2025 Journal Line Up

[@GarryEves]

I have the Kinbor A5 and Weekly. I'm pleasantly surprised by them. In the testing I have done they performed as well as Tomoe River paper.

[@jppenandink]

@@GarryEves hi Garry, yes I’m quite impressed with the paper quality as well. Are you going to use yours as a journal or more as a diary/planning?

[@GarryEves]

@@jppenandink To be honest a bit of both. With the A5 I'm going to use it as a journal. I'm planning on using the month list as a tracker for various things I like to monitor The monthly calendars will record the pens I'm using that day and week. The daily pages will be used as a a journal - I currently have ather pads thta I use, as I make myself write onefull page every day relecting on the previos day. The "notes" pages will be used to record inked pens so I can eventually have a year's view of what was used. With the Weekly I'm going to use more as a planner.. I currently have another notebook that I write my "theme" for the day, so that will be in the weekly part, also a highlight or problem I encountered that day. For problems I'll link to the Notes pages where I'll document the problem in more detail and what I did to fix it, how it made me feel etc. I'm also using the notes section to record my monthly Pens In Use selection. I've put an initial video out describing my current thoughts on use, but am planning to do a follow-up in February once I have used them for a while and how I changed based on usage rather than just thinking. The biggest thing for me is I'm going to 3 notebooks with these two, and also make it easier to carry around my daily planner. Sorry this is so long.

[@jppenandink]

@ hi Garry, I’ll go over to your channel and watch the video, it sounds like you have a great plan there, I like it 😊

[@andthemoonlovesme1166]

I’m so glad to hear someone mention Katie Daisy. 😊. I love her stuff. She makes a planner every year and I always buy one to use as my everyday carry. I get them on Amazon and they are very inexpensive. This is important because I often use it on my lunch break at work. If I were to ever get a drop of lunch or drink on it, it’s not expensive at all. They are so beautiful and happy.

[@jppenandink]

@@andthemoonlovesme1166 hi there, I am loving the desk calendar with all the beautiful illustrations so I can only imagine how gorgeous her planners would be. I haven’t thought to check out Amazon for her things, I’ll have to take a look. Take care and thank you so much for watching. I hope 2025 is good to you 😊

[@darlamaple6319]

I love the idea about your pen pal log book - I definitely need to do that to keep up with everything. And the common place book - what a great idea. Thanks Jayne for the awesome videos!

[@jppenandink]

@@darlamaple6319 hi Darla, thank you so much for watching, I’m glad you found it helpful. Hoping your package doesn’t take too long to reach you 🤞🏻 Take care Darla and hope that 2025 is good to you 😊😘

[@Tooohardtofindone]

All your notebooks look awesome. I love the look of the paperblanks books, so pretty! This year, I've used a variety of notebooks, which works for my random musingsand silly doodling and decor. Also had a hobonichi weeks, which i barely used, never got into a rhythm with it. 2025 will be a hobonichi Hon and 5yr, plus continuing with notebook for testing inks, ramblings, notes, etc. Have hobonichi notebooks in both A5 and A6, which i can chuck in a bag when traveling. There just never seems to be one book for all jobs! Love the idea of pen pal journal, i started one with good intentions but became too cumbersome for me. Maybe I just needed a smaller one that fits on my desk. Yours is gorgeous! Thanks for sharing all of them.

[@cerealnana]

Those paperblanks covers are gorgeous! I really love the idea of a page or two dedicated to details about pen pals. I am learning so much from you!

[@jppenandink]

@@cerealnana hi Shauna, I love the Paperblanks notebooks, they look gorgeous lined up on the shelf too. I’m glad you got something out of the video, I learn a lot from you too! Thank you so much for watching and I hope 2025 is good to you 😊😘

[@wynparsons4109]

Hi Jayne . I am both a planner and a journaler …you really have a lovely collection of notebooks ready for 2025 . Happy new year xx

[@jppenandink]

@@wynparsons4109 hello Wyn, thank you for watching 😊 I was just saying to Dagmar, I love this hobby because it looks different for everyone, you can never be bored. I think having an undated journal system in 2025 is going to be quite freeing for me. I hate waste, so having blank pages in my Hobonichi really bothered me. I hope that 2025 is a wonderful year for you my friend 😊😘

[@mybibliofiles]

I, too, have opted for a plain notebook over dated and it's given me such joy. I can play with different number stamps and give myself as many or few pages as needed. I'm okay being more of a logger than a planner 😁 Your lineup looks great!

