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Thanks for the great video! Yes, Shigesato Itoi definitely said that blank pages also tell a story about your life and are perfectly fine and say just as much as a full page. All Hobo pages are welcome and beloved! 😅 ❤ PS thanks for your comments about the paper. I remember I had an A6 techo in 2019 that BLED terribly just from writing with fountain pen. I was really surprised at the time but assumed it was just a weird reaction between that particular ink and the paper or something. Like you, I feel that the disappointment with the new paper has generally been over the top.

Loved the video! i have a question, I want to buy a traveler's notebook, but I do not know how does it fares with fountain pen ( Kaweco Twsbi user here )

I think my sentiment is similar with most people here, thank you so much for making this video and showing your old journals. I often stay back from using pre-formatted planners because I'm so afraid of not using it "properly", as in write it full (in "aesthetic" journal way) and filled everyday. But seeing how you often just scribbled some lines in them and left some blanks while talking about how you still find it useful really motivates me to try to get back to pre-formatted planners. I used simple bullet journal for planning for years but I feel like I want to try hobonichi techo next year. Your video give me encouragement.

I appreciate this video very much. I feel like I watched a lot of intermediate to advanced planning and joirnaling videos lately and while the books I saw were works of art it was daunting 😅

up until this year, i was a bullet journaler (and tbh still kinda am - i use a common planner because i got tired of drawing monthly calendars but i use it the way i used my bujos.) i tried different notebooks, started them on whatever day i felt like, used it until i was bored of it, then switched to a new one. i have all those books from 2019-present, and at the end of last year i decided to do an index book - mine is different tho, it’s just a small grid notebook where i basically have a table of context for each of my notebooks so i can find things when i need to. i recently noticed this pressure people put on themselves to have a cohesive archive, but i feel like it doesn’t have to be complicated!

I don't like cats either idk why they are adorable but I prefer to pet a puppy or dogs 😁 I love your haul video btw thanks for sharing 🥰🤗

The weekly timeline is key for me. It's been *THE* thing that has gotten my ADHD time blindness under control.

Thank you! This feels motivational as a newbie to the planning community and a long time wannabe daily journal keeper. I think my favorite size is A6 too.

Great haul! Hobonichi server problem was crazy this year😅

My first Hobonichi was the A6 and I fell in love. At some point I ordered a weeks and it is my right hand tool. I really want to go back into the A6, but I love my weeks so so much!! Its hard to make that decision.

Thank you for this real review

the freebie note books so actually say hobonichi, but in a mix of english and japanese, what looks like a B is 日 (though with the font choice it really does look like it says hobob) ^^ i cannot *believe* your luck though?? thats so unlikely to happen? at least you and the rest of the people in your group can have matching ones i guess haha

I'm not a cat person either. Thanks for sharing!

I don’t like cats either!!!!!! I feel seen 😅 I can appreciate their adorableness in stationery form, but not a fan IRL 😎

Fun group order! TFS 🤗

I bought the exact same a6 Hon! Haven’t tried to put it into a Hobonichi cover yet because I’m using a leather cover from Ateliers Phileas. That cover is quite roomy. It can just barely fit a Hobonichi five-year - just a tad shorter but it doesn’t bother me too much

Ooooo excited 🎉

“Blank pages say something too” wow, gold ✨ LOVE this perspective 🫶🏽

I've only gotten a few minutes into the video. I wanted to read through the transcript (multi-tasking, as well). The transcript literally has "um" in it 335 times. 🤦‍♀ Is that for real?

Plotter is for planning. Actually planning like ring bound planners are. You sound like you want scrapbooking, not planning. Ring bound planners have a wonderful history dating back to the 1920s or even before that. Those of us ring bound planners have figured out how to archive our sheets. I wouldn't want to carry a bound planner that I could not move around the pages or take out the pages or gets too fat with adding photos etc. I love Plotter and I am so glad it exists for those of us that love ring bound planning but wanted something easier to carry with lovely rings and leather.

I am distracted by the beauty of your ombré Vanishing Point 🖋️🩶

In my weeks I put a photo of my meds and amounts prescribed. Basically for my husband or for emergency situations. At 73 it’s a good idea to have that kind of stuff available

Yes I agree. I do not want to spend all the time on decorating. I use my time knitting and reading and Bible study. Those are more important things to me. I do place colorful stickers etc but I don’t spend lots of time and hours

Can you explain common placing?

Treating the pencil board as a "dashboard" is genius. I hadn't seen anyone use it that way, but it makes perfect sense and solves several issues I've been trying to find a solution for. 😊

That is such a great idea for your daughter. When I was born baby books were common. Milestones and things that were happening in my life as a baby were such fun to read for me.

