How I Use My Hobonichi Cousin as a Catch-All Planner | 4.18.22 | Functional Planning 

The reference book idea to move year to year is a GAME. CHANGER. Brilliant idea. Thank you for the inspiration!!

loved seeing more into your setup! And i totally agree about how nice and comforting it feels to have everything contained in one book. Love it!

I love that the reference planner and catch-all is together in one place. I am definitely going to try this.

sorry if this sounds weird but your voice is very calming. Sometimes when I dont feel well I just turn it on to calm down lol

I jumped on the Hobonichi train for 2023. I’m excited to use it. I got the Japanese version, I like the color coding and the Japanese text makes it very unique.

Love it! I also use the daily pages as a notes section.

I loved this organizational style!!! The separate book is the perfect way to stop rewriting things every year! Thanks so much for sharing!!!

Loved this video! I feel like I’m listening to a college professor everytime I hear your voice-so calm and knowledgeable. Thanks for sharing!

Omg girlllll you just blew my mind and gave me some great ideas!!!! Ty so much for this video!

Great vid 🤗 I am finishing up my first year in Hobonichi cousin and already have my new 2023 hobo … You gave me so many planner ideas to be more organized in 2023 🥰 thank you…

Just found your video and I love your creativity for a catch-all planner. I have been in a Hobonichi Cousin since 2020. It always amazes me how easily one can make it what we need as a planner. Thank you!

Love the reference notebook idea!

Thank you so much for sharing. I’m so glad I found your video. Such an inspiration.

I have the same cover for my Hobonichi Cousin. I love it. It's so pretty.

I love the mood tracker! 💕

You have a great catch all planner system!! Can hardly wait until I shop for mine for next year!!

Really enjoyed this presentation/information. I have the Franklin Planner (from 40 years ago - original cover!) and Hobonichi Cousin Avec. Can't decide which one to use for all my info in one place and which for daily planning. Thank you for presenting the bound planner side.

I have had the WORST case of planner block for 2023 until I watched this video! Thank you so much for sharing this with us! I had already bought my Cousin for 2023 but also realized that when I have more than one planner I often get disorganized and disenchanted if you will on planning. I have memory problems so I need to plan haha. But this, this suggestion may well solve my problem. Thank you again so much for sharing!

This was such a great video. Sooo helpful.

What an amazing video! Thank you so much for sharing this. You have really great ideas that are going to work really well for me too. I love fat bulky planners too, love the "Frankenstein" planners.

Eight minutes in and you've sold me on the cousin. I've been using the original A6 with a weekly HP for overview. After finding out the Cousin has a weekly view WITH daily, I was debating if I should up the ante next year. Thanks for showing what you have laid out! This is incredibly helpful!

Love this idea

I love this so much ❤ my catch all is my hobonichi weeks mega with a paper penguin co insert also🙌🙌🙌

Great video as always. I use your idea about the separate notebook that I saw in an early video and it has been working out well. I do find it always so interesting how people use planners differently. Example, I mostly use the daily pages of my Hobonichi and the weekly and monthly go unused for the most part. I could see using your idea of inserts on those pages which may even replace some of the items in my second notebook.

great video, with some really interesting and helpful tips. Thanks for sharing.

Another wonderful idea video. Thank you.

This was SO GOOD!!! You’ve sold me! I wish it was November so I could start a new catch-all like yours…just can’t swing another planner for this year. Next year I’m copying you. 😊 I really enjoy your channel and your soothing voice. Thank you for sharing your planner experience with us!

Great setup! I have made the same in the pocket filofax

One of your earlier videos showing how you used the daily section of the cousin really inspired me. I am a huge note taker, list maker, research type person. But I always have several notebooks going with all of my info and it can be confusing to find what I’m looking for. Your video inspired me to buy a second cousin ( I use the one I have completely day to to day) and I’ve set it up to be a catch all for notes etc based on subject. I’m using the daily part and labeling each month by subject ex- January = health notes supplement research February = food prep/recipe/ kitchen organizing march= pigment notes etc. The book will be ongoing until it’s full. I’m using the month calendar as an index. The dates act like a page number. This video went on to inspire me about how to use the weekly part. I can use it for brain dumps and lists! I usually write them all over the place. Thank you for talking through your process- it helps to spark ideas of how I can apply this to my life. I love consolidating everything into just a couple places. It just goes to show how versatile the cousin can be.

This really inspired me! I used my Hobonichi this way last year, though my sections were not as detailed. I had a section for work notes, personal notes, lists, projects and finances and indexed them at the front. I still refer to it! This year I decided to try using the daily pages in the more traditional way but I think I really prefer this. Your video has given me alot more ideas for what details I'd like to add. I have alot of blank pages from last year and this year I want to put more of them to use.

