My 2024 planner fails and why you shouldn't pre-order your 2025 planners just yet
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- It's time to start thinking about next year's planners and I'm here to show you why an early pre-order isn't always the right thing to do.
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It's crazy that there are so many choices compared to when I first started this planner journey. So far I am good however, there is one that I want to try but I have to hold back and be strong....lol. Wishing everyone luck on the temptations out there.
I know! I remember back when it was basically all Filofax and Erin Condren! What's the one you're wanting to try? I'm intrigued!
@@lethbridgepaper Exactly, Nisha Fernando is doing pre orders right now and it looks tempting. I need to just stick to my bujo...lol.
Be strong! You got this!
Thank you for your thoughts.💛
I never start thinking until October at least. It’s too far away for my thinking. I’ve also discovered that my dopamine-hungry brain is disappointed when the new year arrives and I’ve already had the planner a few months! Much more exciting/satisfying to have it nearer the new year.
Exhale first everyone. Best of luck with FOMO. 🙏🏼💛
I know what you mean! Although even when I do pre-order, I leave them until Christmas week - that's my time for new planner set up.
@@lethbridgepaper ooh yes, a proper present to yourself 😀
I understand- I have purchased & tried a5 rings /Kikki k &Filofax & various companies’ inserts, hweeks, hcuz, happy planner mini & classic, jibun weeks, moleskin & eBay a5 cheaper undated weeklyz, plus a custom teachers planner over the years. All the eye candy on UA-cam is a wonderful resource and great inspiration for ideas, but tempting whoa!! Sooo, after all of it I have options by shopping my stash… I have the intention of redating 2x 2023 hobo weeks (1 personal, 1 financial) for next year in a nice leather folio that my hubby bought me on holidays. Had hoped hobo cuz would be the answer to all my needs- but nope. I Loved it, but versatility & size of hweeks won me. The Beauty of most of the trial & error is the beautiful quality of the hobo covers and gorgeous rings binders we buy, I will hang on to those for re-use 1day 😅
Yes! There's very few covers I've actually gotten rid of over the years, as I know I can just print out some inserts and move back into them at pretty much anytime.
Devoted and loyal Hobonichi fan for personal (but W22 for work) but Just Scribbles just announced her new planner which incorporates all the things I love about Hobonichi and Wonderland 222. I have not ever deviated from my usual go-to planners - even when Sterling Ink announced her planner or Papertess or when Take A Note was popular but I think I will this year. Hopefully, I will end up liking the purchase and use throughout the year. Also, wanting a change because my life needs have changed and thinking about putting everything in one planner instead of splitting it up.
Enjoyed the video and the "rambling"!
Right? She solved my debate between the Common planner and the Cousin 😅😅 I think I’m going to get hers no matter what
Well now I need to check out what Just Scribbles has announced as that's totally passed me by! Glad you enjoyed the video :)
@@lethbridgepaperI preordered the horizontal just scribble a5 😊
Will have to look at that one!
I always sleep on the preorders and then wait for it to be sold on the planner BST group, and I get it cheaper! 😅 I never preorder anything, but I like looking at the Hobonichi releases in case there’s something that I love. (There wasn’t one this past year, so I’m looking forward to this release!)
That’s absolutely the way to do it and how I’m going to be doing it in future!
I grabbed a Leuchtturm A5 (horizontal weeks with notes opposite) at random the year I retired, and made it work. During the rest of that year I watched endless YT videos on different planners, made copious notes, and ruled out most things. The following year I opted for the A5 filofax version in the same format and have stuck with it now for 5 years, just gathering a wardrobe of covers! I added a Personal size with week-on-two pages a year or so later, and a notebook, and that's it. I'm lucky to have landed on my ideal combo by accident!
I love that you've found what works for you! I do think I need to play more with my Filofax, I think I can definitely do a lot more with it. Although I may end up picking up a Plotter for the smaller rings.
@lethbridgepaper I have a couple of Filofax Calypso in personal that have small rings - great for just taking slimmed-down current pages and notes on holiday. 😊
This year I'm not looking! I know a hobonichi weeks has worked for me for years. I know a Cousin doesn't. I've got various ring planners I can hop in and out of if I want. Lots of undated notebooks in various sizes too. So my purchases will be a Hobonichi weeks, possibly a Hobonichi A6 and that's it. Fomo is real but I know I can get the Hobonichi planners easily enough. Great video.
Thank you, glad you liked it! I'm actually leaning towards the same combo for next year - Weeks and A6.
I'm all the way in Australia. Things take a while to get here, especially around XMAS time. So I prefer to do Pre orders. This year I didn't enjoy the Vertical layout planner. Im wanting more space and hungry for horizontal layouts. So I caved in and bought the Just Scribbles Horizontal. I was blown away at how much space there is. Room to breath, room to write the extras that's cluttered up in my brain. Hoping to stick to one planner for 2025. Thanks so much. I love watching your videos.
Okay I keep seeing the Just Scribbles horizontal being mentioned. I think I need to check this out!
So glad you like the videos!
