2022 Planner & Journal Lineup | Hobonichi Weeks, Traveler's Notebook, Personal Rings


Hi friends, welcome back to my channel. It's been a while since I uploaded a video, but   I'm back and I'm here to show you my planner and  journal lineup for 2022, and here they all are. And you might be seeing the stack and thinking, "Oh my  gosh, this is a lot. What is going on?" And I will be   explaining myself. So some of these notebooks, I did technically start last year. So keeping that   in mind, I don't think it's that ridiculous, but  I'll just go ahead and start with my lineup here.   So just to explain how my lineup usually works, I always like to keep at least three daily notebooks.   I have my daily planner, my daily written journal,  and my baby journal. So let's talk about my daily   planner first. I am using another Hobonichi  Weeks again for 2022, and here it is. If you   follow my Instagram, you've seen this setup  already. I am using the Galen Leather zipper   cover in the Crazy Horse Brown. It's a beautiful,  gorgeous cover. It's so soft, it smells so good,   and it marks up really nicely. It's already  showing signs of use. I've been using this for   two weeks now, maybe three weeks. And just to  show you what the patina looks like, here is my   slip-and-zip case, also in the Crazy Horse Brown.  And I've had this for a year and a half now.   I unboxed this on my channel before, so  you can check that out if you'd like. But here is what the patina looks like. It is gorgeous. So here's what's inside. I did   take the time to decorate my pockets here on  the left side. I usually keep my pockets simple,   but this time, I made the effort to really  decorate these pockets and make it something   that I love seeing every time I open up this  cover, and I will be explaining more about these   deco cards when I do a proper setup video for  my planner. I do plan on filming that soon, but   the short version is, I made these planner  cards myself and then these are stickers   that I bought on Amazon. I will link them down  below, And then I am using the Zebra bLen pen   for my planner.

So here is my Hobonichi Weeks. I'm not completely done setting up the inside yet.   I do have this sticker pocket here in the front  with my planner card here that I made last year.   I covered the inner pages with some scrapbook  paper just to match the outside cover,   and I haven't cut off these bookmarks yet but  I'm seriously considering it again this year.   I cut it off from my Hobonichi Weeks last  year, which I do have here. Here's my 2021   Hobonichi Weeks, the first one that I finished.  I started this on March 2021, and I was kind of   in and out of this planner throughout the whole  year but I did end up using a lot of the pages.   And overall, I think this was a success and  I'm really happy to be in another   Hobonichi Weeks for this year, but as I mentioned,  I haven't finished setting up the pages yet. I fell behind on preparing my lineup for 2022 just because in December, if you were following my   Instagram, you knew what I was up to. I was playing  Endwalker because it came out on December 3rd and   that was all I did for Decembe,r was play that  game and also prepare for the holidays and all that. So my lineup kind of fell by the wayside,  and I'm just now catching up in January. So if you feel like you're falling behind on your  planner setups and you feel like you can't keep   up with social media and all that, don't worry.  I'm right there with you. It's totally normal.   But I did go ahead and start bullet journaling  like I said in my Hobonichi haul video back in   September when I bought this Hobonichi Weeks.  I said that my intention was to bullet journal   in the back pages of this Mega. Did I mention that  this is a Hobonichi Weeks Mega? Because it is.   It's been a while since I filmed, can you tell? But anyway, so I already did start   the January pages on this Mega. This is my blotting  paper, by the way. I'm just gonna set it aside. So here is my monthly title page, and then my tracker  page, and then I dedicated a page for weekly notes   for when I want to do a little bit of forward  planning for that specific month.

