Initially I'm just gonna continue with A5 Cousin like previous years. Then I saw the fox on a bicycle carrying the moon cover on a HON. So for 2025, I'm rocking Hiroko Kubota's A5 HON.
I love my Five year! Next year is my fifth year. There are blank days, but as the years go on, I get better and better at it, so no matter how many blanks you have, don’t give up on it! In five years, you’ll have a masterpiece.
The blanks tell a story too. There is no need to get upset with blank days. I would like a Hobo 5 year in A5. But the $$$. Maybe when my Leuchtturm1917 is done.
The blanks got too much and it saying a loud story about my inconsistency more than anything, now I just scroll my phone gallery to the years before and fill it when I can find the time each day. 😂
I've used the page keeper in other notebooks without covers, both for keeping the page and keeping the book closed. I just stuck the pocket sticker that comes with the weeks in the back and put the page keeper in that.
Thank you for showing the 5 year diary. I am trying to condense a lot of bulk for journaling or future planning. I will probably look into an A6. Hopefully I will be motivated.
Excited to follow you on your 5 year journal journey! I considered it for this year but decided it was too much to add to my plate. I am planning on doing the 5 year starting in 26. I did buy a Hobonichi notebook again this year, the special cover with the cats on it because I right now have a whole lot of cats in my life. 🐈⬛ Switching from the Cousin to the Wonderland 222 for 2025. It will be a bit of a change but I'm looking forward to having months and weeks together and some undated pages in the back. I got the core because I haven't been using all the dated day pages. Also staying with a Weeks, but the Mega in that lovely chili red. This way I won't miss the Hobonichi-ness too much 😊. You've inspired me to get a new pencil board! Fun post.
Yes! I purchased the Have a Nice Day a5 last year, also in almond. I use on my morning pages journal. I figured the Have a Nice Day is appropriate for it's use. Enjoy!
Have you done a pen test in the five year yet? I’ve heard a lot of bad things about the paper this year, and it’s my first time using Hobonichi so I’m a bit worried. I’m wondering if I should return mine or not 😅😅😅
I bought the Have a Nice Day almond cover this year too! Also I got an A6 Five Year, but I'm crushed because the paper quality is terrible (fountain pens feather and bleed right through, most gel pens bleed completely through). Looks like it's a common problem with the five years this year, so I'm trying to figure out what pens I can actually use in it. 😭 I hope your paper quality is their usual good quality!
Ha ha don't worry about us, lolol, we are just like you!!! You know, if it were reversed, and I was talking to you (vs. you talking to us via youtube), you'd be hearing 1000x over, for example from me, "I know I said I wasn't going to get this but.....". 😂🤗📘📘📘📘
I'm continuing in the Hobonichi weeks (cherries), I'll be on year 2 of the A6 5 year. I'm also down sizing from a Cousin to the A6 for journaling. I soso grabbed the weekly supplement for throwing in my bag. I msu have purchased quite a few covers too. But A6 is a new size for me (dabbled in 2021 but didn't stick) 😬
Five-year sounds daunting at the beginning but it starts to get really fun from the second year on！There were events I forgot from 2023. I saw them while writing the 2024 entry and started to pick up bits of memories. It is lots of fun. I'm currently on my second year and I've been repurposing the blank space left from 2023 by combining them with this year's space. I don't like to leave them blank, so I just use them with the 2024 block. When seeing an entry taking up last year's space, I know I've left the previous block blank.
I picked up a Weeks for my daily micro happiness journal. I've been debating a 5 year journal for years, but you may have convinced me. I dunno. I need to sit with it a little more.
