2023 Hobonichi Haul & Reading Journal Update

[@ShannonsChannel]

I love this! I started a reading journal this year and, like you, am not finding time to do it justice. Your last year's one is awesome!! But even just noting what you read and your thoughts is great. I imagine going back when I am OLD(er) and looking at it and remembering. But why Hobonichi instead of other journals/planners? I'm not familiar with them. A cover for your cover 😆 My husband calls my tote bag my purse for my purse 😆😆

[@RoadReads]

Thank you for watching, Shannon! It’s good to hear I’m not the only one not living up to my reading journal dreams. 😉 But maybe lower expectations, no of printing & pasting covers and authors if I don’t feel like it, and a new start in 2023 will yield for the good - for the both of us. You ask why the Hobonichi. - I love the paper (very thin but very durable) and the grid size. Especially the grid size. My handwriting can look oh so nice or oh so horrible. The smaller the grid size, the handsomer my writing. 😁 Your tote for your tote! - Yes, so like the cover on cover. 🥰

[@robbien.3964]

Yes! Planner user since 1989, though this year I needed to go digital as I was recovering from a condition that made it painful to write. When my life was simpler, there was peace with any system. Now, I think I've had the most peace with a half-letter discbound system set up for the GTD method. Nirvana has worked out well this year for capturing and organizing tasks, so I may keep it for 2023, but looking forward to having a paper calendar again now that I've mostly healed.

[@RoadReads]

That’s wonderful, Robbie! Sounds like you know what works for you!! Hope you’re all healed and ready to go in 2023.

[@EntertheBook]

Impressed as I can’t even seem to enter my books into StoryGraph 😂 lovely Susan!

[@RoadReads]

Ha! 😂

[@JeannyMeyer]

I have my established planner system but I’m tempted by the hobonichi 😄 Especially the covers just look sooo beautiful. I started with a bulletjournal and a Filofax years ago and then moved to Leuchtturm 1917 and Moleskine and a traveler’s notebook. For a few years now I use the Busy B family planner, it works well for me. I did all the stickers and washi tapes and decorating when I started out but I like how neat my planner looks now without all the colours and just a fine black pen. I absolutely adore your reading journal. I use a Moleskine where I keep track of each month‘s reading and new books but that’s it.

[@RoadReads]

Thank you for watching, Jeanny! That’s great that the Busy B works for you!!

[@kailahmom1]

Great video! I am a planner person too, but I’m not a very busy person so I just use a digital planner on my iPad using GoodNotes. I am more of a journal person. I have several: a five year journal, a commonplace journal; a media journal (where I track my movies, tv series and books), prompts journal/ self care journal, poetry journal, my handwriting practice journal/ scribe journal and a stationery journal (where I mostly track my fountain pens and ink).

[@RoadReads]

I envy your journaling abilities, Karlisha!!

[@BookishIntrovert63]

Wow...I like your journal uses. Do you use them everyday?

[@kailahmom1]

@@BookishIntrovert63 Oh no way could I use them all every day.😆😆 I try to use each one at least once a week though.

[@RoadReads]

Wonderful!

[@manda_d]

I'm on my 2nd year of my first 5 year journal (started in 2022). Love to see you're starting one! Such a cool concept I'd never hear of before seeing them on Instagram/KZbin.

[@RoadReads]

Happy 2nd year in your 5-year journal! Won’t it be cool to see how it unfolds by year 5?!

[@hartereads]

Yep, a cover on cover is a must. Love your Cousin cover. So pretty!

[@RoadReads]

Thanks, Sherri! Do you have a planner for 2023 yet?

[@hartereads]

@@RoadReads Yes. I bought a English Cousin, like you. And 2 Weeks - one to keep in my purse and one to use as a reading journal. I can’t imagine using anything other than Hobonichi. Love ‘em!

[@RoadReads]

Wonderful!! 🥳🥳

[@HardcoverHearts]

I loved watching your evolution with this video and I laughed out loud when you said “we are extra”. 😂 I also got the champagne weeks. Maybe I will do a video of how I use mine. I have been heavily influenced by your approach, so thanks for sharing this with us.

