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It’s like the difference between reading books and collecting books. 😂 Two very different hobbies. Both enjoyable but sometimes the collecting is more fun than the doing!
Can't remember the last time I bought a 'new' set of pages. Buy them once the year is well underway and they are much cheaper - and then you can get stuck-in with the white-out and your NEXT year is ready! I'm up to 2027...
I think we’ll see more “pre-order” launches as individual users lean on print-on-demand to design their ideal planners, mostly based on tweaks to products by popular brands.
@@zptwin2 That's great. It suggests business has stabilised -- kudos to her because it's very hard to start a new business especially in such a competitive field.
With the economy the way it is and getting worse by the day (at least where I live in Southern California), I think this may be the year that I make my own planner. I know my style (vertical) and like to decorate and have created my own covers along the way. I'm thinking of sticking with the Take a Note, but having a few bullet journals (Because I bought too many dang Rhodia journals this year that I haven't touched), and creating a few disc planners for a few dollars. I have used several digital calendar apps to keep it all together, and lots of worksheets (chores, spring cleaning, projects). It's not in the planning so much but in the doing. It's almost cyclical, btw, the "planner season" and then in January, the "planner regrets". If people used cash for all of this, what would they buy? LOL. They sure wouldn't have bought every Tomoe River paper planner and Hobonichi haul, I tell you that. It's not normal to spend over $800 on planners. I mean, Lochby planners are $10 and it's 68 gsm Tomoe River paper. Where are the planner channels who bought all the Hobonichi and then you see them with Paper Tess, or Wonderland, or by June have abandoned it all and are back in a bullet journal? It's nuts. I buy three planners in November and stick with it for a year at least That's how it's been before there was a planner community back in the 1990s.
Hard agree! I’m one of those people. I had to revisit my spending this month and realized it’s not a “how are people affording all these planners?” But rather let’s look at the marketing to make people feel like they NEED to try a new system. The FOMO is huge in this community. No, I don’t need to try 10 different planners! I just need to see things for how they are and realize it’s all business. Know what works for you and stick to it. Set a budget and realize too that other things in life matter more than a notebook. I think a lot of people (including myself) lose sight of this.
To add to this, negative and detrimental spending habits are encouraged in this community (and many others too). If you go to a friend and tell them you can’t decided between two planners the answer most of the time is “why not both? 🤪” “the more the merrier” “options are good” etc. We need a shift in how we think about choosing a system and sticking with it. Again, I include myself in all of this.
@@mvillalobos14 Last year was my first foray into this side of UA-cam, the stationery, and Tomoe River Planner side, and I was intrigued by the passion for the Hobonichi. It was everywhere. I subscribed to about a dozen channels. I wanted to be inspired by their light deco styles and enthusiasm for stationery. It was haul after haul after haul. I literally told one woman, "Did you just spend $400 on...a cover and planner from Hobonichi, and accessories? But you just ordered every size from Wonderland, Papertess, and now Sterling Ink? This is hard to believe." The backlash I used to get. I didn't care. I wanted to make sure that others out there knew that this wasn't normal. Sterling Ink. I like Catherine a lot and will buy one next year, but I know what I need it for. Work, basically. The UA-camr model (those who don't have any work, but use affiliate codes and views for $$$) is toxic. They'll say whatever they need to continue to get free stuff from the company OR to upsell to their "audience" and create the frenzy that they're a part of. I'd prefer to see planners talk about stationery and how they're using their 3 or 4 planners (Work planner, Personal, Health, etc...).
@@mvillalobos14 Definitely. It's easy to get excited about new stuff, but a system that you find that works for you...that's gold. It's possible that the system you love won't fit in the planner you like most and that's helpful to know what you need. NGL, I'm struggling financially, so setting a budget, sticking to it is a must, including having less time to watch planner channels. LOL
And here I was, thinking I was an outlier. I also don‘t think it‘s normal to have six or seven additional planners lying around, especially if they are different systems as well! Last year, I bought one Hobonichi A6 (my go-to for years and years) and bought a weeks from someone else. Over the course of this year, I realized that I‘m mostly memory keeping in it and will probably switch to a blank notebook next year (of which I own plenty). It won‘t stop me from checking out the preview and maybe even getting a cover but I know myself and that I won‘t use more than three planners at once, even if I put everything in its own separate book. Pretty sure that almost no planner youtubers get a kick-back from Hobonichi but it‘s so strange how much the consumerism blew up recently, although we supposedly all paired down during the pandemic? And let‘s face it, hauls get views to no end, especially once the new releases roll in, so I understand it from that point of view. But I prefer watching people use their stuff instead of showing off blank pages.
For those who want/like 'customization', why not use a blank notebook and set it up to meet your specific requirements? Also, @RachelleinTheory, you could repurpose your unused, dated planners into ' junk journals or notebooks to give them a new lease of life. 😊
@xoloserlisaxo yeah, it can be, but it's so nice to have specificy AND a creative outlet too. That said, I have decorated pre printed planners too, making them more personal, & have adapted them to suit my needs to. The great thing about journalling (in its many forms) is that there's something for everyone and no rules!
Im just getting a Hobonichi Weeks and thats it! I love my weeks. I'll probably try and get a Weeks Mega for more pages, but i really love the botanical covers. Hmm.... Decisions.
I think undated releases are a popular option for brands to release midyear. But also, for small scale planner companies, they are less risky to invest in stock of since they won't time out.
@@JT1358 I’m more of a notebook person myself, but I’ve been seeing a lot of cute binders lately and I’m sure I could be tempted to try one in the future…
Used BuJos in the last few years, have a ton of half used/enoty notebooks lying in the drawer. And I am just so tired and overwhelmed with it so…. Bought this pretty ring cover, where calendar comes with it + am cutting out unused pages out of those notebooks to have pages for notes (in the rings) which I will not be afraid to “spoil/ruin etc”. Also implementing GTD System. And yes. Never felt so free in a planner/journal. Probably sticking to it for the following few years…
I'm dodging FOMO this year! I know what I need. A Hobonichi weeks. It's worked for years. Possibly an A6 hobonichi but that's it. If I don't look, I can't get FOMO lol
My ideal planner setup is a hybrid digital/paper system that I don't think exists yet but probably could, if not now then soon. I wish I could do all my planning on paper, scan it with my phone camera, it digitizes it and makes it searchable (recognizes my handwriting) and updates it to my Google calendar that I share with my family, as well as on screens that take the place of family calendars in the kitchen or hallway.
I really love my Laurel Denise undated planner - it is huge, but I just leave it at home as a home base planner. It allows you to look at your month and week so easily, so its easy for me visualize my brain dumps and refer back to them.
I started this year trying all kinds of things and I've noticed that I've gone for complete customization. I'm making my own things when it comes to daily planning and todo stuff. Only reason I would go out and buy premade stuff now is for journaling purposes because I prefer certain kinds of paper. Like a Tomoe River paper or something else super thin. I think the main thing I'll be getting for my planning will be a new printer so I can do double sided printing. My current one 'can' do that, but the position of the paper is always off
I will be using planners from Aura Estelle. Highly check them and they are offering both dated and undated TRP planners. My goal for this year is to find a structural planner that I can stick for one year. Size will be part of a determining factor.
I have not touched anything analog since March and am all over the place and forgetting things. I started back in my TN and my Hobonichi cousin today and feel so much more settled. Time seems tangible now and not something that flies around in the ether. I’ll probably stick with this system in 2025 without all the extra planners for health/garden/projects etc etc. I think I overloaded in the beginning of the year and needed to reset.
