i tested all of my hobonichi planners. I got several from hobonichi for 2024 and 2025. as far as 2025 goes, my yumi kitagishi weeks bleeds a lot more than my liberty fabrics weeks. my 2025 5 year is awful. i’ll only be able to use a uni jet stream. my 2025 day free avec is perfection. I have a hypothesis that it’s the old paper. nothing bled through and my fountain pen inks are glorious on it. it’s crazy how even within the various 2025 products the paper quality is so markedly different. my 2024 hobonichi products all perform better (excepting the 2025 day free, which, like I said, I think has the old TRP paper).
I tried using a TWSBI fountain pen with an extra fine nib on a 5-year Hobonichi (2025-2029) planner, and it bled through the paper. I'm really disappointed that I can't use my fountain pens with it, especially since that was my original intention. I feel like I was misled about the paper quality.
I’m so sorry. It used to be so much better. I think a lot of us are feeling that way right now though it appears the 5 year planners are the worse from what I’ve read. I did send off an email to Hobonichi hoping that maybe they can do something to address the issues but time will tell on that one. 🎉What ink did you use? I’m curious if it’s all fountain pens inks. My next experiment is going to be testing the ones I have to see if there are any that I won’t be able to use. I feel like medium nibs and larger are probably not a good option but I need to experiment to figure that out. Sigh wish this wasn’t a thing.
I'm a big time user for fountain pen inks and only use fountain inks for my planning. IMO I noticed a change in the paper in pretty much all the planners I bought for 2024 which is pretty sad. It's really not the same writing experience anymore and it makes me sad. I loved how the old paper had a smooth feel when writing and how the inks reacted differently when laid down on TRP back then. It was probably the main reason I got into fountain pens. Paper now seems like the manufacturer missed a step with the glossy top coat which is what prevented the feather and bleed through? Only issue with the older TRP was the drying time. However I loved the end result of my inks because of that! Thank you for sharing!!
@@magnolia_melody same! I got into fountain pens in part do to the paper in my planners and now I want to continue to use them but this next year it just doesn’t feel like that’s going to be as easy. The number of smeared pages I have because of drying time ahh ya let’s not think of that but I loved how everything looked once I figured that out. I do wonder if the big explosion of tomoe river paper planners on the market has something to do with the down fall. Maybe corners cut in order to meet demand needs because the old process took so long? It’s got to be hard on the business who bought the paper with certain expectations so they advertised it as such only to now start to get back lash. I feel like this will be a huge issue once people really start using their planners.
I just did a test on my SI 2024 version undated A5 common vs. SI 2025 A5 common and I feel like the 2025 actually had less bleed through and generally performed slightly better.
This video inspired me to swatch my 2025 Hobonichi A6 and I had no problems with any fountain pens (I only use F and EF). I had the same bleeding problem with the end of my mild-liner swatches, which wasn’t a problem with my 2024, though it wasn’t terrible. Disappointing that my most used highlighters have bleeding. Those of you who use broad nib fountain pens, are you having bleeding issues?
@@lillabjornco it’s so bad. I’m trying to be ok with it and look on the bright side though because I’ve already purchased them. I think your Papertess looked better than what I’m seeing but you’re totally right when you said in your video we shouldn’t be settling. Oh I need to add a link to your video let me do that in the comments.
@@MyMagicalPlanner That's another thing that really makes me sad, because a lot of us saved up in order to afford our planner 😪 It's not like we can just keep buying new ones 🥲 Also, omg thank you for the support! Let me link yours too 💞
Yeah pretty much anyone that uses Tomoe River Paper is likely to be affected because it's a paper manufacturing thing as opposed to something that would happen in the process of binding it into a book.
😢 I love hobonichi, but this year has been a disappointment. Last year, I could tell a difference in the paper. It was drier, so I used wetter inks no problem. This year, I ordered from the website all the prices went up,but I needed my 5 year. When I opened the box, there was a horrible odor, but thankfully, the planner didn't have it. My year does have bleed through. It's is upsetting because people spend good money to have this paper.