[@RoadReads]

Please do a Hobonichi a la Sarah video!!

[@RaineyDayReads]

Lol in the planner community we are waaay extra. Truer words have never been spoken!

[@RoadReads]

Yes, waaay extra - to the point of embarrassment in front of non-planner people.

[@RaineyDayReads]

@@RoadReads lol yep! We don’t need that kind of negativity 😂

[@marianamasbooks]

Susan! I loved this, I always love a Hobonichi video 😍 I’m also a Monday start person (who invented the Sunday start and in what world does that make sense??? 😂). I’ve always wanted to do a five year journal!!!! But I’m like you, I’ve started so many journals and never finish any 😂🤦‍♀️ In terms of planner peace, the best year for me was when I designed my own planner (not for selling or anything I just designed it for myself). I think this year I’ll design one too... maybe I’ll make a video about it 😍 (I do LOVE Hobonichi though 😩 I’ve always wanted one! The cousin is my favorite ❤)

[@RoadReads]

That’s so cool that you designed your own planner! Was it digital? Or did you print it out and use paper?

[@marianamasbooks]

@@RoadReads i printed it out and used it in paper!! I’m too clumsy with technology for digital planning lol (and I love stationary too much! 😂❤️)

[@RoadReads]

Paper planners all the way!

[@Brendanstop]

I love the five year journal! Kinda wanna get one now

[@RoadReads]

It’s a cool concept, isn’t it. 😁

[@donnapanzardo3058]

I just got my first hobo 5 year journal today. I have other cheaper ones but don’t keep them up I’m trying in the rest of this year to get in the habit and I’ve saw videos on it I like idea of the next page being blank to add something to each year. Was wondering about covers but I didn’t get it from the co. Don’t want to spend more on cover I have time before I use it maybe will find something that will work or just do what you said keep in box.

[@RoadReads]

Good to luck to both of us for actually keeping to our 5-year journals in 2023 and beyond!! 🤎

[@RaineyDayReads]

Also, I’m trying to resist Hobonichi this year but AHHH I am weak! Lol

[@RoadReads]

Oh, I hear you!!

[@bitteralmonds666]

Man, everyone is so disciplined. I can't even keep up with the average day planner/dayminder. I usually start off writing in it for about a month and then the rest of the year is blank. Every one of my annual planners are empty after about a month or two 🙈💦 My At-A-Glance DayMinders also start on Mondays 📖🧐🤔 There is no need for a cover, as the covers are hard plastic (they don't even get scratched or scuffed).

[@RoadReads]

I don’t know that I’m disciplined. More just obsessed with paper products. 🙃😁🥳

[@julieg_quebec-julesselivre8641]

I tried, I tried and I tried but I’m not good at all! I bought a lot of pens, papers, stickers…🤦🏻‍♀️ Also turning 50 next July and I like the idea of a 5 years journal but it would resumed to what I cooked that day and « I worked » 😆🤣😂

[@RoadReads]

We have a big 2023 ahead of us, Julie! 🥳🥳 You’ll just celebrate it differently than me, with your perfumes and pretty nails. 🥰 And cooking. 😂

[@julieg_quebec-julesselivre8641]

@@RoadReads 😂🤣 probably! 😉

[@ABlurbFromTheSerb]

"You probably got sick of seeing it" uuuuuh no I go back and rewatch them when I have nothing else to watch 🤣

[@RoadReads]

That’s so awesome of you to say!! 💜💜

[@glendaw5221]

Obviously you love the Hobonichi (sp). So you prefer this to a bullet journal? I LOVE my five year journal. I don’t enter something each day. But I enter trips, special events etc. I keep it where I read. I usually start looking at planners in July for the next year. 😂

[@RoadReads]

That’s great to hear you love your five year journal! And that you don’t pressure yourself to complete it every day. That makes a lot of sense! And yes, I do prefer the Hobonichi to bullet journaling. 🤎🤎

[@glendaw5221]

@@RoadReads I’ve already bought the bullet journal for 2023. But I do think I would like the Hobonichi.

[@RoadReads]

Hope your bullet journaling goes wonderfully in 2023! 🥳