I was also yes, no, yes, no about the lights A5 pencil board. I also caved and got it (FOMO!!) I thought I wouldn’t like the back, which was what was holding me back. In 2023 I read The Phone Box at the Edge of the World by Laura Imai Messina, such a moving Japan-based story, based on real life event. This pencil board takes me back to the book so I got it. I borrowed it on kindle but think I might get the paperback. I love your videos so I stayed to the end. This year changing my cover for my journal mid-year helped me to stay consistent with the refresh I felt with a new cover, I have also been using the Cousin Avec but I am moving to 2 original books for journaling - 1 for work feelings and learnings (I work in Mental Health) 1 for personal journaling. I used the A6 weekly insert for work planning and scheduling but will try my TC Train in Paassport size - sizing down with many more books, using a Weeks as health tracker. So, as to your change of mind on additional cover purchases, - You deserve it if it serves you and doesn’t hurt you. Varsha 😊
I only got a few things from the 1101 store this year: my A6 Original in English, the Weekly Supplement, and four pencil boards - two A6 and two A5, both from the same two lineups: Unsodo and Denali at Midnight. I'm very happy that I've pared things back to what I know I will use, plus a few little things I will enjoy looking at. I won't be getting any new covers this year, or for the foreseeable future, since I have several I can swap out whenever I want to. Thanks for the video! I hope you enjoy the A5 5-year techo. I would love to hear your thoughts about the feel of the red leather cover. I looked at that, but I couldn't tell from photos whether the leather is hard or soft, or whether it will patina at all. I ended up getting the natural leather one when I purchased a 5-year techo a few years ago. Alas, I failed to use the 5-year techo, but I do still have the cover.
If there were Planner Police, I'd have been locked up with key melted down by now with all the planner purchases I've made, so absolutely no judgment here; it's a wonderful feeling to look at something and feel comforted and WORTH THE PRICE. I also tried smaller planners and have the city lights cover in A6, it is such a beautiful view and comforts me, but alas, I don't use it because that size is just too small - I like your description of "hand-feel" it fits perfectly with how I feel about it as well. I have subscribed to your channel and look forward to watching videos - THANK YOU for your hard work, it is appreciated in my world 😉😊☺ Good luck with your five-year journal as well! I have journaled for over 30 years, so let me just say this: USE archival ink! I have journals that are very hard to read and need a magnifier with bright light because the ink has faded so much and disappeared entirely in some spots. 😉
You made great choices! On topic: One CA seasonal change that can offer daily joys is bird watching. We have both a seed feeder and a hummingbird feeder, and we see a lot of great birds (different ones in different seasons). On topic 2: This is maybe my fourth Hobonichi year and I still haven't found my planner. This year I'm trying the A6 avec, but I also bought an A5 gingham hon, and a lemon water mega weeks, in case I feel like changing during the year. 😂 I always used to make my own planners, and they resembled the A5 five-year planner, with a horizontal week on the left and a blank page for drawing on the right (of course, mine had Saturdays and Sundays). I know this is the set-up for the Hobonichi weeks, but the size and the color paper puts me off. I am tempted to get the A5 five-year, just disregard the years, and use it for weeks (then it would last several years -- it was the same in the planners I made: they had enough pages to last for three years). Off topic: My daughters and I are in Orange County, near my mom, and we're looking to move to LA. Do you have any opinions on yes/no neighborhoods? (I had that pencil board in my cart, but took it out after the crashes, and kinda regret it 🤔) --Anyway, tl;dr, thanks for the lovely video!
Lovely haul. I got the elephant cover too because I love elephants, its pink , and its soooo prettyyy. I love the colours and the way it is. I am happy I got that one. If interested I have an unboxing on my channel ❤❤
It crashes every year! It happened in 2022 and 2023. This year I had to order one part from Jetpens, and then, another one through Amazon at midnight EST to get what I wanted because my most wanted ones were sold out by the time the website had stopped crashing. This was going to be my last Hobonichi buy for a while. 😊
I’m so glad that you bought the covers you wanted. It’s important not to overbuy but it’s also important not to restrict oneself because of social pressure!! I’m from Chile (Santiago) and this was my first year buying a hobonichi (the Hon) and i was so judged because the price was too much for chilean standards but, as you said, it’s my adult money and I can do with it whatever I want. Long story short, I think that it’s one of my best purchases ever. It has helped me so much with anxiety and overthinking, and I won’t put a price on my mental health. Definitely buying a Hon for next year!
I love it! I have the red leather during autumn/winter season and the undyed during spring/summer 😅 I have an A6 though. I think the Hiroko Kubota pencil board is lovely now during autumn ❤
I have the leuchturm 5 year and I love it. I haven't missed a day in 3.5 years and I love looking back on the day to see where I was in previous years.
I get it with the elephant cover. In the spring release the same artist had another a5 cover that screamed my name so I got it and I use it with other a5 notebooks.