@@teresaslaughter1546 I also noticed the paper being more dry, and I've been describing it as "squeaky" lol! Someone mentioned to me that Hobonichi posted a survey specifically for the 5-year techo. I can send along the link if you would like 😇
I’m so sorry I tried stamping yesterday and was shocked at how bad it was, I thought maybe it was the stamp pad I had but your comment makes me think it’s probably not. Really missing the old paper this year.
Wow will you be trying the Wonderland222? I was going to get my 1st hobonichi cousin this year then all the complaintsabout the paper quality came out. I use jet stream but highlight a lot and doodle with markers, it doesn’t seem like 2025 cousin or common planner would work well with that 😢
@@CaliberDawn if I can get my hands on one I will (I have a friend who might have one I can buy from her since it’s sold out). I hate saying it won’t work but I’m worried at this point and I don’t know how bad it’s going to affect my planning until I’m in it. I’m telling my self it’s going to be ok but honestly I’m just not sure.
My Sterling Ink 2025 A6 is having less ghosting and no bleed through with Uni Pin pigment fineliners, Energel Clena 0.4, Energel 0.5, M, F and EF fountain pens with a variety of inks, a very juicy Pentel Brush Sign Pen in dark purple, Mildliners, the A&O ‘mildliner’, Zigg dot in metallic and pastel, Crayola Super Tip (dark blue,) Paper Mate Flair, Gelly Roll 1.0, Uni Signo 1.0 (both black.) Absolutely fine on all of those pens with less ghosting than my 2024 Hobonichi Cousin (and no bleeding…it doesn’t like the Ziggs in the pastel, but is weirdly fine with the very juicy and pigmented darkest metallic purple 🤷♀️ I didn’t try a permanent pen. A black Tombow Dual Brush Pen did bleed a little and the shadow might have been called a swatch of very dark grey (on both SI and H.) I just received my SI A5 2025 Common Planner so I’ll do a similar test to see if I have similar results. I had no problems with any of my Gel pens on the 2025, and there is less ghosting/shadowing on the SI A6 2025 than the HC 2024, and I press very hard (normally) and was using a needle tip for all except the Sarasa Vintage 0.5 with no bleed through and less ghosting. I’m really impressed with the SI. To me, the paper feels much smoother and more ‘coated’ for the 2025 SI A6, and I prefer it much more to the Cousin. Hopefully I have similar results with the A5 SI when I get to pen testing it.
@@MyMagicalPlanner You’re welcome! I was curious since I had seen the issues with, in particular, the Hobonichi 5 Year 2025. I hope the A5 SI Common Planner does as well as the A6 did. I figured listing off the specific pens was more helpful than saying “my fineliners, gel pens and fountain pens worked fine, so yours must be a bad one,” because different brand pens do different things. I know several of the inks were black Kaweco cartridges, and some others were browns and a sparkly purple I was trying at a stationery shop, so idk the name/brand. A dip pen into black ink also didn’t bleed (and wrote really nicely! I’ve never tried a dip pen before! If I wasn’t the person who spills stuff all the time, I might consider sitting around with an open bottle of ink on my desk! 🤣 ) Oh, red Pentel Mattehop also worked beautifully (finally got to try those! I love them!!!) and barely ghosted. No feathering noted on anything, except the Tombow Dual Brush Pen, and it feathered on both. I’ve seen many people have feathering from 2024 with the Tombows and less issues with the Mildliners. I think Jet Pens has highlighters/pastels that they recommend on the TRP over Tombows or Mildliners…they aren’t a common one in the US…a Kokuyo brand, maybe?
Paper is such a big deal in planners and I think because of the inconsistency people seem to think it's all made up if their planner isn't performing the same way. I really hope some of these planner companies can apply some pressure to if not fix the issue find out what changed (besides the new machine ) because something has be it materials they can no longer get or something else. I am looking into the Rosey Life I didn't realize the paper was thicker but now I'm going to look a little more closely, maybe it is the solution and if so that's such an easy fix (well relatively). Thanks for the comment sorry it took me so long to respond.
