2020 How I use Hobonichi Cousins for Functional Planning and Memory Keeping | Sterling Ink 

Thank you so much!

Thank you so much!

Should totally try using silhouette for photos, it solved 80 percent of my problems hahaha

Thank you!

Thank you! I am glad it helped!

😘😘😘 You are so sweet!

Thank you!

I think I will be doing some plan with me videos in the future. Basically I divide my life into different areas and assign a color to each. I don’t always color code it. It’s just for me to see how much time spend on what and see if I need to readjust anything if it seems like I am wasting too much time doing something not so important.

@@SterlingInk ah I see, thank you so much! I'm looking to gather ideas on how to use the cousin for uni, so this will really help!

Ahhh I am so jealous that you get to use it for school. I think it’s perfect for that. You can use a color per class, then for the daily pages you can either take notes if you write small or just summarize the stuff you learned that day maybe?

@@SterlingInk hahaha thank you so much for all your ideas, and for taking time out to respond!! I will definitely keep this in mind, thank you!! 😁

Sure I will figure out how to screen record and I will make a video about this.

I know lol I wish I could do that. But I don’t really like mixing my messy planner with memory keeping lollll. It gives me extra pressure to make the planner portion really neat and presentable for the future whoever is looking at my book, even if it’s just me haha 😂. Is that silly?

@@SterlingInk not silly at all! I get it

I do exactly that, but in my weekly. I try to put in one small photo for each week.

Gloria Thomas in a cousin?

@@ssd1453 No. I'm using a junior size disc planner with a dashboard weekly spread. I made my own half page daily inserts. It's a bit of a hack, but I like planning my day with the week in mind, and this lets me see both. At the end of the week, I add thumbnails from highlights for the week.

No I don’t. I think to carry around weeks is better. But if you had a slim cover cousin could work as well.

Thank you so much for your comment. I would love to hear how you will be setting up your planners!

Sterling Ink I have an EC life planner for my weekly overview, a Happy Planner setup for grad school & Reading Journaling. My goals are currently managed in the Cultivate Power Sheets, which is great tool. Your video caught my attention because I purchased the PP Weeks in 2019 and still haven't used it. I think after watching this video, I can utilize it for tracking my time and important events to help me better manage and track my time each day and see where I'm wasting time, since I have so much going on and so many goals lol.

@@rebekahstinson8511 Aww that's great! I believe that we all have the mental power to achieve all of the goals we set for ourselves. Just have to take action! Good luck Rebekah!

Thank you!

I ordered my hobonichi planners in November December and also in January. I ordered through jetpens and also Etsy. I think you should be fine and they restock I believe. I bought my second hobonichi cousin just recently in July too from the us amazon. I think there are a lot of cover options for hobonichi that’s not leather from hobonichi website.

@@SterlingInk Thank you so much for taking the time to respond to my questions.

You are welcome. If you have any other questions, you can dm me @sterlingink on Instagram

I ordered mine in October directly from Hobonichi and it look about a week to arrive. I absolutely love it and have barely scratched the surface of my planning

Hi I have also done memory keeping in an a5 stalogy which is also nice, but not having the dates made it more ok to skip the days haha so I quickly fell behind. I am liking the structure that the hobonichi cousin has set out for me so I am just filling in the blanks. I am using a Canon pixma printer, I think any photo quality printer would work and just remember to save a setting for photo printing so that you can select that option when you are printing photos. Have fun!

Oh it’s just things I need to reference long term. It has a section for my business (ein number, expenses, product ideas, vendor info, etc) and personal sections (my son, family, home, finance, etc) I don’t like to keep that information in my bound notebooks/planners plus this gives me an excuse to use ring binder.

​@@SterlingInk Where did you get the ring binder from and what is the name of the cover again please?

Hi I love your question as it’s making me re-examine my system haha. It’s definitely a work in progress. What I meant was I write out my schedule with tasks that I would like to complete. Then as the hours go by I would highlight the hour mark with colors based on what I actually did. Usually I do go by the schedule so it’s just a confirmation that I worked on a certain thing in a certain category (I have two businesses where I put most of time in so I wanted to track how much time I spend on each at a glance) the purple one is just for me to highlight the tasks I didn’t complete due to procrastination lol. What I found during that first week was there was a specific task I kept on pushing back and pushing back due to procrastination lol. I also was able to see that there are certain times of the day that I am more likely to procrastinate so now I try to schedule something fun but productive during that time period. Hope that makes sense

Thank you Arianna. I am using the full year, and I am using gfeller natural leather cover.

Sterling Ink thank you!

Thank you so much! Stalogy does not use tomoe River paper. The paper used in hobonichi and nanami paper co are tomoe River paper.

@@SterlingInk thanks so much for your quick reply! Now I know better. I think I'll go for the Hobonichi... never heard about nanami though. Have a lot of fun with your most cute son

Loll yea I needed to keep my procrastination under control. It’s either that or get no sleep haha

It’s gfeller case maker cover

@@SterlingInk thank you so much 🖤🤍🤎