My 2025 Planner Choices | A Summary

[@yngrideilis2696]

"It's unruly, it's untameable," that cracked me up 😂. I totally get you. A notebook that doesn't lay flat is useless for me.

[@chapter48creative]

You get me. It's really making me work for it!!

[@MandaPandaPlans]

I just discovered you with the last video and honestly i subscribed even with it just cutting off like that because I just really enjoyed your personality ❤

[@chapter48creative]

Awe. Thank you. And thank you for being patient with me as I get back into the habit of uploading.

[@ellenl9774]

I’m just sitting down to watch this video now, but I just want to say that I love you. I’m not a KZbin content maker. I’m just a watcher. In fact, I’m mostly a lurker truth be told. But I love your videos and had to tell you! You tell your truth and it resonates with me. Plus, you make me laugh, especially at my planner/notebook piles instead of feeling guilty about them. PLease, please, please keep the vids coming!!

[@chapter48creative]

@@ellenl9774 oh wow. I can’t begin to express how much this comment means to me. Thank you so much. I promise I will try to keep building this corner of KZbin where it’s ok to be a little weird and a little messy. 😜 Never feel guilty about your planner piles. Especially if they make you happy!

[@mollymollie6048]

Ditto from me…worded perfectly!!! Your channel is funny and relatable for me. You just sound like someone cool to hang out with and tell stories of life drama filled with jokes.

[@krystenburkhardt-hansyn]

I think I met my neurotic twin! LOL I’m trying to get organized and haven’t found a planner that can seduce me to full participation. I have grandiose ideas that never materialize. Thank your insight and the laughs! You help to lessen the struggle!

[@AliceFrench-e5q]

I just met you and I think I love you! I'm legit having a convo with the screen during your videos. I'm ordering quite a few versions this year too because I'm on a grief journey and I just know my needs will change thru the year so having all the options allows me to have the right tool for when I need it!

[@chapter48creative]

@@AliceFrench-e5q I love you, too!! 🫶🏻 I’m sorry to hear you’re going through a tough time. I hope that grief is gentle with you.

[@AliceFrench-e5q]

@@chapter48creative thanks for the kind note. A podcast I listen to is appropriately titled "Grief is a sneaky bitch" but we move forward. After watching your health notebook video, I'm inspired to do some meaningful graphs for myself. I love good graph too!

[@chapter48creative]

@@AliceFrench-e5q Ahh. I love that! I hope they help.

[@thesteampunkplanner]

Hello, found you because I am lying up everything for 2025 and looking for new ideas. I used to be a hobonichi person for four years until Sterling Ink and have been fully in Sterling Ink for this year and won't go back! I haven't had an issue with any of my planners closing on me. I did follow the recommendations as you did but the smallest planner of mine is N1. The videos showing the 2025 ones look like they are even more flexible. I use all of mine daily without fail ( I have stress and health issues). The introduction of all the new sizes did overwhelm me completely but I am a large planner person and am soooo excited for the B5 because I can condense. They stay home with me for my business and journaling. I am getting a daily thought for my health. I hope you are able to get what you need with what you want. Know that nothing is perfect and you will find what you need at the right time.

[@chapter48creative]

Thank you so much for your feedback. I'm suuuuper intrigued by the B5. I briefly even thought I should get one as a test to see if I could be in ONE book, but...the truth is. I just love ALL the books and feel like I need to rescue as many as I can! Haha. Let me know how it works out for you.

[@thesteampunkplanner]

@@chapter48creative I definitely will. I will be loading more videos myself and can let you know when I load one with the B5 For you to see.

[@buttercup_plans2896]

This made me laugh out loud with the A6 fussin around 😂

[@chapter48creative]

@@buttercup_plans2896 started feeling like I needed to sit on the dang thing. 😂

[@sar7719]

😂 I’m so glad this video showed up on my feed. I have been getting so confused with figuring out the “perfect planner” …granted I have been searching for that unicorn for over 10 years… but this video made me laugh out loud 🤣 and remember that planner/journaling is for myself and for fun! I am looking forward to seeing more of your videos. Thanks for sharing.