@@MyMagicalPlanner I would love to see another video on The Rosey Life thick paper. The one I have seen shows fountain pen ink running straight through. Terrible. I ordered a Hemlock & Oak minimal planner. Crossing my fingers.
I’ve recently tried Iroful for the first time and while I liked how it showed off the features in the ink, I did not like how it widened the lines. All my fine nibs looked like a medium. If you want to try the original tomeriver paper I think Wonderland222 still has some notebooks in stock with it. The descriptions will let you know if it’s the original paper or not.
@@katycukibabi that’s what a friend was telling me. I think this will be their last year for that but they really stock piled when the change was announced a few years back. I’ll have to check on the Iroful I don’t think I’ve tried it yet.
Heads up! It’s old machine #9 paper, which is not Sanzen but not #7! If you wanna try OG #7, nanami has a pricy limited stock, 2 per customer in their a5 writers notebook
I just tested my new PaperTess designs 2025 planner, and the bleed-through was terrible. The end of a single swipe of my mildliners bleeds through it. My Heart of Darkness Noodler's ink bleeds through it like crazy. Tombows haven't bled thru yet, but I haven't tried more than one layer with them. I didn't have bleed-thru with any of these in my Wonderland222 last year that used the old TRP. I reached out to PaperTess. I'm not expecting them to find new paper and fix it right away, so I'm not sure what I'm going to use next year now.
I know this creator reached out to her as well ua-cam.com/video/_zV-OS7WFDI/v-deo.html her pen test are near the end of this video. From what I hear this will be the last year Wonderland has the old Tomoe River paper but from what i can tell the bleed through is an issue with everyone with the new paper especially this years paper. I keep telling my self maybe it wont be so bad but I wont truly know until I'm using it. I'm not sure what my plan will be if it doesn't work with my fountain pens. Please let me know if you learn anything.
@@MyMagicalPlanner Thank you! Her video is very helpful too. I also did a proper test page myself and found some other inks in my collection that will work, watercolor seemed alright with a small test, and tombow brush pens seem to work but not Mildliners. I've decided to use my B6 PTD and just be a diligent pen-tester this year. The design is so lovely and the structure just clicks for me right now.
dude my phone is tiny so i just saw the rest of your reply 😆 My Pilot Iroshizuku ink in Tsuki-yo doesn't bleed through, even in my Medium nib TWSBI. The ama-iro color bleeds through on my dip pen though. Pigma Micron PN black, a 1.5 Faber Castell, and a Zebra Sarasa in vintage purple seem alright so far. even the brown Zebra seemed worse than the purple, so i would recommend testing all your colors not just formulas. it's gonna be stickers and a few inks in the planner this year, but i always have a midori MD or archer & olive notebook going for any ideas that are super demanding of my paper.
At this point it's not that much better than stalogy paper. I've always love stalogy planners (can easily use them as plain grid notebooks), but find the paper not as good as the TRP. It's sad to see what TRP has been going through the past few years. I enjoy doing watercolors on them very much😢
I haven’t tried a stalogy planner but I think I have a notebook around here. If it’s the same paper I’ll test that in comparison it might actually be better. Maybe I need to give serious thought to doing a bullet journal.
@@MyMagicalPlanner stalogy is different paper and soaks up inks and markers rather than how TRP used to perform. its fine enough but ive never cared for the amount of bleed through with juicy markers or multiple passes
@@thekatplans that’s really good to know. Thank you. I wish I could have the old paper back but it’s just not meant to be. Maybe someone will think up a new planner paper for next year.
@@MyMagicalPlanner i really loved the take a note planner paper, its a thicker GSM and buttery smooth but still thinner than most north american papers! took all my pens like a dream!
