Current notebooks that I can remember at the moment. My bullet journal is an Endless Recorder, I use a Galen Leather notebook for personal journaling, a Castelli (Italian) notebook for my poetry. I have a Stifflexible notebook for tarot and related stuff. I also have a pile of Odyssey A6 notebooks for occasional notes (game puzzles, quick phone calls, etc), and a Travelers passport size with 3 notebooks that are also occasional notes.
I admire your ability to maintain so many different planners. I would need yet another planner to track the planners! I love my Hobo Weeks because the daily blocks aren't daunting. I do have lots of notebooks with different papers, and I bounce back and forth between them for notes and brain dumps, and when I'm looking for something I KNOW I wrote SOMEWHERE, I think I should be more organized, but I have entropy brain🤣
So glad that your doing better. You had me worried. I use a ring binder and I make my own inserts and I finally found a fpf paper i can use from spiral notebooks that I already had.
I also have several notebooks each with specific purposes. Many I use every day and some as needed, but I prefer things separated by purpose. My husband sometimes questions why I write everything down, but inevitably I’m able to answer a “when did we….?” question. Thanks for sharing with us!
Really enjoyed seeing what you are using and what for. I am a big fan of CVS Caliber notebooks as well. I have a collection of their 5 x 7 spirals that are useful for many things.
Wow, you've plenty of notebooks and planners to keep you organised this year 👍. I have all birthdays memorised, so at the beginning of each month, I make a mental note of whose birthday it is that month. In the kitchen, I have a calendar and write appointments on that. Plus, I also make a digital reminder for the day before the appointment, so that I know whether or not I ought to set an early wake up alarm. I use a notebook when researching my family tree, so that I can jot down names etc., that I have to do further research on. I use Goodreads to keep track of what books I've read, and my yearly reading challenge. Oh, and a notebook for jotting down video ideas. Think that's about it, as I don't keep a journal. However, I've been thinking about writing down my life story for my grandchildren, so I'll probably start that by jotting down memories to start with in a notebook, then at some point expand on them into a coherent order.
Hi Chris. I don’t do digital planning either. Sometimes when something shows up on a google calendar, I have no idea how it got there. I use a small calendar like your dollar tree one. I’m a retired teacher and our union sends one every September. It’s always in my wallet. We also have a large calendar hanging in the kitchen. This year instead of using my Leuchtturm bullet journal I purchased a Hobo Weeks but I agree with you about the paper. Even a Japanese fine nib seems to be too much for the paper. I may try my EF Eco in it. I have a weight loss journal and one where I keep track of my counted cross stitch projects and a common place notebook. I also have a CVS Caliber 6”x4” notebook in my Nock Seed case with a few pens, small ruler, pencil and Wite Out that I use to do the daily Sudoku puzzle that I copy from my digital newspaper. It works for me.
I highly recommend getting a set of Pilot frixion ball point pens they are really great for erasing and their ink so their nice and bold without being afraid of erasing pencil and making a mess or ripping the page :)
I use Google calendar for our shared calendar. We both access it so no double bookings. We then print the current month and the following. One quick example is I just put in doctor's appointments for me
Thanks for keeping us Californians in your thoughts. Just like earthquakes, fires are risks we here have to cope with, but these ones are particularly bad. In terms of notebooks, my daily planner is the Midori A5 1 Page 1 Day 2025 Diary, which I purchased off Yahoo Japan. It wasn’t cheap, but I trust Midori MD paper far more than the unreliable TR paper that Hobonichi has been stuck with. I also use a Life Noble A5 journal for my personal thoughts, Tsubame B5 notebook for logging my inks and pen experiences, and I plan on ordering B6 Slim Midori notebooks for use on the go.
I went screaming into the 21st century when I started using the calendar on my iPhone and iPad and for me it was a learning curve that involved a lot of swearing but now I’m ok with it. My favorite journal/brain dump is the Midori A5, all my pens work great in it. I also love the CVS paper which by the way they are closing a lot of them here in Chicago too. I have 4 notebooks going now, daily journal/brain dump, books I’ve read and left reviews of, my Spanish language learning, and one for spiritual stuff and stoicism notes. Thinking about all our California people…
I use 4 notebooks on a daily basis and several others for special projects like keeping track of phone calls to companies and such. I usually use inexpensive notebooks like a Walmart Pen and Gear college ruled spiral for most things, but I love a nice Mnemosyne A5. I use a calendar on my phone but always back it up on the wall calendar so my husband can see it and know what's going on.
I am the same with needing to compartmentalize with different notebooks for different tasks, if I had everything in one I'd have to be carrying around a 10 lb Trapper Keeper!
