What new planner are you considering for 2024?

[Rosendust]

Hey everyone. For this year, I decided that I would try the Hoboninchi Techo Cousin. So far, I really like the layout and the bigger format to write.

 

What did everyone else pick?

[inkstainedruth]

I'll admit that I don't really use planners.  Somewhere in my house or purse I have a small cheapie 2-year one for 2023-2024 from a dollar store, that has enough space per day to write in stuff like doctors' appointments, but am more likely to use the calendar app on my laptop.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

[Penguincollector]

  I think I am going to use my 2024 Frank Lloyd Wright calendar for appointments and keeping track of inks and pens. It’s made of a glossy, coated heavy paper that really picks up sheen from even the most commonplace inks. I have a couple of Midori to-do list pads that I am going to use daily for household tasks. I have another planner, but the paper quality is iffy. 

[Misfit]

I bought a cheap 2-year calendar style planner for 2024 and 2025 to put events that are in the future. Otherwise I write a page a day in an A5 notebook. Right now that’s a Leuchtturm 1917. My life doesn’t need a very detailed style of planner. 

 

@Rosendust Did you get a cover for your Hobonichi Techo Cousin?

[arcfide]

I've been hemming and hawing over what to get for the past two months, and I finally decided that I will use a Visoplan pocket planner from Quo Vadis. I reserve the right to move over to a Kokuyo Campus A6 Free Monthly Schedule, of course. 

 

Of course, I also tend to do "planning" in my notebooks, and I always keep at least one business notebook and one personal notebook, along with a pocket notebook for planning/journaling. I'm cycling through my stash right now, and I have Rhodia, Midori, Moleskin, Monokaki, Tsubame, Clairefontaine, Exacompta/G Lalo, and Oxford Black 'n' Red all in the queue at the moment or under active use. I'm still not sure which notebook will eventually win out to become "my one true notebook" yet. 

[A Smug Dill]

I'll probably use a Nitoms STALOGY 365 Days (368-page) 4mm grid A5 notebook for planning, at least as an experiment, this year; but right now I'm still struggling with whether it's possible to have some sort of (semi-)structured format, using one A5 page per day, for both forward planning and recording certain types of events as they arise.

 

Today being the first day of the year, for now I've started using a Kinbor Techo planner for tracking and recording, as opposed to planning.

 

Realistically I think I need at least a two-book, if not three-book, combination to have a complete system. I can make do with a Kinbor Techo A5, but each 14mm-thick book would only cover six months (and actually fall slightly short, since it only has 182 daily pages).

[arcfide]

13 minutes ago, A Smug Dill said:

right now I'm still struggling with whether it's possible to have some sort of (semi-)structured format, using one A5 page per day, for both forward planning and recording certain types of events as they arise.

 

If you haven't already looked at them, I might recommend looking into these:

 

Kokuyo Jibun Techo DAYs Diary 2024 - A5 Slim - Blue | JetPens

 

I used the Jibun Techo Biz for one year and I can attest to the almost insane number of features and ways of using them. They are big on recording and tracking, and they also have very good scheduling and long term planning features. The DAYS is quite flexible, and has lots of formats that I've used to do various types of tracking and record keeping in the past, as well as plan future goals. 

 

The reason I think the DAYS might work for you is that the single page per day format includes both daily tracking space as well as a split main page that allows you to divide up the page and still coordinate by the hour. Thus, you could use one side for future planning and the other side for record keeping that is temporal or chronological (or not, as the case may be). If you want even more future planning, the monthly layout with Gantt charts can be used both for planning and for record keeping. 

 

If you need even more pages, then adding an IDEA booklet to the notebook adds quite a bit of functionality and space if you so require. 

 

I also used a Midori MD 1 Page 1 Day journal for a significant portion of one year to great effect, but I had a very specific method in place to use the space on those pages, which did a specific type of future planning, scheduling, and incoming task/idea/note recording.  It worked exceptionally well for that method, and was a really fun book to use. However, it might not have enough structure for what you want, and requires you to invest a little more in your own method versus being able to rely on lots of features already included in the format, which the Jibun provides. 

[TMLee]

I made my own planner 2024 , just like for last year 2023.

 

From using an improv one for 2022 , I made it simpler , cleaner ....

 

For  Y2023 , I hunted down TR paper that was gridded.

Found this great seller over at ETSY :

Good Inkpressions

 

she really went the extra mile to custom make my order :

- B6 SLIM size

- same grid size as JIBUN TECHO B6 MINI planner, I think its about 2.9mm or 2.7mm

- light colored gridlines , either light grey or light blue.

I also bought her paper card for covers.

 

I took time to explain that I handstitch my own books, so she could understand perfectly my order.

 

The final product arrived perfect.

 

Here is a pic of my 2024 planner

B6 SLIM size

vertical weekly

 

Colophon

5 Signatures

8 Folios each

Total 160 writing pages

skinny ribbon pagemarkers by MUJI

stitched with waxed dental floss

annotated with

FRIXION 0.38 inks Red / Black / Forest Green / Sky Blue

FRIXION Waai 0.5 Light Grey

0.3mm pencil lead

 

One month to a spread

 

One week to a spread

 

Designed to fit into a JIBUN TECHO B6 SLIM transparent cover .