@@maryannschuetz5155Thank you and yes very sad. I think the push to keep the quality of the paper top notch just isn’t there. I think we will see a lot of planner companies looking at different paper come 2026 but it takes time to turn a ship.
@@DennisMyersArt maybe but I think it would be hard to find but there might be something on the buy sell market on Facebook. I’ve thought of buying another 2024 and just redating it but I’m not sure. Anything prior to 2023 I think is the original tomoe river paper.
I am highly dissapointed, all the pen tests I have done on my hobonichi and SI common planner are bleeding through. I cant believe how poor the quality is all over the place
@@deniseplasse5126 agreed I don’t know that after this year I’ll be going with this type of planner because of it. Makes my heart sad because I love these planners.
@ , yes me too. I use fountain pens almost exclusively and the new paper isnt up to par. I have found a small company that had bought massive amounts of the OG Tomoe River and has a 2025 planner with the OG paper, I am highly tempted to just ditch the TWO bad planners I have and buy those. But that is a huge waste of money. Next year I will just bujo out of my hoard of old notebooks.
For another look at this paper check out this video www.youtube.com/@lillabjornco/videos by @lilabjornco
i tested all of my hobonichi planners. I got several from hobonichi for 2024 and 2025. as far as 2025 goes, my yumi kitagishi weeks bleeds a lot more than my liberty fabrics weeks. my 2025 5 year is awful. i’ll only be able to use a uni jet stream. my 2025 day free avec is perfection. I have a hypothesis that it’s the old paper. nothing bled through and my fountain pen inks are glorious on it. it’s crazy how even within the various 2025 products the paper quality is so markedly different. my 2024 hobonichi products all perform better (excepting the 2025 day free, which, like I said, I think has the old TRP paper).
I tried using a TWSBI fountain pen with an extra fine nib on a 5-year Hobonichi (2025-2029) planner, and it bled through the paper. I'm really disappointed that I can't use my fountain pens with it, especially since that was my original intention. I feel like I was misled about the paper quality.
I’m so sorry. It used to be so much better. I think a lot of us are feeling that way right now though it appears the 5 year planners are the worse from what I’ve read. I did send off an email to Hobonichi hoping that maybe they can do something to address the issues but time will tell on that one.
🎉What ink did you use? I’m curious if it’s all fountain pens inks. My next experiment is going to be testing the ones I have to see if there are any that I won’t be able to use. I feel like medium nibs and larger are probably not a good option but I need to experiment to figure that out. Sigh wish this wasn’t a thing.
I'm a big time user for fountain pen inks and only use fountain inks for my planning. IMO I noticed a change in the paper in pretty much all the planners I bought for 2024 which is pretty sad. It's really not the same writing experience anymore and it makes me sad. I loved how the old paper had a smooth feel when writing and how the inks reacted differently when laid down on TRP back then. It was probably the main reason I got into fountain pens. Paper now seems like the manufacturer missed a step with the glossy top coat which is what prevented the feather and bleed through? Only issue with the older TRP was the drying time. However I loved the end result of my inks because of that! Thank you for sharing!!
@@magnolia_melody same! I got into fountain pens in part do to the paper in my planners and now I want to continue to use them but this next year it just doesn’t feel like that’s going to be as easy. The number of smeared pages I have because of drying time ahh ya let’s not think of that but I loved how everything looked once I figured that out. I do wonder if the big explosion of tomoe river paper planners on the market has something to do with the down fall. Maybe corners cut in order to meet demand needs because the old process took so long? It’s got to be hard on the business who bought the paper with certain expectations so they advertised it as such only to now start to get back lash. I feel like this will be a huge issue once people really start using their planners.
This was a fantastic deep dive. Thank you for all of your work on this. I hit that subscribe button!
@@charis_explores Thank you for the kind words and the sub I appreciate both.
I just did a test on my SI 2024 version undated A5 common vs. SI 2025 A5 common and I feel like the 2025 actually had less bleed through and generally performed slightly better.