Yeah, I'm definitely in the same bucket. I am trying to not buy any 2025 planners and just figured out what I'll likely redate to use next year. I'm rn using a planner that I only had used for Jan and Feb, so I'm planning to use it for the rest of the year and then redate the other 5 months for 2025, and then I'll be using other partly used books from 2024 and 2023.
I’m switching from hobonichi cousin Avec to Jibun Techo. I’ve tried hobonichi cousin for 4 years now, 2 full year cousins, 1 day free a5, 1 day free a6, 1 cousin avec, 1 weeks. It’s an awesome planner but what I need is an A5 size of the weeklies with undated graph paper. I need half the cousin and half the days free in A5 hahaha So this year my planner stack is as follows 1. Jibun Techo Diary (will be my scheduler) 2. A plain Hobonichi Graph paper notebook(will be my bullet journal) 3. Take-A-Note Planner (faith journal)
I really like the idea of starting the morning with transferring the day's tasks onto paper. it feels like it would help you focus and stress lasts. I tried the Franklin one baby per day a few years ago because it had everything I technically needed, but… My brain/soul wanted my Hobonichi back. Then Soon capping the invented what I actually wanted (the B6 vertical weekly) and I'll be going into my third year in that model for everything, then Hobonichi Weeks for work. Because I, too, think in weeks
I'm done with buying planners. I'm creating my own. I've actually been using my own created planner and tweaking it as I go this year. Despite having purchased 5 different planners at the beginning of the year. Yeah. That's a lot of money and waste. I'm done with a pre-printed planner right now. I'm not thinking about past this year, either. I may change my mind. It doesn't matter. I gotta stop overthinking this.
It would be great if you could do a broad comparison between some of the leading brands selling bound Tomoe River planners. I know you couldn't possibly cover them all, there are so many choices, but just to help narrow it down! I love your charts and visuals, so something like: If you prefer holidays and moon phases included, look at Wonderland222; if you prefer Sunday start, here are some options; these brands offer horizontal weeklies; these options don't have inspirational quotes or wellness, etc...
I started with a bound planner, then I switched to a discbound. This has allowed me to switch planning style from month to month, depending on what I needed. With the return to the office, I am conscious of weight of my bag, so I frankenplan my planner for just one month. For bound planners, don’t hesitate to look as well at Hemlock and Oak, similar to Sterling Ink.
I've been discbound for 6 years now. It's fun to change everything every 6 months or so. Or seasonally. I just un-Frankenplanned mine a month ago. I try it every year and by June, it all falls apart on me. LOL
Are there any spiral-bound planners that you like? Have you heard of anyone cutting the binding off a Hobonichi, Sterling Ink, etc., and getting it spiral bound? I love having a planner that you can fold back on itself to just look at one page, take up less space on my desk, easy to carry around open to today’s stuff, etc.
Agendio offers tons of customization (almost to the point of being overwhelming) and offers a spiral bound option. I get my custom work planner unbound and unpunched from them so I can punch it and use it in my discbound planner, my preferred binding for being able to both fold back on itself and add/remove/rearrange the contents. Or, if you really want to convert a hardbound planner, Staples will cut the spine off and make it spiral bound for a reasonable price.
I love this video because I've also been thinking about 2025. Tbh, I don't know if I'm going to even buy a new planner next year. There are simply too many options (so many indie/boutique lines popping up this year) and I've been having major choice overload. 😭It's probably going to be me and a blank notebook next year.
My sister is still struggling to find a daily planner with hourly slots, one day per page in a bound notebook style, and with a cute cover. And I'm just trying to figure out my style (vertical, horizontal, weekly, daily?!) Lol So yeah, I feel you.
I use hyperlinked PDFs in Samsung Notes for my planner. (Similar apps are Goodnotes and Notability.) It's got all the benefits of paper and digital. I primarily use it on my Samsung tablet. I have a paper feel screen cover and write with the S-pen. It feels pretty close to writing with pen and paper, and I'm still writing things out longhand. But, I can erase mistakes (which bug the heck out of me when I write on paper). I can move things around, like moving tasks to the next day or changing appointment times. And, it syncs to the cloud, so I can use it on my phone (which also uses an S-pen) when I'm out and about. I don't have to worry about remembering my planner or carrying a bag so I can have it with me. Plus, pages like my quotes or other notes I can copy from one year to the next.
I don’t know what to select for 2025 but I know I want an undated vertical planner in A5 with 4x4 grid if possible. However, I don’t think my perfect planner exists. My perfect planner: A5 undated vertical layout planner with 200-300 blank grid pages or a blank version of the Take a Notes planner with extra pages at the end. The goals, yearly and monthly calendars are fine upfront but I don’t like too many blank pages in the beginning, which I may not use and have to repurpose. The big change is that I want my weeks and accompanying notes to be grouped together so I don’t have to flip to the back to find my notes. So I would like the vertical layout week to have 2 (or 4) blank grid pages after each week to jot down notes . And 100-200 blank grid pages at the end of the planner. I don’t have enough patience to draw out layouts hence my search for a planner. For 2024, I missed the undated Common Planner pre-order so I was contemplating the Take a Note either in A5 or B6, undated B6 Wonderland 222 or undated B6 Aura Estelle. I couldn’t find any Take a note planners locally when i finally made up my mind so I wound up with the B6 vertical Aura Estelle. I stopped using the Aura Estelle after 3 months because I write too large for the grid and running out of space each week. Then, I purchased a 2024 N1 Horizontal Common Planner. I liked the height but it is too narrow. I also didn’t use my planner for almost a month so waste of paper. I am still using the N1 but it is annoying to have to flip back to the end to continue my notes.
FYI fo any out there who need Sun start: chose Sterling Ink for this half year- her undated could make that happen even though I have to write in a lot of numbers. Papertess puts the days written on her weeklies so I'd have to white them out and rewrite... so her undated might be good for intermittent planning, but not for the elusive Sun start!
I found a new fledgling company who have released A5 and Weeks size planners with TRP and also 80gsm paper which is unusual. Looks good, worth checking out as an option. The Rosey Life Planner. Really good option if you hate the Hobonichi colours and writing at the bottom of the pages.
I started traveling and no longer had a need for a daily planner. After buying three planners I finally found one that I think is going to work! I'm using a student planner, I like having the different sections for each day!
I’m glad to hear someone else loving and needing to have paper as a go-to for thinking through a project. I also think best on paper and hate reading important documents on digital formatting. I need my paper products!
I redate my planners all the time. It doesn't take much effort actually to do that. Started that with happy planner but I plan to do that also with my jibun techo that I bought from sale on this summer. I have been trying different planner from sales on this year with my planner crisis with need to find something that is lighter to carry than what my happy planner is. I wish I could have found hobonichi techo in A5 size too to try but that didn't happen. I need the vertical spread for my week and I think I Iike to have week with 24 hour day in my carry on planner. It is nice to see in where things are going timewise inside my day. It gives me better picture from that when I see it visually. I just wish that I could find the jibun techo in full A5 size bc just now I don't see myself using the daily section much. But maybe I will end up trying the hobonichi avec to see if I could find some use out of it. The planner crisis is still going on and not fan of it since I thought I already had found my planner peace lol.
I just ordered a Sterling Ink academic planner to try out, but I've been having much success with my tried-and-true Ink + Volt planner. I have already purchased and set it up for 2025! However, I'm intrigued by the Sterling Ink for the blank daily pages, because I keep trying to get into a journaling habit, but can't seem to fully integrate it into my life. I'm hoping that having it attached to a planner will help, since I look at/write in/update my planner every day.
