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Avalona
December 31st, 2014, 04:52 PM
I noticed no one has made a post about this, but considering 2015 starts tomorrow (or already has on the eastern side of the Atlantic), I figured I'd post. For those of you that use them, what's your planner for this coming year? If you journal, what ones have you chosen for next year?

I'm using two planners: a Hobonichi Techo (with an apple-red cover) for my university studying, and a Franklin Covey Compact/Filofax Personal/Paperchase ring binder (the binder itself is probably going to change about four times in the next year - I get bored quickly, but the innards should remain the same) for everything else (and some of the university study as well, actually). Well, right now, it's a Franklin Covey Lily binder with loads of blank paper and dividers but no actual diary inserts because the Paperchase ones aren't here yet (no idea how fountain pen friendly they are, I just thought the lined weekly entries looked less intimidating than the blank spaces of Filofax diary entries).

For my journals, I'm finishing up my Awagami Factory hardcover pocket notebook for now, and then I have a good-sized stock of other hardcover pocket books - three Leuchtturm1917, and five Moleskine (they were on sale at the Moleskine site. :p Also, I tend to use fine and extra-fine nibs and well-behaved inks, so I don't foresee much of a problem with it) - to start on.

Tracy Lee
December 31st, 2014, 05:24 PM
Techo. Hobonichi Techo. :-) I am using one of those too. Just that one for me, work is too much chaos so that is managed on the computer calendar. Journal is a Tomoe River one from Nanami Paper.

Avalona
December 31st, 2014, 05:35 PM
Yes, thanks for correcting me on Techo. :) Sometimes I forget to take out the n. :P

VertOlive
December 31st, 2014, 06:11 PM
I've been building an 8x6 Circa notebook with all the necessary tools to serve as my all-in-one planner for 2015. It has a pleasing red leather zip cover and a Kaweco Raw Aluminum pen living in the pen loop. They make a Rhodia paper for it.

Personal journal is hardbound tomoe river from paperforfountainpens.com

tandaina
December 31st, 2014, 06:28 PM
I too use a Hobonichi Techo. Got my new one all ready to go tomorrow. :)

Silverbreeze
December 31st, 2014, 06:31 PM
Techno all set

Tracy Lee
January 1st, 2015, 08:17 AM
I've been building an 8x6 Circa notebook with all the necessary tools to serve as my all-in-one planner for 2015. It has a pleasing red leather zip cover and a Kaweco Raw Aluminum pen living in the pen loop. They make a Rhodia paper for it.

Personal journal is hardbound tomoe river from paperforfountainpens.com
I have a full sized circa with a bomber leather cover and Kyoto discs that I use for notetaking at work. I keep a task list there too. Circa is a really fantastic system, and yes, loaded up with Rhodia. I also have the punch so I can insert other documents in relevant places as the year wears on. I scan everything at the end of the year. Not really a planner for me really so I didn't include it, but I do track deadlines and keep a monthly view calendar in there and such so perhaps it is? Hmm. I just have always thought of it as my work woobie. Planner might be more professional.

chojo
January 1st, 2015, 01:31 PM
I have a Tomoe river journal from paperforfountainpens.com on order too, hoped it might have been here for the new year but no luck as yet.

kbrede
January 1st, 2015, 02:09 PM
For a journal I'm going with a Clairefontaine Basic Large Clothbound Notebook. I'm thinking about this one also:

http://www.baronfig.com/pages/confidant

Kent

da vinci
January 2nd, 2015, 07:13 AM
Its been a tough decision this year. Ideally I'd like a Rhodia planner formatted tomoe river planner in A5 :)

I tried the Hobonichi in 2014 and loved everything except the size - its just too small.

I have both A4 and A5 ARCs and like the idea of printing my own templates, but I find when using decent paper they get very heavy.

I may just move to bullet journalling in an A5 notebook.

sgtstretch
January 2nd, 2015, 08:01 AM
For a journal I'm going with a Clairefontaine Basic Large Clothbound Notebook. I'm thinking about this one also:

http://www.baronfig.com/pages/confidant

Kent

I just picked up a Baron Fig Confidant for my journal this year.

da vinci
January 2nd, 2015, 02:05 PM
I would encourage responses to this Quo Vadis blog:

http://quovadisblog.com/2015/01/02/customized-planners-2/

Anyone got any experience of the large size Notor?

cwent2
January 8th, 2015, 08:33 PM
I have just received my first Tomoe river journal from paperforfountainpens.com - A birthday present to myself.

Now I just have to bring myself to use it.......