I’m a fountain pen user( due to a arm injury) in 2024 I havn’t any problem at all with the new paper. Bur in my 2025 I have a lot of feathering …
Thank you for this video. It's sad to see the 2024 2025 comparison sigh, I already bout my planner, I'm not looking forward to bleed through
@@stareenafraser maybe you will get one with better paper. I’m still hearing the paper is good in some peoples planners so maybe you will get lucky.
This video inspired me to swatch my 2025 Hobonichi A6 and I had no problems with any fountain pens (I only use F and EF). I had the same bleeding problem with the end of my mild-liner swatches, which wasn’t a problem with my 2024, though it wasn’t terrible. Disappointing that my most used highlighters have bleeding. Those of you who use broad nib fountain pens, are you having bleeding issues?
You showed the 2025, and I gasped!! So unfortunate 😥😥 Oh my gosh! I had to update because the SI looks worse too AHHH!
@@lillabjornco it’s so bad. I’m trying to be ok with it and look on the bright side though because I’ve already purchased them. I think your Papertess looked better than what I’m seeing but you’re totally right when you said in your video we shouldn’t be settling. Oh I need to add a link to your video let me do that in the comments.
@@MyMagicalPlanner That's another thing that really makes me sad, because a lot of us saved up in order to afford our planner 😪 It's not like we can just keep buying new ones 🥲 Also, omg thank you for the support! Let me link yours too 💞
Yeah pretty much anyone that uses Tomoe River Paper is likely to be affected because it's a paper manufacturing thing as opposed to something that would happen in the process of binding it into a book.
😢 I love hobonichi, but this year has been a disappointment. Last year, I could tell a difference in the paper. It was drier, so I used wetter inks no problem. This year, I ordered from the website all the prices went up,but I needed my 5 year. When I opened the box, there was a horrible odor, but thankfully, the planner didn't have it. My year does have bleed through. It's is upsetting because people spend good money to have this paper.
@@teresaslaughter1546 I also noticed the paper being more dry, and I've been describing it as "squeaky" lol! Someone mentioned to me that Hobonichi posted a survey specifically for the 5-year techo. I can send along the link if you would like 😇
I'm suddenly glad the Mulberry TN sized Sterling Ink planner I wanted sold out. Holy crap.
I cannot use my fountain pens or distress ink stamps on Tomoe River papers. it bleeds pretty bad.
I’m so sorry I tried stamping yesterday and was shocked at how bad it was, I thought maybe it was the stamp pad I had but your comment makes me think it’s probably not. Really missing the old paper this year.
@@MyMagicalPlanner Hobinichi/Tomoe recently changed the quality of their paper. So sad.
Wow will you be trying the Wonderland222? I was going to get my 1st hobonichi cousin this year then all the complaintsabout the paper quality came out. I use jet stream but highlight a lot and doodle with markers, it doesn’t seem like 2025 cousin or common planner would work well with that 😢
@@CaliberDawn if I can get my hands on one I will (I have a friend who might have one I can buy from her since it’s sold out). I hate saying it won’t work but I’m worried at this point and I don’t know how bad it’s going to affect my planning until I’m in it. I’m telling my self it’s going to be ok but honestly I’m just not sure.