Seriously, this has been the most helpful video I've seen this entire month. Normally I wouldn't start thinking about next year's lineup until November, when I'd usually draw up and test out a bunch of layouts to figure out what my system would look like for the coming year. But now it seems we need to pick our planner(s) for the next year in July, because otherwise it's all sold out and we'll die a slow death by FOMO and be buried under the hype. 🙈 So I'm all confused, I haven't had time to really give this year's system the testing it needs and I have some ideas if what I want for 2025 but not enough to make a purchase. Which, apparently, I need to do asap if I value my life. 😆 I've never planner hopped during the year but I had a lot of life changes in 2023-2024 and had to change my work planner and my journal mid-2024. I ended up journaling in a Hobonichi A6 and have been itching to be able to carry around just one A6 book. Actually, I've pasting in weeklies in my A6 so I can do just that. I've been thinking the Papertess A6 would be perfect for next year (I sincerely wasn't ready when Aura Estelle's A6 catch-all pre-ordered so I skipped on that one) but I was so full of doubt as to my ability to keep it all aesthetic, which is what I need my personal task-planner to be but what my journal definitely isn't. You've put my mind at ease and my doubts to rest. It doesn't matter. It will be my happy place, sometimes tidy, sometimes messy, always beautiful. 🥰

Here’s how I approach blank pages in my journal: Awesome, now I have an extra page for any notes or journaling that I don’t have enough space for. It’s got to a point where sometimes I purposely leave some pages blank so I have spare pages just in case I need them 😂 Thanks for addressing that, I think that’s very important. The community can really be overwhelming with all the ‘perfect’ spreads and layout, so I have long decided to just take everything as reference and just work the way I want/am comfortable with on a (quasi) daily basis. Thanks for your very honest sharing, it gave me new ideas and prompts for journaling too

Love this! Thank you for sharing your older techos. ❤

This video is a breath of fresh air, everyone in the planner community should watch it. People (myself included…) sometimes make such a big deal out of really simple things that are not that important in the bigger picture. And thank you for sharing your thoughts. I just love when I learn or realize something while watching youtube videos, which honestly doesn’t happen that often, so I’m pleasantly surprised watching this.

Thank you SO MUCH for this video. This is one of the best planner videos I have ever seen because it's so realistic and relatable but still inspiring and encouraging. I have felt like a failure every time I skipped a page or scribbled something out or stopped using a planner - but your approach has totally changed my perspective. I can't wait to use my Hobonichi books now - even if I make a mess. ❤

I use a weeks for tracking my health, my kitty’s health, and financial tracking. I use my cousin for everything else.

I love Hobonichi. Thanks for sharing. Just subbed.

Love your video. I write a lot, but I use a notebook beside my cousin. So if I feel like writing more, I use my notebook. Next year it will be my 7th year with hobonichi. I tried all sizes, but cousin is the one I use the most. So I only bought cousin for next year. I use my cousin for both journaling and planning ( in the weekly pages).

My handwriting looked like that when I was ten 😅

So happy I found this video. Lately I feel overstimulated by the planner/journal community, and it's exhausting to see most videos out there just.. encouraging overconsumption and planner hopping, one way or another. I'm tired of hearing "it didn't work for me anymore so I changed to a new book!". I mean, it is their money so use it however they want I guess.., but it's exhausting to watch. This video is so inspiring, and I love how consistent you are in your books. I agree, blank pages are okay. Not filling in the pages are okay. I think it's only wasteful when you buy 5 dated books in a year and you barely use any of them. Even just a pen and paper is enough, in whatever form that is. You don't need all the accessories, and though I admit those are nice, at the end of the day, those are extras. Your memories is not any less precious without it.

I loved your video❤ I agree with everything you said people are too precious with their planners that they’re afraid to use them I love “messy” spreads it makes the planner lived in and loved and I think that’s the whole point

I loved watching the video!! Very encouraging and inspiring too!!! I love the real😍

I'm so glad the algorithm brought your video my way. I was cheering everything you were saying: don't get daunted by the pretty pages, just appreciate your journaling for what it is, blank pages also say something, TRP isn't bulletproof and it's not that big of a deal. You've said everything I've been thinking lately about the planner community.

Thanks for sharing! I know it can be intimidating see all the beautiful spreads online 😅 I also bought my first one in 2019 but direct from hobonichi - same english version and I did write on every page 😂 completionist!

What is that exceptionally cool Vanishing Point? Also, thanks for all those intriguing notions and insights.

Great video. Completely with you on the "present moment act of using that notebook" thing, A++

Thank you for sharing your experience/story … I really appreciate your review… As a hospice worker and a super small writer myself, I can’t wait to get my hands on a mini 5 plotter… I will be using mine for patient care notes… It should fit nicely into my scrubs pockets… A calendar for work schedules and possibly a 2 mm grid memo pad for my notes… It’s lightness, portability, is a big win for me…

Loved it! Thank you for sharing with us! ❤

Thanks for sharing with us! I am definitely not a crowd person so I'm kinda glad I skipped it lol

It felt good listening to you talk about these things, the overconsumerism/aesthetic approach on stationery RUclips is definitely a hard thing to overcome. I often think about how my journal pages will end up looking like down the road instead of enjoying them now. Thanks for sharing!

The Yoseka cover with all the fun messages is sweet. And it did look like you gained some skills & knowledge in the workshops. And you finished your travel journal! That shows that you learned that especially. Thanks for sharing. Happy for you that you're back in your nest & cozied in.

Cool! Thank you for such a great video!

Omg, so fun ❤

this was a really lovely video, thank you so much for sharing! i hope you feel better soon though! 💛