[@jppenandink]

@@mybibliofiles yes there is something freeing about not being locked into a date per page etc isn’t there. Thank you so much for watching, and I hope 2025 is good to you 😊

[@ziawoolzstudiobuzz313]

Oh it’s so crazy.. I just filmed a very similar video yesterday, I sucked yours up! The books look amazing and I hope this system will work well for you! Things/needs change and it’s good to adjust and change things around! It’ll be a good year because we never stop growing! 🎉😘💕

[@jppenandink]

@@ziawoolzstudiobuzz313 hello Dag, you are so right and such a lovely way at looking at life, we never stop growing 😊 I think one of the things that I enjoy most about fountain pens and journaling, I that it looks different for everyone, you are able to fine tune things to suit your own needs. Thank you for watching my friend and I hope 2025 is good to you 😊😘

[@ziawoolzstudiobuzz313]

@ yes absolutely! And it drives me bonkers when people feel the need to do things like someone else! We need to find ourselves in this wonderful hobby and if it means changing every year/month/day/hour… so be it! Amen. Happy 2025!

[@jppenandink]

@@ziawoolzstudiobuzz313 take care lovely 🥰

[@fountainpensinksmore3290]

I’m going to use one notebook for keeping track of gardening “things”. Temperatures, freezes (it does freeze here in central Florida), what seeds I’ve started, rain (we get 7-14 inches rain in 5 hours (sometimes)). Maybe one things I’m thankful for. Nice lineup you have.

[@jppenandink]

@@fountainpensinksmore3290 sounds good Jane, I think this would be really handy to refer back to in future years as well.

[@robbourne1950]

What's up Jayne! I am using so many things my head is going to blow up. "Japanese and English Hobonichi HON...PAL Planner...2 off brand Weeks...Plotter." They all actually have a purpose. I do not plan that much either, I keep track of projects mostly, personal and professional. So very little planner but more organizing. Like you said, I cannot remember much anymore and my filing system is bad as well. So one book for each major thing will work best next year. I started doing that in the latter half of this year and I am more organized because of it. 💜

[@jppenandink]

@@robbourne1950 hi Rob, that does sound interesting. How do you find the Plotter? I like that you can add whatever pages suit you the best. It sounds like you have all bases covered. Gotta love the diversity of this hobby and how it looks different for everyone. Hope 2025 is good to you Rob 😊

[@robbourne1950]

@@jppenandink The Plotter is awesome from the standpoint that it is modular. Often times I have to re-order pages and the rings lets me do that. The Bible size is a big rough on my large hands though. Writing on the left side of the page, as you can image, is a bit of a chore. Perhaps I should have gotten an A5, but I am usually on the go with the Plotter. I'll figure it out though. I actually am hoping Wednesday hurries up and gets here. I usually do not start writing until the new year.

[@jppenandink]

@ can’t wait to hear how you settle into it in the New Year Rob 😊

[@MissMarilynDarling]

Merry Christmas, Happy New Year. This Year I used an Archer and Olive notebook for about 9/12ths of the year and switched into the Hobonichi Weeks but also continued in the Archer and Olive Tn size and I really like the Tn Size for doing my daily to do's but its a bit big for doing daily so next year 2025 I'm doing Hobonichi Cousin for weekly and saily planning and I'm using the Weeks Mega for on the go medical and overflow thoughts in the back .. 2024 I was in too many notebooks I journeled in at least 5 notebooks and it was too much I'm gonna try the Techo Cousin A5 again and if it sucks I'm marching my butt down to the local stationary store and forcing myself to get another Archer and Olive note book cause they are fabulous a bit expensive but wonderful they never bleed paint watercolor everything :)

[@jppenandink]

@@MissMarilynDarling hi MMD lovely to see you here! It sounds like you are all over it. I’ve never tried an Archer & Olive journal before, great that they handle fountain pens too. Goodluck with your Hobonichi plans, I think they work incredibly well for most people. I did enjoy using mine but found when I had blank pages it felt wasteful to me. But with all that you have going on with work etc, I’m sure you won’t have any blank pages. Take care MMD and hope 2025 is good to you 😊

[@teresaharris-travelbybooks5564]

I've got one of those Tokyo notebooks and I haven't done a thing with it. I'm not a journaling/planning whiz. I do journal. I do use a planner, but only in a utilitarian way. I've enjoyed seeing your planners though. My daughter is the planner/journaling queen.

[@jppenandink]

@@teresaharris-travelbybooks5564 what I love about this hobby Theresa is that it can look different for everyone and suit our own individual needs. Take care, thank you for watching and hope that 2025 is good to you 😊

[@PokhrajRoy.]

Me: “I have too many journals and I think I should stop.” Jayne: (posts video about journals) Me: “Yeah, I could add 10 more journals in my cart. My bank account will understand.”

[@jppenandink]

@@PokhrajRoy. 😂😂😂 there you go, happy to journal/notebook-influence you! Wishing you a wonderful 2025 Pokhraj 😊

[@natashajohnson5776]

There's no need to be a jerk about the planner being in another language. "Japanese, Korean, WHATEVER?!!" as if all Asian languages are the same or it doesn't matter. Simply saying it's in a language you can't read should suffice.

[@jppenandink]

@@natashajohnson5776 hi Natasha, I’m so sorry if it came across as being rude, it certainly wasn’t supposed to be, it was more my own frustration with myself for not knowing and trying to think on the spot. I do apologise.