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like so many creative people who desperately grasp at organization and pen enthusiasts, I love the Hobonichi Techo planners. But this year I decided to buy one of the Shin-Bijutsukai covers. I put it on the A5 notebook I use as a journal and scrapbook and has totally transformed the way it feels. It has space for four pens, and the cutest little bookmarks. The cover is actually from a 122 year old design magazine but it feels so 1970s. I’m in love.
Sep 17, 2024
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The only planner, imo. It’s small enough to take everywhere, soft bound cover (feels nice) and lays flat when open. Each day has it’s own page so you can treat it like an agenda, bullet journal and sketchbook all in one. There are cute cases you can buy that have pockets for stickers and washi tape if you really want to go for it and why wouldn’t you? The year is simple and on the bind so you could have all your years lined up when you’re 90 and see what you were into on a specific day — into it.
Jan 24, 2024
Guys I frickin love this thing the pages are thin but super durable :) I‘m using it like a scrapbook/sketchbook instead of a planner and the size is so perfect
Mar 16, 2025
This has been my default notebook for years. Despite trying other prettier or more interesting notebooks, I always return to the midori within a few weeks. The paper is soft and rarely smudges. The grids are not too big and not too small. You can buy separate covers (leather or vegan) that protect the pages from bending or wetting.
Aug 26, 2024
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No screen Sundays. If I want to listen to music its CDs or radio. If I want to watch a movie, no I don’t. If I want to see a friend, I will make plans with them on Friday or Saturday to meet up. As a result, I read more, write more, and sit with questions like “did Citizen Kane‘s 50 year winning streak in the Sight and Sound critics choice survey end in 2012 or 2022? When did Stephen Merritt come out? Whats the etymology of Whitsun?“
This is something that I have practiced off and on for many years but I’ve been doing it every week since December and I love the way that it just allows me one day of true freedom and rest.
Jan 22, 2025
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My calendar this year has 52 of these week at a glance pages but I don’t think that way. So, I've been inspired by Ross Gay’s Book of Delighs to start recording the little moments and sensations that bring me joy throughout the day. An analog pi.fyi, if you will.
heres some of what I have so far:
- Waking up to the sound of my upstairs neighbor‘s footstep. It sounded nostalgic. Felt like company.
- Strawberry jam
- feeling tender for strangers: their lips, nail colors, their small wrists. Thinking of all the lives we hold gently.
- A young girl bought an LP at the bookstore just before I left. She stroked its cover with love
- Green tiles —the mint shade always makes me think of Jancie
- Charlie’s little bop and punch dancing to some German language punk
- lunch with Katherine, curry Brussels sprouts
- small talk at the photo studio. The photographer's brother was named after their dad, stole his identity, bought jet skis.
Jan 13, 2025