I bought way too many planners this year that went to waste. I'm a horizontal girl, and I really love my TN for on the go, monthlies, weeklies, and reference. I'll be sticking with that, and I'm thinking about getting the Aura Estelle weekly (basically a b6 size hobo weeks) and adding that as part of my TN system. For everything else, I'm thinking total bujo. I have a large stash of notebooks from various makers with various papers, and I'm really just feeling like filling them up one by one.
I am tired of having so many unused dated pages in my Hobonichi, so this year I plan to try out the sterling ink day planner. Dated Monthly and weekly, with an attached blank notebook! YES YES YES!!!
I have been loving the Sterling Ink Booklet planners. I can mix dated and undated. My monthly is dated, for appointments, etc. My schedule is weird but predictable- my schedule depends on the days which are self-similar, and none of the days are similar to each other. So the undated vertical weekly lets me put all my mondays together, tuesdays together, etc. I’m only writing repetitive tasks and scheduling once and can just draw a line across. Also because I work Saturdays and a lot of planners chop off weekend days, so i get a full vertical for saturdays this way, and can skip a page for my non-work weekday which is always a waste of space in a dated planner. It took me YEARS to figure out this method for myself. I’ve used printables or printed my own in the past, but the slim booklet size tempted me and it has worked great. *edit* I also think these would be great for those who need that format sometimes for a highly scheduled day, but not every day for the whole year. They are thin enough to just tuck in my personal planner like a fat bookmark.
I definitely see people using more rings and discs this year but with more interest in putting together their own planners as opposed to the prepackaged ones. I agree that I’m seeing a lot more undated options and also a lot more companies that offer many sizes, as opposed to just A5 and B6.
In the last 6 months, I’ve switched over to using just a Filofax refillable notebook. I have daily pages handwritten in the front (I don’t try to make these particularly artistic, like some of the fancy bullet journals, but I do use colour and paste things in) - this section is a combined daily diary (appointments & to-dos) and artistic journal (freeform writing, quick ideas, drawing or diagramming) and ultimately goes up on my website as part of a PhD project on making a composer’s everyday life visible to others. Then I have a section of blank pages, for random note-taking, then weekly and monthly planning sections (currently handwritten but I’m planning on creating printable versions eventually to save some time). Because I can add any type of paper anywhere in the book, I also keep a selection of pre-printed paper (colourful brochures, pages from fallen-apart novels, etc.) in the back which I can insert as needed for altered-book journaling, which I have found helpful in the past but no longer want to carry around a separate volume for something I only do occasionally. All this in just one slim(mish) book that fits nicely in whatever bag I’m using!
Nolty 6501 is a good vertical planner. I’m using it for 2024 for work and will again in 2025. I like that the paper is not as finicky and it just has a clean simple layout. It’s A5 slim very portable but with a little more writing room.
I've gone back and forth on dated and undated (did a video even!), I kept skipping days so tried undated but then discovered that the dates/structure gave me motivation. It really is trial and error 😆... and also different season in our lives. Customisable gets overwhelming for me, and I have the planners/diaries types I love anyway. I love that the option is out there for people - might help in really zeroing on what works for them. tfs :)
i stuck a weekly overview at the beginning of the week in the daily spread and that was a game changer (most applicable to thin paper like the tomoe river)
My biggest change for my planner system next will be using a main planner with white/off colored paper instead of dark blue. Don’t get me wrong dark blue has interesting and fun but I’m so ready to use more than my gel pens.
Have never understood how folk use vertical!! My favourite horizontal is the Weeks format but in A5 - leuchtturm does one and it's great with a whole page for running to-do list.
This might feel a little early for most people, but my busiest time of the year is October through January, so I appreciate an early start, lol. I’ll keep using the same discbound planner inserts from Agendio for my work planner that I’ve used for the last six years. For personal planning, I switched from Hobonichi weeks last year to Filofax this year and am open to insert options as I continue to dial in my system. This year, I’ve been using the Filofax inserts that came with the binder, but I think I want to branch out in 2025. For my dailies, which includes a fair amount of wellness tracking, I’ve been using Pen + Gear Undated Daily Planners - one month to a passport-sized booklet, 12 different colored booklets in a slip case for just under $6. I tuck the month into my Filofax or take it out on its own. I bought two sets, so I’m covered for daily planning for the nearly the next two years!
I find my planner peace and already buyed my favorites for 2025. Two Moleskine pockets, one is the monthly with notebook for on the go and the other is the daily planner. I like the handy size and I feel no guilt if I left some pages empty, like in bigger notebooks. I have a separate planner for work and there I have a Moleskine Pro with months AND weeks. The perfect planner for work dates and project-planning. I like Moleskine a lot 😅
I'm considering getting a 2025 planner with a weekly vertical layout. I'm undecided on whether to choose rings or a bound style, and I'm thinking of a B6 size. Thank you for sharing your good points in your video!
Useful overview of what’s around, thanks! I also use the SICP for work (I use the Sat and Sun columns to list all my priorities and actions I capture during the week). But I have decided to retire in September which, in theory at least, means I will be far more active in my personal life during what are currently previous work hours, so I’m starting to think about what I need for 2025.
I’m hoping to find a bundled B5 with months and horizontal weeks, and the blank daily pages. This works for me along with small months only calendar I carry with me for appointments. The Papertess annual planner has a great layout but as a B6 I don’t enjoy using it because it is too small.
I’m going back and forth this year. While I love the idea of the common planner, I’m not sure I use it enough plus I have been frustrated with her business (and the Facebook group). I’m not sure if the planner is worth the hassle it always feels like, compared to just going back to bullet journaling.
I put my bestie onto undated planners ages ago because she's heavily impacted in this regard by her adhd, but also commandeered by ocd's rules. if she missed more than a day, she would ditch her $100+ Steph Pase planner she loved until the next year. But she didn't want to bujo because she didn't believe she could -- and aesthetic draw I suppose too.
i need dated planners since I'm back in school!!! especially because we have variable schedules every day. I've been using Apple Calendar because it syncs with Canvas, but also having a physical planner is just as important to me, so I started using the NOLTY weekly planner in the summer and hope to purchase another one for 2025 when it goes on sale.
Thanks for your thoughtful videos, I’ve learned a lot! I’ve been enjoying the undated Purpose Planner by RoteRunner. I do my weekly set up with it but there’s room for goal setting, annual planning, and blank pages between the weeks (for however you wish to use them). I combine it with my EDC Field Notes, where I capture to-dos, notes and other thoughts on the go.
I'm interested in when that fitness planner is released. I like that more thought out daily planners are trending for next year. i prefer undated planners and todo lists because i waste less pages since i sometimes dont use my planner regularly.
I found undated passion planner weekly and daily to be a good middle ground to this. I’m trying an academic planner from Erin Condren for school this next year
Hi Rachelle! Just came across your YT channel and I can totally relate to your planner system! I cannot go by without a basic notebook (I love dotted notebooks!) while having a Hobonichi Weeks for my functional planner and the Nothing Planner for memory keeping. I'm missing the vertical layout so I'm rethinking of going back to Hobonichi Cousin Avec for 2025 but I'm still thinking about it. Love your channel
I am proud of myself that my 2024 B6 All-in-One is pretty up-to-date regarding monthlies and weeklies. That said, as much as I like it I am still drawn to think of other planners for 2025 including an Inkwell Press (discs) goal planner and inserts for work and then maybe an old school A5 Notebook Therapy Bujo? I also like to have rings in my system and I cannot imagine a year without Tomhoe River Paper!!! Too many planners? WHYYYYY????? LOL
Have you ever tried using a digital notebook like a Remarkable or Supernote? It seems like that would be a good way to kind of bridge the gap between paper and digital so you're not going through all of your notes twice.