[@chapter48creative]

@@sar7719 Thank you so much. And welcome. 🫶🏻

[@SimplyElizabethDenise]

Thank you for showing up as yourself. Your videos have kept me dying laughing 😂 because you so often express exactly what I’m thinking. I find myself nodding my head and talking back to the screen at you . 🤣You’re fun and that’s so needed in the community.Best of luck with your rebrand it’s your moment take it ! You’ve inspired me to stop being so afraid and just show up and just relaunch my channel. Thank you again. Oh in the first Sterling Ink Collection reveal Catherine flips through the books to show that they do indeed lay flat when brand new. I’m eyeing the a6 full year and that was a concern of mine as well because it was an issue this year with the smaller more compact books. Then again I don’t know if it would be an issue with a full year because it does have the weight of all the pages to help it lay flat. Best of luck in choosing your lineup and happy planner launch weekend !!! It’s our time🙌🏾

[@chapter48creative]

Ooooooh...I'm lovin' you right now. Thank you so much for taking the time to say so many kind things (and for confirming I wasn't delulu and she DID say they'll all lay flat). And yes! Relaunch your channel! Wishing for great things for you in 2025.

[@karmenjohnson6078]

Yes! 🙌🏾 Your videos are so great! I’m happy your kinda planner weird is out here on this internet. Your last video was great and I watched it on three different screens. (Long story) Thank you for your ideas and honesty.

[@chapter48creative]

Awe. Thank you so much for the feedback. It means a lot. And "cheers" to the weirdos!

[@idabraghini3336]

YES!! I’m so excited that you’re making covers!! I’ve been agonizing over asking you to make me one!! So excited!! Now which SI planners should I get besides the B6 Slim??😂

[@idabraghini3336]

I love you and your transparency to your followers! Stay YOU and keep on keeping on!! I’d love more of your videos!!

[@chapter48creative]

Ha! I can't even decide on my own! That B6 Slim, though. Yaaaasssss.

[@chapter48creative]

OH! And thank you for your excitement over the covers. That means the world to me.

[@idabraghini3336]

@@chapter48creative I meant a size to fit one of your new, future covers! Which is the smallest size cover will you be making to start??

[@chapter48creative]

@@idabraghini3336 oooohh. Whoopsies. I’m going to start with A5 and A6. Next would probably be B6.

[@kathyadams5294]

I'm new to your channel, and have enjoyed watching 3 of your videos, so far. I don't need as many different books as you are looking at, but I'm liking the Papertess Designs a lot. I think I want the Pocket Daily now, and still deciding on A5 or B6 for my planning. Thanks for all the ideas you are talking about. I'll keep watching to see what you do. ps. I'd stay away from that A6 that doesn't lie flat.

[@chapter48creative]

@@kathyadams5294 Hello and welcome!! I did order it yesterday, but if I have to argue with it even a little, I’ll use something else. Like the papertess A6 or B6 I’m spying on!

[@moniques.journal.corner]

Im so very glad i found your channel a couple weeks ago! Yes to all the videos. I was watching you with that A6 waiting for you to start bending it backwards lol. I used one of the A6 520 page notebooks last year and i just had to fold it back on itself it like 4 or so places and it laid flat for me. I fold mine like all the way back like its closed in the opposite direction. Sigh... hobonichi is killing me... im definitely getting a mega weeks in stardust. I enjoyed the a5 cousin this year, but im leaning towards the b6 paper tess instead because im not a vertical girlie... and of course i need the paper tess daily in my life. What a freaking gem that is. Love that cover and hoping you make some b6s at some point!! 🩵🫶

[@chapter48creative]

Hello! Thank you so much. I was just transferring all my to do's for the week in the new A6 and by the time I was done holding it open for a while it laid flat. I just don't want to have to work so hard. Lol. I'll have to try folding it back on itself even more. I'm REALLY spying on the PaperTess now, though, and I'm already ordering from her anyway. Also...B6 covers WILL be happening. I love a B6!

[@thetherapyofplanning_1]

👀 I see you, that’s me: 9-5 for income & stability, 5-9 trying to build a side hustle. Love sharing about my planner & journal journey but it’s hard to keep the videos coming AND work on the business too! I, like you, want to get more consistent with my videos too. I’ve really enjoyed your videos, keep pushing! We’re going to reach our goals, maybe slowly but definitely surely!

[@chapter48creative]

Yes! All of that. All through my KZbin journey I've tried to tell myself to just keep uploading. Some day it will pay off. This manifestation took a looooong time to come through, but the Universe doesn't work on my time. It works at the right time. We've got this!

[@thetherapyofplanning_1]

@@chapter48creative absolutely!!

[@TheySeeMePlanning]

Please keep being authentically yourself! I’m already waiting for new videos to drop lol

[@chapter48creative]

Shootdang. Y'all are going to make me cry. Thank you so much. I will keep trying to commence with the dropping. Working on getting alllllll organized to start fitting this into my life better.

[@catherineagustin6900]

New sub here! I love your sense of humor! It MUST abide 😂

[@chapter48creative]

Thank you so much! And welcome 🫶🏻

[@celiaperkins6071]

You should also look at Aura Estelle’s planners. They are mostly horizontal, TRP, etc.

