luck with your 2024 planner lineup an I wish you the best of health. ❤️🩹🎊🙏🏽
That is lovely to hear, I’m happy it helped! Often the smallest adjustment make such a difference and I’ve loved watching this kind of videos to pick up new tips.
It’s really interesting to hear what you track as well and I’m curious to see if I can spot patterns for myself - also hadn’t thought about weather! Might need to add that to my tracker too🤔🥰
I decided to go with the weeks for 2024. My brain just has to see the whole week in front of me. I wouldn't be able to function with a page or two per day. I was ready to go for muted color or just plain black when I saw all the kittens, hahahh. I think my heart is set on the black one you talked about. It's subtle enough and…it has cat on it. I will definitely separate my personal and work-related journal. Maybe some things will overlap, but I don't want my work tasks and reminders staring at me all the time. It would just get too messy and stressful. I'm still not sure about my life journal, as I call it. It has to have thicker pages because I use a lot of ephemera in it. I have 2022 and 2023 in one notebook. It's huge and I can't even close it, so I guess 2024 will have to get it's own journal. From July I have been using passport-size notebooks for my travels and trips. I really like that, but then I also do have to transfer it to my life journal. Guess with weeks I'll probably transfer some highlights in it too. I've been journaling since uni, but just last year started with memory keeping. Probably the best decision ever. My memory is not that great and I find that writing and spending extra time processing things make them last a bit longer in my memory and of course, journal keeps them safe. It can sometimes get stressful and I start to overthink things aesthetically, but I know it doesn't matter as long as I can look back on it and remember the things I have probably forgotten.
I feel you about needing to see the whole week together! A page per day definitely doesn’t work for me either planning-wise, but I think it will be nice for memory keeping.
Also, I agree on what you said about writing things down: I too find it helps with remembering them, and knowing they’re kept safe somewhere I can revisit in case I can’t remember is incredibly comforting.
The cat one is sooo cute, I hope you have a great time using it next year!🌟
Thanks for this video. I know that I want to journal in 2024 and I've been watching TH-cam all weekend trying to decide what I want to use. I think I want the hobonichi weeks in a traveler's journal so I can keep subjects separate. Yours was the first video I found that really helped solidify my choice. And showed the different sized items in the cover. One question - will you keep your HON separate or will it also fit in? Because now you've thrown some extra decisions in there 😂
That's so lovely to hear and I hope you have the best time journaling next year!
The HON will most definitely not fit in the cover: it's quite thick, so it barely fits on the TN cover on its own (obviously with a lot of eccess at the top and bottom because they're just two entirely different formats). I don't really mind it as I feel like with the hard cover and the cover on cover it will be protected enough for me to carry around when needed, but I don't plan on bringing it with me on the daily anyways, so it will be more of a home memory book!
Thanks for making this video. Hearing about how your system is evolving has given me some ideas for my own 2024 lineup. I too have a travelers notebook that I can’t leave behind yet… I have fallen in love with the Hobonichi 2024 lineup.
That is lovely to hear, I hope you find a system that works well for the new year! And I feel you, as much as I love hobonichi planners I can’t bring myself to leave the traveler’s notebook, it’s so practical for so many things
wow i love your journal so much 😮❤
I love your journals. Yours make me tempted to switch to travelers notebook but I worry I’d go through soo many.
I thought I had 2024 figured out which uses alot of hobonichis. However, over the last few weeks I feel my system is needing change. So I’m not sure what I’ll be using.
Ah yes, because the notebooks are usually about 64 pages each it’s easy to go through them quickly which and be great because you get a lot of fresh starts, but also it’s annoying if you need to keep referencing things in older books.
