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It has arrived!! I’m so excited, this unboxing, my thoughts on it and lots of tests will be seen on the next video. 📹

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Commonplace entry on 💿. Music has been something that I’ve been searching more about, and after reading this article, I truly believe that cds are the superior form of physically listening to music 🎶.

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“You should listen to CDS” from WIRED, written by Gilad Edelman on 23/12/2021

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★ a drawing a day in february~  ★

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tripple moleskine, preparing for April and some thoughts featuring Radiohead playing in the background 🥀 reblog is ok, don’t repost/use

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October coming to an end 🍁 reblog is ok, don’t repost

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Dailies in my archive 🎧

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Documenting January.

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Morning pages.

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My @twstplanner bundle has finally arrived and I’m so in love with everything I received 🥺💖 Thank you so much to the wonderfully talented team for putting this all together!!

#rbing from my main #so so happy to have this finally ahhhhh 💕💕💕

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Once you learn something, make sure you stay up to date.

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Y'all will never believe what I just spent my money on

Been thinking about how nice it would be to have everything for the year in one place. Just one big book for the year that has my journal entries and my to-do lists and the little notes I make in my weekly planner that I then put into my daily entry. That way I don't have to flip between two or three different books to get an overview of where I was at in a point in my life, I can just flip a little back and forth in one book. Plus, having an A5 sized page would be nice for longer entries (not that I usually need room for long entries; A6 is a great page size for my writing), and if my entries are still short enough, I can have more space to decorate with sticker and washi tape and print outs.

But I am not typically one to planner hop, and I especially don't want to jump out of my HON after spending as much as I did on it. It feels like it'd be a waste of money to not follow through with something that is working for me after only having used it for two months. Also, idk how much I want to be carrying around a book that has my personal entries in it if I'm also going to be using it as a planner at work and stuff. Nor do I want to carry around a bulky A5 book because if I’m putting more into decorating the daily entries, it would certainly become Thick™️

I could do what I did before buying my HON for this year and get a cheaper A5 sized notebook or something resold on ebay or mercari. I did check for a couple of Cousin and Day-Free listings, and while a Day-Free would be more versatile, I did find a Cousin for last year being sold for like $13. I think it'd make sense to buy a plain notebook, but all of the listings are more expensive. And I can cover the dates in the Cousin and use it for whatever I feel like.

Things to consider for next year, I suppose, even though that's such a long ways away.

#listen it was like $18 with shipping and tax and everything for a whole ass A5 hobonichi book #that's a goddamn steal honestly #i can very easily use it to experiment and then do whatever i want in it after that. just cover up the dates #i see people using dated pages as just regular pages all the time especially for commonplacing #i could just use it as a junk drawer type book tbh #anyway its supposed to get here Wednesday or Thursday yippee :3 #ghost.txt

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Been thinking about how nice it would be to have everything for the year in one place. Just one big book for the year that has my journal entries and my to-do lists and the little notes I make in my weekly planner that I then put into my daily entry. That way I don't have to flip between two or three different books to get an overview of where I was at in a point in my life, I can just flip a little back and forth in one book. Plus, having an A5 sized page would be nice for longer entries (not that I usually need room for long entries; A6 is a great page size for my writing), and if my entries are still short enough, I can have more space to decorate with sticker and washi tape and print outs.

But I am not typically one to planner hop, and I especially don't want to jump out of my HON after spending as much as I did on it. It feels like it'd be a waste of money to not follow through with something that is working for me after only having used it for two months. Also, idk how much I want to be carrying around a book that has my personal entries in it if I'm also going to be using it as a planner at work and stuff. Nor do I want to carry around a bulky A5 book because if I’m putting more into decorating the daily entries, it would certainly become Thick™️

I could do what I did before buying my HON for this year and get a cheaper A5 sized notebook or something resold on ebay or mercari. I did check for a couple of Cousin and Day-Free listings, and while a Day-Free would be more versatile, I did find a Cousin for last year being sold for like $13. I think it'd make sense to buy a plain notebook, but all of the listings are more expensive. And I can cover the dates in the Cousin and use it for whatever I feel like.

