thank you so much for bringing us along for your trip! Kurashiki looks like such a beautiful city… your TNs are both stunning, wow! thank you so much for sharing your customizations 😍

Thank you for this video! I am struggling with deciding what to log/track in 2025 after losing some weight in 2024 and wanting to focus on things other than the number on the scale. This is such a great bouncing off point for my own journal/planner. I really appreciate you taking the time to share it all.

Excellent advice!! Really appreciate the detailed way the method was demonstrated, too.

Hello :) This video is soooo helpful. Thank you!! We're planning a trip to Japan next year. When watching the video it skipped the part about the fountain pens. How did the Pilot & Platinum handle the flight? I'm always so worried with flying with my pens. Thanks again :)

I dont know why the video was super bright. It was hard to watch - for me - as it really hurt my eyes

Fun fact: from your right middle finger tip to the base of your left arm on your shoulder (arms stretched to the side) is 1 meter. The length of your underarm is the same as four foot. And with arms stretched out from middle finger tip to middle finger tip is the same as your height. 😊

Looks like you had an amazing time in Kurashiki! Your customizations turned out great and I especially love the passport. Surprised the camel is not velvety.. I've only seen ones that are. It is still very pretty. What an amazing gift and memorable stay. For the mug, I've never tried to put it in the dishwasher and I probably wouldn't want to for fear of the imprint wearing out quicker.

You. Must have a wonderful trip in Japan. It is a beautiful video! Thank you for sharing your adventures. Look forward to reading more of your Japanese trip.

Thank you so much for your reply. I’m so excited too. 😊

As usual, amazing to see everything, thank you for sharing!

omg i didnt know about this until now. The patches look great, how do you patch them onto the leather cover?

I have a B6 sterling ink common planner and I track similarly. I track my mood, sleep, and energy in a graph, because those I can quantify either in hours or rating out of 10, then in my "habit tracker" I track things that may affect my food: whether I have time by myself and with people I care about, whether I work out, whether I have caffeine or alcohol, and whether I'm sick or on my period. In the notes section below the tracker I note what sickness stuff I'm experiencing. I also use it as a way to answer questions when I am in therapy! On the weekly pages I track habit habits, like taking meds or flossing, things I'm trying to do daily. It doesn't matter if I see trends over the month for those

I don't like the bump that the elastic knot creates on the back of my TNs (it bothers me when I'm writing), so i drilled a small hole in the spines of my TNs and moved the elastic to that. I'm left with a tiny hole in the back but that doesn't bother me. Maybe a solution to your knot being in the way in your passport size? You'd have to lengthen the elastic to reach further around, though...!

I have moved the knot from the back of my TNs to the middle of the spine. It leaves a very small hole on the back, but at least now I can still write without having to remove the notebook to a flat surface. Also, has anyone figured out the name of that brass plate protector?

I also have a B6 Slim Midori I use as a food log

I rewatched this video this morning and was reminded that I want to do food planning in 2025. Since retiring I don’t plan meals, I decide day by day, however I like that you incorporate grocery lists..which grocery stores, the day/nite eating take out, where we got it from, what we had, was it good, adding recipes.! I have 1 Hobo Weeks that I do the weather daily and events or what I did that day. And Mood. My 2nd Hobo Weeks I use as my financials. In Notes I have Bills listed along with their passwords to pay online, on weekly pages I track Money coming in, bills to pay, bills pd and I keep monthly a log similar to our old check registers. Also in notes, Thats where I note any houshold plans, such as Staining the deck, need to clean out gutters, update appliances etc.

Your trip sounds so fantastic. I feel like more intimate places like that can sometimes be better than the big cities. Beautiful covers, too!

I enjoyed hearing your experience and seeing your

Lovely video! So good to see how you have personalised all your TN’s! Please would you tell me where did you get your standard personal journal from. ❤

I really enjoyed this video. Thank you for taking us with you! So cool that you were able to visit ❤

Barely 2 minutes into this video and my partner and I booked tickets to Kurashiki, you guys are inspiring us to go :) Both sizes looked amazing and that charm closure is something I've never seen on a TN which I loved! And always great to hear your thought process + the update at the end was such a nice touch, thanks so much for sharing 🥰

Gasped when I saw the olive TN. Good timing seeing this video just in time before heading to Kurashiki in a couple of weeks 😍 thank you for sharing!

I’m just learning about TNs. This was so helpful!

Thank you so much for sharing. I love how your TNs turnen out. I have 2 questions. How long was the wait to pick them up after choosing your ideas? If it’s ok for you to share how is the pricepoint for the TNs?

On the passport could you swap out the elastic with the knot to one with a little metal closure? That way it’d be flatter.

AHHH I miss kurashiki so much!!! your TN's are so pretty!!!

Thanks for sharing your experience in Kurashiki and I’m really enjoying it. How long it take them to finish making your both TN, can I pick it up on the same day? Why I am asking because I will visit them in February 2025. Thanks 😊

Love this video! What beautiful scenery. I'm so glad you relaxed and enjoyed the slower pace here. Love your TN and passport. I see why people really love Superior Labor. Their eye for detail is amazing.

Gah your TNs are so lovely. I especially love the passport with the little heart closure and the patch. So good. Thanks for sharing snippets of your trip.