This year, I am going back to what works: Jibun Techo Biz and Days. I will have the second half of the Erin Condren Daily Duo for January to June. I allow myself 2 FOMO purchases a year so I I can experiment if I want to.
That’s a good way of doing it! Maybe I’ll try and do something similar?
I think the best you can do is stick with the planner you've got and make it work. This year I'm using the night owl planner and at the time last year when I decided on using it, I also decided that next year, 2025, I want to try a pocket size planner and got it from the Angel shoppe.
The pocket size planner will be more of a Bullet journal as it isn't a pre-printed planner. 🤣 I hope I'll be able to stick to it. 😅
However in 2023 I decided that I wanted to try different sizes, until then I only used A5. This year it's a B6 size and I love it! It's my first time with tomoe river paper too. And not dod-grit! OMG ever since I started my first BuJo I've stuck to did-grit notebooks.
The grit on the Tomoe River paper isn't too dark so I'm ok with it.
I'm obsessed with the paper and the lived-in feeling it gets after a while.
I definitely need to try and make things work more!
I love the feel of used TR paper too. The only thing I don’t love is that the dry time for fountain pen ink is a little too long and it really does limit my enjoyment sometimes.
@@lethbridgepaper I use blotting paper works really well and no waiting time❤
I use blotting paper when I’m closing the planner or changes pages but not when it’s just out on my desk and that’s where the problems come from sadly!
@@lethbridgepaper I use it whenever I need my ink to be dry. Regardless of whether I turn the page or not.
twines and paper has a planner which has the same hybrid weekly layout i've drawn myself and i'm still on the fence
Ooh good info thank you!
Fully agree on FOMO! I did however preorder Aura Estelle B6 Daily. I know they will most likely be available also later, at least they've been well available this year. It's just that I was excited AE is making my dream planner in 2025 with all the changes they're doing. Also I only have 1 planner total. Notebooks are different, and I prefer them blank.
Early this year I preordered a weekly planner that I had been using last year, as it was a good one, but then understood I was getting overwhelmed with the extra notes sheets on my table. So was able to cancel that preorder, made a post about my thoughts to a local group, tried out Hobonichi Cousin, but after a while felt overwhelmed with the layout. Then I found AE and have been very happy using it. So I've thought the cost of Hobonichi was like taking a course in planner use. Now I have peace and yeah, it's possible I might find something else, but highly unlikely. So far only Papertess has a similar layout, but undated daily pages.
I'm loving all these comments because I'm finding out about all these planners that have totally passed me by! I've just had a Google and I really like the format of this B6 daily! This definitely throws a bit of a spanner in the works when it comes to planning for next year!
I'm glad you've found something that's working for you!
If it’s Tomoe River paper, fountain pen folks will buy it for the paper… though it might sell for very little
Very true!
You and I are on exactly the same page. ☺️
Yay! :)
Great video!
for me it's the opposite, I have been using the weeks for 4/5 years now and this year it was it's down fall because I was treating it as a planner/memory keeper which didn't work and it started to get repetitive so I gave up on it although this year's cover is my ultimate favorite cover out of the hobonichi weeks I have purchased, but I guess it came at the wrong time of my life, so I purchased a Traveler's notebook vertical planner and used it mainly as memory keeping where I decorate and write little things about my days and I completely fell in love. Later this year, I purchased a Filofax personal as a planner and so far it's working very well because I'm not treating it as a planner/memory keeper but just a planner and this worked wonders. I will continue with the vertical for memory keeping and rings for planning for work/personal.
I love that you’ve found something that worked for you! I wish I could’ve got the vertical TN to work for me for memory keeping. What is your favourite all time Weeks cover out of interest?
@@lethbridgepaper The Hiroko Kubota Another night of falling star sparklers
Oh that’s a pretty one!
Allllll the planners on YT 😬 lord knows, I have fallen for it. I ordered 2 (2!!) Hobonichi Weeks books this year. The first one didn't work, why did I think the second would?! I bought an A6 that didn't work. I have used the Cousin the last two years and found that not working for me this year either so I abandoned that in June and went back to a plain Stalogy B6 and am bullet journaling again. The pre-printed planners, as great as they are, just don't fit my needs long term. I love the bullet journal can be exactly what I need, as I need it. I have done pages that resemble the Cousin daily pages, the Weeks weekly pages, and the monthlies in a calendar style. It is perfect and I don't see myself going back to a pre-printed book anytime soon. Plus, I get blank pages as I need them (I was really missing those!). Good video! I can't fathom trying to decide 2025 when I am barely halfway through 2024, haha!
I hate drawing out my layouts but I do love the flexibility of bullet journaling.
