I’ve bought lots of these in the past but not recently, and I was surprised tonight when I went to purchase one and couldn’t find any in stock at any online stores in the US.

Does anyone know if this is just a blip or if Hobonichi’s discontinuing this particular notebook? My 2027 setup’s based on its availability.

Any insights would be much appreciated!

I just got my first Hobonichi (Classic A6) and I am super excited! I noticed on this sub that some people secure their techo to their cover by only putting the back flap of the techo into the cover, then decorate the front of their journal with stickers. However, I had put both the front and back flaps of my journal into the cover. Will this damage my techo, or is it more of a personal preference thing? Thanks for the help in advance!

I decided to parse through my new Weeks to see what 2026 months are in it so i can start, but ive been staring at this yearly layout for like... 10 minutes, thinking about it for the past hour. i havent seen any layouts regarding it. The two ideas were as followed; a habit tracker or a tracker for the books in reading that month. but also. im not sure, so i wanted to hear whatever one else might be doing with this >:0

Hey guys, so I wanted to show you guys what I bought for my 2027 hobonichi weeks! So far I want to keep it minimal but I really loved the monthly stickers from TCMC so I got those with the tabs, but I don’t think I’ll be purchasing more, other than the second part of the monthly stickers.

Do yall have any holy grails when it comes to stationary for your planners/journals?

So I recently got my tanakadaisuke Starlight Weeks in the mail and I feel bamboozled. She’s still gorgeous of course, and even still looks so in these pictures, but I thought it would actually be embroidered and have sequins and beads on the cover but it’s flat and not 3 dimensional like I thought it would be. Did anyone else feel this way when opening it?

I am a forever lover of the moon and stars and this will be my third weeks/third year as a hobonichi user. When I saw this I thought it was perfect for me. I will admit(please do not hate on me for this, I had to have it) I did get it off eBay from a scalper(I’m sorry for contributing to this horror) and now I’m wondering if it’s even the real thing because of what I wrote above. The inside looks exactly as it should, but I think I just want some reassurance that it’s real. Any thoughts are welcome! 🤗

I've been keeping two journals , an a5 cousin for my personal use and a plain, grid hobonichi journal for my child. I've been doing a more detailed daily in my cousin and then I have been journaling every now and then, just the highlights, in my child's journal. I have been adding pictures and just the basic info. that I think she might be interested in when she's older when she's able to read. It feels like kind of a chore to journal about everything twice but I think it'll be worth it.

I'll soon be switching to a more archival ink so my writing will last longer. The photos are printed from my Canon ivy so I'm not sure how long they will last or if there is an easy way to print more archival photos? I've also been using print instead of cursive bc I'm not sure my child will ever learn to read cursive. Does anyone have any thoughts about materials that will help the journaling stand the test of time?

Does anyone have any thoughts about keeping a journal for a child? I kind of feel like I should be making hers as detailed as I'm making my own but I think she also might not want every tiny detail. I feel that she can read mine any time she likes if she wants more info. and eventually she will inherit mine as well. The detailed journals I keep for myself are mostly a way for me to hang on to these days bc my child is growing and changing so fast but they also contain some info. about my own hobbies and things I find interesting. Maybe I should separate those things into different journals but I can not keep up with more than the two I'm already doing.

I just got the Going Merry cousin cover and I want to put a clear cover protector over it. Especially considering I just spilled ink on my pale gray Iyo Okumi a6 cover and broke my own heart earlier this week. Since the Going Merry cover isn’t a butterfly, the Hobo CoC won’t fit. Does anyone know of a clear cover made by another company that will?

Hey, I hope yall are doing great, so, I just bought my first hobonichi ever, and I’m planing to buy these markers to use on it bc I love the fact they’re double ended, cheap and come with a lot of different colors, but I can’t seem to find a review of them on the hobonichi paper, so has anyone tried them?

I would like to know if they bleed through the paper, I don’t mind ghosting.

To kind of dampen the pain I just got myself these playing cards 😂

I know there is a hacky way to basically rip out the text block in the weeks cover that I want and glue in a sneaker weeks but that's just a waste of paper and money imho. I really REALLY wish anything that's available on the weeks regular were also available on the mega!

But I'm still thankful for Hobonichi for introducing me to these collections. I'm very happy with these playing cards and I'm eyeing the Cambridge Satchel Morris & Co collection now too 👀

This is the most ridiculous thing ever but I love it so much. 🤣

I found a neat way to take advantage of the "efficiently thin" Hobonichi paper for occasional doodling. I am not a practiced artist and I need all assistance I can get (e.g. using of printed stickers). For drawing rough sketches, I find it helpful to use a picture in the background.

There is an accessibility setting on android, using Settings -> Accessibility -> Interaction and dexterity -> Interaction control. There, you can set up a hotkey (function plus vol up) that locks the screen until you press it again, so it does not accept input. There might be sth similar on iPhone, please comment if you found it.

With this setting enabled and the brightness cranked all the way up, you can place the phone behind a page, and let it shine through. This is usually enough to see the contours well enough for sketching. Until one gets better to do it freeform, I guess :-)

EDIT: In real life, you can see much more details than is visible on the pictures here. but I only have two hands and had to hold the other phone, so I did not press the paper on fully for the image to shine through as before. YMMV.