I love your more thoughtful approach, it's very nice and an approach I wish I could adopt as I most likely have ADHD lol myself and I've got some impulse control problems as you do, especially with hobbies. My Pilot Fermo (part of the Vanishing Point/Capless series) is my all time favorite pen. I bought it earlier this year at the end of spring as an early birthday gift. I got it from Japan, so I thought it was going to take much longer to arrive than it did, but I have no regrets in buying it. I'm thinking of getting a decimo as well since the Fermo has a twist instead of a click mechanism and a click would be more convenient for me, I think. I bought my Fermo in a fine, but I think I want to try an extra fine or a medium next time and have plans to buy a stub nib unit for my Fermo as I have never tried a stub before. My collection looks so chaotic in comparison to yours lol. I definitely was out of control for a good while before I calmed down (mostly because I just started hyper focusing on another hobby) and I have over 20 pens, five of which I never use anymore. I really need to start using some of my other pens again, but I've got a few I'm not a fan of the nibs on anymore so I'm not sure what to do there yet as you can't buy replacement nibs for them, so I either have to just get a whole new pen, find someone to grod the nib for me, or do it myself (which is very nerve wracking!!)

I enjoyed this video 😊thanks for sharing

Love this video so much😍 I have a little tracker in my monthly section (hobonichi weeks) but it does not seem enough… I was struggling to figure out how to insert things in my weekly view, so thank you so much for explaining how you use and adapt your health and wellness planner. Really appreciate it🥰💙

What the heck is a Sunday Scary?!

Another great video! Thanks for sharing. I have been doing something similar to what you're currently doing for since March and our layouts look very similar! I love the skin tracker idea! I also deal with a flare up and such from eczema and that would be hella useful! I've also came to the same conclusion about having food next to a symptoms tracker. I can't unpair them now! It just makes sense. I too like to see data in a daily, weekly, monthly and potentially yearly view too but I have that anxiety of like, do I need the same data over and over again but you make very valid points. I recently added a tracker basically identical to Danny's for my habits and anxiety/depression ratings and I loooooooove it! I think you will too! The weeks is just the perfect health planner overall. I have meal tracking pages in my A5 Journey Planner for next year but I still have a weeks because of how functional it is for that purpose. 😍 I can't wait to see more of what you do with yours! 😊

I think for an annual graph I'd use excel (or similar free version). I understand this is a paper journal channel but this is what computers are good at.

There's also another similarly sized case from TSL, which opens up whole and lays flat. It has space for pens on the inside (no outside storage). Unfortunately, the pen area does not consist of individual slots, so your pens might be touching when stored there.

Very new to the hobby and very much in my experimental era. Pilot metro was my 2nd and most recent purchase. The way I brandished it at the TV and said, “oh I have that one!” 💀Thank you for sharing your journey and giving such a valuable framework on how I can navigate it too! 💛

This video is so helpful! You've given me some great ideas. I know I can't track this much, or I won't keep up, but I can take a selection from your ideas.

Thank you for this video! This year, i got deep into trackers but didn't find many of my trackers beneficial. I found I was just tracking to track. "What questions do I want this to answer?" is such a great approach to think about and build your planner around. Appreciate your thoughts and layout!

Oh how i relate to this already and we are aonly four minutes in! So i'm sure this will be helpful

this was such a helpful video! i also have a health tracker for my chronic conditions and your layout is a very good symptoms overview! thanks so much for sharing! 💛 also wanted to note that i use the same cream white out in my weeks and it works great for me :)

I think when you're trying to figure out an issue, tracking many points might be annoying but you never know what might catch your eye and lead to some important clues. My coworker has bad skin flareups when she's super stressed. I'm sure your dermatologist will appreciate you coming so prepared. Good luck at your appointment!

Are you tracking 1-10 for symptoms? I think I am going to use my weeks as a health planner

This is absolutely stunning. Thank you for sharing. New follower here so get ready for a few more likes on your videos.

This was a really helpful and inspiring video! I want to focus more on health and wellness in 2025 so I can be more effective in my life. The part about having information for doctors is also very important for me because I have a monthly medication check-in appointment and it would be very helpful to have more concrete data for my doctor to review. Thanks for the great video!

Yes! What are the questions I need this book to answer. I'm on HRT so I'm tracking symptoms such as sleep, mood, anxiety, skin etc. so that needs to be my focal point I think. I'm hoping to up my dose as my sleep has deteriorated a bit and my mood lower. Thanks for the inspiration!

Thank you so much for sharing your process (the initial set-up and this reassessment). I really appreciate how thoughtful and intentional you are. The first video provided good questions to ask when setting up and health and wellness journal/tracker and the reassessment was so insightful. I was winging my own log until I found your first video on this and I'm impressed by the framework you've provided along with the need to be flexible with what you are tracking.

Also, you talked about not self diagnosing and stuff, but am i correct that you do have ADHD or did i just assume that? As a fellow neurodivergent person i'm always interested to see how others plan and make it work! :D

im very interested to see when you do figure out the monthly/yearly overview on these things. I would really love a book like this next year, but im not great at keeping up with filling it in, so it has to be easy enough to be consistent with. because not filling in the things every day makes it harder to understand the info because its not the complete picture if that makes sense.