Is the 2025 Hobonichi Paper Inadequte?

Is the 2025 Hobonichi Paper Inadequte?

This year I bought my first Hobonichi Weeks. I’ve used a Hobonichi Techo in the past but I’d never tried the Weeks. I purchased the plain pistachio fabric 2025 MEGA Weeks ($41) and added the Cover-on-Cover “Beautiful Season” ($10) which is printed with yarn and craft details in opaque white ink that pops off the…

Mid-Year Replacement: Hobonichi April Start

Mid-Year Replacement: Hobonichi April Start

If you missed the opportunity to order a Hobonichi in the Fall or your current planner set-up is not quite what you hoped it would be, have you considered purchasing an April Start Hobonichi? According to JetPens: “The April Start Hobonichi Techo was originally made for Japanese students, who start school in April.” While you…

A (Draft) Notebook Set-up for 2021: Planners, Journals, and Blank Pages

A (Draft) Notebook Set-up for 2021: Planners, Journals, and Blank Pages

It’s December (…how?) and after a year that deviated from plans more than anyone could have anticipated, apparently I still feel compelled to “plan” for the upcoming year. I say apparently because it wasn’t until earlier this week that I realized I had five different notebooks that I intended to continue using in the new…

Planner Update: Out with the Old, In with the New

Planner Update: Out with the Old, In with the New

With the start of the new year, it’s time to look at the planners that worked and the planners that didn’t. Some techniques worked better than others. Out with the Old For 2019, I used the Mark’s Edit planner for my work planner and the Hobonichi Techo A6 for my personal logging. The Mark’s Edit…