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Having offered journals and planners to buy or to print at home, it seems useful to cover related supplies. This post covers pens, markers, pencils, inks, and a few extras. Understand that the physical experience of writing is a big appeal with recordkeeping on paper, so pay attention to the handfeel of what you use. Also, many people in this activity are highly visual, with an interest in color-coding and/or using a set of symbols to store information. For this reason, they often want multiple colors. Another reason for variety is when you do different things in your journal -- writing, drawing, filling in areas of color, etc. A good handwriting pen may not excel at coloring in spaces and vice versa, so you might need different ones for each task.

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Hobonichi will replace defective 2025 planners

From the above video's description (posted by

fudefan): The paper in Hobonichi's 2025 5-year planners causes ink to feather and bleed. Hobonichi has acknowledged the problem and worked with Sanzen to manufacture a version of Tomoe River with adjusted ink absorbency. Affested customers will receive free replacements.

I don't know much more about it except: Hobonichi, 5-year planners, some of them have bleeding/feathering issues, you can get a free replacement, click the link to find out more.

greyliliy

Hello, everyone! The TLDR before I start: I would like recommendations for an undated planner with daily pages. I'm not familiar with a lot of planner brands and types, and I'm not entirely satisifed with the CleverFox planner I'm trying at the moment.

More details about the situation along with photos of what I'm using at the moment below:

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I welcome any recommendations you may have! :D

seleneheart

I watched a planner video from this person: https://www.youtube.com/user/jashiicorrin who uses washi tape paper to print her headers and stickers for her bullet journal.

I decided to try it for my October spread. Here is the washi paper I got: washi sticker paper. I didn't want to get too much of it in case I didn't like it.

My theme for October is Where the Wild Things Are. I found a font that looked similar to the title font from the book, and created this page with all the titles and headers I will need for October. The paper is quite transparent, and can be written on/colored on. Here is the page I made:

I created a 5mmx5mm grid that is 26 x 37 squares, which is the same size as the pages in my journal. This helped me know if the labels and stickers I made would fit correctly in my weekly layouts (I turned the layer with the grid off when I printed). I printed on the A4 paper, and then cut them out with scissors. Although I'm sure this could be done on a Cricuit or something.

Here is my spread. I experimented with coloring the labels, but I think I'll leave them transparent next time.

This is definitely a learning curve for me, but I'm pretty happy with the results so far.

Oh, and someone asked me last time how I determine what book to do what month - for October, I had to choose Max in his wolf costume!

lunabee34

The fall semester has started, and it's that time of year when I start to believe a new planner will change my life. :)

This post for discussing planner set-ups for the fall or what you're contemplating for 2025 if you're a January start kind of person.

seleneheart

As I've said before, my planner season starts now. I ordered by next bullet journal and my work planner, and they both showed up this weekend - unexpectedly early! But earlier is always better!

This year's bullet journal is my old faithful Leuchttrum1917 A5 dot grid in port red:

Some day, when I get the space and time, I plan to have all my bujos in order on a bookshelf, and I choose each year's color based on whether it would look good next to last year's color on this hypothetical shelf. *goals*

Last year I did a year-long theme of video games for each spread, and I really enjoyed that. This year the theme will be children's books.

My EC work planner and stickers it comes with:

This planner holds to-do lists, notes from meetings, notes to myself, and a log of expenses that I need to turn in to be reimbursed. I use the stickers to tell me where I need to be and what time. I put stickers on both the monthly layout and on the week in question. I live in fear of not being where I'm supposed to be at the correct time and this system alleviates most of that stress. I also put stickers on the calendar for holidays when we'll be closed and to designate my vacation time, as well as random things like doctor's appointments that will take me out of the office. Oh! And birthdays for my co-workers so I can remember to wish them a good day, not that we are the type of office that gives out birthday gifts. This one doesn't start until August, but I have events scheduled beyond then that I can start putting in it.

eleanorjane

It's about the time of year when everyone starts thinking about what planner(s) they're going to use for 2024; the Hobonichi Store has had its first 2024 releases, a lot of smaller brands have had their preorders, and if you're anything like me you're looking at your 2023 solution trying to decide what has worked for you and what you want to carry over to 2024.

My 2023 setup:

* Personal planner: Hobonichi Cousin A5. Mostly a success; I haven't yet managed to make the monthly spreads work for me, and the dated dailies means that if I miss a day I have a glaring hole, which irks me. Overall a win though.

* Work planner: Wonderland 222 A5. Similar to the Cousin, but with weeklies interspersed between the relevant months, and with a few extra spreads. Structurally this works fairly well for me; the weekly layout has a stacked weekend rather than a column for both days, which saves space and means all the columns can be wider, which is perfect for a work planner for me. The undated dailies are a must, as well, since I use them as general note-taking and task-management pages. I didn't use this planner as well as I could have this year, but I think that's about establishing better habits rather than the planner itself not working for me.

