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I really like watching your videos more and more! Soothing!

I redate my planners all the time. It doesn't take much effort actually to do that. Started that with happy planner but I plan to do that also with my jibun techo that I bought from sale on this summer. I have been trying different planner from sales on this year with my planner crisis with need to find something that is lighter to carry than what my happy planner is. I wish I could have found hobonichi techo in A5 size too to try but that didn't happen. I need the vertical spread for my week and I think I Iike to have week with 24 hour day in my carry on planner. It is nice to see in where things are going timewise inside my day. It gives me better picture from that when I see it visually. I just wish that I could find the jibun techo in full A5 size bc just now I don't see myself using the daily section much. But maybe I will end up trying the hobonichi avec to see if I could find some use out of it. The planner crisis is still going on and not fan of it since I thought I already had found my planner peace lol.

yay! a planner video!

Thanks for your thoughtful videos, I’ve learned a lot! I’ve been enjoying the undated Purpose Planner by RoteRunner. I do my weekly set up with it but there’s room for goal setting, annual planning, and blank pages between the weeks (for however you wish to use them). I combine it with my EDC Field Notes, where I capture to-dos, notes and other thoughts on the go.

I like thinking and planning for the next year…more than I enjoy actually living it. 😊

I’m hoping to find a bundled B5 with months and horizontal weeks, and the blank daily pages. This works for me along with small months only calendar I carry with me for appointments. The Papertess annual planner has a great layout but as a B6 I don’t enjoy using it because it is too small.

1 weekly planner 1 blank notebook for meetings + google drive por notetaking from classes

Have you heard of Just Scribble new planner? She’s on CZcams and she’s coming out with a new planner for 2025.

I'm going undated for next year. Mostly because I need to customize things. I am also probably going back to school.

This is the first year I’m not stressed about my next planner. I’ve finally found my home in @Sterlingink B6. Enough blank pages to let me bullet journal, take notes or memory keep. But also plan out my week and meals. Google calendar will always be the go to for the family events but like you I have to “think on paper”!

I already have a 2025 monthly planner from dollar tree. Yes it's cheap but it's a big step up from the wall calendar I've been relying on this year.

It would be great if you could do a broad comparison between some of the leading brands selling bound Tomoe River planners. I know you couldn't possibly cover them all, there are so many choices, but just to help narrow it down! I love your charts and visuals, so something like: If you prefer holidays and moon phases included, look at Wonderland222; if you prefer Sunday start, here are some options; these brands offer horizontal weeklies; these options don't have inspirational quotes or wellness, etc...

The fitness planner at 7:38 that you were sent, do you know if that is available online?

Used BuJos in the last few years, have a ton of half used/enoty notebooks lying in the drawer. And I am just so tired and overwhelmed with it so…. Bought this pretty ring cover, where calendar comes with it + am cutting out unused pages out of those notebooks to have pages for notes (in the rings) which I will not be afraid to “spoil/ruin etc”. Also implementing GTD System. And yes. Never felt so free in a planner/journal. Probably sticking to it for the following few years…

I just swallow uncoated NaCl FTIR windows ✨

I miss planner Rachel 🥲

If you hold on to your unused dated planner for 6 years, the days and dates will match again! 😂 you’ll only have to change the year to 2030… 😏

I will be using planners from Aura Estelle. Highly check them and they are offering both dated and undated TRP planners. My goal for this year is to find a structural planner that I can stick for one year. Size will be part of a determining factor.

FYI fo any out there who need Sun start: chose Sterling Ink for this half year- her undated could make that happen even though I have to write in a lot of numbers. Papertess puts the days written on her weeklies so I'd have to white them out and rewrite... so her undated might be good for intermittent planning, but not for the elusive Sun start!

I'm considering getting a 2025 planner with a weekly vertical layout. I'm undecided on whether to choose rings or a bound style, and I'm thinking of a B6 size. Thank you for sharing your good points in your video!

I’m not usually much of a planning geek, so I’ve got a question for this comments section. I’m starting grad school late August and wanted to switch to an academic year planner (maybe July to June or so), but I can only really find 17/18 month planners. Is this normal? Is this new? Why must they make me carry around this extra bulk?? I want to avoid undated things currently because I want the planning process to take as little time as possible.

I found undated passion planner weekly and daily to be a good middle ground to this. I’m trying an academic planner from Erin Condren for school this next year

My goal this year is not to buy soooo much… maybe not look at hobonichi at all? Sterling Ink does not work for me because I cannot see the grids.

But what if you have to get to work at 6am🙃

I’m looking forward to my setup for 2025! I’m more of a bullet journaler for personal use but I am looking for a planner that at least has the months laid out for me. I’m thinking hobinichi day free for that but we’ll see. I reallyyyy need a calendar view for my month but want the flexibility of doing my own weeks and days. For work, I am leaning towards sterling ink because of her quarterly pages. I will be in quarterly/project planning kind of role and love the layout of her planners. Do you know if her a5 common size fits into a hobonichi cousin a5 cover?