My Sterling Ink 2025 A6 is having less ghosting and no bleed through with Uni Pin pigment fineliners, Energel Clena 0.4, Energel 0.5, M, F and EF fountain pens with a variety of inks, a very juicy Pentel Brush Sign Pen in dark purple, Mildliners, the A&O ‘mildliner’, Zigg dot in metallic and pastel, Crayola Super Tip (dark blue,) Paper Mate Flair, Gelly Roll 1.0, Uni Signo 1.0 (both black.) Absolutely fine on all of those pens with less ghosting than my 2024 Hobonichi Cousin (and no bleeding…it doesn’t like the Ziggs in the pastel, but is weirdly fine with the very juicy and pigmented darkest metallic purple 🤷♀️ I didn’t try a permanent pen. A black Tombow Dual Brush Pen did bleed a little and the shadow might have been called a swatch of very dark grey (on both SI and H.) I just received my SI A5 2025 Common Planner so I’ll do a similar test to see if I have similar results. I had no problems with any of my Gel pens on the 2025, and there is less ghosting/shadowing on the SI A6 2025 than the HC 2024, and I press very hard (normally) and was using a needle tip for all except the Sarasa Vintage 0.5 with no bleed through and less ghosting. I’m really impressed with the SI. To me, the paper feels much smoother and more ‘coated’ for the 2025 SI A6, and I prefer it much more to the Cousin. Hopefully I have similar results with the A5 SI when I get to pen testing it.
Thank you for such a detailed reply I’m going to write these down but it sounds like your paper held up so much better than mine.
@@MyMagicalPlanner You’re welcome! I was curious since I had seen the issues with, in particular, the Hobonichi 5 Year 2025. I hope the A5 SI Common Planner does as well as the A6 did. I figured listing off the specific pens was more helpful than saying “my fineliners, gel pens and fountain pens worked fine, so yours must be a bad one,” because different brand pens do different things. I know several of the inks were black Kaweco cartridges, and some others were browns and a sparkly purple I was trying at a stationery shop, so idk the name/brand. A dip pen into black ink also didn’t bleed (and wrote really nicely! I’ve never tried a dip pen before! If I wasn’t the person who spills stuff all the time, I might consider sitting around with an open bottle of ink on my desk! 🤣 ) Oh, red Pentel Mattehop also worked beautifully (finally got to try those! I love them!!!) and barely ghosted. No feathering noted on anything, except the Tombow Dual Brush Pen, and it feathered on both. I’ve seen many people have feathering from 2024 with the Tombows and less issues with the Mildliners. I think Jet Pens has highlighters/pastels that they recommend on the TRP over Tombows or Mildliners…they aren’t a common one in the US…a Kokuyo brand, maybe?
Thank you for taking this seriously. We may need to consider something like The Rosey Life Planner with its 80GSM PAPER as the new standard.
Paper is such a big deal in planners and I think because of the inconsistency people seem to think it's all made up if their planner isn't performing the same way. I really hope some of these planner companies can apply some pressure to if not fix the issue find out what changed (besides the new machine ) because something has be it materials they can no longer get or something else. I am looking into the Rosey Life I didn't realize the paper was thicker but now I'm going to look a little more closely, maybe it is the solution and if so that's such an easy fix (well relatively). Thanks for the comment sorry it took me so long to respond.
@@MyMagicalPlanner I would love to see another video on The Rosey Life thick paper. The one I have seen shows fountain pen ink running straight through. Terrible. I ordered a Hemlock & Oak minimal planner. Crossing my fingers.
Irioful is the best paper I have tried imo . I’m newish to pens so it appears I missed the original recipe Tomoe river glory days .
I’ve recently tried Iroful for the first time and while I liked how it showed off the features in the ink, I did not like how it widened the lines. All my fine nibs looked like a medium. If you want to try the original tomeriver paper I think Wonderland222 still has some notebooks in stock with it. The descriptions will let you know if it’s the original paper or not.
@@katycukibabi that’s what a friend was telling me. I think this will be their last year for that but they really stock piled when the change was announced a few years back. I’ll have to check on the Iroful I don’t think I’ve tried it yet.
@@DennisMyersArt thank you for the recommendation I’m going to look into Irioful paper that was one I hadn’t heard of so thank you 😊
Heads up! It’s old machine #9 paper, which is not Sanzen but not #7! If you wanna try OG #7, nanami has a pricy limited stock, 2 per customer in their a5 writers notebook
I just tested my new PaperTess designs 2025 planner, and the bleed-through was terrible. The end of a single swipe of my mildliners bleeds through it. My Heart of Darkness Noodler's ink bleeds through it like crazy. Tombows haven't bled thru yet, but I haven't tried more than one layer with them. I didn't have bleed-thru with any of these in my Wonderland222 last year that used the old TRP. I reached out to PaperTess. I'm not expecting them to find new paper and fix it right away, so I'm not sure what I'm going to use next year now.
