2024 Planner Plans | What Did & Didn't Work This Year

If people want to spend their money, more power to them. I love being able to see what all of the different planners look like and there's no way I could afford to do that

Drink every time Helen says "Hobonichi Cousin" 😩

This actually helped me a lot to figure out how I want to use my planners. I have a bullet journal that I haven’t finished yet but still plan to use, but I’m also using a bigger brand new journal for this year too. The way you explain how you use your journals is so so helpful! Hope you have a great new and thanks for sharing your setup with us! ❤

I love the consolidation. Thank you for sharing!!

Are people really that ignorant about foreign currencies 😮?

I love all of your videos especially these ones where you go in depth about what did and didn't work :) So excited for what you have planned for the new year! By the way, where do you buy your Hobonichi planners (Amazon, or do they have a website)?

Around $25!? I'm so jealous, it's $90 or more Canadian here :c

I just adore the characters on your notebooks. We don't have those here in Mexico city.

Thank you for the disclaimer! I find a lot of planner videos have people showing excessive amounts of stuff, and it's hard to not get FOMO or inspired to try them out. I love your message of keeping within your own budget and DIYing things, while also allowing yourself to be happy when you can purchase something special. The Cousin is my dream planner, and one day I will justify spending the money to get one lol.

I love this kind of videos. It’s nice to see what works and what not work and other kinds of planners that I didn’t know existed… last year I had both hobonichi cousin and a6 and weeks to explore (that’s before I become pregnant). So I have so much time journaling in the cousin and calligraphy and I was testing a6 for maybe some calligraphy/quote writing— but it didn’t really work much. But the cousin I love for journaling and memory keeping plus todo list… I had the weeks too but I didn’t know how to really use it in 2022… but when I gave birth on Sept 2022, I realize I won’t have so much time with the big cousin. So for 2023, I realize to just get the weeks to condense my planning and some journaling. And it worked. I struggled to find my rhythm in the beginning of the year but I found my flow eventually. And now for the 2024 set up, i still love the weeks and want to continue it, but I do agree that I didn’t like the unnecessary quotes in the bottom, so I’m excited to be getting sterling ink weeks the mega one, and a6 this time for my prayer journal which is something new I want to try. 2 is enough for me having 2 little kids around the house.

Hi, are the ode to artist washi tapes available for sale? The Etsy shop doesn’t seem to sell any washi.

Ah this is such a cool system you're trying! But I can barely keep sense of my Weeks + Avec. If I tried something similar I'd probably go 🤯☠️😆

Can't wait to see how it all turns out. What are planning on doing with the pages in the back of the Take A Note? I think there are 78 right?

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I got the TAN and it's so nice

You need no justification for what you choose to do. Life is about trying things for you, not for anyone else, but through that you can share what you've learnt with others and that's exactly what you do and for that I am grateful.

Helen, you’re amazing ✨ I really loved the thumbnail you made for this video 🤗 Here’s to 2024 🥳

Love all the thoughts that went into your line up and completely understanding the struggle of combining vs separating certain aspects. I’m doing a Hobonichi Hon for my main squeeze 🍋🥰 I’m continuing to use a 2023 weeks until it is STUFFFFFFED as my health and fitness tracker/planner. I have a budget envelope system for finances. 😅 phew! AND….a tarot/spiritual planner. *and a Hobonichi 5 year in its 4th year!*

For personal -> I will be trying a Hobonichi A6 HON, a Weeks, and I'll be in my 3rd year of a 5 year. I've been using my Weeks somewhat like a Cousin, where I use the weekly spreads properly, then use the notes in the back as dailies (just much smaller than a cousin :D). For me, it's the perfect size, since I don't have too much variation in my life and I've moved journaling into its own place (a notebook). I've been thinking to try and emphasize daily planning a bit more again so I'm trying the A6 again, but being too scared to leave the weeks behind I ordered both, lol. The 5-year is kind of a very brief memory keeper.

For work, I use a pretty cheap japanese planner, but I'm honestly not too fussy about work stuff, mainly just use it for notes.

"Questioning my spending choices" oh boy, you are a kind soul. I can imagine how this questioning looked like. I do not encourage anyone to buy stuff all the time, because in the end we really do not need that much, but YOU- you are using everything very mindfully, everything has a purpose, so for you I say: get everything you want! All the best for 2024, Janette

2024 is the year I am forcing myself to use only ONE planner. Its the hobo cousin. Just as you said, you really can fit everything you need in it so I feel it will be easier to keep it all in there.

I feel like I have to confess here. I've never watched a video of yours but have heard of you because seemingly every English-speaking person who creates content on planning uses your stuff--- and I don't like it T___T I personally just don't vibe with your bald white blob of a character OTL

But I finally jumped in with this video because I like reflective end of year things like this the most, and I actually find you quite relatable and soothing ^^ I'm not ever gonna buy any of your things, but will be tuning in more often in the new year. Have a great holiday season ahead!