Not many changes for me for the moment. Work is separate from personal and is all-digital due to the nature of the work. Personal stuff is digital for appointments (Apple Calendar) and notes (mostly Obsidian but some Notion). I wish Notion Calendar had more functionality and integration than it does today. Might start carrying a notebook for writing ideas on a space-available basis, and look into a planner for time logging and journaling.
I switched to hobonichi plain notebook (Keiko Shibata Who Is it) last March for jounaling, and i def won't finished that this year, so I'd probabpy not buy one for journaling, unless the plain notebook designs are tempting (i'd prob buy and just store when i run out with my current). For work, i currently thinking of switching to plain small size planner, prob a hobo a6 plain or kinbor week plain, I'm currently using the kinbor weeks and it had been working for the past months, but our system at work kinda changed which makes my kinbor set up not work anymore, so I think a more flexible notebook would work now - with more focus on notetaking. Def either hobo or kinbor, i just think the paper and grid sizes for those 2, works well for my tiny handwriting. And the just love the paper quality... i know some have complaints about the new tomoe, but i've been loving it tbh, as a lefty, i find it that it dries faster than the old paper.
I don't understand how on earth people function with all these planners. I pick one planner every year and make it work. I like things to be mostly functional but I challenge myself to decorate with doodles, ink colors etc to jazz it up. This year I did buy an 18 month planner to use for garden planning, weather, plant & harvest, seed inventory and maybe journal a bit but even that kinda stresses me out a bit because i dont want that to be a wasteful purchase - i think i will use for multiple years sine the days of the week wont matter so much as the day of the year/harvest cycle. I wonder if some of the minute tracking in the planning world is a way of feeling in control in an out of control world. Just some random Sunday thoughts.
I'll add, this year I used a sterling ink, first time with the thin paper and it took some adjustment but ended up loving it and the flexibility. This year I'm about 95% sure I'll try just scribbles planner- and a maybe secondary notebook for jotting down notes, working lists. I have some disc bound notebooks I am turning into reference 'binders' for those inevitable papers that I want to reference again - dog med dosing, kid sizing, gift ideas, packing lists - I don't want to recreate those every year or lose them in the digital world. I'm trying to shift more and more to reference and planner is just month week daily activities.
With you there - how do folk find the time to keep five planners going? I have two (A5 and Personal) which basically mirror each other. And that's it. The A5 has week on one page with notes opposite for a running to-do list and if I could only have one that would be it. Simple.
they have a website that says when you can utilize planners again! its allowed me to purchase really old planners I've found with a thought of maybe using them in 2032 haha
Thanks for your video as always ! Next year I’m thinking to go for a Traveler’s Notebook for more room, more flexibility and handling the bulk of memory keeping a bit better 😅 This year I had my first Hobonichi, a weeks mega, and it’s slightly to small for me. It’s also getting destroyed by the bulking 😢 Will you have a TN in your lineup again ?
15:00 she didn’t write anything in because she wanted people to choose for themselves how and what they want to do with that space I’ve seen people just stamp or write in the quarters ect book reading goals ect ect but yes I thought the same it was to empty but once o realized I had more choice I really enjoyed it
My absolute dream calendar is a Moleskine A4…. BUT with a A3 spread calendar. Who writes that small??? I had high hopes for the new Student Life planner. Nope, still with these time calendar spreads. I’m a teacher. I really would love the space.
I’m not usually much of a planning geek, so I’ve got a question for this comments section. I’m starting grad school late August and wanted to switch to an academic year planner (maybe July to June or so), but I can only really find 17/18 month planners. Is this normal? Is this new? Why must they make me carry around this extra bulk?? I want to avoid undated things currently because I want the planning process to take as little time as possible.
I have used plum paper mostly (always a custom planner). I think the people that use one planner will probably stick to dated... I have several undated options and I find it too cumbersome so I just don't plan which is totally counterproductive haha 😂
Check out the notebooks that justscribble's new planner. Here's the youtube video link: ua-cam.com/video/o7toixg-aOg/v-deo.html I decided for 2025 that I would go with the justscribble planner. I have been using Hobinechi Cousin planners for several years. My biggest issue is that I am constantly flipping back and forth between the monthly, weekly and daily pages. I wanted a planner that has them all together rather than separate. The justscribble planner has them together which appeals to me. In addition, I like the two book idea.
I’m looking forward to my setup for 2025! I’m more of a bullet journaler for personal use but I am looking for a planner that at least has the months laid out for me. I’m thinking hobinichi day free for that but we’ll see. I reallyyyy need a calendar view for my month but want the flexibility of doing my own weeks and days. For work, I am leaning towards sterling ink because of her quarterly pages. I will be in quarterly/project planning kind of role and love the layout of her planners. Do you know if her a5 common size fits into a hobonichi cousin a5 cover?
This video left me totally confused. You jump topics, talk about why you needed digital media only to explain why going back. Then, you complain about a dated planner, explain that you were not able to fill it and now accuse the planner layout instead to ask why you were not able to live up with the dated planner? I think you should go over your script one more time before recording a video.
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I like thinking and planning for the next year…more than I enjoy actually living it. 😊
This made me chuckle! And I agree 😂
same lol
It’s like the difference between reading books and collecting books. 😂 Two very different hobbies. Both enjoyable but sometimes the collecting is more fun than the doing!
If you hold on to your unused dated planner for 6 years, the days and dates will match again! 😂 you’ll only have to change the year to 2030… 😏
I literally just did this with a 2019 hobo weeks 🤣
Doesn’t work with leap years! They only repeat every 28 years. Next calendar like 2024 will be 2052.
Can't remember the last time I bought a 'new' set of pages. Buy them once the year is well underway and they are much cheaper - and then you can get stuck-in with the white-out and your NEXT year is ready! I'm up to 2027...
I think we’ll see more “pre-order” launches as individual users lean on print-on-demand to design their ideal planners, mostly based on tweaks to products by popular brands.
Sterling Ink is specifcally doing away with the pre order launch for 2025!
@@zptwin2 That's great. It suggests business has stabilised -- kudos to her because it's very hard to start a new business especially in such a competitive field.
With the economy the way it is and getting worse by the day (at least where I live in Southern California), I think this may be the year that I make my own planner. I know my style (vertical) and like to decorate and have created my own covers along the way.
I'm thinking of sticking with the Take a Note, but having a few bullet journals (Because I bought too many dang Rhodia journals this year that I haven't touched), and creating a few disc planners for a few dollars.
I have used several digital calendar apps to keep it all together, and lots of worksheets (chores, spring cleaning, projects).
It's not in the planning so much but in the doing.
It's almost cyclical, btw, the "planner season" and then in January, the "planner regrets". If people used cash for all of this, what would they buy? LOL. They sure wouldn't have bought every Tomoe River paper planner and Hobonichi haul, I tell you that. It's not normal to spend over $800 on planners. I mean, Lochby planners are $10 and it's 68 gsm Tomoe River paper.