I love my Hobonichi 5-year. I started using it this year as a dream journal, so not every day has an entry-it depends on whether I dream or remember my dream-but it's been the best vehicle for that purpose I have found. I hope you love it too!
I'd decided on the Take a Note and Sterilng Ink N2 for work and personal planners this year...but...BUT...the toy snake Hon...then the Penco Bag...and a few other things got me today. That's all I'll say. 🤣
If you want to track the seasons in LA you might want to look at Liza Dalby’s East Wind Melts the Ice. She takes the Japanese seasonal calendar based on the Chinese solar terms, and observes them as they relate to her garden in California. LA seasons may be a bit different and lacking in the wildness of other regions, but I hope you’ll find a kinship with this beautiful book. I also prefer plain graphs to Techos and I have that plant book and the folders too. Keiko Shibata’s work is wonderful! I also fell for the allure of the pencil boards and covers this year despite swearing I wouldn’t. Thanks for this wonderful (and validating) video 😊
😅 I only bought Alettone covers for weeks and A5 and the document case. In 2025 I will be using the Nolty A5 and Kinbor Weeks (shop through my stash) using A6 Stalogy for work log that I had in my stash for 2 years because something interesting always comes up. Still waiting on the Take a Note B6 and Memorist layered monthly for my 6 ring binder (mid October). 😊 Oh yes I discovered a forgotten A5 hobonichi cover from 2018 that was green and littered with pictures of people having a picnic. 😊
I decided to go with the A6. In contrast to many, I love being in a small notebook and also the portability of the A6. I also decided to go with a Spring start to avoid the rush and also see what other things launch at that time. Like you I'm also wanting to notice the seasons and I will enjoy starting a new planner in Spring.
Initially I'm just gonna continue with A5 Cousin like previous years. Then I saw the fox on a bicycle carrying the moon cover on a HON. So for 2025, I'm rocking Hiroko Kubota's A5 HON.
I love my Five year! Next year is my fifth year. There are blank days, but as the years go on, I get better and better at it, so no matter how many blanks you have, don’t give up on it! In five years, you’ll have a masterpiece.
The blanks tell a story too. There is no need to get upset with blank days. I would like a Hobo 5 year in A5. But the $$$. Maybe when my Leuchtturm1917 is done.
This is such a good reminder :') Thank you!
The blanks got too much and it saying a loud story about my inconsistency more than anything, now I just scroll my phone gallery to the years before and fill it when I can find the time each day. 😂
@@RachelleinTheoryI managed to use 2 planner and journal.
I can so relate to the elephant cover. I think it's important to have those things that warm our hearts.
I've used the page keeper in other notebooks without covers, both for keeping the page and keeping the book closed. I just stuck the pocket sticker that comes with the weeks in the back and put the page keeper in that.
Thank you for showing the 5 year diary. I am trying to condense a lot of bulk for journaling or future planning. I will probably look into an A6. Hopefully I will be motivated.
Excited to follow you on your 5 year journal journey! I considered it for this year but decided it was too much to add to my plate. I am planning on doing the 5 year starting in 26. I did buy a Hobonichi notebook again this year, the special cover with the cats on it because I right now have a whole lot of cats in my life. 🐈⬛ Switching from the Cousin to the Wonderland 222 for 2025. It will be a bit of a change but I'm looking forward to having months and weeks together and some undated pages in the back. I got the core because I haven't been using all the dated day pages. Also staying with a Weeks, but the Mega in that lovely chili red. This way I won't miss the Hobonichi-ness too much 😊. You've inspired me to get a new pencil board! Fun post.
Yes! I purchased the Have a Nice Day a5 last year, also in almond. I use on my morning pages journal. I figured the Have a Nice Day is appropriate for it's use. Enjoy!
Have you done a pen test in the five year yet? I’ve heard a lot of bad things about the paper this year, and it’s my first time using Hobonichi so I’m a bit worried. I’m wondering if I should return mine or not 😅😅😅
I bought the Have a Nice Day almond cover this year too! Also I got an A6 Five Year, but I'm crushed because the paper quality is terrible (fountain pens feather and bleed right through, most gel pens bleed completely through). Looks like it's a common problem with the five years this year, so I'm trying to figure out what pens I can actually use in it. 😭 I hope your paper quality is their usual good quality!
