Setting some boundaries for 2025 | mind mapping my planner system
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- hobonichi launch and 2025 planner pre-order season is in full swing! This year I'm trying to plan ahead and set some rules in place to not over buy for 2025, and hopefully find a system that will support my planning and creativity needs. What are you thinking of using in 2025?
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My husband is watching with me and said, " So you're not alone with planner dilemmas." I think he was actually relieved 😅😂 Looking forward to seeing what you land on.
I have come to the realization that that hobonichi cousin feels like an established marriage: it may sometimes lack excitement, but it's true love! (hobo cousin/A5 common planner are interchangeable for me though. They work the same)
lol, so accurate 😅
I love seeing more of us taking this "planner season" a little more practical and taking our time to find what we as individuals need and like. I did my own brainstorming as well not too long ago, and we conside in many self reflecting prompts. Thanks for sharing.
I'm a bit quieter in this video because I was trying not to wake up my husband in the other room - you may need a bit more volume to listen in
Love it! I've seen so many of us trying to be intentional and minimizing or going smaller for 2025 and I'm definitely one of them. I find when I try too many new things I spiral and spend way too much money. I put boundaries on myself too and a big one for me is to stop trying to make planners work that haven't worked in the passed and I have a list of them, but one is the common planner. It's beautiful, but I never stay in them. I am using her 5 year with no issues however 🤷♀️ so many of us get caught up in what everyone else is doing. This is the third year I've tried a cousin and the only year it stuck, but only the dailies so I won't buy one next year. Trial and error and learning certainly can be a costly lesson 🙈 look forward to seeing your choices!
Loving your process! I took a similar route in deciding my 2025 system after so much failure this year with my system. For 2025, I’ll be in 3 planners. Hobonichi cousin for daily journalling, Hobonichi A6 for archiving, Hobonichi weeks for my actual planner that glues my life together. I’ve been in this system for three weeks and the fact that I’m so content still is a miracle for me 😂
Thank you for this amazing video, Lindsey! I admire your thought process and boundary setting. Having just gone through this process, I am more confident of my spending (both monetary and time). My mind map is a constant “draft.”😍🥰
I understand your concerns around having personal journalling in the daily planner. I was new to Hobonichi this year after trying digital over a physical planner for a while, and wanted to pick up journalling again, but thought I could have everything in the one book. It didn't take long for me to realise how uncomfortable the idea of taking my planner anywhere made me feel. I need to be able to take it to appointments, etc, so I've moved journalling into a Hobo notebook to see if I am going to keep up with it before I commit to another Cousin for that too. But I'm really liking the lack of pressure that comes from not having blank pages if I don't journal for a day or 2, so I'm not in a hurry to move on from the notebook. Also looking forward to next year and a fresh Cousin so I can relax taking it out 😊
I've been using a Sterling Ink Common Planner for work this year, and I'm definitely getting another for 2025! I think the only thing I want is to switch from an A5 to a B6. She has a bunch of different sizes and options being released and it makes me want to grab everything, lol. But while I've also been using her N2 planner for personal tracking because it's the size of the Hobonichi Weeks, I think I'm going to get an actual Weeks for 2025 because it's just a bit more compact.
Ahhh! This was so helpful for me! I did a mind map along with you. And it really put into perspective how much I love a bound book even for my sketchbook. I’ve been holding on to the TN just because, like you, so many artists I admire. So I think I may put the boundary on myself too no TN
Sterling Ink was great this year. I did buy the weeks sized notebook for work and stuck it in one of my VDS covers that I just daily Bullet Journal in (since outlook rules the rest) it’s amazing. 272 grid pages with numbers.
I’m getting the common planner in standard and passport TN sizes for next year since I already have the covers and accessories. I used them this year and love her books. Highly recommend.
Loved your process. Excited for your new chapters next year. 😀
I'm thrilled you will use the Hobonichi Weeks part of the time! It's my favorite and the one I use.
Wishing you every success in keeping to your boundaries!
Also, I am not in tech development - but i am in systems deployment ... .
So, yes, the stress of go-live and hyper-care is a real thing!!
Sending you positive strength to get over this challenging time. and yes, when you have the go-live it will be much better!
Love this way of doing things.
I've needed to accommodate a lot more information than I imagined I'd have to this year. Ive never needed a weekl6 format, a month has always been enough... but here I am needing a week! I've needed to down size overall... A5--> travelers standard.
