#hobinichi

[ellanmwebb2]

Notes on plants,

Ella Webb

[gofada]

a little bit of my hobonichi 2025 planner setup. well, anyone who knows me knows that I'm in love with orange and yellow (I confess that I loved the freebies being in my favorite colors).🧡🌻✨

[evaunit-00]

going to kinokuniya bookstore next week yup yup yup yup oh how ive missed her

[sunlight-babes]

as much as I'm not sure how much I'll write in my hobonichi planners for next year in fountain pen, I think I'll be super frustrated if I got part of the bad batch for cost and quality expectations alone... as someone who has to fight the urge to planner hop a bunch, it doesn't bode well for my planner fomo if I've invested into planners for a year that came with a lower quality of paper than expected vs getting a planner that I know has lower paper qualify than trp and just bearing with it.

[sevenofdeers]

06.02.2024

a hobonichi a6 avec, a fieldnotes journal & a hobinichi day free a6 in my cover from cadenta notebooks on etsy (and of course my trusty snoopy pen)

[awitchesdesk]

January Journal Flip

I actually really enjoyed January and I've got some great plans for February!! Here's a January journal flip (in my Hobinichi Weeks Mega)!!

🧙🏻 Imogen

Goth Witch of Dark Academia

[arysgarden]

week 1 | re-(centering, settling, organizing)

I embrace the new year with a cup of candy cane tea and a bare bullet journal whose only filled page resembles a coloring book. “2025” it announces, shaped from traced out (and colored in) vines that twist over one another to make the edges of the numbers. I have my “Quests” (new year’s resolutions) on one side, below a red (colored in) banner, and “Achievements” (unexpected, but defining experiences and moments in the new year) to the other, but of course, below its banner is empty space. 

The hardest thing about new year’s resolutions is accepting that the goals you wrote— potentially scoured Pinterest for, if you’re anything like me, who deemed their ten-goal list (already difficult) too skimpy on paper— require you to start today. Not in a week or a few days.

2025 is already a week old, and I have yet to put on my retainers (one of the many habits I swore to start this year); I have been using my creative pursuits as excuses to put off the gritty work of starting my term readings early (to loosen the burden of the start of term) or starting a research database for my lab work (I was supposed to do this…weeks ago); and my tasks for the “ambitious, but not unattainable” days I scheduled preceding the end of break continue to be postponed, dragged onto future days, with previously-schedule tasks rescaled and reordered to compensate for my unproductiveness. 

That isn’t to say I have been wasting this break. These past few days I have been easing myself back into a working mindset, doing the tedious, yet needed, tasks to set myself up for actually doing my larger goals: downloading and sorting readings for the term (if available), finding research programs to apply for, labs I would want to reach out to for those research programs, finally responding to neglected emails, and carrying out overdue action items from those message threads. I redid my notion for the year, scrapping the overcomplicated and overwhelming parts of my organization system that I just…didn’t use. 

A small aside: I see so many YouTube videos and Instagram reels marketing Notion as a game changing software for productivity, and I would spend hours scouring free templates and downloading them, watching videos on how to format pages or organize my knowledge, and eventually attempting to build my own aesthetic system. Only to almost never use it. I had the same problem with the Hobinichi planner (which I spent a ridiculous amount of money shipping overseas)! Systems require upkeep and consistency, and while I am absolutely one of those types of people that need to write things down to remember them and need organization systems to structure their time and keep their goals in check, I think I fell into the trap of having too many systems in place. I would “touch and go,” skipping between my paper planner, to creating a daily page in notion, that I would inevitably forget to check any of my tasks off from, to sometimes even ripping a page out of my notebooks to create a makeshift to-do list if I felt like it.

Don't get me wrong, Notion is an incredible program to visually organize information and create a workflow! I just wanted to put my entire life into Notion, and the fact of the matter is that...*my* system was not working for me. It didn't make sense for me to split up my life into 20 different pages that I honestly forgot to check and keep up with. I have bursts of motivation, much like the dawn of a new year, to create all these new ways to see and pick apart my life on these programs, but I quickly lose stamina to keep up with all of them.

So, one of my primary goals for 2025 is to simplify and redesign my organization systems (including Notion) to cater to my lifestyle and priorities. 

Being in uni with two jobs, being on board for a few student organizations, and studying biomedical engineering, I have found the most success in managing my day primarily with Google Calendar. I even downloaded the “Duration for Google Tasks” extension, so that I can assign tasks for specific time blocks and visually factor in the time estimated for completion into my plans around and beyond class and work schedules. This is how I best visualize my days and prioritize work for the week.

So, I massively simplified my Notion workplace to supplement what my Google ecosystem cannot adequately take care of for me. I almost use it as a control panel/dashboard, with dropdown yearly and quarterly goals; daily, weekly, and monthly habits; a dashboard to keep track of all my applications for internship and research opportunities; and for now, an “everything page” to organize and keep track of miscellaneous notes that I would like to find better homes for later. [A brief snapshot of my Notion page, affectionately also called "ary's garden" is below]

It’s not perfect, but it’s a start! 

And as I progress throughout this "quarter" (I set the arbitrary end date of Q1 to Mar 29, 2025), I will keep and adapt what works and discard what doesn't. I just simply no longer have time to waste on systems that do not work for me.

