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Hi Anne, that sounds like a great use of the system! I love how you use your different languages too - I can imagine it would become confusing if you tried to translate between them all (as well as the translation errors, like you say!). I hope you continue to enjoy common placing and using your new time to get more creative :) x

The dimensions of my vision board were 8.4cm by 17cm (for one side of the double page spread). I had to play with the printer settings a little bit and it was very much trial and error but if you go for that, it should be roughly close enough and then you can adjust it with printing at either 100%, 105% or 95% etc. :) x

It’s not for everyone! I think for me it’s nice to keep track of things that resonate with me in one place. I can totally see how it wouldn’t be everyone’s cup of tea though :) x

I’m glad you enjoyed it! X

Same, I had notebooks full of lyrics and random quotes growing up! Thank you ☺️x

I've pretty much had an A5 bullet journal or a Hobonichi Weeks, so not tried a lot else! There's a lot I like about the Hobonichi systems - love the paper, the grid style, font, and accessibility of purchase. It's going to take me a while and a lot of research I think to find something else! x

@@IllustriousShadowPlans the two that I mentioned are Tamoe River paper as well, one of the biggest differences is no quote and it’s amazing how much more room that gives you. I like somethings about Hobonichi as well

@@IllustriousShadowPlans Just to give some information on these two: Sterling Ink has notebooks with page numbers in almost every size, including but not limited to A5, B5, TN regular and passport, Weeks size, B6, B6 Slim, pocket… I feel like I’m missing some. The common planner comes in a most sizes (I think the only one I mentioned above that it doesn’t come in right now is B6 slim) and is Hobonichi style - with months pre-planned, weeks (both vertical and horizontal for most sizes) all in the beginning and you can either purchase a half year (272 pages) or a full year (520 pages). There’s some extra stuff in the beginning (quarterly trackers and such). She also came out with a compact this past year, which has 272 pages but a full year of monthlies and weeklies. The paper is 52gsm tomoe river paper (like Hobonichi) and the covers are PU leather (for most, if not all). The grid size changes a bit depending on the notebook size, I’ve seen 3.6mm x 3.9mm, 3.9mm x 3.9mm, and 4mm x 3.9mm. The Weeks is slightly smaller, if I remember but when you’re talking 3.5 or 3.9mm the difference is very slight. Papertess Designs has their planner that comes in B6 and A5. This one is a horizontal layout, where the weeklies and blank daily pages are interspersed in the monthlies, so you get a monthly spread, two blank pages, a weekly, and seven blank pages, the next weekly, seven blank pages, so on. She also has a weeks size (I believe) planner that I know far less about because I’ve never been interested in it but it’s got a horizontal layout on one side and some task lists and a scheduler on the other. It’s an interesting and unique layout, I just personally have no use for as much as is shown. It’s also tomoe river 52gsm paper and I believe she keeps her grid at a 4x4mm grid. I’ve also heard people describe the font she uses as “romantic” - I don’t know what that means in font, but I do find I prefer the font on Papertess Design planners much more when I see it. And the covers for her notebooks/planners are actual heaven to touch. They’re soft and very slightly textured and so squishy. While Sterling ink’s notebooks are my personal favorite, Papertess designs covers win hands down. This was pretty long but I wanted to help give you a brief intro to them, since they could be planners you’d prefer and were previously mentioned as an option.

If I can add something : Papertess designs also has a standard TN size notebook. That is bigger than the hobo weeks. The layout is 1 horizontal week followed by 7 blank grid pages and so on. The months are bulked at the beginning of the book

I think you'd have to have nerves of absolute steel to read that! But yes, that would be really interesting. I'd love to know what he felt was striking enough to document x

Ohh that's a really interesting idea! I like that :) And what a lovely thing to look back on too! x

Thanks! Big fan. Grew up on it! x

@@IllustriousShadowPlans we just showed our eight year old Holy Grail

Thank you. I am coming round to that way of thinking - it's the perfectionist in me who gets a bit upset about it though! I haven't heard of Claire Keegan but I will check her out :) x

Thank you! Yes, I definitely need a bit 'more' than just writing things down to keep me interested! Unfortunately the navy card quote is on shiny plastic-y sticker paper so I don't think it'd work to write over it. I could possibly do it it with a fine white Posca but it has a high chance of being ruined :/ Maybe I'll try it one day when I feel brave! x ETA - I have just tried it with the fine Posca! It looks so much better, thank you! x

Interesting point! I think in my mind the largest difference would be that in a floralegium the text is directly related to the illustrations, and is more encyclopaedic in nature, cataloguing for long term preservation rather than for fun like I do. I do think you're right in that a non-indexed commonplace book probably does need a more specific name as it straddles the two concepts! x

Thank you! That sounds like a really unique and useful solution :) x

Thank you for expanding that for me! That is useful to know x

Thank you! x

That sounds like a great idea. I do think we can put too much pressure on ourselves to fit into boxes, if you want it to be a memory keeping - commonplace hybrid and it works for you, then no problem! As long as you enjoy creating in it. :) x

Of course! ;) Big Monty Python fan, haha. x

Thank you! I think it makes it much more interesting :) x

Thank you - I think it makes it more accessible but I can see how a purist would find it a bit much. I love the flexibility of planning and common place systems and that we can all make those decisions in our own personal spaces :) x

Thank you for your kind comment! Hope you enjoy documenting your life. I'm sure in 20 years it'll be an incredible asset to have :) x

Haha, exactly! I am so quick to lose interest, though I do love the simple spreads that some people manage to make. Just not something I could do! x

Unfortunately I can’t remember - I think it was somewhere like Paperchase or The Range (both UK shops) x

The inserts look a lot like one I got from Tiger, but mine has a different cover, 3 quid I believe

@@lurst yes mine wouldn’t have cost much more than that! I’ve had another look at the cover and I can’t see any other indications of where it is but I know we didn’t have a Flying Tiger in my area when I bought it. Mine is about 10 years old I think! X

Hi Teresa, which ones do you mean? I didn't have any book stamps when I made this video. I drew the squares for the book review/photo pages myself and then printed off the covers with my HP Sprocket x

@@IllustriousShadowPlans Thank you.