Ive opted to take away the anxiety of having enough pages in a fully comprehesive bound book and chosen a sterling ink weekly H booklet (POSSIBLY a monthly as well) and a blank notebook for brain mess that will be thrown when done with. A booklet for memories. And a booklet for professional development notes...
I can't believe we are getting ready for 2025!!!
Thinking on the rings and work planner front, if you had a seperate cover that you only used for when you travel for work then you could transfer the work pages to cover 2 (no issue of snooping through personal planning/journalling) and back again to cover 1 with the rest of your planning after? Then you have the option of everything being in one place but avoiding privacy issues when necessary
I feel slightly freakish in the planner world, because my set up this year has worked and I've no interest in changing it! 😅 Two Weeks': one for me and one for work, and a Stalogy A5 for journalling.
Feeling somewhat crushed by the lineup of Weeks books this year - love Paddington, but don't want a Japanese version of the book, and there's nothing else I absolutely love, but hey, if that's my sole complaint, I think I'm doing pretty well! 😄Contemplated a Cousin as an ALL-in planner - because it's such a great book! - but like you and several others, not sure about leaving personal stuff lying around in an office or showroom, so will probably stay with what I've had for the last few years. 📚
I have the same concerns too. I keep my personal and work planners separate. 😊
Thanks Lindsey this process was extremely helpful for my own thinking too! I have the same thoughts regarding time spent on any system eg printing out printables etc.. but it can be meditative down time which you will need too 😅
would love to learn more about your archiving : eg how do you archive projects? a big part of your years memories ..
I REALLY need to do a mind map specifically related to planner needs/wants. I think it would save me a lot of time and reduce my stress and anxiety over them for sure. Thanks for sharing your process 😊.
Love how you do your mind mapping, setting priorities and boundaries. Fingers crossed we stick to our lineup before end of 2024!😅
Love your video :) It made me think of my 2025. So,I think I’ll be using ring as my planner and midori hibino (1 day 2 pages) for my archive. I don’t do journaling, tho.
Very useful video! I like to print pictures to make photo albums (and not only of special events, but from the whole year, the best moments of each month) and I always recommend Eco Tank printers! I have an Epson one, and in 4 years I've only had to buy one ink bottle of each color (2 for the black), and they cost from 6 to 9€ depending on the color so.... Yeah 👌🏻✨ (I mean, the printer already comes with 1 bottle for each color, and I only had to buy them again once!).
It sounds like your friend’s layouts or use of the common planner is fancy because the common planner itself isn’t fancy. It’s just bunch of blank pages, like Hobonichi cousin, until you personalize it. I had a cousin years ago and have had a common planner since it came out and neither affect my style. I’m myself no matter what I use. So I’d say make your choice based on the structure/function of the two planners (layouts, sizes, colors, feel etc) rather than this idea you have that one is fancy and you can’t have it because you’re not fancy.
I think you had a previous video about your work planner in which you talked about how you draw in vertical weeklies in the hobo weeks? If so, I thought I’d mention that Sterling Ink has a vertical weekly version in the hobo weeks size (N2 size). It has a soft cover but it seems durable. Just a thought 😊 Thanks for sharing your thought process!
SI is launching a horizontal format so I’m buying a B5 horizontal common planner on the 1st. I will be happy to say goodbye to my horizontal moleskine. I have undated planners in a few styles from Kinbor if I need to think differently about things. I’ve purchased those on AliExpress on the theory that since they are from China I may as well use the Chinese retail site to buy them instead of paying somebody else’s markup. I’ve used a horizontal weekly moleskine agenda for at least 10 years. I like that I can use several things from the bullet journal method without having to set up a notebook in any way.
Loved watching this video. I have sticky notes with all my thoughts 😂
love a good mind map moment
Have you checked out Sterling Inks recent videos? A5 and B6 will also have horizontal weekly available in the common planner. So many options!
I have so many SI CP do not feel like u need to keep it pretty. It is stunning but I use it how I need.