I was inspired by your Hobonichi Cousin layouts and got the Common Planner in B6 to try it out next year, without the size commitment of the A5 size. So it's kinda funny that you're changing the way you use your Hobonichi. I'm trying to keep as much as possible into one catch-all planner without going back to discbound or bullet journals. (Though I have other notebooks for specific things such as recipes, reading journal, health journal etc.)

I love the idea of a Hobonichi, and I know people love the paper. For me personally, the paper is too thin for the pens I use. I stick with A&O or Moleskine dot grid notebooks and just put my two days per page and write my tasks out that way. I want to try the cousin, but I am not sure I would get much use out of it.

I have one bullet journal (a Scribbles that Matter) that I try to keep up with. I do have a re-usable layout system that I'm working in my current one, and that is going well. I also will run this journal until it is full and then simply pick up with the next one - the pressure of trying to match up with someone else's idea of a spread, a week, a month, a day, AND make it a single year for one book is just too much 😅

I also added to the line-up in the past couple months a Leuchtturm that I'm using as a reading journal. Both of these will carry on to next year.

Didn't expect the ASMR 😮😊

The little Breaking Bad doodle in your pocket journal is the cutest thing I've ever seen Helen. 😭

I will be using the Cousin for everything and I will be using a Weeks strictly for meal planning and grocery shopping list

OMG!! I'm so happy that you got the TakeANote planner! I switched this year from the hobonichi cousin to the TakeANote planner

I look forward to seeing what you in the year ahead with these planners! I went for my first every Hobo, I got a weeks! Starting small and see how I go… maybe I’ll graduate to cousin next! Thanks for the inspiration as always!

This year I'm in several journals: prayer, gratitude, reading, training and creative writing. I'm living in a Wonderland222 All in One planner.

I'm a new potato and have so many orders in! I can't wait to see how the pages fill!

Honestly I think that "it makes me happy" is all the reason you need. You don't owe anyone an explanation. You don't have to justify your decisions. People don't do enough of what makes them happy. Keep doing what brings a smile and let's you feel some peace or joy or whatever you call that good feeling that you get when you're doing what you want to do.😁💖

I adore TAN planners. They are just lovely!

The funny thing is I love buying the hobo weeks because it's so cute and the covers are lovely...but I really don't like the layout either. I hope I don't cave and buy another one next year too 😂

Finally finished my lineup for this coming year and I've decided to use a Hobonichi Hon (cat and me colorway) as my everyday planner and journal. And adding an a6 (inspired by you!) to supplement pages. I'm also using a muji undated planner as a language planner for Japanese and Korean!

love your lineup and i love the idea to keep fiction notes separate from non fiction!! 🥰🤍

The only planner I am using now for 2024 is the Hobo Cousin. I condensed everything into one. It makes me happy and feel less stressed. I guess right now, I officially have planner peace. I guess I'll know for sure once 2024 starts! :D

So good!!!

I'm a hobonichi cousin girly through and through, but absolutely love watching how other people use them. I only carry two other bullet journals outside of my cousin and my cousin is the "HOLY GRAIL KEEP ALL" with everything in it

I paused this video to comment. I think if you DID want to spend $700 US or CA dollars on a planner, then you certainly have that right and no one should DM you about your choices. Those that did, I certainly hope it was in a fun or joking manner and wasn't meant to be taken seriously. There are people on this channel who probably spend that much or more each year on multiple planners and stickers and washi so....to each their own. We all spend OUR money how we want, right? I love your content, BTW.

amazingly enough, it was your videos that made me want to try the Weeks layout this 2024 because having an A5 is way too much space for me and I do not even have much to go on with both work and personal life.

I hope you continue still though to make weeks kits even though you don't want to continue with it. I love the week tabs alot. :D

I just want to say that you work sooo hard and if you did spend $700 that’s not our business and you deserve it. Thank you for everything! Your creativity brings so much joy.

I would love to see your latest pens used for your planners/journals.

Thanks for sharing! Curious how you’re planning to use the weekly overview in TAN planner?

Hi Helen, great set up for next year. I am using my cousin for a picture a day in the monthlies, daily journaling in the weeklies and using the dailies as a book journal. Using the a6 One Piece HON as my family planner and a bullet journal for lists 😊

With your cousin, where do you get the prompt questions please? Such a great idea to fill space!

My lineup is a hobo weeks for planning and taking notes on the go, a leuchtturm pocket notebook for todo's at work and a filofax a5 planner that I'm not quite sure how to use yet. Might just use it as a memory keeper/diary like thing.

I can't keep up with multiple planners the weeks gave me the blues. I will be only using sterling ink b6 common planner like a bullet journal in that back for an all in one planner

Im using the TAN A5 as well! That and a B6 Travelers Notebook.

adore these kind of videos and it was so interesting to hear you talk about what worked for you or didn't and all of the changes you're making