I know this creator reached out to her as well ua-cam.com/video/_zV-OS7WFDI/v-deo.html her pen test are near the end of this video. From what I hear this will be the last year Wonderland has the old Tomoe River paper but from what i can tell the bleed through is an issue with everyone with the new paper especially this years paper. I keep telling my self maybe it wont be so bad but I wont truly know until I'm using it. I'm not sure what my plan will be if it doesn't work with my fountain pens. Please let me know if you learn anything.
@@MyMagicalPlanner Thank you! Her video is very helpful too. I also did a proper test page myself and found some other inks in my collection that will work, watercolor seemed alright with a small test, and tombow brush pens seem to work but not Mildliners. I've decided to use my B6 PTD and just be a diligent pen-tester this year. The design is so lovely and the structure just clicks for me right now.
dude my phone is tiny so i just saw the rest of your reply 😆 My Pilot Iroshizuku ink in Tsuki-yo doesn't bleed through, even in my Medium nib TWSBI. The ama-iro color bleeds through on my dip pen though. Pigma Micron PN black, a 1.5 Faber Castell, and a Zebra Sarasa in vintage purple seem alright so far. even the brown Zebra seemed worse than the purple, so i would recommend testing all your colors not just formulas. it's gonna be stickers and a few inks in the planner this year, but i always have a midori MD or archer & olive notebook going for any ideas that are super demanding of my paper.
At this point it's not that much better than stalogy paper. I've always love stalogy planners (can easily use them as plain grid notebooks), but find the paper not as good as the TRP. It's sad to see what TRP has been going through the past few years. I enjoy doing watercolors on them very much😢
I haven’t tried a stalogy planner but I think I have a notebook around here. If it’s the same paper I’ll test that in comparison it might actually be better. Maybe I need to give serious thought to doing a bullet journal.
@@MyMagicalPlanner stalogy is different paper and soaks up inks and markers rather than how TRP used to perform. its fine enough but ive never cared for the amount of bleed through with juicy markers or multiple passes
@@thekatplans that’s really good to know. Thank you. I wish I could have the old paper back but it’s just not meant to be. Maybe someone will think up a new planner paper for next year.
@@MyMagicalPlanner i really loved the take a note planner paper, its a thicker GSM and buttery smooth but still thinner than most north american papers! took all my pens like a dream!
Very informative & sad! Thanx so much.
@@maryannschuetz5155Thank you and yes very sad. I think the push to keep the quality of the paper top notch just isn’t there. I think we will see a lot of planner companies looking at different paper come 2026 but it takes time to turn a ship.
Would it be possible to buy a 7 year old ( so the days align ) notebook . I’m not sure how far back they changed or if old notebooks exist.
@@DennisMyersArt maybe but I think it would be hard to find but there might be something on the buy sell market on Facebook. I’ve thought of buying another 2024 and just redating it but I’m not sure. Anything prior to 2023 I think is the original tomoe river paper.
I am highly dissapointed, all the pen tests I have done on my hobonichi and SI common planner are bleeding through. I cant believe how poor the quality is all over the place
@@deniseplasse5126 agreed I don’t know that after this year I’ll be going with this type of planner because of it. Makes my heart sad because I love these planners.
@ , yes me too. I use fountain pens almost exclusively and the new paper isnt up to par. I have found a small company that had bought massive amounts of the OG Tomoe River and has a 2025 planner with the OG paper, I am highly tempted to just ditch the TWO bad planners I have and buy those. But that is a huge waste of money. Next year I will just bujo out of my hoard of old notebooks.
@deniseplasse5126 can you share the name of the company?
@ omg of course, wonderland222.