I bought way too many planners this year that went to waste. I'm a horizontal girl, and I really love my TN for on the go, monthlies, weeklies, and reference. I'll be sticking with that, and I'm thinking about getting the Aura Estelle weekly (basically a b6 size hobo weeks) and adding that as part of my TN system. For everything else, I'm thinking total bujo. I have a large stash of notebooks from various makers with various papers, and I'm really just feeling like filling them up one by one.

„Papier“ -German for paper - is pronounced pupp-ee -uh

With the economy the way it is and getting worse by the day (at least where I live in Southern California), I think this may be the year that I make my own planner. I know my style (vertical) and like to decorate and have created my own covers along the way. I'm thinking of sticking with the Take a Note, but having a few bullet journals (Because I bought too many dang Rhodia journals this year that I haven't touched), and creating a few disc planners for a few dollars. I have used several digital calendar apps to keep it all together, and lots of worksheets (chores, spring cleaning, projects). It's not in the planning so much but in the doing. It's almost cyclical, btw, the "planner season" and then in January, the "planner regrets". If people used cash for all of this, what would they buy? LOL. They sure wouldn't have bought every Tomoe River paper planner and Hobonichi haul, I tell you that. It's not normal to spend over $800 on planners. I mean, Lochby planners are $10 and it's 68 gsm Tomoe River paper. Where are the planner channels who bought all the Hobonichi and then you see them with Paper Tess, or Wonderland, or by June have abandoned it all and are back in a bullet journal? It's nuts. I buy three planners in November and stick with it for a year at least That's how it's been before there was a planner community back in the 1990s.

lol the Moleskine was my fav. I've used it in undergrad, but now moved to a hobonichi weeks. I'm thinking about going back to a moleskine because it's a little bigger.

I definitely see people using more rings and discs this year but with more interest in putting together their own planners as opposed to the prepackaged ones. I agree that I’m seeing a lot more undated options and also a lot more companies that offer many sizes, as opposed to just A5 and B6.

Too soon

I’ve been seeing a lot of people using binders, like the filofax, instead of a notebook. I think that’s gonna be huge next year too

I love this video because I've also been thinking about 2025. Tbh, I don't know if I'm going to even buy a new planner next year. There are simply too many options (so many indie/boutique lines popping up this year) and I've been having major choice overload. 😭It's probably going to be me and a blank notebook next year.

I think undated releases are a popular option for brands to release midyear. But also, for small scale planner companies, they are less risky to invest in stock of since they won't time out.

Love you Rachelle! Take care of you ♥

I think we’ll see more “pre-order” launches as individual users lean on print-on-demand to design their ideal planners, mostly based on tweaks to products by popular brands.

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I’m so ready for 2025!! Yes!! 🙌

I live in Normandy, sun exposure doesnt exist 🤣

I can't concentrate on the same thing for more than 20mins at a time so im not sure how i would go with a 90min block. I do 20mins on, 5mins break/do unimportant tasks like clearing emails etc.

Thank you for this perspective, I'll think about this.

Wanted to try the quiz but just get a weird quiz about marketing.

Less than 4 minutes in and this has already been a revelation! I use the monthly to capture future events so I don’t forget. But what I need you to see to plan my life is a weekly view. However, when I’m in a weekly, I feel like I don’t have enough room for the tasks for the day. And sometimes I have a day that’s complicated and I need an hourly view. But when I did an hourly weekly I felt like too much space was wasted when my day wasn’t busy. So I’ve been hopping from daily to hourly to vertical to monthly with notes. So I’m thinking I either need a weekly hourly with lots of notes pages to do daily task planning or I need my week on one page with a blank page across from it to manage my tasks for the week with lots of space. Hmmmm

This is amazing. I'm forwarding it to a bunch of my friends. Thanks!

You can also drink traditional yerba mate.

So as I've started dialling in my productivity systems this year, I actually worried that I had too many systems and was overcomplicating it. Appreciate the reassurance that this isn't the case! So glad to have found the channel.

Thank you. Very informative

since becoming a mom I have had so many challenges with bullet journaling; whether that be with no time to create the spreads that work for me or just pre- planning doctor appts in the future it just stopped working for me. This year alone I’ve had so many frustrations trying to find a system to work (I’ve purchase 4 different ways of planning in 2024 alone). I am waiting for a sterling ink common planner that looks like it will work for me so Im praying that is the case! wish me luck

I just tuned in to your channel after searching info on setting up the Cousin and it was your video about how you were done with the Hobonichi Cousin. I see it didn’t last long! 😊

What sort of planner are you using here?