And then, I started rapid logging in the back and this is just  the traditional bullet journal rapid logging, and   I'm really glad that I went back to this method  of planning because it felt really comfortable for me.  When I first started consistently planning  a couple of years ago, I started with a bullet   journal and this was exactly how I would plan  my day. I would just list out everything that   I wanted to do that day and it's been working out  great for me so far. So I'm really happy about that.   And then for the weekly pages, I've been doing  memory keeping. I really like using a weekly   spread to do some creative journaling, so that's my  plan for these weekly pages in the Hobonichi Weeks   is to use this for creative memory journaling and in the back, it's going to be for bullet journaling. Again I'll be doing a more detailed flip of this  entire setup, so watch out for that. Next up in my   daily lineup is my daily written journal, and I'm  currently using an A6 Tomoe River paper notebook.   And I have it housed in a Moterm Cream Croc  Original cover. So here's what the front cover of   my notebook looks like. I bought this on Amazon  sometime last year when news broke out that   the Tomoe River paper, the old version was going  away. And so much like the rest of the planner   community, I kind of panicked and stocked up on the  old type of Tomoe River paper. So this is one of   the notebooks that I bought with the old version,  and I have two of these notebooks so once I fill   up this notebook, I'm most likely going to be using  that one as well. And so far, I've just been using   this for pure writing. As you can see, just a lot  of writing with my fountain pens. I really like   flipping through a notebook that's just full of  words with no stickers, no decorations, no ephemera,   or anything like that. It's like flipping through  a novel and that just feels really good to me.

So that's my goal for this notebook, is to do  lots of writing and journaling and I usually   do with morning pages style. I usually do it in  the evening, so it's more like evening pages, I guess. But anyways, three pages a day is what I try  to aim for in this notebook, and it's been working   out really well. So that is my daily journal. It's a lot of private and personal writing so obviously   I can't flip through this, but there it is. I've been really enjoying the Tomoe River paper for   journaling, and I love how these pages crinkle  as you go through the notebook and you use   each individual page. You can see clearly the pages  that I've used and which ones I haven't, and it's   just been super nice. And then the last of my daily  notebooks is this. This is my baby journal, and for   the setup, I have it in the Chic Sparrow Tea House  Chamomile. This is the classic traveler's notebook,   so there are no pockets. I bought this on clearance  recently, and they no longer have the Deluxe.   They only had the Classic left on the site, so that's  what I went with, and it doesn't bother me because   I am using a plastic sleeve for my baby journal  that I stuck a sticker pocket on here, so if    I want to add deco, I can just use this. And this  year, I decided to change up my baby journal and   I'm no longer using a Moleskine pocket weekly.  So I did bring out my old baby journals here.   So these were my past two baby journals. They're  both Moleskine pocket weekly planners, and I did   one-line-a-day journaling for my son, but  I've started to feel like the line-a-day   journaling isn't working out for me anymore. So this is the kind of journaling I did for my son,   and I don't show this journal very much  on social media just because it's a very   private and personal notebook for me, but this  is what I do. And so I would usually write just a   couple of lines a day, just something cute and fun  that happened that day or maybe I want to write a   special message for my son.

Whatever it is, I would  write it down here, and as he's getting bigger now   and more and more things are happening throughout  the day, I feel like I don't have enough room for   a single day anymore on this journal.  I want a little bit extra room.   So this year, I changed to the Dingbats  pocket notebook. They call this the A6+   on their website, but it's not actually A6. So if you compare it to a true A6 notebook, it's narrower and it's a bit shorter.   There you can see it's shorter, but it's also a  little bit bigger than the Moleskine pocket size as you can see. So it's kind of a weird   in-between size, but it still fits the plastic   sleeve for my pocket TN, so I'm using it here. And I chose the Dingbats notebook because I've   always wanted to try the paper. I heard that  it was really good, and I thought the animal   cover on the front is just so cute. I'm a  little sad that I'm not using the Little Prince   covers anymore for my son, but this is also really  good. He loves animals, he loves bears, he loves   elephants, all sorts. So I was super excited  to be using this notebook for his journal and   it's grid paper just to make it easier for me.  I really like grid paper for writing because    I like to write neat, but I can't write neat on my own.  I need hard guidelines for when I'm writing,   so grid for me is the best, and I did do a  pen test for this notebook in the back.   So I tested my fountain pens on this  paper, and it performed really well.   There is some slight bleed through on the medium  nib fountain pen that I have, but if you're using   extra fine or even a fine nib, it should be fine. And the paper is so smooth to write on, like the   pen just glides on the paper, and I love that  feeling. I'm one of those people who loves smooth   paper, like the smoother the better. And I also  like cream paper. I prefer cream over white so   this is pretty much the perfect paper for me.