Current notebooks that I can remember at the moment. My bullet journal is an Endless Recorder, I use a Galen Leather notebook for personal journaling, a Castelli (Italian) notebook for my poetry. I have a Stifflexible notebook for tarot and related stuff. I also have a pile of Odyssey A6 notebooks for occasional notes (game puzzles, quick phone calls, etc), and a Travelers passport size with 3 notebooks that are also occasional notes.
Chris, really enjoyed this video. Lots of great content/insight! Glad to hear that you're feeling better. All the best for 2025.
You have a great selection of tools for keeping organized in 2025 for sure!! Great video!!
I admire your ability to maintain so many different planners. I would need yet another planner to track the planners!
I love my Hobo Weeks because the daily blocks aren't daunting. I do have lots of notebooks with different papers, and I bounce back and forth between them for notes and brain dumps, and when I'm looking for something I KNOW I wrote SOMEWHERE, I think I should be more organized, but I have entropy brain🤣
So glad that your doing better.
You had me worried.
I use a ring binder and I make my own inserts and I finally found a fpf paper i can use from spiral notebooks that I already had.
I also have several notebooks each with specific purposes. Many I use every day and some as needed, but I prefer things separated by purpose. My husband sometimes questions why I write everything down, but inevitably I’m able to answer a “when did we….?” question. Thanks for sharing with us!
Really enjoyed seeing what you are using and what for. I am a big fan of CVS Caliber notebooks as well. I have a collection of their 5 x 7 spirals that are useful for many things.
Wow, you've plenty of notebooks and planners to keep you organised this year 👍. I have all birthdays memorised, so at the beginning of each month, I make a mental note of whose birthday it is that month. In the kitchen, I have a calendar and write appointments on that. Plus, I also make a digital reminder for the day before the appointment, so that I know whether or not I ought to set an early wake up alarm. I use a notebook when researching my family tree, so that I can jot down names etc., that I have to do further research on. I use Goodreads to keep track of what books I've read, and my yearly reading challenge. Oh, and a notebook for jotting down video ideas. Think that's about it, as I don't keep a journal. However, I've been thinking about writing down my life story for my grandchildren, so I'll probably start that by jotting down memories to start with in a notebook, then at some point expand on them into a coherent order.
Great video, Chris!
Hi Chris. I don’t do digital planning either. Sometimes when something shows up on a google calendar, I have no idea how it got there. I use a small calendar like your dollar tree one. I’m a retired teacher and our union sends one every September. It’s always in my wallet. We also have a large calendar hanging in the kitchen. This year instead of using my Leuchtturm bullet journal I purchased a Hobo Weeks but I agree with you about the paper. Even a Japanese fine nib seems to be too much for the paper. I may try my EF Eco in it. I have a weight loss journal and one where I keep track of my counted cross stitch projects and a common place notebook. I also have a CVS Caliber 6”x4” notebook in my Nock Seed case with a few pens, small ruler, pencil and Wite Out that I use to do the daily Sudoku puzzle that I copy from my digital newspaper. It works for me.
I highly recommend getting a set of Pilot frixion ball point pens they are really great for erasing and their ink so their nice and bold without being afraid of erasing pencil and making a mess or ripping the page :)
I second that. I have a Frixion Multipen. It’s great for planning calendar events, and works well with Tomoe River paper.
I use Google calendar for our shared calendar. We both access it so no double bookings. We then print the current month and the following. One quick example is I just put in doctor's appointments for me
Thanks for keeping us Californians in your thoughts. Just like earthquakes, fires are risks we here have to cope with, but these ones are particularly bad.
In terms of notebooks, my daily planner is the Midori A5 1 Page 1 Day 2025 Diary, which I purchased off Yahoo Japan. It wasn’t cheap, but I trust Midori MD paper far more than the unreliable TR paper that Hobonichi has been stuck with. I also use a Life Noble A5 journal for my personal thoughts, Tsubame B5 notebook for logging my inks and pen experiences, and I plan on ordering B6 Slim Midori notebooks for use on the go.
I went screaming into the 21st century when I started using the calendar on my iPhone and iPad and for me it was a learning curve that involved a lot of swearing but now I’m ok with it. My favorite journal/brain dump is the Midori A5, all my pens work great in it. I also love the CVS paper which by the way they are closing a lot of them here in Chicago too. I have 4 notebooks going now, daily journal/brain dump, books I’ve read and left reviews of, my Spanish language learning, and one for spiritual stuff and stoicism notes. Thinking about all our California people…
I am 100% a pen and paper girl! ❤️🇨🇦
I use 4 notebooks on a daily basis and several others for special projects like keeping track of phone calls to companies and such. I usually use inexpensive notebooks like a Walmart Pen and Gear college ruled spiral for most things, but I love a nice Mnemosyne A5. I use a calendar on my phone but always back it up on the wall calendar so my husband can see it and know what's going on.
I am the same with needing to compartmentalize with different notebooks for different tasks, if I had everything in one I'd have to be carrying around a 10 lb Trapper Keeper!