I love using my fountain pens to write letters, take notes with different inks when I am studying a new subject, and also to journal🥰 I have never used a Pilot Metropolitan, my first pens where all Lamy Safaris. I would love to compare the two pens to the Lamy fine and medium nibs, and of course, use them for letter writing. 😃🖋🖋

I am currently on the Take A Note B6, which I love except I hate writing in the times each day. I am thinking about the same hobo A6 system with the weekly supplement and adding the 5y journal next year. But solely because I feel like such a waste to have all these hobo a6 covers laying around.😢

Interesting system, which sounds like a really useful way to keep the distractions and impulses in check and really assess which planners will or will not align with your needs. I haven't really taken the emotional needs into consideration much when looking into next year's system, but those may very well be a deciding factor between two otherwise very similar planners. Very insightful, thank you!

This was so helpful! I identify with a lot of what you’re looking for in a planner.

My chaotic attempts to rationalize what planner will be my main planner for 2025 was well explained by you as the JTBD. I wish I had found your video sooner since this has helped solidify to me what my planner will be without feeling uncertain. I am able to think out clearly what my functional priority is as well as social and emotional needs. Thank you for your video and how clearly you explained the process.

I feel like the SI N1 Vertical Full year is your holy grail! Travelers company size, all in one book, weekly vertical layout, lay flat book. Plenty of blank pages at the back.

I use my fountain pens as much as possible, at work, to journal, letter writing, note taking, as an EDC. I am not artistic so I don’t draw with them but I try to pick up 2 or more different pens everyday. I dont have a metropolitan, if I received one it would go into rotation with my other pens.

This is great. I really like this system you used. Thank you so much for sharing.

I love to use fountain pens to write in my Hobonichi and to write letters to pen pals.

Wonderland 222 only has vertical layouts btw. They look very cool, especially the quarterly pages.

Thank you for demonstrating this process! That was very helpful.

When I saw your title, I immediately clicked on your video. I was a Product person at my company. I've recently transitioned to Knowledge Management and still use my PdM skills. To see you use them for planner decisions is super cool ❤

My favorite way to use my fountain pen is for my morning pages. It almost romanticizes the daily routine. Early morning quiet with a cup of coffee, cozy blanket, and some journaling with my favorite fountain pen is a very calming way to start my day. Fountain pens also make me more likely to follow through with using my planners and journals because of having a special pen that's only used for those tasks. It makes me look forward to getting to use them.

I found your channel about a week ago and am so happy I did. I do something similar to sort through planner lineup decisions. Your method adds some extra considerations I might have to try. ❤

There is a whiteout tape in the yellowish color of the paper. Jet pens sells it for sure. Then you won’t need the posca marker. Also… when things are repetitive… sometimes I just sit down and do the whole year at once. It’s only 52 pages!

This is how I approach my journals - absolutely necessary because I have dozens of journal/planner/notebook needs 😂 Fun to watch the process. Tfs This is going to help lots of people for sure.

First of all, thank you for introducing me to the JTBD framework! This was very interesting and I enjoyed doing the activity even though I think my 2025 system is set. I am planning on a full Hobonichi line-up next year - A6 HON + weekly supplement, A6 Techo, and Weeks (because that is also my top emotional planner and by golly, I'll make it work 🤣). This will be my first year using the A6 since... 2015, I think, which is when I discovered the brand. 10 years - seems like a perfect time to come back to the A6!

I love this. I feel like a lot of people are downsizing now or planning to for 2025. I'm planning to go a little smaller myself. I'm using a weeks and an A5 cousin, but I don't need a large planning area so I'm thinking about going with the Paper Tess Designs pocket daily for planning and then her B6 for my journaling and common place type things. I enjoy the daily pages in the A5, but the weeklies and I just don't get along and as much as I love my weeks I don't love the notes pages so I'm trying to see how I can condense. I love your A6/weekly supplement set up. It looks great!