Things to consider for next year, I suppose, even though that's such a long ways away.

#i don't need to buy a hobonichi cousin i dont need to buy a cousin i dont need to buy a cousin i dont #even if i did have a big book of everything i still have my binder that i keep goals and trackers in separately bc i track a lot #i'm still waiting on my twst planner too and I'd really like to use that for this year 😭 #I'll need backfill it whenever it gets here #i did just get a tracking email for it yesterday though so it should be here soon 👀 #bear.txt

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Favorite January spreads.

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Ok def was not expecting this level of relatability

#king shit honestly #this is going to be me when i'm old

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Why does 2023 already feel like a lifetime ago?

#it's only February 2024 and yet I'm like 2023 was soooooo long ago #maybe part of it is because i was already in the 2024 mindset in december #bear.txt

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One Month in the Hobonichi HON

Another review that nobody asked for but I am going to write anyway because it makes me happy.

Tl;dr: I've really enjoyed using the HON so far!

I had some anxiety before ever even using the book that the A6 would be too small and that I should have gone for the A5 HON or even the Cousin. But I think because my writing is smaller to fit on the small grids and I am using a thin tipped pen (Jetstream 0.5), it makes entries that would have taken more space on a 5mm dot grid A5 paper fit just fine on the 0.37mm grid. I have had a few entries spill onto the next page of the book, but I've not had any entries take up more than a bit of room on the next page nor have I had to tape in a new page to compensate for the amount of excess writing one entry takes up. Honestly, if I had gotten an A5 Hobonichi, I probably would have been lamenting about all of the wasted space I had on each page (though, perhaps I would have room for bigger pictures or more decorative elements than what I use now).

Since I don't use the HON for planning anything, I use the checklist at the top of the page just as a gratitude log for the day, just to write a few moments from the day that made me happy so I can remember that there is indeed good in every day. I don't really use the monthly calendar other than to back-fill appointments or holidays, but I rarely remember to flip to it since I keep that information in an actual planner spread usually. Perhaps I will find a better use for those pages someday, but I don't think I'll be that upset if they go mostly unused. The reason I got the HON was for daily entries, and I have been maintaining that function for it well.

There is a bit of warping along the edges of the used pages that is noticeable when looking at the closed book, plus a little bit of extra bulk from a few pictures being stuck onto some of the pages. But I think that just comes from the journal being used as is its intended purpose. To be loved it so be changed, as they say, and I can't expect the book to stay in perfect, pristine condition forever if I am using it. The bulk of January is not particularly noticeable when the book is held closed, though.

I do want to add more pictures and maybe decorative elements like stickers or washi tape to my entries, but I am a little afraid of adding more bulk to the HON than it is capable of holding. I think I've seen a few folks say that it doesn't hold bulk as well as a Techo Original or Cousin. I might play around with it and put sticky notes or scrap pieces of paper intermittently throughout the book to test it's durability in handling bulk before I make any commitments to sticking more stuff in it. But for now, I am having fun adding a couple of images here and there from my day, whether it be a picture of something I drew, something nice that I got in the mail, a meal I had that day, or the sunrise from that morning. It's nice to have a little visual snapshot of something from that day that made me feel good without even having to read through the entry.

I have also been considering using color-coded "tags" to label the contents of my daily entries since they can vary at times. Sometimes my entries document the severity of symptoms I experienced through the day, summarize the events of my day, or serve as a place for me to empty my head of excess unneeded thoughts that make it hard for me to rest at the end of the day. I think it would be nice to know what entries have what kind of content at a glance, or if there are any entries that overlap in content. I've been trying to find stickers in stores lately, but I may just have to order some online since I have yet to find any that suit my fancy.

I can truly say that I look forward to continuing to use the book through the rest of 2024!

#hobonichi #hobonichi hon #hobonichi techo #notebook review #bear.txt

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Reflections and commonplacing…

At the Bookstore stickers are by SlowlyWarmCo.