And my bullet journal…will be more of a visual archive than a day-to-day task manager. I might write down some notes or visually plan out projects on its pages (instead of ripped out notebook pages I neatly fold and place into the depths of my backpack, never to be seen again), but it is not a part of my organizational system. It's more an art project than anything, and I am setting it up as such. Vision boards, photos, journal entries, ideas...we will see what I shall fill up this beautiful, blank journal with later, but this year I stop with the monthly and weekly spreads that beg for me to spill my life into its neatly traced boxes and under new list headings. This year, I accept the bujo for what it is: a hobby, that sometimes, I won't have time for.

I will update you all on how these changes impact my day-to-day operations and longer term achievements (or don’t). As I said before, we'll figure it out together!

[Above is a Salem the Cat gif from one of my favorite television shows, Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996-2003), where he is sporting scholarly glasses sitting atop a book. He looks fabulous and unbothered, as always. Truly the vibe I'm trying to embody this new year]

Nevertheless, I didn’t start of 2025 on magically better footing simply because the calendar marked an ending and beginning or because my motivation shot up at the creation of resolutions. I spent much of this break resting and healing, and frankly, and I spent the first half week of 2025 doing the same. But, as the start of school again looms for the next few days, I actually feel restored and ready to take on the new year with all it promises...and requires of me.

I have applications to finish, readings to absorb, and a life to live. Guess I have to start today :)

Until next week, mis amores,

Ary

[umk-isback]

Hello

Hey I’m Maryam. It’s been a while. I was away for a few months and then I started traveling so that stopped me from coming back to tumblr. I’ve been having so much fun in the real world. Hobinichi season finally came and I wanted to share pictures of my new stationery. Sadly I couldn’t manage to log in into my account @maryam-umk. This made me sad. I was enjoying having that account.

I tried countless of times to log in but nothing worked. It even said that the email I know for sure was used for my tumblr wasn't the correct one. So I had to create a new account. I’ll reblog my old posts here.

[nmheaman]

July pages from my "most-days" Hobinichi sketchbook

[glitterdustcyclops]

my special 2018 hobinichi techo jetstream multipen just CRACKED

IN

HALF?!?!?!

what am i supposed to do now that is one of my favorite writing pens ahhhhhh

[excessexorcism]

Item #36

This one blows.

Planners that I barely used always leave me feeling a bit down. I start each one with enthusiasm, only to forget about them as time goes by. These are three different planners, all from 2022.

The one on the left is a Hobonichi Weeks, it cost me $34. In the center is a mid-year planner from Target, which was cheap, likely around $6.50. The third is a Hobinichi Techo Planner, a pricier option at $42.00.

When I add it all up, it's a total of $82.50 spent on planners that I barely touched. It's wild.

Here's the lesson I've learned: as much as I adore the idea of Hobonichi Techo, the $42.00 model with a page for each day is overkill for me right now. I'm not the kind of person who consistently designs a planner page. Sure, I love watching planner inspiration videos, but I'm not there yet. If I ever want to give it another shot, I'll opt for a cheaper brand, maybe an undated one for flexibility.

On the other hand, I do love the Hobonichi Weeks, I'm using one for 2023 and I'm looking forward to getting one for 2024. I do have some regrets about the cheap Target planner. It was less than $7.00, but I probably should have just gone back to the barely used Hobonichi Weeks planner. At the time, the thought of returning to a planner that had been neglected for most of the year felt like a daunting task and just depressed me.

Verdict: This was undoubtedly a fail. Spending $82.50 on barely used planners is not something I want to repeat. I've come to terms with the fact that I don't need a daily planner, and that's perfectly fine. I'll make do with what I have, and that's more than enough. I'll try to recycle the pages, but these have no second life, and they'll probably have to go to a landfill.

[teatreeyellow]

Plan

- coffee, breakfast (oats?)

- read over and submit assignment

- organise emails, minutes for a meeting

- do washing

- clean up room

- hobinichi planning for this week, fill calendar

- go to the store to get food for a picnic later :)

[twinkbasement]

i rlly wanted to keep a journal this coming yr but as a fomer # studyblr blog im v picky about notebooks and paper (which is probs great for my finances or whatever) so id probs have to buy online so its kinda too late (and also i have no money atm) i was looking at the a6 hobinichi avec bc then id have the limited space from the daily pages bc i often struggle w too much space (i do v little)(also fairly sure they dont have weekly spreads but not 100% on that) and more emotional stuff honestly doesnt take up that much space and id do in a separate not every day what did u do memory archive journal anyway tbh but unforchies the cheapest i can find that is like £30 which is way more than i can afford (wld be worth it 2 me tho lol) (# special interest in stationery idk her) but oh well

[sketchydetailing]

More daily journalling.

[ritahutchesoncobbs]

Everyday, Every month, I write in multiple places in my planner, a scripture prayer, things I’m thankful for that day, an attribute of God and prayer needs of that day I see. Mingled has n are my appts, menu planning and to-do lists... I have changed the past five-yrs of doing this but nothing like the past two-months. I’ve needed this strength that Paul talks about to battle the spiritual warfare and the reality of the world so my life can be one if gratefulness and peace. The hope of Christ can do that. #theWord #TheWay #hobonichiplanner #hobonichitecho #hobinichi #RitaHutchesonCobbs @ritahutchesoncobbs https://www.instagram.com/p/B3BJ5nvHmTN/?igshid=1lo9ipeupolao

[littlecrafter]

It’s cold outside from @sassyplanner_co in hobonichi size for all you hobonichi lovers. It also comes in vertical & mini kits as well. Use Eileen20 for 20% off & you can also get my PR freebie. #sassyplanner_co #plannercommunity #hobinichi #hobinichiweeks #hobinichikits #hobinichiplanner #hobinichilovers (at Brooklyn, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CWGAf4ur2Fp/?utm_medium=tumblr