This, and the Rhodia paper. And then as far as the   journal goes, now that I'm no longer restricted  by tiny rows, I have a lot more space to write   in a single day, which is so good because I feel  like I have so much more to say about my son.   I've just been really enjoying this notebook.  I'm really glad that I switched because I think   if I were to use another Moleskine pocket weekly, I would most likely drop out because I just didn't   want to use this format anymore. So switching to  a grid notebook was a really good decision for me   personally. And I do still like to put in a weekly  photo in this journal so that hasn't changed.   Just the way I'm writing is changing, so I'm really  excited to fill up this notebook. I don't know   if it's going to last the whole year, but I'll  just start another one if I fill it up before   the end of the year. And my plan is to journal for  my son up to a point where he may be interested   in journaling for himself. Hopefully he picks up my  journaling hobby, but if not, I guess I'll just keep   memory keeping for him, and I did add scrapbook  paper to the inner cover of this notebook as well. I just wanted to personalize it to his taste.  He's been really into planes also, so I thought   this scrapbook paper that I have would be perfect  for his journal, and then in the back, there's this   back pocket here for the Dingbats as well, which  I'm not using at the moment but if there are any   spare photos that I want to keep for him, I'll just slide it in here. So here are all three of my   daily notebooks. These are the only three notebooks  that I go out of my way to update on a daily basis.   All the rest, I can look at weekly, every other  week, whatever, it doesn't matter. But these three   I definitely want to keep up with every day, so  when you think of my lineup like that, it doesn't   sound that bad. Next up are my non-daily notebooks,  so here they are. Here they all are.

Again these   may seem like a lot, but since I'm not updating  these every day, it's not that intimidating to me.   So I'm gonna start with my personal rings first, and this is pretty much a reference binder,    a companion to my Hobonichi Weeks. There are no dated  inserts in here. It's just purely reference and   goal planning, project planning. I do have to  update my goals and projects tabs here for   my plans for 2022, but that's what these sections  are for. And then I like to look at my grocery   list reference here for helping me come up with my  weekly grocery list. So what I do is I just look at   this list, and then go through my kitchen and then  figure out which ones I need to buy for that week.   So I don't buy all of this every week. It's just  whatever's missing or whatever is about to run out. It helps me to have this checklist just to  make sure that I have all of the staples and   that I'm able to meal plan for at least one week.  And in the back, I have a social media tab for my   Youtube settings, Instagram settings, all that. I've done a flip of this video in my last lineup video   if you want to check that out. I haven't changed  the inserts. I haven't really been updating the   deco or anything like that because I just haven't  had the inclination to do so, but I'm really happy   with how this planner looks, so I don't feel the  need to change it. So there it is, my personal rings.   And then next up are these two notebooks. So I showed these two notebooks in my last    2021 lineup video. This is my gaming journal in  a Tsuki bullet journal from Notebook Therapy.   And here's the front. I've already shown this and  I'm going to be honest, I haven't done much with   this notebook since I made that video because I  was doing a lot of gaming rather than journaling   about gaming. But I've been on a gaming break  lately just because I burnt myself out on playing   all the time, so I'm gonna be taking advantage  of all this time that I now have again from my   gaming break and catching up on my gaming journal.