Where are the planner channels who bought all the Hobonichi and then you see them with Paper Tess, or Wonderland, or by June have abandoned it all and are back in a bullet journal? It's nuts. I buy three planners in November and stick with it for a year at least That's how it's been before there was a planner community back in the 1990s.
Hard agree! I’m one of those people. I had to revisit my spending this month and realized it’s not a “how are people affording all these planners?” But rather let’s look at the marketing to make people feel like they NEED to try a new system. The FOMO is huge in this community. No, I don’t need to try 10 different planners! I just need to see things for how they are and realize it’s all business. Know what works for you and stick to it. Set a budget and realize too that other things in life matter more than a notebook. I think a lot of people (including myself) lose sight of this.
To add to this, negative and detrimental spending habits are encouraged in this community (and many others too). If you go to a friend and tell them you can’t decided between two planners the answer most of the time is “why not both? 🤪” “the more the merrier” “options are good” etc.
We need a shift in how we think about choosing a system and sticking with it.
Again, I include myself in all of this.
@@mvillalobos14 Last year was my first foray into this side of UA-cam, the stationery, and Tomoe River Planner side, and I was intrigued by the passion for the Hobonichi. It was everywhere. I subscribed to about a dozen channels.
I wanted to be inspired by their light deco styles and enthusiasm for stationery.
It was haul after haul after haul. I literally told one woman, "Did you just spend $400 on...a cover and planner from Hobonichi, and accessories? But you just ordered every size from Wonderland, Papertess, and now Sterling Ink? This is hard to believe." The backlash I used to get. I didn't care. I wanted to make sure that others out there knew that this wasn't normal.
Sterling Ink. I like Catherine a lot and will buy one next year, but I know what I need it for. Work, basically.
The UA-camr model (those who don't have any work, but use affiliate codes and views for $$$) is toxic. They'll say whatever they need to continue to get free stuff from the company OR to upsell to their "audience" and create the frenzy that they're a part of.
I'd prefer to see planners talk about stationery and how they're using their 3 or 4 planners (Work planner, Personal, Health, etc...).
@@mvillalobos14 Definitely. It's easy to get excited about new stuff, but a system that you find that works for you...that's gold. It's possible that the system you love won't fit in the planner you like most and that's helpful to know what you need.
NGL, I'm struggling financially, so setting a budget, sticking to it is a must, including having less time to watch planner channels. LOL
And here I was, thinking I was an outlier. I also don‘t think it‘s normal to have six or seven additional planners lying around, especially if they are different systems as well! Last year, I bought one Hobonichi A6 (my go-to for years and years) and bought a weeks from someone else. Over the course of this year, I realized that I‘m mostly memory keeping in it and will probably switch to a blank notebook next year (of which I own plenty). It won‘t stop me from checking out the preview and maybe even getting a cover but I know myself and that I won‘t use more than three planners at once, even if I put everything in its own separate book.
Pretty sure that almost no planner youtubers get a kick-back from Hobonichi but it‘s so strange how much the consumerism blew up recently, although we supposedly all paired down during the pandemic? And let‘s face it, hauls get views to no end, especially once the new releases roll in, so I understand it from that point of view. But I prefer watching people use their stuff instead of showing off blank pages.
For those who want/like 'customization', why not use a blank notebook and set it up to meet your specific requirements? Also, @RachelleinTheory, you could repurpose your unused, dated planners into ' junk journals or notebooks to give them a new lease of life. 😊
I feel like that’s bullet journaling and it gets time consuming at least for me
@xoloserlisaxo yeah, it can be, but it's so nice to have specificy AND a creative outlet too. That said, I have decorated pre printed planners too, making them more personal, & have adapted them to suit my needs to. The great thing about journalling (in its many forms) is that there's something for everyone and no rules!
Im just getting a Hobonichi Weeks and thats it! I love my weeks. I'll probably try and get a Weeks Mega for more pages, but i really love the botanical covers. Hmm.... Decisions.
I think undated releases are a popular option for brands to release midyear. But also, for small scale planner companies, they are less risky to invest in stock of since they won't time out.
I feel like dated planners hold me accountable to use it every day. when i had one without dates i just never used it lol
I was thinking the same
I miss planner Rachel 🥲
same 🥺
1 weekly planner
1 blank notebook for meetings
+ google drive por notetaking from classes
I’ve been seeing a lot of people using binders, like the filofax, instead of a notebook. I think that’s gonna be huge next year too
For sure. The flexibility is a huge plus
They've been around for over 100 years so must be getting something right! I love them, but do have a hankering for a Leuchtturm now and again.
@@JT1358 I’m more of a notebook person myself, but I’ve been seeing a lot of cute binders lately and I’m sure I could be tempted to try one in the future…
Used BuJos in the last few years, have a ton of half used/enoty notebooks lying in the drawer. And I am just so tired and overwhelmed with it so…. Bought this pretty ring cover, where calendar comes with it + am cutting out unused pages out of those notebooks to have pages for notes (in the rings) which I will not be afraid to “spoil/ruin etc”. Also implementing GTD System.
And yes. Never felt so free in a planner/journal. Probably sticking to it for the following few years…
I'm dodging FOMO this year! I know what I need. A Hobonichi weeks. It's worked for years. Possibly an A6 hobonichi but that's it. If I don't look, I can't get FOMO lol
For a weekly overview and daily pages, there are some great options from Aura Estelle. And the new bundled planner from Just Scribble looks fantastic!
My ideal planner setup is a hybrid digital/paper system that I don't think exists yet but probably could, if not now then soon. I wish I could do all my planning on paper, scan it with my phone camera, it digitizes it and makes it searchable (recognizes my handwriting) and updates it to my Google calendar that I share with my family, as well as on screens that take the place of family calendars in the kitchen or hallway.
I really love my Laurel Denise undated planner - it is huge, but I just leave it at home as a home base planner. It allows you to look at your month and week so easily, so its easy for me visualize my brain dumps and refer back to them.
I started this year trying all kinds of things and I've noticed that I've gone for complete customization. I'm making my own things when it comes to daily planning and todo stuff. Only reason I would go out and buy premade stuff now is for journaling purposes because I prefer certain kinds of paper. Like a Tomoe River paper or something else super thin. I think the main thing I'll be getting for my planning will be a new printer so I can do double sided printing. My current one 'can' do that, but the position of the paper is always off
I will be using planners from Aura Estelle. Highly check them and they are offering both dated and undated TRP planners. My goal for this year is to find a structural planner that I can stick for one year. Size will be part of a determining factor.
I have not touched anything analog since March and am all over the place and forgetting things. I started back in my TN and my Hobonichi cousin today and feel so much more settled. Time seems tangible now and not something that flies around in the ether. I’ll probably stick with this system in 2025 without all the extra planners for health/garden/projects etc etc. I think I overloaded in the beginning of the year and needed to reset.
Yeah, I'm definitely in the same bucket.
I am trying to not buy any 2025 planners and just figured out what I'll likely redate to use next year. I'm rn using a planner that I only had used for Jan and Feb, so I'm planning to use it for the rest of the year and then redate the other 5 months for 2025, and then I'll be using other partly used books from 2024 and 2023.
2019-2023 I used a Hobo Weeks Mega. 2024 I opted for an A6 Day Free and it was a huge mistake. Will definitely be going back to the Weeks in 2025.