Aww, I’m glad it has inspired you! <3 I’m honoured to be your first quote 🥲 Happy journaling! X

No problem! I’m glad you found it useful :) I find an undated book feels like a lot less pressure as you’re not trying to keep up with a time constraint too. Hope that works out better for you! X

Thank you! It’s Arabian Nights I think, then Writers Blood. It feels so good to be caught up now! X

Ahh, that’s great! Hope your update went well. It feels so good to have it up to date! X

Thank you 🥰 x

Thank you! I think that’s the lovely thing about these types of diaries - you can pick and choose what works for you and your life rather than being put in a box with premade prompts or pages. I’m glad you found some inspiration and hope you enjoy your diary when it arrives :) x

Thank you! That’s a really good tip, I will have to remember that :) Isn’t it lovely paper? X

It’s absolutely blowing me away and I’m so sad I didn’t get a chance to read it earlier - though I expect that reading it in school as a teen would not have been so impactful. Thursday Murder Club it is! X

Ahh, thank you! I will probably go for the Thursday Murder Club book then. I am loving Steinbeck but there’s only so much thinking I can do in a day! :D x

Yes! It’s climbing slowly! 302 now :) <3

Thank you! Yes it’s already really interesting to look back on last year. I agree, I think I might cover the bottom with some paper or something! It does feel like an odd design choice x

It’s such a great memory keeping exercise! Plus it’s making sure little things aren’t missed! The cover is so pretty, so pleased with it! X

Ah I'm glad you enjoyed it and found it relaxing! :) xx

It was such a good feeling wasn’t it! X

Thanks, glad you enjoyed the video! I should really use Little Bob more than I do. It's a lovely ink! x

Thanks for your comment! Yes, there is some kind of issue with the sound that's happening between me adding it and me uploading the videos. It's odd as on the video editing software the music is turned down to 20% and I've turned the speech up to 150% which sounds fine on my end but something seems to happen to the levels once it's uploaded! To avoid this my later videos don't have backing music. x

That's a good question Patrick! My gut instinct would be that the inks would likely bleed more as the heavier GSM papers tend to be rougher and fountain pen ink does better on a smoother paper (which is why I thought the Archer and Olive paper would work originally). The Tomoe River paper I've used here is roughly 70 GSM, the Archer and Olive I used in the last video was 160 GSM. I'm loading a lot of ink on the paper when I do the little swatches which causes the bulging and ghosting, when you write 'normally' you don't put so much down in one go so it's not a problem generally. x

​@IllustriousShadowPlans I am using Canson Mixed Media paper, it's 300 gsm and works excellently if you want to make individual swatch cards😊

@@tanjablume6343 Oh thank you! That's very useful to know. Unfortunately I just donated my Canson MM pad as I didn't use it very often. Doh! x

I had such high hopes for them - they look so cool! But they just don’t work 😑 x

@@IllustriousShadowPlans exactly....so cool and complete waste of time at the same time

Thanks, I will have to practice more. I think some of the blobs were definitely from having too much ink on the pen. I don't think I hold it in the best way either! x

That's very sensible. I should definitely have done that! It's tricky for me to justify buying 'another' notebook (especially when I've got the A+O lying around unused) but for this purpose perhaps even using my older Hobonichi Weeks note pages would have been a better choice. x

I really didn't expect it to be so bad! It's a shame as it was fun to do. Perhaps the dip pen also made it worse. I fear my inexperience and knowledge of paper quality/composition has been highlighted in this decision, ha! Yes, you'd think if they wanted to branch out in fountain pens they'd have paper that works with fountain pen ink really! x

Five, wow! That's a lot of work. Are you enjoying using them all? x

They are really popular and - tbf - very good for pens like Tomboe markers and heavier stamp inks. They don't have a lot of ghosting or bleed through because of the paper weight but just not great for fountain pen inks! I think most people don't use fountain pens in them. x

It’s a stunner! Hope you can get your hands on it soon x

Ah so pleased it helped! It’s a big pond to jump into be warned 😅 you’ll end up spending a lot of money on ink! Hope you get some that you really like. Both Diamine and d FWP are amazing producers!

If you’re wanting fountain pen friendly paper, tomoe river (it’s changed in the last couple years, so you may see some difference if you get some older paper compared to now), Claire fontaine, Mitsubishi bank paper, life, rhodia (doesn’t show sheening as well as others), Midori, stalogy, Iroful, etc.

I like my Kokuyo Campus papers similar to Tomoe River paper but more affordable. It's loose papers but I keep it in a binder. Bought mine on Amazon. Muji's loose papers are also supposed to be good for fountain pens. 😇🩷🙏🙌

I like my Kokuyo Campus papers similar to Tomoe River paper but more affordable. It's loose papers but I keep it in a binder. Bought mine on Amazon. Muji's loose papers are also supposed to be good for fountain pens. 😇🩷🙏🙌