Generally I start thinking about next years planners if I’m not a huge fan of my current set up 😂🫠
Don’t fully love any available layout that I’ve found. Weeks, TAN, and PaperTess B6 come closest to what I want from a layout, (ideal would be month, then 2 spreads per week- one with a TAN style overview on the left and an Alistair method weekly tasks and habits list, then on the right 3 columns to sort priorities, running shopping list, a few other things. The second spreads for journaling and more day specific things. I need a fair chunk of blank grid at the back for collections and note taking. I love the real estate of B6 up to A4 books… but I need the portability of A6 because if I can’t stuff it in my admittedly large pockets, it will be left behind and forgotten. I love Tomoe River paper. I wish I could find Nuuna’s 2.5 micro dot grid as actual grid on Tomoe River in A6, ideally in the layout I described, but I’d still be over the moon with enough pages in that grid and numbered pages. I have A6 520 pg numbered grid notebooks from sterling ink on the way, because I can use those regardless, and I’m experimenting with my layout in my current A6 sterling ink to see if it’ll work as well as I hope. So far it seems the best I’ve found since hitting a planner slump a few years ago (I’ve been a little sporadic ever since)
Ever thought about doing pocket rings? Small enough to fit in your pocket, printable Tomoe River paper available, and then you’ve got a whole world of inserts or can even make your own to fit your requirements exactly? I’ve definitely done that at times when I couldn’t quite find what I wanted, but didn’t want to draw everything out in a bullet journal.
I really liked being in the cousin this year (first time) but I've found I really don't like the daily pages. I would go to the weeks, but I don't like horizontal format.
So far I'm heavily leaning toward dipping my toes into Traveler's Notebook, and getting inserts that mimic what I love from the cousin, and extra inserts to return to what I loved with bullet journaling.
That’s a really good idea! Those vertical standard TN inserts will likely be perfect for you, albeit a bit smaller than the weeklies of the Cousin, they work just as well.
Have u seen the wonderland 222? It’s really similar to the cousin but doesn’t have dailies (weeks and undated note pages)
I love the A6 TAN because I can just do a running task list and move things between day to day or move it to next week. Next year I will only get Weeks, Cousin and A6 TAN. I have others I just use for journals, and I do not really redate the header, I just write a date of entry in the cousins 5 to do boxes.
Last year I ordered the B6 also, thinking it would sell out. I did not use it, I just never got the job right after graduation and planning became a depressing process for me. Also, it did not sell out. It is their undated Record that seems to sell out more than their A6, A5 and B6. So I am thinking of just re-dating this one also. Just remember the weeks by week number, and cover up the dates. Treat it like an undated that I can jump in and out of as needed. It was going to be a meal planner and health planner for me. it is a planner I impulse bought to fill up the new Mortrim cover I bought, because the common planner by Sterling Ink was a disappointment to me, because I could not see the grid with my 54 year old eyes. I have removed the B6, put a B6 notebook in it and I am happy with it, just have yet to get over a clean notebook, that I am afraid to mess it up.
It’s the thinking something will sell out is what gets me!
Ooh that’s interesting about the common planner. It never really appealed to me so was never tempted to try.
I’ve had to stop buying super nice notebooks as I really struggle to break into them.
I buy the Hobonichi cousin every year and plenty of other planners too but the cousin is the one that I use the most. This year, I bought the Hon and the Midori Hibino but haven’t really been using them(I genuinely think I’ve just been a journaling/planning slump) but I’ve decided to try the B6 Papertess Designs Yearly Notebook for 2025 and seeing what happens.
I’ve ordered the undated A5 version of the PTD and the undated version of the Common Planner by Sterling Ink so I’m not wasting my money since it’s not dated. The hobonichi is the only planner that I don’t mind not using it strictly as a planner. Hopefully the fact that I’ll only have the one book (B6 PTD) will allow me to figure out what works for me or if the cousin truly is my planner peace.
If I don’t make a preorder then I just think that I actually didn’t need it after all
I love your plan! It’s a great idea with the undated planners. I can’t get on well with them but I’m weird like that haha.
Yeah I’m glad I decided what I wanted my line up to be for 2025. Because there are so many options and half the time we barely use all the options that we ordered. So I’m sticking with hobo A5 cousin and my weekly. And if I do want to “try” a different layout or something like add to my line up like my reading journal or my tarot journal….ill just get a stalogy and cut it to personal/travelers notebook style and call it a day.
I love that you have it figured out, definitely envious of that!
@@lethbridgepaper I have to keep it simple. After having…a cousin, 2 weeks, a pregnancy planner, and a rings just because….i realized I was doing too much. And I. Have so much back journaling and planning to do. But that’s only bc pregnancy makes you very tired.
I’ve definitely been there where I’ve wanted all the planners and just not been able to maintain it. It’s so easy to do.
I totally agree. I'm not pre-ordering anything for 2025. I keep falling for the hype and then end up reverting to the same tried and true methods. I'm not going to buy a hobo weeks for 2025. I love the way it feels in my hand, but I never finish it 😢. I'm just telling myself this every day from now on. 😂 It will only be the hobonichi Cousin and A6, and the TN vertical weeks for next year. I sincerely hope I can stick with this 😂
I believe in you! Even when I don’t finish a Weeks I can’t imagine not having one.
Are you still selling the TN? I'm interested
Yeah! It’s just sat collecting dust. Drop me a DM on IG and we can sort something out. :)
Hello tried reaching out via IG but can't because you don't follow me lol. However I realized I also follow you there and didn't make the connection 😂
Ah so sorry! Didn’t realise I had my settings locked down! You’ll be able to message now!