I love to journal, write notes and letters, shopping lists, quotes - in short, I do almost all my writing with fountain pens. I've never tried a Pilot Metropolitan, and I'd love to. The Pilot Kakuno nib is amazing, but ink dries out quickly because of the holes in the cap. Really enjoyed your video!

this video has been absolutely helpful, breaking down your needs in that way it’s incredible. Thank you so much for it.

My favourite way to use fountain pens is in my daily/planner journal. I use a TN standard weekly vertical, with my daily planning on the left, and I use the right side to note down events & thoughts that occurred during the week. I usually use two ink colours per spread, but sometimes I can't help using a third & even a fourth. I also sometimes do a currently inked list in there as well.

I'm trying to get everything into one notebook. Used to have things on a wall calendar, journal, and a writing notebook. Then I moved to bujo for several years. For next year I'm trying having all my spreads done up already to see if it helps with the actually using them part, and for '26 I'm either going to try a Hobonichi Cousin or a super traditional, super paired down bujo. I like that the cousin had the whole year, but the perk of the traditional bujo format is the running dailies mean I could common place or write really easily over several pages for one day. I may end up with a tracker and journal, and a separate writing notebook again, but if i can find a way to fit it all into one place i think that would make my brain really happy. I've gotten really tired of having to check several places for where i put a note about a project or scene I'm working on.

There are horizontal and vertical Wonderland 222 planners

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Since last year, I’ve been using a Midori MD A5 ruled notebook as a planner/commonplace book, creating daily planning titles of checkmarked goals at the top, but I do struggle to fill a full page. So I’m fairly certain I will get a 2025 Hobonichi Techō Original A6 as my daily planner, and an A5 notebook for journaling and recording thoughts, using each page as I go. I am someone who needs to stay compartmentalized, and not have absolutely everything in just one notebook.

I am intrigued by the Franklin Covey system.

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Thank you for sharing! Would totally use this system of breaking down needs. As I am starting to become more interested in working out and such!

The Pilot Prera is one of my favorites pens. I have it Ivory and Vivid Pink. I'm sure that you'll enjoy it too. I feel the same way about the Hobonichi Weeks, their covers are hard to resist.

This was a fun and very necessary thought exercise! I just did this the other day because the planner chaos in my brain is so real. This will be my second year using analog planners. I like to say 2024 was "the year of experimentation". I think I bought every planner available 🤦‍♀I also share your thoughts on not wanting to setup a bunch of layouts and I also need a vertical timeline for my schedule-- and one book! I think I'm going with the sterling ink vertical in either A6 or A5. but those hobonichi weeks covers are soooo tempting. ugh, its a daily struggle LOL

I did something similar, and found it helpful to realize that portability is a huge constraint, but only really necessary for my daily planner. Other needs could be addressed by bigger notebooks since I’ll be at my desk or able to carry them in a bag. I use one pocket-size notebook (for short-term planning and scratch notes) and multiple larger format notebooks for deeper work (journaling, brainstorming, work meetings, long-term planning, etc). Separating what needs to be portable from what doesn’t gave me much more flexibility in my choices, so I’d really recommend considering it!

It sounds like the full year Sterling Ink might be your best bet? It has enough pages for one a day even though they aren’t dated, but you could get a stamp set and go through and stamp all the pages out to date them at the beginning of the year. The Sterling Ink daily planner is only in an A5 and B6 and does not have the weeklies.

I also really want an a6 version of the daily planner from Sterling ink! The way I imagine it, if I could get an a six, hoping Nichi cousin, but in the sterling Inc. formats, that’s perfection. If I can’t, then, I go for the sterling Inc. vertical weekly booklets, and a travelers company, monthly booklets, both in passport size than I usually go for a daily in more of an astrology, hardcover format like the magic of eye, or moon faze Studios.

