What's Your 2015 Planner And/or Journal?

[The Blue Knight]

A Moleskine 18 month planner. I regret buying it however I couldn't find any other mid year planners six months ago.

[attika89]

I was thinking about a Hobonichi for a long time, but I've ended up with some Hungarian beauty from BomoArt
http://kepfeltoltes.hu/141220/P1240075_1_www.kepfeltoltes.hu_.jpg

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php/topic/280940-half-leather-bound-diary-by-bomoart-budapest-photo-heavy/

[Lovely_Pen]

I was thinking about a Hobonichi for a long time, but I've ended up with some Hungarian beauty from BomoArt

http://kepfeltoltes.hu/141220/P1240075_1_www.kepfeltoltes.hu_.jpg

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php/topic/280940-half-leather-bound-diary-by-bomoart-budapest-photo-heavy/

 

That is a thing of beauty!

 

Partially what attracted me to the Hobonichi is the plastic "cover on cover"...I'm a college student, and my last planner got horribly grimy after a semester's worth of daily use. It's not that I have filthy hands, but the classroom tables (and other college campus surfaces) are often times rather neglected by the building and grounds staff--whose job it is to clean them. That, and the fact that college students aren't the cleanest bunch. I figure it'll be easier to wipe clean a plastic cover at the end of the week, than it would be a leather or paper cover.

 

Edited January 7, 2015 by Lovely_Pen

[stonezebra]

I have no need of a formal planner (I just use a pocket calendar), but I am using the large Paper for Fountain Pens blank Tamoe River journal for my person writing. So far I love it!

[bogiesan]

Turns out the Daytimer wirebound notebooks are great for planning but the paper sucks, literally. It just sucks ink from a fountain pen, bleeding, feathering, and showing through terribly. It's a pencil and ballpoint-only system.

[drv1913]

As always, I'll be using my Day-timer Fresco cover filled with printed/hand lettered/hand drawn two-page per week calendar pages, forms, and address book pages and an assortment of unlined papers in the back for writing and drawing. This setup works well for me, and I don't think I'll ever go back to using standard readymade planners.

[da vinci]

As always, I'll be using my Day-timer Fresco cover filled with printed/hand lettered/hand drawn two-page per week calendar pages, forms, and address book pages and an assortment of unlined papers in the back for writing and drawing. This setup works well for me, and I don't think I'll ever go back to using standard readymade planners.

Any chance of a picture?

[drv1913]

da vinci, on 08 Jan 2015 - 16:15, said:

Any chance of a picture?

Sure, but it's not terribly exciting. I wanted a two-page-per-week format with the unlined squares for each day all one size and starting on Sunday and printed on paper that works well with fountain pens. So, I made a basic undated template, and I've been using it ever since. I also make "year at a glance" pages and basic Next Action pages (I follow the Getting Things Done system). It's all pretty simple. I often doodle or otherwise decorate the margins as I go along.Planner Pages by drv1913, on FlickrPlanner Pages by drv1913, on FlickrPlanner Pages by drv1913, on FlickrI could do better with my lettering, but I am fairly undisciplined when it comes to that type of thing. :)All of the other pages in my notebook are assorted unlined papers of various types. I have my own paper cutter, hole punch, and corner rounder, so any paper that I stumble upon or salvage is fair game.Edited to add: I don't know what I did to mess up the formatting and make the pictures not show. At any rate, you can click on them to get to the Flickr page. Edited January 9, 2015 by drv1913

[stevesurf]

Well I broke down and ordered a Hobonichi Techo Planner for 2015! I'm excited to get it in the mail...and seeing as how many other people are trying it out, I'm curious to see what everyone things after they've used it for a month or two.

 

Here's a pic from the official Hobonichi website in case anyone hasn't heard of these yet:

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Here's a funny and (somewhat strange--according to my hubby) video the company put out: http://youtu.be/iWMQ0M_FSL8

 

 

Thanks for that very cool link on Hobonichi ~ here are two more!

 

http://youtu.be/90FYzee8JSo

 

http://lindsaynelson.com/techo/use.html

[da vinci]

Sure, but it's not terribly exciting. I wanted a two-page-per-week format with the unlined squares for each day all one size and starting on Sunday and printed on paper that works well with fountain pens. So, I made a basic undated template, and I've been using it ever since. I also make "year at a glance" pages and basic Next Action pages (I follow the Getting Things Done system). It's all pretty simple. I often doodle or otherwise decorate the margins as I go along.Planner Pages by drv1913, on FlickrPlanner Pages by drv1913, on FlickrPlanner Pages by drv1913, on FlickrI could do better with my lettering, but I am fairly undisciplined when it comes to that type of thing. :)All of the other pages in my notebook are assorted unlined papers of various types. I have my own paper cutter, hole punch, and corner rounder, so any paper that I stumble upon or salvage is fair game.Edited to add: I don't know what I did to mess up the formatting and make the pictures not show. At any rate, you can click on them to get to the Flickr page.

That is a great planner!

 

Thanks for pics

Edited January 9, 2015 by da vinci

[Mullen88]

For daily notes and planning a Midori Passport with a lined notebook refill, and a monthly planner refill.

 

For nightly journal entries a Paperblanks Silver Filigree Maya Blue Ultra.

