I agree with olivermoss re: Hobinichi. If you aren't going to use fountain pens, I wouldn't fool with Hobinichi. You have to use a pencil board so you don't dent the page underneath, and Tomoe River paper (the paper Hobo uses) is very sensitive to hand oils, so you need to keep a piece of paper underneath your hand as you write. It's extremely fiddly paper that's just not worth it IMHO unless you are hardcore into fountain pens and wanting to show off the properties of the ink.
I really like Leuchtturm 1917 and have used that brand multiple times for a journal; they're one of the only brands that have numbered pages if that's a feature that's important to you. I also like Midori. For inexpensive journals, Walmart carries a brand called Pen and Gear that has truly excellent paper that can even handle fountain pens.
I love using stickers and washi tape. I rec stickers that are made of washi because they are extremely thin and won't bulk out your journal. Also when you put down a sticker and then write on the back of the sticker, it's so thin that you don't get that weird bump you usually get from writing on the back of stickers.
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I really like Leuchtturm 1917 and have used that brand multiple times for a journal; they're one of the only brands that have numbered pages if that's a feature that's important to you. I also like Midori. For inexpensive journals, Walmart carries a brand called Pen and Gear that has truly excellent paper that can even handle fountain pens.
I love using stickers and washi tape. I rec stickers that are made of washi because they are extremely thin and won't bulk out your journal. Also when you put down a sticker and then write on the back of the sticker, it's so thin that you don't get that weird bump you usually get from writing on the back of stickers.