I’m switching from hobonichi cousin Avec to Jibun Techo. I’ve tried hobonichi cousin for 4 years now, 2 full year cousins, 1 day free a5, 1 day free a6, 1 cousin avec, 1 weeks. It’s an awesome planner but what I need is an A5 size of the weeklies with undated graph paper. I need half the cousin and half the days free in A5 hahaha
So this year my planner stack is as follows
1. Jibun Techo Diary (will be my scheduler)
2. A plain Hobonichi Graph paper notebook(will be my bullet journal)
3. Take-A-Note Planner (faith journal)
I really like the idea of starting the morning with transferring the day's tasks onto paper. it feels like it would help you focus and stress lasts. I tried the Franklin one baby per day a few years ago because it had everything I technically needed, but… My brain/soul wanted my Hobonichi back. Then Soon capping the invented what I actually wanted (the B6 vertical weekly) and I'll be going into my third year in that model for everything, then Hobonichi Weeks for work. Because I, too, think in weeks
I'm done with buying planners. I'm creating my own. I've actually been using my own created planner and tweaking it as I go this year. Despite having purchased 5 different planners at the beginning of the year. Yeah. That's a lot of money and waste. I'm done with a pre-printed planner right now. I'm not thinking about past this year, either. I may change my mind. It doesn't matter. I gotta stop overthinking this.
It would be great if you could do a broad comparison between some of the leading brands selling bound Tomoe River planners. I know you couldn't possibly cover them all, there are so many choices, but just to help narrow it down! I love your charts and visuals, so something like: If you prefer holidays and moon phases included, look at Wonderland222; if you prefer Sunday start, here are some options; these brands offer horizontal weeklies; these options don't have inspirational quotes or wellness, etc...
I started with a bound planner, then I switched to a discbound. This has allowed me to switch planning style from month to month, depending on what I needed. With the return to the office, I am conscious of weight of my bag, so I frankenplan my planner for just one month. For bound planners, don’t hesitate to look as well at Hemlock and Oak, similar to Sterling Ink.
I've been discbound for 6 years now. It's fun to change everything every 6 months or so. Or seasonally.
I just un-Frankenplanned mine a month ago. I try it every year and by June, it all falls apart on me. LOL
I love my Hemlock & Oak Minimalist A5 planner!
Have you heard of Just Scribble new planner? She’s on UA-cam and she’s coming out with a new planner for 2025.
Are there any spiral-bound planners that you like? Have you heard of anyone cutting the binding off a Hobonichi, Sterling Ink, etc., and getting it spiral bound? I love having a planner that you can fold back on itself to just look at one page, take up less space on my desk, easy to carry around open to today’s stuff, etc.
Agendio offers tons of customization (almost to the point of being overwhelming) and offers a spiral bound option. I get my custom work planner unbound and unpunched from them so I can punch it and use it in my discbound planner, my preferred binding for being able to both fold back on itself and add/remove/rearrange the contents. Or, if you really want to convert a hardbound planner, Staples will cut the spine off and make it spiral bound for a reasonable price.
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I love this video because I've also been thinking about 2025. Tbh, I don't know if I'm going to even buy a new planner next year. There are simply too many options (so many indie/boutique lines popping up this year) and I've been having major choice overload. 😭It's probably going to be me and a blank notebook next year.
🙌 Nothing wrong with that!
My sister is still struggling to find a daily planner with hourly slots, one day per page in a bound notebook style, and with a cute cover.
And I'm just trying to figure out my style (vertical, horizontal, weekly, daily?!)
Lol
So yeah, I feel you.
It’s crazy overwhelming. And really, they are so much more similar than they are different, so it really doesn’t even matter which I would buy.
I use hyperlinked PDFs in Samsung Notes for my planner. (Similar apps are Goodnotes and Notability.) It's got all the benefits of paper and digital.
I primarily use it on my Samsung tablet. I have a paper feel screen cover and write with the S-pen. It feels pretty close to writing with pen and paper, and I'm still writing things out longhand.
But, I can erase mistakes (which bug the heck out of me when I write on paper). I can move things around, like moving tasks to the next day or changing appointment times.
And, it syncs to the cloud, so I can use it on my phone (which also uses an S-pen) when I'm out and about. I don't have to worry about remembering my planner or carrying a bag so I can have it with me.
Plus, pages like my quotes or other notes I can copy from one year to the next.
I don’t know what to select for 2025 but I know I want an undated vertical planner in A5 with 4x4 grid if possible. However, I don’t think my perfect planner exists.
My perfect planner: A5 undated vertical layout planner with 200-300 blank grid pages or a blank version of the Take a Notes planner with extra pages at the end. The goals, yearly and monthly calendars are fine upfront but I don’t like too many blank pages in the beginning, which I may not use and have to repurpose.
The big change is that I want my weeks and accompanying notes to be grouped together so I don’t have to flip to the back to find my notes. So I would like the vertical layout week to have 2 (or 4) blank grid pages after each week to jot down notes . And 100-200 blank grid pages at the end of the planner. I don’t have enough patience to draw out layouts hence my search for a planner.
For 2024, I missed the undated Common Planner pre-order so I was contemplating the Take a Note either in A5 or B6, undated B6 Wonderland 222 or undated B6 Aura Estelle. I couldn’t find any Take a note planners locally when i finally made up my mind so I wound up with the B6 vertical Aura Estelle.
I stopped using the Aura Estelle after 3 months because I write too large for the grid and running out of space each week. Then, I purchased a 2024 N1 Horizontal Common Planner. I liked the height but it is too narrow. I also didn’t use my planner for almost a month so waste of paper. I am still using the N1 but it is annoying to have to flip back to the end to continue my notes.
FYI fo any out there who need Sun start: chose Sterling Ink for this half year- her undated could make that happen even though I have to write in a lot of numbers. Papertess puts the days written on her weeklies so I'd have to white them out and rewrite... so her undated might be good for intermittent planning, but not for the elusive Sun start!
I found a new fledgling company who have released A5 and Weeks size planners with TRP and also 80gsm paper which is unusual. Looks good, worth checking out as an option. The Rosey Life Planner. Really good option if you hate the Hobonichi colours and writing at the bottom of the pages.
I started traveling and no longer had a need for a daily planner. After buying three planners I finally found one that I think is going to work! I'm using a student planner, I like having the different sections for each day!
I’m glad to hear someone else loving and needing to have paper as a go-to for thinking through a project. I also think best on paper and hate reading important documents on digital formatting. I need my paper products!
I’m so ready for 2025!! Yes!! 🙌
I redate my planners all the time. It doesn't take much effort actually to do that. Started that with happy planner but I plan to do that also with my jibun techo that I bought from sale on this summer. I have been trying different planner from sales on this year with my planner crisis with need to find something that is lighter to carry than what my happy planner is. I wish I could have found hobonichi techo in A5 size too to try but that didn't happen.
I need the vertical spread for my week and I think I Iike to have week with 24 hour day in my carry on planner. It is nice to see in where things are going timewise inside my day. It gives me better picture from that when I see it visually. I just wish that I could find the jibun techo in full A5 size bc just now I don't see myself using the daily section much. But maybe I will end up trying the hobonichi avec to see if I could find some use out of it. The planner crisis is still going on and not fan of it since I thought I already had found my planner peace lol.
I already have a 2025 monthly planner from dollar tree. Yes it's cheap but it's a big step up from the wall calendar I've been relying on this year.
I just ordered a Sterling Ink academic planner to try out, but I've been having much success with my tried-and-true Ink + Volt planner. I have already purchased and set it up for 2025! However, I'm intrigued by the Sterling Ink for the blank daily pages, because I keep trying to get into a journaling habit, but can't seem to fully integrate it into my life. I'm hoping that having it attached to a planner will help, since I look at/write in/update my planner every day.
