I am from india and my most favourite pen is pilot bp 1 rt f pen. Your review is very informative and good. Thank you.

love it😁

Genius!!!!!!

The reality is: if you're rich and famous, your kislux bags are seen as a sign of success. If you are just an ordinary worker working a 9-to-5 job, your real bag is likely to be considered the fruit of your efforts.

So pretty! I keep wanting to order from The Washi Tape Shop but never end up doing it.

How / what do you migrate to your Weeks? I ask because coincidentally I've started doing this, but have found it hard to know what the primary purpose of my weeks is, other than a calendar.

Ha, ha! I used The Washi Tape Shop for my February spread, too. Nice setup.

Congrats on another sponsorship!!! Washi Tape Shop has so many amazing things!!! I’ve never seen washi like this. Like beautiful little painting stickers! I love how they’ve branched out from “regular 15mm washi” this is wayyyy too tempting!!! I love the mini snippets because they are already nicely cut, so it’s not just randomly sticking straight washi in places. Awww, I love that you used my beautiful City by the Bay…miss you, SF, soooo much!!! We didn’t want to leave! What journal are you using for this (the elephant is familiar but I forget what company makes it?) Someone on Reddit asked the question: Can you think of another world for “Brain Dump” cause it bothered her (I kind of get it as there are people who do recipe videos and call something a “Dump Cake” or refer to “dumping in all the ingredients” and ‘dump’, in my experience, is slang for something we all do that you don’t want to associate with food, iykwim! Anyway, one of the ideas was “Playground for the Mind” as a different title for the page. I loved that and thought that it inspired creativity, and the ideas that you put down were things that could be really random, be the same concept, but the visual of a wonderful playground and the creativity we had as children just is, what I thought was a great idea for that title. (You use what you like!) I’m not a fan of “Goals” and “Gratitude” as the goals feels intimidating and pressure filled, and ‘gratitude’ (again, in my personal experience) creates feelings of guilt. I switched any thing related to “goals” as “ideas for the future” and “gratitude” to “Today’s Positives” and added “Room for Improvement” (just cause I wanted to.) Neither sound intimidating or criticizing or pressure filled or guilt inducing. Rambling on…but it’s weird the things that have become sort of standard planner items can be named in such a way that it creates anxiety or whatever…just mentioning that if they do for you…think, if you want something similar, but “Goals for This Year” sounds intimidating, you can just rename it to something that doesn’t, and still accomplish the same list…if you want to even have something like that. If you don’t, and it’s a pre-printed page, cover it up with some of that awesome Washi Tape Shop stickers and make it something completely different. Beautiful spread, Lilla!!! (Unfortunately for US people…Canada for some reason is on the naughty list, so who knows how much anything from Canada is going to cost now. Get your Washi Tape Shop stuff before it kicks in!) Lilla, what are some other well known stationery makers in Canada for us US people to grab quickly (Ferris Wheel Press is one, and Coffee Monsters Co., otherwise, I can’t think off the top of my head of others…)

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Am loving your videos so much!

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I enjoyed your video. What kind of planner are you using, and what size

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Which washi was your favourite? 😍🥰

Yeah, i love Pinterest, but never look at my saves, or rarely

Yeah. Daily lists , things to remember, New ideas, clothes, food, whatever

I have always been curious about fountain pens but have not used one because of ink drying time. I'm a lefty also. It's nice to see a left handed person doing the testing.

Oooh love those tabs! Which ones are those??

The kaweco sport is my 1st fountain pen 🖋️💕

Such a coincidence, i happen to bought a (soft) spiral bound notebook recently 📒

Yes! I’ve never had bleed through in Hobonichi paper before and I’ve got it on both the Cousin and the Weeks. It’s awful!

Very good - I like anything to help get me off the phone or help me to stay off of it.

i loved the video, just one observation, it is pronounce contemplatio as written

Where did you get the preppy for 5 bucks? Asking for a friend ....