Congrats on going through this thoughtful process. SO needed for grounding and settling ourselves down. Thank you!!❤

This is a great idea

Love this process ! I do it a bit less structured, but it helps me a lot ! Foe your info, papertess designs planners lay flat, tn included. And check out just scribble new planner in preorder, it's amazing and available in a5 and a6 😉

I've found rings soooo overwhelming. Wonderland 222 A5 full year stacked weekends is what I'm going with this year. I get 90% of my needs met with this planner. Also W222 is vertical, not horizontal - just FYI.

Unfortunately the Sterling Ink daily isn't coming in either A6 nor TN sizes and they don't have weekly spreads. So if the dated daily is a must, that won't work. There's enough pages, though, so if I were you, I'd get a full year and just date all the pages at the beginning of the year and get it done. The PTD and the W222 could be a good options, though, if you don't need the dailies

I was helped a lot by your meal planning one. I’ll be using a weeks for that exact purpose b/c it needs more attention in my life. Helpful ideas, thank you!

At one of the clinics that I work at, they still use pen and paper for medical records instead of EMR. I usually ink up my Muji x Preppy fountain pen with waterproof inks like Octopus Write & Draw in Blue Chameleon or Rohrer & Klingrer Freida to write clinical notes. You can also never go wrong with document-safe blue ink in a TWSBI 1.1 stub for signing signatures 😉. I would be curious to know how the Pilot Metropolitan performs on regular office copy paper and see if it would show ghosting and/or bleeding when I use it at the clinic.

I love your comparison of nib sizes! I usually use my fountain pens for drawing Zentangle in my DIY passport-sized notebooks for Traveler's Notebook. The smaller size notebook is satisfying to fill up on a daily basis. I usually make passport notebooks with loose leaf paper like Tomoe River S, MD paper, or Rhodia dot pad or Canson XL Marker paper. I have yet to try a "high quality paper notebook" vs. recycled paper notebook from Muji. Great tip!

I appreciate the effort you put into the room itself and into sharing the experience with us. I also appreciate your transparency about the energy it takes to redo your house like this, and all the time that decisions and execution require. Thank you for sharing.

Fountains reconnected me to taking time to enjoy my stationary. Pilot is also one of my favorite nibs!

They look so pretty! I love how sleek and shiny they are. I personally have just been introduced to fountain pens and so far I've stuck to a trusty Pilot Kakuno in <EF> to write in my Kinbor planner, which has been working fine, but I'm planning to upgrade to a Hobonichi for next year so it would be super neat to be able to test a few other pens on it as well ✨ Thanks for hosting the giveaway, by the way, and especially for accepting worldwide entries as well 🥰

First of all, thanks for making this video and all the details you shared in it - I'm so happy whenever I see people sharing examples of how fountain pens work on different papers. I have just recently picked back up journaling as a hobby after having a rough time with a medical diagnosis. This time I started out very small, journaling and recapping my days in order to connect with myself and my spirit better - so not to get lost in the fact that I was sick and practically living at the hospital. Few months ago I decided to go for those things I never dared before because I thought as unreachable and impossible for me to be successful in, that included writing. So I bought myself my first fountain pen to feel more inspired to write - and that I did. I started writing daily, not only in a journal format, but writing creatively, trying out different writing styles, practicing and practicing, and I want to start publishing something very soon so to let people into my world and imagination. Being able to have high-quality tools to write has been a great motivator to keep going, to write to feel the pen glading on the paper, to feel deeply and feel in tune with myself. In my case, I'd use one of the pens to continue writing more and the other one I'd gift my bestfriend who has grown an interest in using a fountain pen for the first time!

i’ve only been reconnecting with my stationery love the last year so my primary use for fountain pens is journaling! but i love using different pens and inks especially in my mental wellness journal! sometimes the healing journey can be chaotic and messy, but i love flipping through the pages and seeing beautiful ink and writing.. haha. silly but that’s my story! i would love to use these pens in my rotation as i don’t have anything like them in my collection yet :) ty for a great video and a generous giveaway!

My favorite ways to use fountain pen’s is in my journal and in planers. I’d use the Fountain pen’s in the same manner. Thank you for the giveaway 🎉