April Start Hobonichi Cousin SET UP | Productivity and Memory Keeping 

Regarding your comment about April being a "weird time to start a planner": this is the equivalent of the American academic planners that start in June or July. This is when the Japanese school year restarts!

I LOVE the April start. I have always felt that March is the beginning of my year so the April start is perfect!

The use of the writing board as a functional dashboard is a brilliant idea! I’m going to use this for my work planner- Hobo Cousin. Thank you for sharing 🌻

Thank you for making a video on the April start!

Thanks for sharing! I've used an April start Cousin since 2015 and wouldn't be able to survive without it. It's my work planner. I'm a university lecturer so I like the fact that it starts roughly at the end of the UK academic year - kind of like a reverse academic planner for me.

I bought eldenring for my son, who was living with me for a while. My husband doesn't like it, but he plays a lot of other games. I also like to watch them play games. I play some games myself, but I have too much other hobbies to really get into it for too long.

I love your energy. This was a super helpful video.

Love the video and your nail polish!

Loved watching this while setting up my April start cousin! 🥰

I like the someday page!

Thanks for giving us a glimpse into your planning, productivity, and financial tracking system. I'm taking away some wonderful new ideas. And I loved your introduction too. Thank you! Like you, I tried a Hobonichi Weeks this year, which is a wonderful planner in many ways. But I was itching to get back to the Cousin like you. So funnily, I bought a Spring Cousin on Amazon. When it arrived all the way from Japan, I discovered it was a 2021 Spring Cousin!!! Oh well. Luckily, I was still able to get a 2022 Jan Start Cousin and I opted for that. I won't fill in all the details from my first 3 and 1/2 months, but I will fill in the main events so I will have all of 2022 in one book.

thank you for that genius flexible way to habit track. I'm definitely not a habit tracker but I do need reminders to do regular care things but not always the same

CoffeeMonsterCo for the win 🙏😷🇨🇦 you tube just recommended you though I’m not a Hobonichi planner - have started in both Jan and Sept with planners - both work for me as my work followed school year and I loved that new planner beginning in Sept - Helen’s stickers and memory keeping keep me watching - thnx for sharing 🙏😷🇨🇦

I really like how you use the monthly calendar to track the fun stuff you’re doing, first with the post it’s and then the pictures and writing. I keep my appointments in Google calendar so I like creative ways to use the monthly. Thanks for sharing. I have been so tempted to try a hobonichi

Love it and keep up the videos! I also got a spring hobo cousin for the first time!

I love and appreciate your videos so much. I’m new to HobonichiWorld, so you are a huge inspiration to me! 😊

Please make more videos!!! Love how you plan!!! Gives me fresh ideas I've not seen on here! Thank you!

I went from a Hobo Weeks to a Hobo a6 Spring start for several reasons (also used a pocket bujo for one month lol) and I don't wanna jinx it, but the a6 might be my planner peace👀

Nice video and nice setup. Just found your video. Yes, I did do a Cousin with an April start in 2020. I'd started a new job a few months before that and finaliy realized that I needed a dedicated work planner and I knew the Cousin could handle it! And it did. It did feel weird at first having a planner not start in January! It was also my first experience doing a single book instead of an avec with 2 books and I discovered to my surprise how much I preferred a single book. Looking forward to more of your content. Subscribed!

The “lost your boyfriend to Elden Ring this past month” is a mood.

I also picked up the Animal Crossing themed cover and shitajiki! 😄 This is my first Hobonichi and I picked up the April start; I like that I won't have to be shopping for a new planner during the chaotic winter holiday season, given how shipping tends to be delayed then. I look forward to your April video! However, since the text in Japanese planners is so tiny, would you consider setting up the shot closer? It's a little hard to read zoomed out, and I care more about the book contents you're showing than your coffee mug off to the side! 😅

Thank you. I always wanted to know more about the Hobonichi April start. Would love to see more on your use of it in the future!

Helpful video. Love your ideas for the Hobonichi very functional

That is after the chinese new year. April is the start of the year🎉

I'm using the April start cousin and I LOVE IT. Tbh it's because I was late to the game with hobonichi, but yea, it's fantastic! I may grab a January start when they start selling the 2023 ones tho

I loooove the tracking idea you talked about for energy/period/mood etc.. For next year I will use the sterlink ink planner - I will try to include this tracker. Thanks for sharing :)

Nice and your coffee looks good!

Love the expense tracking system you’ve created! Not good at budgeting either! Trying to better too! 😃

Loved the video 🤩 I know you don’t use the weeks anymore but could you please do a flip through of it?

You're right about the hobo weeks! I want a hobo weeks in the size of the weeks, but with the same pages as in cousin!!!! 500 of them: yearly, monthly, weekly, and daily, all in one, in the weeks size!!!! A portable one!!! Probably, the Standard size TN would be great too in the same format! Like: 1st notebook: yearly and monthly, 2nd: weekly for half a year, 3rd: daily pages! I don't want you carry the Cousin around!

Glad to find your channel. Subscribed :). I am starting for the first time Hobonichi cousin, April start! Looking outward to set up with you!

I got some interesting ideas from the video thanks

Thanks for this video! You made me fall in love again with the Cousin. The paper you have used for the monthly budgets at the end of the planner, is it sticker paper? If so, could you share the link where to buy it? Thanks!

Love it!!!

I would looooove to see one of your monthly tarot spreads!

RACHELLE, can you share where you got the lined post it notes? (Both sizes). Thank you, I enjoyed your video!

Hi there! Loved the video, did you create those budgeting sheets? If not can you share where you got them?