Ha ha don't worry about us, lolol, we are just like you!!! You know, if it were reversed, and I was talking to you (vs. you talking to us via youtube), you'd be hearing 1000x over, for example from me, "I know I said I wasn't going to get this but.....". 😂🤗📘📘📘📘
Do what you want! And be happy about it. That's why we work hard.
I'm continuing in the Hobonichi weeks (cherries), I'll be on year 2 of the A6 5 year. I'm also down sizing from a Cousin to the A6 for journaling. I soso grabbed the weekly supplement for throwing in my bag. I msu have purchased quite a few covers too. But A6 is a new size for me (dabbled in 2021 but didn't stick) 😬
Five-year sounds daunting at the beginning but it starts to get really fun from the second year on！There were events I forgot from 2023. I saw them while writing the 2024 entry and started to pick up bits of memories. It is lots of fun.
I'm currently on my second year and I've been repurposing the blank space left from 2023 by combining them with this year's space. I don't like to leave them blank, so I just use them with the 2024 block. When seeing an entry taking up last year's space, I know I've left the previous block blank.
So…what will you be using at your main planner for 2025???
I picked up a Weeks for my daily micro happiness journal. I've been debating a 5 year journal for years, but you may have convinced me. I dunno. I need to sit with it a little more.
FYI the yes no pencil board is by illustrator Shinsuke Yoshitake.
I was also yes, no, yes, no about the lights A5 pencil board. I also caved and got it (FOMO!!) I thought I wouldn’t like the back, which was what was holding me back. In 2023 I read The Phone Box at the Edge of the World by Laura Imai Messina, such a moving Japan-based story, based on real life event. This pencil board takes me back to the book so I got it. I borrowed it on kindle but think I might get the paperback.
I love your videos so I stayed to the end. This year changing my cover for my journal mid-year helped me to stay consistent with the refresh I felt with a new cover, I have also been using the Cousin Avec but I am moving to 2 original books for journaling - 1 for work feelings and learnings (I work in Mental Health) 1 for personal journaling. I used the A6 weekly insert for work planning and scheduling but will try my TC Train in Paassport size - sizing down with many more books, using a Weeks as health tracker. So, as to your change of mind on additional cover purchases, - You deserve it if it serves you and doesn’t hurt you. Varsha 😊
I only got a few things from the 1101 store this year: my A6 Original in English, the Weekly Supplement, and four pencil boards - two A6 and two A5, both from the same two lineups: Unsodo and Denali at Midnight. I'm very happy that I've pared things back to what I know I will use, plus a few little things I will enjoy looking at. I won't be getting any new covers this year, or for the foreseeable future, since I have several I can swap out whenever I want to. Thanks for the video! I hope you enjoy the A5 5-year techo. I would love to hear your thoughts about the feel of the red leather cover. I looked at that, but I couldn't tell from photos whether the leather is hard or soft, or whether it will patina at all. I ended up getting the natural leather one when I purchased a 5-year techo a few years ago. Alas, I failed to use the 5-year techo, but I do still have the cover.
I thought this was the planner you would get. I'm getting one in a few weeks as well.
Thanks for coming clean with us at the end! 🤣 Great video!
If there were Planner Police, I'd have been locked up with key melted down by now with all the planner purchases I've made, so absolutely no judgment here; it's a wonderful feeling to look at something and feel comforted and WORTH THE PRICE. I also tried smaller planners and have the city lights cover in A6, it is such a beautiful view and comforts me, but alas, I don't use it because that size is just too small - I like your description of "hand-feel" it fits perfectly with how I feel about it as well.
I have subscribed to your channel and look forward to watching videos - THANK YOU for your hard work, it is appreciated in my world 😉😊☺
Good luck with your five-year journal as well! I have journaled for over 30 years, so let me just say this: USE archival ink! I have journals that are very hard to read and need a magnifier with bright light because the ink has faded so much and disappeared entirely in some spots. 😉
You made great choices!
On topic: One CA seasonal change that can offer daily joys is bird watching. We have both a seed feeder and a hummingbird feeder, and we see a lot of great birds (different ones in different seasons).