[@SpringToadDesigns]

Follow your heart and stick to what you know. I have been using the Cousin for over a decade; it is where I do my planning and where I keep my "Memory Keeping" and some of my "Woo Woo" and "Play" things. Like you, I have separate notebooks for Health and Work. But in my "Common Place" notebook, I also keep all my "Catch All" and "Media/Books" stuff. I keep Post It notes near the couch for those quick notes and I do not have to rewrite the note again. I hope this helps. Also, I am very interested in buying one of your A5 covers for my Cousin. I am looking forward to the upcoming videos. Keep on keeping it Weird!! Love it!!

[@chapter48creative]

@@SpringToadDesigns Thank you so much! I love hearing about what everyone else uses and might be getting. I’ll definitely keep working on content. I better open one of these planners and start listing ideas of what to talk about!!! And thank you for your interest in a cover. It feels great to hear that other people like them. 🫶🏻

[@gilbertcitylifestyle]

check out the a6 from just scribble... it is definitely horizontal.. she is a creative and staying flat is her jam also... just saying it might be one to take home to your parents

[@kimdburns]

If the A6 is compact, you'll need to train the spine. I work in commercial offset printing and that is just the nature of that type of spine when something is compact but as soon as you train it, will lie flat from then on. My Hobonichi A6 are exactly the same. Especially if I have the avec. Another compact notebook I have to train are the A6 Midori.

[@chapter48creative]

@@kimdburns Thank you, Kim. I keep working her over, but I have never had to “work” so hard with my other small books. Must be the compact. I did work on a spread last night to transfer some information and by the time I was done, those pages did lay flat.

[@mollymollie6048]

I’m also getting the Sterling Ink A6…compact or booklet….can’t decide. But, I definitely saw that they lay flat in the video Sterling Ink did presenting the 2025s. Maybe go watch that, see if anyone made a comment about laying flat for A6 and what her response was. I get the ‘deal breaker’ aspect. Maybe a cover on it that really pulls it/holds it open?

[@pbudinsky1]

Very happy to know you’ll be selling the cover you made. I was actually going to ask you if you were planning on making any. I think it’s beautiful. Hopefully I can be first in line. I’ll check out your Etsy shop.

[@chapter48creative]

@@pbudinsky1 Thank you so much. I have so much to do!! Good thing I have allll the planners to track it all in!

[@diane_elizabeth]

i'm glad you're finally getting the feedback you wanted! did i see sterling ink is planning to have a live q & a ?- maybe someone will ask about the lay flat feature.

[@chapter48creative]

@@diane_elizabeth well, I’ve always gotten great feedback from you. You’re like my one person cheer squad.

[@diane_elizabeth]

@@chapter48creative 🤣 one person cheer squad ! thank you! i do love your channel. You are the best, most creative and real person/content creator. i admire your honesty and fun personality. by the way, my sterling notebook is in my mailbox as we speak but we are having a huge lightning storm so i am toying with the idea of walking down there at the risk of being electrocuted. lol.

[@chapter48creative]

@@diane_elizabeth Gah! A valid internal conflict for sure. Be safe friend. 🙈

[@diane_elizabeth]

@chapter48creative thank you. luckily, we were spared by deadly storm. It's nice 'n calm now, and I am tempted to walk up to the mailboxes, but I will wait until tomorrow a.m.(🐤 I know ☺️.)

[@kitsala1]

Thanks for the explanation on the name change, thought i was going cra,y, recognized the voice but what the hell. Ha ha

[@chapter48creative]

@@kitsala1 I know it’s confusing. That’s why I haven’t changed the logo yet. Baby stepping. Thanks for sticking with me!

[@margkre]

I do agree with you, SI does not lay flat as papertess does. Hers are like hobonichi. As far as a6 goes, I'll be trying the justscribble new planner! Actuality ordered a6 and a5 😮 because or the planner organisation. 😊

[@chapter48creative]

@@margkre ooooh let me know how you like it!! I’m really spying on the Papertess now. A6 or B6. I’m making this way too hard. 😂

[@tiana5395]

as someone who was considering switching to a smaller Sterling Ink for 2025 I find myself very cautious of a common planner that may not lay flat. It must abide!

[@chapter48creative]

I know. A couple people have confirmed that Catherine said they WILL lay flat, but I'm still nervous.

[@kat-yd6je]

@@chapter48creativeshe posted a video going over all of them, the A6 is shown in the same one with the passport, pocket, b6 slim and B5. In it she demonstrates how well they lay flat. It’d be good to go watch her videos

[@kitsala1]

I think its Hobonichi all the way for me, thanks for all this.