I hope you can figure out a system that works well for you!
this was such an interesting watch! i can't wait to see how you use the a6 format (and i know i will be living vicariously through you and everyone else getting the tomitaro makino hon and/or the hiroko kubota weeks)! despite loving several of the weeks and hon designs i'm going to stick with my tried and true system of a hobonichi a6 original for planning/memory keeping/journaling/collecting ephemera plus a standard tn for commonplacing :-)
I am veeeery excited to start using it so thank you!👀
Honestly you’re making the smartest decision, it’s so easy to want all the cute notebooks but ultimately a system needs to be functional for your life, not just aesthetically pleasing! I actually considered the original for a while but I wouldn’t have wanted to also get a cover for it so the hon felt fitting in my case🥰
we got the same weeks cover! im also not a huge fan of the design, but its fine as a make do! im waiting until the april spring release for a new one (my brain thinks in seasons) and im just going to cover the numbers for january and february. im using the notes pages as a commonplace until then (i hope i have enough space, if i dont, i'll get the set of weeks memo books), but when spring hits i'll be getting a plain hobonichi book as my commonplace, though i'll miss the taller and thinner format. i have a separate midori b6 slim for more memory keeping/pretty journalling and i cant see that changing any time soon!
Aaa glad I’m not the only one - it’s such a beautiful fabric but a bit overwhelming and so I just find myself ignoring it😢it will be nice to move into a weeks I actually love. Also, on the topic of ‘my brain thinks in seasons’ I would jump on a September start weeks because for me that’s when the new year starts ahah
Your setup plan sounds lovely and I hope you get on well with it! Changing commonplace format might also be interesting and inspiring in terms of the new layouts you can explore
I'm currently using the Rifle Paper Co 17-Month Planner. I like it, but have made some modifications.
Hadn’t heard of it before but it looks lovely, I hope it’s working even better for you now you’ve modified some things🥰
I'm seeing a Good Omens fan here?
Loved your journal, I took some ideas from your video💙
You are indeed👀 I did a drawing or Crowley a while back too!
And that’s lovely to hear, hope it works well for you🤍
Your videos have definitely inspired me to fall back in love with my traveler’s notebook system! And I love your commonplace books! Where did you get your dot stickers? I’ve been having a hard time finding smaller size dot stickers
Oh that is so lovely to hear🥺 I’m glad you found your way back to journaling!
I get my sticker dots from a shop called JarteaDesigns on Etsy, though I had a look the other day and the small ones seem to be sold out🥲 definitely worth keeping an eye on though!
@@untitled_paintings awesome, thank you!
@@victoriahinton9869Stalogy do also make dot stickers in different diameters. 😊
@@DasOrangensaft. ooo good to know, thank you!
second comment sorry, i wonder if the hobonichi weeks mega might be good for you? it depends on how many pages you've gone through in the travellers notebooks. i think especially if you have a dedicated memory keeping book rather than using a commonplace for that?
No worries! It’s a good suggestion and something I have thought about, however for me the cons outweight the pros at the moment: I’d be afraid to stick too much in because of the bulk (and I carry this around with me everywhere, so the slimmer I can keep it, the better), I actually don’t like/use the margin on the hobonichi weeks pages and I feel like it would get in the way of commonplacing and, most importantly, I’m finishing my fourth commonplace this year and they’re 64 pages each (so about 256 pages filled so far, with still four months left of the year🫠) so I don’t think I would have enough pages, especially considering how much smaller they are!
Also, while having a bigger, dedicated memory keeping book might reduce my commonplace pages slightly, the amount of memory keeping I do in there is really quite minimal compared to everything else that goes inside it.
I also just like moving onto a different commonplace every couple of months because it’s nice to start fresh🤔
Sorry for the ramble! It’s something I thought about quite a bit and wanted to give a detailed explanation^^
@@untitled_paintings ahh dont worry about rambling i love hearing what works and doesnt work for other people, it's so fun ^^
that makes a lot of sense! that definitely makes a lot of sense if you don't use the margins, i would definitely be annoyed by them in that case. the fresh starts make sense too, its always so fun to make small changes in a fresh notebook ^^
Thank youu I could talk about it for hours ahah, and yes! Also so cool to see how each looks a bit different from the previous one and in some way reflects the period I was going through at the time!
Another amazing video 😊😊😊
I love how you use your notebooks! Did you happen to have the link for the inserts 🙏🏼
Thank you 🤍 they’re linked in the description!