And this cover is a Foxy Fix perfect fit Sugar   Ethereal? Lilac? I'm not sure but it's a light  purple color. And then here is my A5 ring binder   that I'm trying to use as a commonplace book and  this binder is the Yiwi gray croco. I bought this on   Aliexpress and again the inserts. I haven't updated  anything, but I do have plans for this A5 binder.   I really just need to better manage my time as far  as updating all of my lineup, but since this isn't   dated or anything. I'm not pressuring myself to  do that either, but my plan is to do some swatches   on my binder. I want to do washi tape swatches,  pen swatches. I also want to update my recipe   section and start taking more diligent notes  when I'm watching a video. I've actually been   taking video notes in my daily journal here, but  I need to transfer them over on my A5 binder and   make them neater and more organized, because I tend to just scribble on my daily journal when I'm   writing here. That's the plan with this A5 binder.  It's still very much in my lineup. It's just   sitting pretty and waiting for me. And then next,  I have the new additions to my lineup for 2022.   These two are going to be my art journals  for this year. So last year, I was combining   my daily journaling with my art journaling. As an  example, here is one of my journals from last year.   And I was doing creative journaling, collaging  in this insert whenever I felt like it, and   I really enjoyed these inserts. I love flipping  through my art journal spreads but then   the next five pages, it's just like, you know, random  drivel and complaining about minor things, and    I thought wouldn't it be nice to just have a journal  full of just art spreads that I can flip through   whenever I feel like it and feel inspired by the  spreads that I made and all that, and not have   10 pages of random stuff in-between. I thought that  would be great, and I also want to be able to do   flip-throughs of art journals because I feel like  I can't flip through any of my art spreads because   the rest of the pages are personal and I can't  really show what my process is, and I do find it   a little frustrating.

And it's not like I'm  doing this just for social media. It's just   something that I want to try, and also when  my friends and family are curious about    art journaling and they want to see, I feel like "oh, I can't really show it because I have a lot of   personal journaling to go with my art journal." So that's my reasoning for separating my art   journaling with my daily journaling. I just want to  see if that is going to work out for me. So I have two. I have the passport size traveler;s notebook  that I haven't started journaling in yet this   year, but I have the blank Moterm insert to  start with for the year because I really enjoyed   art journaling in my passport traveler's notebook  last year, and I want to keep that up for this year.   And then I also started an A5 art journal. So this  cover is the Gillio Ocean Mat Croco A5 Appunto.   And it's such a gorgeous color. This is one  of my unicorns, and I'm so happy I was able to   buy it on the Facebook Marketplace and it was  brand new, so I got really lucky. Anyway so I'm   using this as my A5 art journal and inside, I have  the Rhodia notebook in A5. It is lined paper which   is not my preference, but since I do have this  notebook in my stash, I might as well use it.   And I actually bought this from destash a long  long time ago, so the first page is actually a pen   test that the previous owner did, and I decided to  just keep that as part of this notebook's story.   And then I went ahead and I started art journaling.  So I already posted this spread on Instagram,   and I already have plans for what I want  my next spread to look like, so I'm really   excited about that. And I started this journal  because I realized that I really missed the   A5 size for art journaling when I was looking  through my Instagram the other week, and    I decided to just start one and since this isn't  a daily notebook, I'm not pressuring myself to   make an art journal spread every day.

I can just  take my time with the setup and use this whenever   I feel like it, and it's the same with my passport  traveler's notebook. I'll make an art spread in   this size whenever I feel like it. So sometimes I do feel like I want a large canvas and that's   where the A5 is going to come in, and sometimes  I want something cute and tiny and that's what   my passport travelers notebook is going to be for.  So here are my non-daily notebooks all together.   Again, since I'm not using all of these  everyday, I'm taking my time with them and   just enjoying the process, kind of following my  intuition with these notebooks. There's no stress,   there's no pressure to finish them quickly,  and it's just for fun which is the whole   point of having a notebook lineup, right? It's all  about having fun, so these are definitely for fun   notebooks for me and I'll use them whenever I feel  like it. So here are all of my notebooks for 2022. It is a huge stack. I think this is the largest  stack that I've had since all the years I've been   in the planner community, which to be fair isn't  a lot of years but if you look at my previous   lineup videos, this is a lot. A lot. But looking at  this stack makes me happy. It gives me a lot of joy   and I'm looking forward to seeing what I'm going  to be doing with these notebooks in the coming year. So that's it for me. Thank you so much for  watching if you're still here. If you enjoyed   this video, please do consider subscribing. This is  spellbound notes and I will see you next time. Bye!.