I went with a hobonichi cousin avec this year. It's the first time I'm using the Hobonichi in this format and size, but I chose it because I really liked it--the look and the sections. The funny thing is that I am doing weather tracking in my hobonichi and the way that you explained the Jibun Techo, made me wish that I had gotten that one, just so I can have the daily weather tracking 😅. It's the second time I'm hearing of it, and when I first encountered, it looked a bit daunting, but now with your explanation it's making me re-think things. It's all fine though, but I'm curious about the Jibun Techo's life book and how that could be filled out/used across the years( for example, I feel like the 100 wishlist wouldn't last you until you're 99). Do you know if they sell some of these notebooks alone just to try them? And if you get one of the Jibun Techos, do they always come with these notebooks every time, or can you pick and choose them so that you can change them up in the covers? Maybe next year I might consider it...

I have some loose Campus papers in a binder and I like them. They are smooth and easy to write on. Have only tried fountain pen inks on them and it works very well so far. That planner seemed way too complicated for me! 😆 I'll keep my simple way of planning with my Kinbor Weekly and I have plans/ideas for/of making my own version eventually. 😇🩵🙏🙌

You should look into Ruby Granger's video on commonplace notebooks! Similar idea!

I have a Jibun Techo and LOVE it!!!! I have a first kit weekly. I am excited to try a days. :-) I may switch my entire system because I love the paper and the way the book feels. I also religiously buy the notebooks for my high schooler. :-) LOVE LOVE LOVE! Thank you for this review. :-)

To add.. buying a 2 or 3 dollar printable on etsy of a planner layout that you wanna try is wayyyy more cost effective than purchasing the whole planner then realizing after a couple months this doesn’t work for you. I would also suggest this as well when you are thinking of switching sizes too

Love Kokuyo products! Thanks for sharing!

So interesting! :)

My first Kokuyo product was their A4 binder and refill. This year, I'm using their Jibun Techo Days for the first time ❤

Lovely products ❤

You know I love Kokuyo and I was so disappointed when the PAL came with different paper. I love my Jibun Days and I really think it will become my only planner for the years to come. I have been considering getting the campus notebooks with the soft rings as I'm a lefty too...

Congrats on the sponsorship!

Congrats on the Kokuyo sponsorship!!! You know, I used to think that the Jibun Techo was just wayyyyy too overwhelming for me. However, with how I’m planning between two different planners this year…one is all business and carries in my purse, the other is more of a journal and creative space…this could really work for me, particularly the scheduling book and the plain notebook for on the run jotting down! I love that the pencil board works as a stabilizer for the book, and has an elastic closure band (no closure band makes me nuts!!!) So…while the first book isn’t something I need…or probably would use. That 24 hour schedule and the spots for everything I’d want to note, as well as how the index is set up is really appealing!!! Hmmm 🧐 I loved the colored pencils as a non artist…it does some nice shading for you, and could look really nice in a spread to make a few decorations like easy flowers or something, and look a little more…skilled…plus, they aren’t going to smear anything. I appreciate that both the pencil and the highlighters come in a reusable case (so much plastic waste) and really, the Techo doesn’t require you to buy a clear cover, or a decorative cover in order to keep it from falling apart over the year. (Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think they also have a version “Business” that has fewer colors used, more greyscale? But…they use pretty colors, too, which are soft and not visually jarring. Kokuyo Campus notebooks are so underrated. Even as a righty I love those soft rings. I have done a pen test (actually pen color guide…like every color of every pen I had) and nothing bled through (no fountain pens at the time, and no stamps except some Frixion stamps.) The highlighters have gorgeous colors (do not need more already have every Mildliner…) Soooo tempting!!! I love the red shade, and I love that none of them go harsh, they’re all warm and soothing to the eye. I can’t believe I would actually consider the Jibun Techo!! 🤣 I was on my “eeek! Too much!!!” mental list, but…I’m rethinking that… The scissors are great (I have a pair like that, only with the cap, and you’re right, the cap is annoying to keep track of! Two other great products (one on my wishlist, one I just got for my A5) are: Kokuyo Haco-Biz Bag in Bag Tool Pen Stand. It’s on my wishlist, about $22 USD on Amazon. It looks very similar to the larger size of that pricey large desk/portable storage bag/stand that Hobonichi was selling for 3x the price this year. The other is one just received: Kokuyo Systemic. It’s a trifold A5 notebook/planner holder, with a sturdy but soft feeling cover. I can easily put my Sterling Ink A5 Common Planner (same size as Hobo Cousin) plus another notebook (either top bound or side bound into the other side. It has an elastic vertical closure, and no “bumps” that get it your way writing. It has a pen loop and some places to store cards, sticker pages, washi samples, post-its, etc. It runs…hold your breath… $17-22 USD on Amazon. I got dark blue. My only wish is that it came in more colors (same with the Haco-Biz, but I like dark blue, so I’m good.) Gray/Green, Navy and Black are the only colors of both that I’ve seen. Very well designed, thought out, inexpensive and very usable. I love Kokuyo! (P.S., I’ve finally got all of my papers/notebooks for the pen testing to begin! I’ll put my findings on your…”My Hobo Weeks Is A Feathering and Bleeding Nightmare” video. Thanks, Lilla!