[fountainpenlady]

Eccolo Weekly Planner

[cancoi]

Hobonichi Techo, with a Gfeller kip cover (oh so soft). This is my first year, & I do love the Tomoe River paper. I keep a little ink index of different inks in different pens in the blank pages sections. The weekly calendar holds my yearly events (birthdays, anniversaries, remembrances). I'm certainly not an artist, but I do try to change up the appearance; it becomes a mishmash of bullet journalling, quotes, word definitions from Katexic, and doodles.

 

My primary pen for it is my Pilot faceted VP w/F nib, ink colors varying, but I'm really liking my Fine BLS TWSBI Mini recently as well (this holding Fuyu-gaki).

 

For my daily journal, I have a Seven Seas Writer (sadly, without a Gfeller, as I've lessened my bank account with ink & pens recently). I use a variety of pens, at times letting the kids help me choose my POD (Pen of the Day). They get a kick out of it. I also do their daily 2-3 minute writing exercise in the journal as well.

[wikeh2004]

I started out with a DayTimer paper planner, then went with a Palm PDA. From the Palm, I went to an iPhone because I liked being able to back up my appointments and events, and being able to search them (as in "now when did I get that flu shot?" Plus, I need those digital alarms to alert me to upcoming events because I couldn't discipline myself to keep checking my paper planner frequently.

 

However, I used to try to take notes on the Palm and ended up going back to paper for note taking. I wanted to use my fountain pens more for writing. I'm using Circa-based notebooks with my own paper for most notes. I've also bought various journals for writing. I've settled on Tomoe River journals for that lovely paper.

 

If I went back to a paper planner, the Hobonichi Techo would be my choice. The combination of superb organization, whimsical quotations, and superb Tomoe River paper is nearly irresistible. If I didn't need the electronic gizmo to remind me, I could do paper again. :-)

[SockAddict]

 

If I went back to a paper planner, the Hobonichi Techo would be my choice. The combination of superb organization, whimsical quotations, and superb Tomoe River paper is nearly irresistible. If I didn't need the electronic gizmo to remind me, I could do paper again. :-)

 

I do this. I use my phone for my appointments and such. And I use my Hobonichi for my daily notes. I put my to-do list in there, plus whatever notes I want to make about my day, quotes I like, and I also add a bit of scrapbook style entries as well.

[wikeh2004]

 

I do this. I use my phone for my appointments and such. And I use my Hobonichi for my daily notes. I put my to-do list in there, plus whatever notes I want to make about my day, quotes I like, and I also add a bit of scrapbook style entries as well.

 

That sounds like a good hybrid approach to me. Just gotta get into the habit of "journaling" my day. I don't write down anything and sometimes wish I did. :-(

[HollyGolightly]

 

I don't write down anything and sometimes wish I did. :-(

I was keeping a daily journal but have fallen off- I need to make up some backlogged entries for the tail end of February. Shame on me.

 

I'm really thinking of getting a Hobonichi. It's either that or a Midori grid notebook and just making my own system for the days and whatnot. I can't decide what I want to do.

[ailevin]

I use google calendar and a gmail based system for list management to implement a version of Getting Things Done. I find synchronization across multiple computers and my iphone very convenient. It also facilitates easy coordination with others. However, I do a great deal of my thinking on paper, and my preference is to use Tomoe River paper whenever possible.

 

I do most of my writing on A5 paper. I mostly work with a trifold A5 notebook cover that carries both a a blank Tomoe River pad and a Kokuyo Twin Ring notebook. I keep a 7.5x12 cm Rhodia notebook and/or a LawTech 7x11.5 cm flip pad in a small leather folder in my back pocket for quick notes. Both of these papers are a bit more absorbent than Tomoe River, so the ink dries more quickly, but neither one feathers or bleeds. Last but not least, since last April I've been writing daily into a Seven Seas bound A5 notebook with cream colored lined Tomoe River paper, and my lovely wife gave me a Gfeller Kip leather A5 cover for Christmas.

 

This system is working quite well for me. Appointments, actions, and list items are either directly entered or harvested from my notebooks into the computerized lists daily, and of course the calendar and lists are reviewed regularly each day. I've also found that there is a flow that is something like refinement of the ideas and sharpening of the prose from the loose sheets to the twin ring notebook. Eventually when I get down to writing a more finished product, I move to the computer and use Scrivener.

[Cryptos]

After struggling with the simply horrible diaries that my employer foists upon us, I caved and acquired a hobonichi in the exact same colours as Lovely_Pen (post #63). This is my first time with this kind of paper and I have to say I am really liking it so far. I didn't need the large size so got the regular. Suits my needs so far, and it has been commented on by a few of my colleagues. As an aside I noticed the Dean of our School was toting a Lamy Vista at a recent meeting. I asked him if it was the fountain pen version and he said it was and that he only uses fountain pens! Haven't had the opportunity to explore this further... yet.

 

Anyway, +1 for the hobonichi (I also use a full sized Midori for personal journaling, art and the like).

[HollyGolightly]

I think I'm going to pull the trigger on a Hobonichi- though I'm sad that none of the colors left really appeal to me. There's always black but I default to black often, and was hoping for something different. I could always go the route of a 3rd party cover but I get nervous that it won't fit the notebook or something silly like that.

 

Question to Cardboard_tube- did you get the English or Japanese version? I'm trying to figure out if I'm better off getting the April start date since I am fashionably late to the party- or if I will miss something different in the English version of the planner, despite being 3 months behind (I could probably find ways to fill up the pages I have missed.)