I bought way too many planners this year that went to waste. I'm a horizontal girl, and I really love my TN for on the go, monthlies, weeklies, and reference. I'll be sticking with that, and I'm thinking about getting the Aura Estelle weekly (basically a b6 size hobo weeks) and adding that as part of my TN system. For everything else, I'm thinking total bujo. I have a large stash of notebooks from various makers with various papers, and I'm really just feeling like filling them up one by one.
I am tired of having so many unused dated pages in my Hobonichi, so this year I plan to try out the sterling ink day planner. Dated Monthly and weekly, with an attached blank notebook! YES YES YES!!!
I have been loving the Sterling Ink Booklet planners. I can mix dated and undated. My monthly is dated, for appointments, etc. My schedule is weird but predictable- my schedule depends on the days which are self-similar, and none of the days are similar to each other. So the undated vertical weekly lets me put all my mondays together, tuesdays together, etc. I’m only writing repetitive tasks and scheduling once and can just draw a line across. Also because I work Saturdays and a lot of planners chop off weekend days, so i get a full vertical for saturdays this way, and can skip a page for my non-work weekday which is always a waste of space in a dated planner. It took me YEARS to figure out this method for myself. I’ve used printables or printed my own in the past, but the slim booklet size tempted me and it has worked great. *edit* I also think these would be great for those who need that format sometimes for a highly scheduled day, but not every day for the whole year. They are thin enough to just tuck in my personal planner like a fat bookmark.
I definitely see people using more rings and discs this year but with more interest in putting together their own planners as opposed to the prepackaged ones. I agree that I’m seeing a lot more undated options and also a lot more companies that offer many sizes, as opposed to just A5 and B6.
In the last 6 months, I’ve switched over to using just a Filofax refillable notebook. I have daily pages handwritten in the front (I don’t try to make these particularly artistic, like some of the fancy bullet journals, but I do use colour and paste things in) - this section is a combined daily diary (appointments & to-dos) and artistic journal (freeform writing, quick ideas, drawing or diagramming) and ultimately goes up on my website as part of a PhD project on making a composer’s everyday life visible to others. Then I have a section of blank pages, for random note-taking, then weekly and monthly planning sections (currently handwritten but I’m planning on creating printable versions eventually to save some time). Because I can add any type of paper anywhere in the book, I also keep a selection of pre-printed paper (colourful brochures, pages from fallen-apart novels, etc.) in the back which I can insert as needed for altered-book journaling, which I have found helpful in the past but no longer want to carry around a separate volume for something I only do occasionally. All this in just one slim(mish) book that fits nicely in whatever bag I’m using!
Do you use the clipbook or the spiral ring one for this?
I’m glad Sterling Ink isn’t doing a Pre-order this year she’s releasing her stuff in September ❤
I'll suggest checking out Kokuyo Jibun Techo: Lite or Biz version. They don't have an undated version but they have that vertical weekly style.
Nolty 6501 is a good vertical planner. I’m using it for 2024 for work and will again in 2025. I like that the paper is not as finicky and it just has a clean simple layout. It’s A5 slim very portable but with a little more writing room.
I've gone back and forth on dated and undated (did a video even!), I kept skipping days so tried undated but then discovered that the dates/structure gave me motivation. It really is trial and error 😆... and also different season in our lives.
Customisable gets overwhelming for me, and I have the planners/diaries types I love anyway. I love that the option is out there for people - might help in really zeroing on what works for them.
tfs :)
i stuck a weekly overview at the beginning of the week in the daily spread and that was a game changer (most applicable to thin paper like the tomoe river)
My biggest change for my planner system next will be using a main planner with white/off colored paper instead of dark blue. Don’t get me wrong dark blue has interesting and fun but I’m so ready to use more than my gel pens.
So happy to find you here. Your content is perfect for my brain. Thank you for sharing!
I think I’m switching to a horizontal weekly. I don’t have a lot to schedule so the vertical ends up being a lot of wasted space for me.
Have never understood how folk use vertical!! My favourite horizontal is the Weeks format but in A5 - leuchtturm does one and it's great with a whole page for running to-do list.
This might feel a little early for most people, but my busiest time of the year is October through January, so I appreciate an early start, lol. I’ll keep using the same discbound planner inserts from Agendio for my work planner that I’ve used for the last six years. For personal planning, I switched from Hobonichi weeks last year to Filofax this year and am open to insert options as I continue to dial in my system. This year, I’ve been using the Filofax inserts that came with the binder, but I think I want to branch out in 2025. For my dailies, which includes a fair amount of wellness tracking, I’ve been using Pen + Gear Undated Daily Planners - one month to a passport-sized booklet, 12 different colored booklets in a slip case for just under $6. I tuck the month into my Filofax or take it out on its own. I bought two sets, so I’m covered for daily planning for the nearly the next two years!
Can’t wait for your videos to the new planner season / hobonichi season ! 🤩
I find my planner peace and already buyed my favorites for 2025. Two Moleskine pockets, one is the monthly with notebook for on the go and the other is the daily planner. I like the handy size and I feel no guilt if I left some pages empty, like in bigger notebooks. I have a separate planner for work and there I have a Moleskine Pro with months AND weeks. The perfect planner for work dates and project-planning. I like Moleskine a lot 😅
I'm considering getting a 2025 planner with a weekly vertical layout. I'm undecided on whether to choose rings or a bound style, and I'm thinking of a B6 size. Thank you for sharing your good points in your video!
I love the idea of undated so there’s no waste if you dip in and out but also dating them urrggghh
My rings and weeks, are all I need ❤
An A5 and a Personal, that's all I need 😊
Love you Rachelle! Take care of you ♥
I redated my unused planners. They r way to expensive to toss or let sit around.
Useful overview of what’s around, thanks! I also use the SICP for work (I use the Sat and Sun columns to list all my priorities and actions I capture during the week). But I have decided to retire in September which, in theory at least, means I will be far more active in my personal life during what are currently previous work hours, so I’m starting to think about what I need for 2025.
I’m hoping to find a bundled B5 with months and horizontal weeks, and the blank daily pages. This works for me along with small months only calendar I carry with me for appointments. The Papertess annual planner has a great layout but as a B6 I don’t enjoy using it because it is too small.
Is there a way of adding a ring flap to a notebook to put it into a Filofax cover?
I love undated planners. I will be trying a dated planner for the first time next year.
I really like watching your videos more and more! Soothing!
I’m going back and forth this year. While I love the idea of the common planner, I’m not sure I use it enough plus I have been frustrated with her business (and the Facebook group). I’m not sure if the planner is worth the hassle it always feels like, compared to just going back to bullet journaling.
Definitely sticking to my standard midori as my mani planner with rings and other string sizes (A6 and passport) playing as support notebooks.
I put my bestie onto undated planners ages ago because she's heavily impacted in this regard by her adhd, but also commandeered by ocd's rules. if she missed more than a day, she would ditch her $100+ Steph Pase planner she loved until the next year. But she didn't want to bujo because she didn't believe she could -- and aesthetic draw I suppose too.
i need dated planners since I'm back in school!!! especially because we have variable schedules every day. I've been using Apple Calendar because it syncs with Canvas, but also having a physical planner is just as important to me, so I started using the NOLTY weekly planner in the summer and hope to purchase another one for 2025 when it goes on sale.