The colored pencil colors were pretty. I never tried their notebooks or planners before, but I have their pocket scissors and some of the Mark + markers. Great review.

Which Kokuyo product was your favourite? 😍

Parker is all times powerful

Try Chinese fountain pens. Majohn/moonman and hongdian are pretty good manufacturers

i started using a commonplace/braindump journal more often and it's been helpful to just get my millions of thoughts out of my head...also from this video i picked up the habit of crossing things off or marking things as transferred! it got confusing when i wasn't sure what's been transferred or just no longer relevant and now i also write a little note of where i transferred the information/tasks

what note book is this, sorry if i missed you saying it.

Okay…sorry for the millionth post on this video: I saw a video where someone had a “good” notebook and her fountain pens feathered and bled (may have been the Moleskine.) She was wandering through her Barnes & Noble and found Logical Air notebooks (B5, 30 sheets, $7 US.) She also said she noticed they had really upped their stationery game! Since I live in a big city, that is still a stationery desert, I went online to B&N and discovered they also sell fountain pens. (The Logical Air notebooks are available in a few different sizes and the paper is Japanese by Nakabayashi.) They sell: Pilot Kakuno and Metropolitan, Kaweco Perkeo, and a 2 set of Ooly Splendid fountain pens (comes with cartridges.) All at similar to Amazon prices. Sbrebrown gave the Ooly Splendid a really good review…this two set of pens with 4 cartridges is $8! They also come in a slightly different pen in 4 packs (all F, black ink, 4 different colored pens) for $12, and a pack of 8 different colored pens each with a matching color ink for $20! I was stunned!!! I’ve never heard of these, but sbrebrown is a good reviewer, and it has a nice rubberized round grip, he noted it was very comfortable and wrote smoothly. So, you can be browsing B&N with your friend, wander toward the new and improved stationery department and penable them right then and there with a nice pen and fountain pen friendly notebook for $20. Not bad!! (Going by B&N tomorrow…haven’t been there in years…)

my partner bought me my first fountain pens: a jinhao in the shape of a shark 🦈 and the sailor compass. the sailor compass inked with kaweco caramel brown is my comfort pen, but i also have the kakuno and the preppy, and i do rotate through all of my pens. unfortunately, my jinhao shark has started leaking so i have to retire it. this comparison video was so helpful-i had been considering buying a kaweco but i really prefer japanese fine nibs. i may have to look elsewhere for my next fountain pen. thank you again for another great video!

That neon red Perkeo is more expensive than the opaque ones in my favourite European store. Maybe it some special edition or different material? I really like it! 🥰