Was researching planners and just found your channel in the last few days -- I have marathoned thru several of your videos Really like your formatting in your various planners -- To my eye they appear very well organized, tidy and not overly decored - perhaps that is because I am a dude and all the overly flowery stuff that I see on some other channels is most other channels is a turn off. At this point I intend to go with a a TN Standard with a Sterling Ink Common Planner in the Full Year Horizontal and also a Compact Vertical (for time tracking) . I did find your latest rings video intruguing and it made me rethink my choice as i love the idea of being able to sub in and out pages and print off the acetate pages. Three questions: (1) What pen are you using in this video? (2) Who else do you suggest that I watch ( I have already watched most of Rachelle in Theory and Keylime Ink's videos). and (3) In several past videos you have used the term "sprints" several times -- what is this, is it a planning term or a work term? Subbed!
Great video! And it sounds like you have a good plan in place. Having to transfer all of those memories/notes over to another archive sounds exhausting, and I would probably give up. 😅 I currently put my notes, tasks, memories and such in my bullet journal and just archive when full. Speaking of, have you considered bringing back the pocket bujo next year?! 😊
Could you do a dedicated undated travel planner?
You can save a lot of print and cut time using a ring size that doesn’t require lots of cutting. I adore A6 rings and I can print directly on A5 paper and just have to cut the page in half and I find it’s more cost effective - and it’s a big time saver. I also print directly in A6 size and don’t have to cut after printing. I can buy precut A6 paper or I will take my A4 and A5 and mass cut to A6 and it helps so much. Rings are also great because there’s so many freebies that you can get and use over and over so there’s not a lot of cost involved for the inserts.
The SI CP is nice….though there’s a lot of options now not just hers. Hers is fancier and some struggle being themselves in it as a result. But I also found as much as the undated pages seem nice I actually need the accountability of the dates. And it’s easier and less bulky to ignore or cover the dates vs dating the whole thing.
I’m in a pretty good place (and have been for a while) with my planner needs and wants so deciding on planners has been easier the last few years. It’s even easier this year since I launched planners so I’m using mine which fill the gaps in what I was finding in the planner community so that’s helpful as well.
I have a Stirling Ink TN size journal and it is a beautiful mess, aint nothing perfect about it and I love it to pieces❤ I am getting a full year TN size planner from Stirling Ink for 2025 I think its called an N2? while using 2 TN inserts for trackers, my daughters school stuff
TN regular size is N1!
i love your thinking here, im curious about trying a sterling ink b6 slim for the first time and its because i specifically need a place to plan and be unapologetically messy! whenever i try to plan in my bullet journal, i feel too much pressure to make my plans "pretty" and it ends up being the opposite of helpful!!!
Similar to the commenter above! N1 is the TN equivalent. N2 I think is the equivalent to the size of a Hobonichi weeks, which is smaller than the TN inserts
Thank you for sharing your thought process. I helps to hear other's thoughts to validate our thoughts somehow. I think I will use: 1. Rings = Reference Planner. Sterling ink 2. N1H EDC, 3. N1H Wellness Gratitude 4. B6S Booklet + Notebook for projects 5. B6 daily for memories TBD work and travel. @lindseyscribbles - Just curious - how would the mind map look without some of the functional "boundaries/rules"?
I remember hearing you once say you don’t know what to do with the weeks section in the Cousin. Sterling Ink Daily Planner does not have a weeks section, did you know? :)
So, for the printer ink problem, it might be worth it, even on a tight budget year, to spend the $250-ish and get a deep ink well printer. I print all the time and new ink BOTTLES are $18 for a full set of color and black on Amazon and they last months. Initial investment is worth it in my opinion.
I fell in love with Lindsey’s style of TN Bujo last year and I’ve been pretty consistent at it. It’s so sad for me personally that she switched to rings the moment I started my TN 😭 coz…. ring confused me for a long time…. The flexibility is as easy as it is to get messy for me. But….. I have rings in my cart sitting on dilemma for 2025 coz I love everything I see here. I think I have a problem, help.
Hi Lindsey, What's the different between journalling and archiving?
I'm almost certain I won't be getting a Hobonichi for 2025, which feels strange since I've used them for the past several years. After watching so many videos about the paper quality change from those who got the academic version, I'm feeling hesitant.
I saw a felix!
I’m thinking of the common planner, really want to expand on my memory keeping beyond the given day when some days are jam packed
This is so unrelated.... but is that a polaroid of Felix???
Yes it is! She mentioned before that Felix has found his way in most, if not all, her planners 😊
@@KirstyCamille this is the first video I’m seeing. Thanks for confirming ☺️
this is, in fact, very related and on topic lolll :P