(I needed that pen loop)

 

 

with the JT transparent cover

FRIXION multipen with 4 colors 0.38mm

 

The JT B6 SLIM MINI transparent cover

 

Black flyleaves

 

 

 

Monthly page spread

 

weekly page spread

 

all corners are punched with a square punch

 

The grid size specially printed for me.

 

 

 

 

[TMLee]

i also bought a IROHA SUNNY FREE DAILY planner.

 

The gridlines are even smaller.

 

The layout is clean , no detailed info (distracting) as we find in the JIBUN TECHO DAYS MINI which i used for 2023 as a companion to my DIY planner.

I wanted something clean , neat , excellent paper (ie Japanese made) , clever grids

 

 

[Olya]

For 2024 I have gone a bit overboard and bought a Hobonichi, but also a Nolty. Actually several, because I wanted to try different layouts.

 

The Hobonichi for more details when something goes on (as well as noting appointments and events) and the Nolty mostly for appointments. I tend to add some detail (like meeting a friend, but also what time, where, how long we wer together, sometimes the cost of lunch, or hair dressing appointments; which salon, who was the hairdresser, how much did it cost and if I were to do something out of the ordinary what it was (eg which colour when colouring, but I coloured my hair a handful of times in my life), so do need some space even for regular "uneventful" stuff.

 

I don't love the layout of the Nolty classic in leather, but I love the simple black look with the gilded pages and the gold number of the year. Have been drooling over them for years over instagram and it finally dawned on me that I could buy them through Amazon!

 

Then I got some others from Nolty to test a few layouts and see what I like best for what, it was cheap enough at the time, esp ordering from Japan (rather one big order than several small ones).

 

Also the same small cheap planner I usually buy in my country, because it has handy info on bank holidays etc.

 

I like about the Japanese planners that they partly start in November, so I could test some feautures already and it's become clearer what I like and what I don't like, and for the following year the planner also goes till March.

 

I would love to get a Smythson, but I dislike the blue paper and think they are ridiculously priced.

I prefer cream paper, if that's unavailable then white. Blue is kind of too odd. Maybe I'd like it, but again, the price is ridiculous. I spent less on all the Japanese + local planners than if I'd shopped with Smythson!

[A Smug Dill]

12 hours ago, arcfide said:

If you haven't already looked at them, I might recommend looking into these:

 

Kokuyo Jibun Techo DAYs Diary 2024 - A5 Slim

 

Thank you. I shall do so.

 

I just remembered last night that the generous folks at Endless Works gave me one of their 2024 Regalia planners, and what better time is there to use it than 2024? So, I dug it out from my mountain of paper supplies this morning, and opened it up. Hmmm, to be honest, it's set out more like one of those chunky hardcover day-to-a-page diaries — with every Saturday and Sunday getting half of a shared page — typical of what you'd find in an office supplies retail store. It has ruled horizontal lines spaced 5mm apart, made up of tiny disjointed series of black tildes (~~) that are quite dark against the stark white paper. I'm not quite sure what I'm going to do with that. Perhaps I'll go back to the original plan, of merely using it as a source of Regalia paper for paper sampler booklets.

[AmandaW]

Same as last year. And the one before that...

- a Bullet Journal in a Clairefontaine A5 dotted, the one with the grey cover and creamy-colour paper. It lives in a Lihit Lab notebook cover along with a Pilot 912 Posting filled with Van Dieman's Cradle Mountain Grey

- an A4 Clairefontaine for long form  journalling

 

The Bullet Journal is quick to peruse and tends to act as an index to my journals. And offers prompts when I sit to write in my journal if I find myself staring at the page. Everything gets both captured and planned in the BuJo.

[Ceilidh]

On 1/1/2024 at 4:49 AM, A Smug Dill said:

I'll probably use a Nitoms STALOGY 365 Days (368-page) 4mm grid A5 notebook for planning, at least as an experiment, this year; but right now I'm still struggling with whether it's possible to have some sort of (semi-)structured format, using one A5 page per day, for both forward planning and recording certain types of events as they arise.

 

Instead of a planner, I do more of a series of to-do list in a STALOGY - mine is an A6. But I really like the paper!

[countrydirt]

I'm trying a bullet journal again in an Exceed notebook from Walmart.  

[Bigeddie]

I have been using Smythson diaries exclusively for the last 5+ years. I alternate almost exactly every other year between the W1 (A4 page per view + 1 page week to view) and Soho (A5 week to view + 1 page notes oposite). I miss what I don't have each year, but really the Soho is my preferred format. 

 

The paper is absolutely to die for, as is the leather and construction. The price is prohibative, but I have justified it on the basis that it is the one bit of stationary which I use every day. 

[Bigeddie]

[AmericanMonk]

I grabbed another pack of Clever Fox Weekly Planner Binder Refills. I am a lefty so the ability to pop pages in and out of a binder is helpful to me. The paper is roughly equivalent to a thick Rhodia—low ghosting, resists spread/feathering with my pen/ink combos, and occasionally sheens.

[pucipatas]

I’m finally using up some iq 360 undated weekly planner sheets from Walmart. I’ve had it for years. It’s decent enough with fountain pen ink, some bleed through with a wetter pen, but EF and F are good to go. 

[RedPie]

I am using this planner set for many years. Fits perfect for my needs. 

 

https://www.daytimer.com/p/planners-calendars-organizers/planner-organizer-refills/daily-planner-organizer-refills/2025-one-page-per-day-planner-refill-wirebound-pocket-size-180102501/