* Desk notes/commonplace book: A5 TN-style folder + Midori inserts. A total fail; I haven't used this at all, instead defaulting to a spiral-bound Maruman notebook every time. Need to rethink this.

* Ink journal: "Regular" size TN-style folder + Midori regular and lightweight inserts. This has worked OK; I use one insert for tracking my currently-inked fountain pens, one for swatching new arrivals in the order I get them, and one (a project I'm still working on) doing very small swatches by brand. (My main ink swatching is on a home-made Col-O-Ring knockoff using Tomoe River paper, and that's sorted by colour order, so I wanted a source of very basic swatches by brand/range as well.) I'm also planning on adding more inserts for pen records and paper tests.

My 2024 plans:

One of the main criteria for my choices was the paper used; as a FP user I'm pretty picky about paper as I want to enjoy all the beautiful properties of my inks. 2024 is the first year that Hobonichi is moving to the new Sanzen Tomoe River paper; they had enough old TRP to finish out 2023, which gave them a big advantage over other planner brands in my reckoning. Come 2024, though, and all the Tomoe River planners will be on the same playing field.

* Personal planner: Sterling Ink Common Planner A5. A lot of the planner community raved about this in 2023, and in 2024 they're introducing an A5 variant which will suit me. It's heavily inspired by the Hobonichi Cousin, starting out as a "Cousin but better/Cousin but without those things you don't like". Now, I like the Cousin a lot, so I'm not trying to fix some of the 'problems' that other Sterling Ink users are fixing, but I like some of the features that the Common Planner offers. (The product listing pages have been hidden, but there's a Youtube video showing the 2024 lineup here.) And I had an absolute shipping nightmare trying to get my 2023 Cousin delivered, so I was happy enough to avoid the Hobonichi Store this year. My main concern is that the daily pages aren't numbered – which means no ugly gaps, but also perhaps no structured incentive to actually journal every day.

* Work planner: Wonderland 222 A5, again the Stacked Weekend variant. The main downside of this is that there are only 90 undated note pages, so I've ordered the 368 page notebook to go along with it. (I'm going to have to find a spacious cover to handle these!)

* Ink journal: Carrying on with what I have. It's only barely started; no need for anything new!

* Desk journal/commonplace book: This is where I'm really not sure; I'm contemplating switching to a single thick notebook, like the Nanami Seven Seas Crossfield, but I don't really have any great ideas here. I also wouldn't mind trying to find a notebook with Cosmo Air paper, like the Taroko Odyssey. I think I need a better idea of how I want to use this book before I make any decisions.

So that's where I'm at. Is anyone else starting to plan out (heh!) what they're using for 2024, and if so, what's your thought process?

seleneheart

I use my bullet journal both as a planner and as a record of my life - things like home maintenance, health records, meal records ("I'm not making that; we just had it two weeks ago"), as well as all the trackers.

I decided I wanted a visual record of some things, like projects and monthly reflections.

I've been intrigued by the mini-printers - the ones that can print directly from a cell phone. I did scrapbooking back in the day, which was just too, too much. Too much time, too much material, too much money. But I think there's something fun and charming about just casually printing a pic from my cell phone, and sticking a photo in my bullet journal.

There are a ton of different ones out there, but I treated myself to a Canon Ivy 2 and some extra paper. (It was on sale when I bought it). So far it's been everything I wanted and performed as expected. The photos are on sticky-backed photo paper, and look like good quality and resolution.

The photos are pretty tiny, 10 x 16 grid squares, which works out to 50mm x 90mm. I'll need to be careful to spread them out the pages so they don't add bulk all in the same spot and make it hard to write.

Overall, I'm pretty pleased with it!

vriddy

Crossposted to

bujo and my own journal.

At the moment, I'm really happy with the weekly planner template I use for my bullet journal. Many of the tutorials are monthly and daily, but I tend to plan in terms of weeks and tweaking things a bit has been working well for me.

This is what my view looks like at the start of the week:

I have a large section on top where I park what I want to accomplish during the week but not necessarily on Monday. This makes my daily migrations less painful and is helpful as I often have a bunch of phone calls or other "following up on appointments" things to do, that I tend to forget about until the end of the month if I leave them in the monthly section. Migrating them daily was super painful in the past and I always ended up giving up. This way, I also get a weekly reminder when I do a weekly migration. When I do that, I also go look at my monthly to-dos to see if I want to bring something else in.

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So, that's how I adapted the method to my needs :) Do you use a bullet journal yourself? Have you made any modifications to the planner method you follow?

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