Mid-Year Journal Update: 10 journals & notebooks!! 📚 What's staying for next year?

[@paperstoryjournals]

I’m so happy I’m not alone in all the journals. I have about double. Mostly like you they all hobbies or goal journals that branch off my main journal 😂 I really should create a video showing all my journals.

[@tangytarot]

You have DOUBLE!!! I would love to see them! I'm fascinated by hobby or goal journals! I know reading journals exist, and I have a crochet notebook, but I wonder what other kinds of journals you or others might have 😮 Did they start all at once, or have you been gradually starting them over the years?

[@aquamarine18]

Amazing! So many great notebooks! 📚 I am upsizing my page-a-day this year from a Techo to a Cousin. I fear not the blank page! 🤣I have attempted a commonplace book before but I've never really stuck with it even though I see the value in it. I have a "tarot book notes" notebook going (a Stalogy) but I use it infrequently -- lots when I'm working through a tarot book that involves journalling or notetaking but not the rest of the time. I'll look forward to seeing your 2025 setup!

[@tangytarot]

Your comment got me simmering on a Cousin from an A6... This entire week, I've been simmering! And I've decided that I've changed my mind since I filmed this video weeks ago! I shall not fear the blank page either! 🤣 Truly though, I watched someone else's video of journaling and logging each day, and I realized I could definitely use more breathing room in my daily planner. The past few days, I've written so much and barely had space to decorate 😩 Yay for tarot notebooks! I want to write more tarot book notes down, but man my attention is a limited resource. I'd be fascinated to see your "tarot book notes" notebook sometime! Which books gave you a lot to write about, what takeaways did you have from certain books, did you write down criticisms of books, etc. 👀 Journaling & planning are so exciting! I can hardly wait for the end-of-year journal videos 😀

[@pointedlogic]

This was such a joy to watch!! I love your creativity in these and it has certainly given me some inspiration for my journaling practice. Your sticker book is cuuuuuute! I’ll have to do a VR and share my past & current journals/planners.

[@tangytarot]

Yesss journal videos! 😀 I'm happy to hear you've got some inspiration!

[@kadyle6672]

YAY this is what we’ve all been waiting for!❤❤❤

[@tangytarot]

anything for MY devoted fans 🤣

[@tofumonster707]

The “oh no!” at the end was hilarious 😂 Your dedication and variety of journaling is impressive! The family journal was really meaningful too

[@tangytarot]

Thank you em 🥰 don't you just love the crinkle of the PAPER! or sometimes the thud of the notebooks falling on the floor 😂

[@TarotMagpie]

This was a joy to watch! I have been in a process of overhauling and changing up my various planners and journals and notebooks over the past few weeks, and I have a very healthy stack of them myself. Looking forward to seeing how your system changes over the next year! 💖

[@tangytarot]

The first change is that I'm upgrading to an A5 instead of an A6 daily planner 😂 I was going back and forth on it for a couple o' weeks, but now I'm pretty set! Planning & journaling is so exciting - and so meta, right? I love your journaling videos, especially seeing how you color them and make them pretty!

[@27bbjutgvdfcgbbj]

Supper🎉

[@Peekaboorose]

I loved this!! Your planners and journals are beautiful 🤩 This year was my first with a Hobonichi Tech Original. I love it and have already bought one for next year. Sticker books are the best!

[@tangytarot]

Thank you, Juli!! 😍 This was also my first year with a Hobonichi Techo! The page-a-day system is so liberating!

[@SaplingTarot]

Oh this is just gorgeous, you have such a great way of sharing your journaling that is so inspiring without being intimidating - sometimes I watch videos like this and feel overwhelmed by it all but yours are just wonderful. The family journal is such a lovely idea, I’ve been feeling the desire to do something similar for a while and that seems like a very gentle but significant way to record these things. Thank you so much for sharing! 💕 (I hope all your journals are ok after the crash at the end!!)

[@tangytarot]

I feel you, sometimes I can feel overwhelmed by other people's journal stacks as well! I have to remind myself that other people's habits, lifestyles, and frankly attention spans can be different from mine. Besides my day & week planner, all the other notebooks are a "whenever I feel like it" basis... basically, hobby notebooks, really! The family journal has been a wonderful crack into actually asking questions about my family history 🧡 It feels like such a deep ocean of knowledge & history, and I felt a journal was the only way I could make sense of it. I'm now inspired to write more about other kinds of ancestors, like notable figures in history, too - especially Asian, queer, and/or neurodivergent history! They're all fine after the crash. They're thicccccc and can survive anything now 🤣

[@onlychristinefans]

Yessss! You're so organized! You've inspired me to get the Hobinichi Day planner for 2025. I like the idea of having a spot to write my daily thoughts and all. I have an idea for my tarot journal, but I just haven't put it together quite yet.

[@tangytarot]

yESSS HOBONICHI BANDWAGON 🤣 It's nice having an outlet to write thoughts every day! And they don't have to be deep or meaningful thoughts - just processing to-do lists, things I'm getting distracted by, things I liked or didn't like, etc. Anything goes!