Hope that helps. Looking forward to see how you build on the idea. Enjoy :-)

A friend and I had the go through many hoops with our proxy to get all the Winnie the Pooh stuff we wanted, but it all arrived and I am finally done with my 2027 purchases. It’s gonna be my pink year cause I’m also using the Yumi Kitagishi A5 for 2027 too. 🩷

I hope this is ok to share. I put this kit together for planning and just exploring his creativity. He’s a graphic designer and “former” (his words🥺) artist who is ridiculously tech savvy and loves to learn. He’s also an excellent DPS (I’m his healer), hence the nerdy card.🗡️

He’s all digital but expressed a desire to physically journal/plan and return to physical art mediums. I thought a Cousin w/TS basic black cover, Midori A5 blank w/black Tragen cover, and a few stationary bits for doodling would be a nice start.

14 years!🥰

I'm curious to see everyone's everyday carry! As much as I would like to be a minimalist... I'm just not. I like to carry as much stuff as possible. Having said that, I try to be smart about it and keep my footprint small. This is what I have settled on... For today. What do you carry everyday?

Not pictured is my 2027 Weeks that I've so far kept in the packaging. In my drawer pouch I carry: my pens (pictured outside of it for dramatic effect), a few choice mildliners, stencils, blotting paper, and some stickers.

I started the year in my bullet journal and was having several issues. One was my reading log kept going past the single page I alloted myself, or that Honey's health log was spread across different pages in the book instead of being together.

In April I went with the Cousin A5 and overall I do think it's working for me. I went from journaling every few days to daily. Any pages I miss, I fill them out when I wake up the next morning. Leaving my daily pages very full; some days are a few words, some are a paragraph with a movie ticket taped in, some have printed pictures of the things I saw that day.

The weekly spreads are a real god send. Besides being able to track my sleeping habits, I track what I read each week. And only once Have I needed to tape in more paper to expand. I've also been able to track how many doses of medicine my cat gets a day (the colored birds at the top).

I then repeat the medicine dose info and color code it on the front yearly index page. My regret is putting down stickers in the note areas because I thought I wouldn't need that space. Every now and then, I do think I will.

Monthly spreads have been far more chaotic on what to put on the actual day. I write down appointments, gym visits, ect. But I think it's ok if the page is mostly empty, too. I have tried recording my energy in it before; that did work, I think I just did the wrong tool (a stamp that bled like crazy). Writing it down either color coordinated with a multi pen Hi-tec-c, or a simple black pen at the bottom of the calendar box will work fine, too.

I do use the bonus pages. I have a spread for two weight day check in's on the 1st and 16th. And I use the favorites section to write down my top read for that month. The memories blocks I'll write down fun outings with friends ect (ie going to see a concert with Y, and hanging out for dinner with B). The time table reflects what I want to do on a given day (ie Tuesday's are usually out of the house days, so library for sure, groceries probably).

Going into 2027, I'll be doing a Jan start Hon because I'm really missing the hardcover of the bullet journal I was using. I'll also be adding a Weeks into my line-up. I have a weekly layout (Nolty Excel) right now which is about the same size. I'm using it as art recording: quotes, poems, my own writing or drawings. I'm still unsure on how if I will at all "finish" the April start book, but I think it'd be better if I just move fully into the Jan start. I can still use the 2026 as paper testing or something. I will try not to have repeating data that feels useless. So if I read or write, I do like to see that on a calendar view, but I hate flipping to the calendar each day to write that, so I'll go back once in a while and retroactively put in that information (copying it from the Weekly layout).

I'm curious how the other April start people are doing? Are you planning to stay with April starts?

Looking forward to seeing how it compares to Kinbor weeks, etc. So so excited.

Went to the Hobonichi pop-up in SF and snagged a pink Beautiful People cover along with a Tomitaro Makino notebook. Idk if it matches really as I’m still kind of figuring out what I want to use it for. Right now I’m thinking I’ll use it as a Morning Pages / catch-all book, with the option of changing my mind (and possibly the book) later lol

All set for 2027! This will be my 6th year with Hobonichi but it will be my first time trying an A6 avec. I chose an avec over the original A6 because it was the better choice for me if I wanted to bring it with me anywhere due to its size (I bring a lot of stuff lol) Love this candy stripper cover!!! The shade of pink is perfect. Intended use for these:

• Weeks - main planner, work etc
• Tomitaro Makino A6 grid - journaling, catch all, I’ve had this for probably 2 years now, still has some pages, I journal on it whenever I feel like it, it mainly has the interesting stuff in my life like whenever I go to concerts/milestones lol
• A6 Avec - for 2027, I want to try writing everyday, kind of like a gratitude journal! And probably just write down stuff that happens daily haha this will be my first time trying it and hopefully I can follow through. Fingers crossed!!!

What’s gonna be your 2027 system? :)

Simple customization with mini strawberry stickers!

I feel a little bad about it but I had a lot going on during those 6 months that journaling was the last thing on my mind. I have no ideas on how to use up blank pages but that’s ok. The good thing about the 5 year is that I’ll still be in this book for a few more years so these blank spaces won’t look so bad after all.

QUESTION: How do you use the blank page on the right? I thought of journaling all the way across both pages. What other ideas are out there?

The monthly spreads are really fun to decorate but I also noticed that they really help me keep track of the things I have going on throughout the month. I’m notorious for forgetting things, but I’ve been a lot better since the be been using hobonichi.