:faint:

Shimmershadow
January 9th, 2015, 12:50 PM
I do need to pick up a new planner or this year. As school continues and my time is getting scheduled down to the last minute (or so it seems!) I reach for the darn thing more and more. I currently use a Staples Arc academic year planner...not the best, not the worst, but I'm angling towards upgrading that to a Raymay DaVinci or a Hobonichi. I can't decide. I like the DaVinci system for having a binder, and for having blank date pages so I can just start my planner when-any-old-ever and not feel like I'm wasting paper. I also like that if for whatever reason I can't find the Raymay branded pockets and stuff, I can get some from DayRunner or whatnot. It's very flexible, which I very much like. However, the binder is being discontinued, and the options left are nice but not ideal. Hobonichi has so many cover options, and I love all the little informational tidbits that come in the planners, but the planners are set and bound, already dated, and I have no idea how long it will take to get here. Whatever I get, I prefer the Tomoe River paper, just because anything thicker tends to bulk up really quickly and will fit into my backpack pockets, but not my purse. (Edited to add: I'm going with the DaVinci for now. The English Hobonichi are sold out, and the covers I like are not nearly within my current budget. Poot. Maybe next year?)

For a journal, I just went on a Paperblanks spree (yay holiday gift cards!), so I will more than likely be using those for a while. I have blank, new journals all over the place, so who knows? (Of course, I always say that this is the year I'm going to journal every day, and then I just never do...hence the proliferation of blank books, which are just lovely and pleasant on their own.)

raffaela
January 9th, 2015, 04:16 PM
have you considered the hobonichi cousin which is a5 size? it has a bit more..i'm trying that this year...
but to be honest, not much of a planner/organizer person...more a journaler. thought it would be too small so i am also using a secondary journal for those days that i like to ramble more

Tiggercat
January 10th, 2015, 05:38 PM
I decided to start a journal this year, and picked up a Mnemosyne Special and a Kokuyo Campus, both A5. The Kokuyo is just okay, but I love the Mnemosyne.

Faustine
January 12th, 2015, 01:18 PM
I am an avid user of the Levenger Circa/discbound system and have been for over 6 years now - I use a letter size for my work brain dump and daily notes, and a junior size for my personal weekly planner, budgeting and ink scribbles. I am in love with the discbound system, and would like to work some Tomoe River Paper into it somehow, as I'm currently printing my own refills using 28lb laser printer that serves my pens well. I think the Tomoe River Paper might be too thin and delicate to stay on the discs well, but I kinda want to try! I occasionally get tempted by other systems though.... so now I have a Field Notes sized midori cover on the way with no clue what to put in it as I hate Field Notes paper, and am equally intrigued by the Hobonichi Techo.

I have planner issues. :D

cwent2
January 12th, 2015, 01:38 PM
..... so now I have a Field Notes sized midori cover on the way with no clue what to put in it as I hate Field Notes paper, . :D

You could alway make yourself a homemade Tomoe River Paper Field note sized booklet - just a little stitching

http://www.mylifeallinoneplace.com/2013/03/my-handmade-travelers-notebook-in-new.html

Ray Blake tutorial

sgtstretch
January 12th, 2015, 01:46 PM
I am an avid user of the Levenger Circa/discbound system and have been for over 6 years now - I use a letter size for my work brain dump and daily notes, and a junior size for my personal weekly planner, budgeting and ink scribbles. I am in love with the discbound system, and would like to work some Tomoe River Paper into it somehow, as I'm currently printing my own refills using 28lb laser printer that serves my pens well. I think the Tomoe River Paper might be too thin and delicate to stay on the discs well, but I kinda want to try! I occasionally get tempted by other systems though.... so now I have a Field Notes sized midori cover on the way with no clue what to put in it as I hate Field Notes paper, and am equally intrigued by the Hobonichi Techo.

I have planner issues. :D

I have a few of the Staples clone, Arc, notebooks. I love them as notebooks, but hate them as journals. I didn't like to daily carry mine. I use one for my Beer Journal, and I love it as that. I also use one to keep track of when I ink my pens and with what ink.

Faustine
January 13th, 2015, 01:18 PM
You could alway make yourself a homemade Tomoe River Paper Field note sized booklet - just a little stitching

http://www.mylifeallinoneplace.com/2013/03/my-handmade-travelers-notebook-in-new.html

Ray Blake tutorial

Ooh, thanks Cwent2!! I just ordered some Backpocket Journals with Tomoe River Paper, but this is useful in case I want to venture into making my own.

Shimmershadow
January 14th, 2015, 03:51 PM
I got my DaVinci in today!!! I'm very excited about this, as this is my first real experience with using Tomoe River paper. I love the feel of the paper, I love the color, I love how thin it is. However, thinness doesn't seem to be totally compatible with filling in dates on an undated calendar, which I don't love. Getting a lot of ghosting ad a tiny bit of bleed-through. Trying to figure out the best approach to solving this problem without having to buy a whole new pile of inserts. What inks and pens do y'all use on your Tomoe-paper'd planners? I was going to use a Lamy Safari EF with Noodler's Squeteague or Mass 54th, but it seems to be too much for the paper to handle to make it useful for planning.