[@chapter48creative]

@@kitsala1 I’m trying to give them lots of money, but their new shop platform is NOT capable of handling us all. I’ve never had so much trouble ordering.

[@sbh7017]

Love your videos and your brand of weirdo!

[@chapter48creative]

@@sbh7017 Thank you so much. 😜🫶🏻

[@kyliecrump2075]

In catherines video's where she shows the new 2025 books it shows even her new pocket full year lays flat. I'm pretty sure she said the new ones have a different spine that lays flat.

[@chapter48creative]

@@kyliecrump2075 Thank you so much. I remember her talking about them laying flat, and I haven’t had a problem with my bigger Sterling Ink books, but sure do with this A6 (and now I thought to check my passport size and same). I’m just worried that the little guys don’t have the weight to lay flat.

[@kyliecrump2075]

@@chapter48creative I'm hoping the little pocket does as i want to use that in my handbag for when out and about cause we all know thats when people ring to make appts 🤔 what is the little black book u had in the video with the whole day on a page?

[@chapter48creative]

@@kyliecrump2075 That would be the PaperTess Designs pocket Daily Notebook (Part 2). She'll be releasing her 2025's the end of October according to her website.

[@kyliecrump2075]

@@chapter48creative Thanks i will have a look at them. :)

[@corgilover5377]

Just scribble has an A6 horizontal, I don’t know if they lay flat. She has a KZbin video showing it.

[@kristinskorner1388]

You found us! Your fellow weirdos😊❤ I say use a hobonichi a6 it will abide! 😂

[@chapter48creative]

And I really like a planner that gets in line! Haha. Cheers to the weirdos!

[@pbudinsky1]

Nope, you need to get up! you should be up moving every hour anyway. Get up and get your planner. I love your personality, and I feel like I can say this to you and you will either laugh or tell me to F off🤣 and not be offended. But in all seriousness, just lost a friend to a heart attack and she didn’t move enough. And then, because she didn’t get out there and walk enough then she couldn’t, it happens slowly. Be safe, stay healthy!

[@chapter48creative]

@@pbudinsky1 between you and my watch it’s a miracle I ever get to sit. 🤣 I’m really sorry about your friend. I promise I get up regularly. It’s more so that I have the memory of a goldfish these days and by the time I get up and get any other planner, I have probably forgotten. I also have a brain that is constantly infesting me with “brilliant“ ideas. 😜

[@pbudinsky1]

@@chapter48creative 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@sabineza6215]

I have a Mist A6 half year and it stays open (you just have to train it a little bit by bending the spine).

[@chapter48creative]

I'm working on her. I'm determined to get it to fall in line at least so I can use it for the remainder of the year.

[@MusiCrazyEsperanza]

This is my side chick 🤣 I'm gonna give her my evenings and weekends. Lol that killed me

[@chapter48creative]

@@MusiCrazyEsperanza 😂🫶🏻😜

[@sarahalmodovar8089]

Wonderland 222 A6

[@lkessler1]

Could you do an A6 Stalogy? Or do you need a monthly/weekly? I’m fairly certain my Sterling ink a6 lays flat. I’ll have to look at it tomorrow and report back.

[@chapter48creative]

Hello! I appreciate the help. A Stalogy won't quite work. I won't have time to draw in calendars and things. I think something predated is going to be needed for this.

[@lkessler1]

@@chapter48creative Totally understand that. I'm also returning to say that my a6 Sterling Ink does NOT lay flat. I thought it did, but you can also tell I'm not using it if I could not remember it (lol). What a bummer, I wonder why this size is not laying flat but her other sizes do.

[@chapter48creative]

@@lkessler1 Thanks for following up! Is yours a compact or full year?

[@lkessler1]

@@chapter48creative It is a half year

[@kathyshaull3220]

My 2024 a6 full year stays open… 🤷‍♀️

[@chapter48creative]

@@kathyshaull3220 Maybe I got a weird one. It’s sure not cooperating.

[@ParisLeShea]

What about Just Scribble’s A6?

[@chapter48creative]

I did see a video introducing them to us. I'm not sure. I'm really leaning toward a PaperTess A6 or B6. Looking at the layout of it, it might actually be even more perfect for what I'm doing. Is there a "pulling my hair out" emoji?

[@mollymollie6048]

I’m also getting the Sterling Ink A6…compact or booklet….can’t decide. But, I definitely saw that they lay flat in the video Sterling Ink did presenting the 2025s. Maybe go watch that, see if anyone made a comment about laying flat for A6 and what her response was. I get the ‘deal breaker’ aspect. Maybe a cover on it that really pulls it/holds it open?