I bet if you had time to make a digital planner you would rock the digital planning world away!!!! I love your planners

Hi, nice to meet you, I'm a hobonichi starter, your sharing inspired me a lot, I think I'll watch your video clip couple times after, and find out how to go with it, thank you for sharing 🙂

If i need an entire page for a day ill use it but ill usually do the same as you, i use the weekly mainly for day to day stuff xx

Thank you so much for this! I moved away from the Hobo Cousin because I needed the extra space for sectioning which it did not offer however I was not consistently using the daily pages. I did buy a Hobo Cousin for 2022 in hopes of making it work and ended up in a Stalogy. I am extremely motivated now to make my Hobo work.

Loved seeing your in-depth planning in your Hobonichi.!! It was inspirational as I would also prefer to have most of everything in one place.! Thank you so much.!! And FYI: Your voice is so calming and peaceful. 💖💖💖💖. Blessings.

GREAT VIDEO! 😊😍

Love 💕

Lovely planner and lovely video! I'm new to your channel and I already love it so much, you seem an amazing person! ♥️ Thank you for making this video. 🙏🏻

My catchall planner is my Hobonichi Techo A6 - I use a Hobo Cousin A5 for my work planner. I enjoyed your video and have just subscribed to yur channel

I used to have a shop dedicated to tomoe river inserts, TRP is notoriously difficult to print on, you first of all need a printer that is capable of printing on paper that thin, which isn't as common as you'd think, and secondly, for many printers, you have to manually feed the paper to the printer. It's difficult good luck! I used a Pixma printer for my shop.

I am still new to using my Hobonichi, but I have found myself evolving into this too. I use pages I don't need and printed out templates for my cross stitching (inventory, patterns, kitted up patterns, etc) I'm still brainstorming what else I can use some pages for and this helped me get a few ideas I'm going to look into! Thank you for this thorough video, it helped me out a lot ♥

Wow, very smart way of using the Hobo planner. A single planer 4 everything U need 2 keep track/plan instead of multiple books. Thx 4 sharing on Utube.

I found your channel!! I am sooooo on the verge of getting a cousin I’ve had the a6 but I’m leaning towards getting this. I do love my weeks also

I absolutely love the Hobinichi Cousin but really struggle with having everything I want and need in it. So much so that I started 2022 in Hobonichi and have just moved back into rings. Your video has given me some great ideas on how I could make it work and I'm considering giving it another go ... thank you! 😊 xx

I LOVE your channel. I have been a rings gal for a long time but HATE writing in rings. I have been afraid of moving to book bound due to not being able to keep important things without having to rewrite them year over year. Your reference book idea is GENIUS! I can't wait to work on mine.

Wow! Like you, I much prefer having everything together. I feel that you recreated a Kokuyo Jibun Techo, where you could use the Idea book(s) for your various printouts. Have you looked into the Jibun Techo?

This is excellent! So many ideas and so well,organized! Your voice is delightful. I subscribed! What is the main cover you have both books in?

Love your videos! I love that cover also! Which cover is that?

Hmm.. interesting. I hadn't thought to cover the pages up... If you're going to customize the pages there's nothing to keep you from covering up and reusing a *used* Hobo...so you get two years instead of one out of it. I don't like to cover blank pages, it feels wasteful to me. But I would cover a used page. This would be a really interesting project. I have many Hobos that I used for part of the year and then discarded. But with this method, I can actually get my money's worth out of them. Thank you so much for the idea! It's like using it as a Stalogy, but better! Full disclosure, I found planner peace in a Hobo A6. I'm going on several years with it, but I still have to journal elsewhere, so I miss the space of the A5. This just may solve that problem! :)

To cut down on the bulk in my Stalogy, I print all of my printable insert onto Tomoe River Paper so when I paste them in, my book stays thin. I buy a big pack on Amazon and it doesn't cost much.

I just found your channel! Awesome info! I’m curious why you choose to use a hobonichi instead of a plain notebook?

I love your planner. The setup is totally different from what I have seen. I have two questions first where did you get your tabs for the back portion and also did you use glue or sticker paper for your inserts?

What kind of notebook do you use for your reference book and what clear covers do you use for your planners?

I noticed you also added page numbers at the bottom of your pages. Do you have an index in front of your Hobonichi?

Thanks!

Do you have the full Cousin flip through for 2021?

What kind of cover are you using?

Where did you find the inserts?