Thanks for your thoughtful videos, I’ve learned a lot! I’ve been enjoying the undated Purpose Planner by RoteRunner. I do my weekly set up with it but there’s room for goal setting, annual planning, and blank pages between the weeks (for however you wish to use them). I combine it with my EDC Field Notes, where I capture to-dos, notes and other thoughts on the go.
I'm interested in when that fitness planner is released. I like that more thought out daily planners are trending for next year. i prefer undated planners and todo lists because i waste less pages since i sometimes dont use my planner regularly.
I found undated passion planner weekly and daily to be a good middle ground to this. I’m trying an academic planner from Erin Condren for school this next year
Hi Rachelle! Just came across your YT channel and I can totally relate to your planner system! I cannot go by without a basic notebook (I love dotted notebooks!) while having a Hobonichi Weeks for my functional planner and the Nothing Planner for memory keeping. I'm missing the vertical layout so I'm rethinking of going back to Hobonichi Cousin Avec for 2025 but I'm still thinking about it. Love your channel
Makeselife has goal planning and undated. I ❤ their goal planning system❣️
I am proud of myself that my 2024 B6 All-in-One is pretty up-to-date regarding monthlies and weeklies. That said, as much as I like it I am still drawn to think of other planners for 2025 including an Inkwell Press (discs) goal planner and inserts for work and then maybe an old school A5 Notebook Therapy Bujo? I also like to have rings in my system and I cannot imagine a year without Tomhoe River Paper!!! Too many planners? WHYYYYY????? LOL
Love Hobonichi! And I prefer Leuchtturm notebooks in lieu of Moleskine.
Have you ever tried using a digital notebook like a Remarkable or Supernote? It seems like that would be a good way to kind of bridge the gap between paper and digital so you're not going through all of your notes twice.
Not many changes for me for the moment. Work is separate from personal and is all-digital due to the nature of the work. Personal stuff is digital for appointments (Apple Calendar) and notes (mostly Obsidian but some Notion). I wish Notion Calendar had more functionality and integration than it does today.
Might start carrying a notebook for writing ideas on a space-available basis, and look into a planner for time logging and journaling.
My goal this year is not to buy soooo much… maybe not look at hobonichi at all? Sterling Ink does not work for me because I cannot see the grids.
Daily for work and weekly for personal. very nice video.
what is the name of the brand she mentiond at 3.39? pibear planners? I looked it up and couldn't find anything
I switched to hobonichi plain notebook (Keiko Shibata Who Is it) last March for jounaling, and i def won't finished that this year, so I'd probabpy not buy one for journaling, unless the plain notebook designs are tempting (i'd prob buy and just store when i run out with my current). For work, i currently thinking of switching to plain small size planner, prob a hobo a6 plain or kinbor week plain, I'm currently using the kinbor weeks and it had been working for the past months, but our system at work kinda changed which makes my kinbor set up not work anymore, so I think a more flexible notebook would work now - with more focus on notetaking.
Def either hobo or kinbor, i just think the paper and grid sizes for those 2, works well for my tiny handwriting. And the just love the paper quality... i know some have complaints about the new tomoe, but i've been loving it tbh, as a lefty, i find it that it dries faster than the old paper.
I don't understand how on earth people function with all these planners. I pick one planner every year and make it work. I like things to be mostly functional but I challenge myself to decorate with doodles, ink colors etc to jazz it up. This year I did buy an 18 month planner to use for garden planning, weather, plant & harvest, seed inventory and maybe journal a bit but even that kinda stresses me out a bit because i dont want that to be a wasteful purchase - i think i will use for multiple years sine the days of the week wont matter so much as the day of the year/harvest cycle. I wonder if some of the minute tracking in the planning world is a way of feeling in control in an out of control world. Just some random Sunday thoughts.
I'll add, this year I used a sterling ink, first time with the thin paper and it took some adjustment but ended up loving it and the flexibility. This year I'm about 95% sure I'll try just scribbles planner- and a maybe secondary notebook for jotting down notes, working lists. I have some disc bound notebooks I am turning into reference 'binders' for those inevitable papers that I want to reference again - dog med dosing, kid sizing, gift ideas, packing lists - I don't want to recreate those every year or lose them in the digital world. I'm trying to shift more and more to reference and planner is just month week daily activities.
With you there - how do folk find the time to keep five planners going? I have two (A5 and Personal) which basically mirror each other. And that's it. The A5 has week on one page with notes opposite for a running to-do list and if I could only have one that would be it. Simple.
they have a website that says when you can utilize planners again! its allowed me to purchase really old planners I've found with a thought of maybe using them in 2032 haha
I’m trying just scribble this year.
yay! a planner video!
Thanks for your video as always ! Next year I’m thinking to go for a Traveler’s Notebook for more room, more flexibility and handling the bulk of memory keeping a bit better 😅 This year I had my first Hobonichi, a weeks mega, and it’s slightly to small for me. It’s also getting destroyed by the bulking 😢
Will you have a TN in your lineup again ?
I'm going undated for next year. Mostly because I need to customize things. I am also probably going back to school.
Muji has a great undated planner in my opinion!!
15:00 she didn’t write anything in because she wanted people to choose for themselves how and what they want to do with that space I’ve seen people just stamp or write in the quarters ect book reading goals ect ect but yes I thought the same it was to empty but once o realized I had more choice I really enjoyed it
My absolute dream calendar is a Moleskine A4…. BUT with a A3 spread calendar. Who writes that small??? I had high hopes for the new Student Life planner. Nope, still with these time calendar spreads. I’m a teacher. I really would love the space.
another great video! thank you
I’m not usually much of a planning geek, so I’ve got a question for this comments section. I’m starting grad school late August and wanted to switch to an academic year planner (maybe July to June or so), but I can only really find 17/18 month planners. Is this normal? Is this new? Why must they make me carry around this extra bulk?? I want to avoid undated things currently because I want the planning process to take as little time as possible.
Sterling Ink just released an Academic Year Planner - July 2024 to June 2025.
I have used plum paper mostly (always a custom planner). I think the people that use one planner will probably stick to dated... I have several undated options and I find it too cumbersome so I just don't plan which is totally counterproductive haha 😂
Check out the notebooks that justscribble's new planner. Here's the youtube video link: ua-cam.com/video/o7toixg-aOg/v-deo.html I decided for 2025 that I would go with the justscribble planner. I have been using Hobinechi Cousin planners for several years. My biggest issue is that I am constantly flipping back and forth between the monthly, weekly and daily pages. I wanted a planner that has them all together rather than separate. The justscribble planner has them together which appeals to me. In addition, I like the two book idea.
I’m looking forward to my setup for 2025! I’m more of a bullet journaler for personal use but I am looking for a planner that at least has the months laid out for me. I’m thinking hobinichi day free for that but we’ll see. I reallyyyy need a calendar view for my month but want the flexibility of doing my own weeks and days.
For work, I am leaning towards sterling ink because of her quarterly pages. I will be in quarterly/project planning kind of role and love the layout of her planners. Do you know if her a5 common size fits into a hobonichi cousin a5 cover?
Just to answer your question A5 SI common planner fits in hobonichi cover but i am not sure abiut the clear cover
This video was very good 👍🏻
This video left me totally confused. You jump topics, talk about why you needed digital media only to explain why going back.
Then, you complain about a dated planner, explain that you were not able to fill it and now accuse the planner layout instead to ask why you were not able to live up with the dated planner?
I think you should go over your script one more time before recording a video.
The fitness planner at 7:38 that you were sent, do you know if that is available online?
The comments are a dangerous place... I might have to research like 5 different planner brands I didn't know about.