On topic 2: This is maybe my fourth Hobonichi year and I still haven't found my planner. This year I'm trying the A6 avec, but I also bought an A5 gingham hon, and a lemon water mega weeks, in case I feel like changing during the year. 😂 I always used to make my own planners, and they resembled the A5 five-year planner, with a horizontal week on the left and a blank page for drawing on the right (of course, mine had Saturdays and Sundays). I know this is the set-up for the Hobonichi weeks, but the size and the color paper puts me off. I am tempted to get the A5 five-year, just disregard the years, and use it for weeks (then it would last several years -- it was the same in the planners I made: they had enough pages to last for three years).
Off topic: My daughters and I are in Orange County, near my mom, and we're looking to move to LA. Do you have any opinions on yes/no neighborhoods? (I had that pencil board in my cart, but took it out after the crashes, and kinda regret it 🤔)
--Anyway, tl;dr, thanks for the lovely video!
Have a nice day cover is nice. As is the cute elephant cover. No regrets and no guilt. Great choice.
Lovely haul. I got the elephant cover too because I love elephants, its pink , and its soooo prettyyy. I love the colours and the way it is. I am happy I got that one. If interested I have an unboxing on my channel ❤❤
It crashes every year! It happened in 2022 and 2023. This year I had to order one part from Jetpens, and then, another one through Amazon at midnight EST to get what I wanted because my most wanted ones were sold out by the time the website had stopped crashing. This was going to be my last Hobonichi buy for a while. 😊
I’m so glad that you bought the covers you wanted. It’s important not to overbuy but it’s also important not to restrict oneself because of social pressure!!
I’m from Chile (Santiago) and this was my first year buying a hobonichi (the Hon) and i was so judged because the price was too much for chilean standards but, as you said, it’s my adult money and I can do with it whatever I want. Long story short, I think that it’s one of my best purchases ever. It has helped me so much with anxiety and overthinking, and I won’t put a price on my mental health. Definitely buying a Hon for next year!
I love it! I have the red leather during autumn/winter season and the undyed during spring/summer 😅 I have an A6 though. I think the Hiroko Kubota pencil board is lovely now during autumn ❤
I have the leuchturm 5 year and I love it. I haven't missed a day in 3.5 years and I love looking back on the day to see where I was in previous years.
I get it with the elephant cover. In the spring release the same artist had another a5 cover that screamed my name so I got it and I use it with other a5 notebooks.
elephants are my favorite animal too!! 🐘
Glad you got it! Hope to see/hear more about it as the years progress!
Trying 5 yr A6. Need pointers lol
I love that you bought yourself those covers ❤
What material is the pencil board made of?
"The gasp I gusped" 😂
I love my Hobonichi 5-year. I started using it this year as a dream journal, so not every day has an entry-it depends on whether I dream or remember my dream-but it's been the best vehicle for that purpose I have found. I hope you love it too!
I'd decided on the Take a Note and Sterilng Ink N2 for work and personal planners this year...but...BUT...the toy snake Hon...then the Penco Bag...and a few other things got me today. That's all I'll say. 🤣
If you want to track the seasons in LA you might want to look at Liza Dalby’s East Wind Melts the Ice. She takes the Japanese seasonal calendar based on the Chinese solar terms, and observes them as they relate to her garden in California. LA seasons may be a bit different and lacking in the wildness of other regions, but I hope you’ll find a kinship with this beautiful book. I also prefer plain graphs to Techos and I have that plant book and the folders too. Keiko Shibata’s work is wonderful! I also fell for the allure of the pencil boards and covers this year despite swearing I wouldn’t. Thanks for this wonderful (and validating) video 😊
😅 I only bought Alettone covers for weeks and A5 and the document case. In 2025 I will be using the Nolty A5 and Kinbor Weeks (shop through my stash) using A6 Stalogy for work log that I had in my stash for 2 years because something interesting always comes up. Still waiting on the Take a Note B6 and Memorist layered monthly for my 6 ring binder (mid October). 😊 Oh yes I discovered a forgotten A5 hobonichi cover from 2018 that was green and littered with pictures of people having a picnic. 😊
I decided to go with the A6. In contrast to many, I love being in a small notebook and also the portability of the A6. I also decided to go with a Spring start to avoid the rush and also see what other things launch at that time. Like you I'm also wanting to notice the seasons and I will enjoy starting a new planner in Spring.
Well that was quite the 360 from the last video!
180 rather?
@@catalinacroitoru7258 I was told there would be no math. 😂
Wish the otter life was available for Android 😢 it's so cute
i think it is