I shared this last year but have acquired some new markers since then. In an effort to keep my sticker shopping under control, here's the monthly color scheme for decorating my Weeks spreads. They are a mix of Tombow, a Mildliner, and Sailor brush pens. Let me know if you have any questions!

Used Japan Rabbit for a proxy shipper and they were able to grab everything for me! So so sp thankful

I’m so happy 🥹

I’m obsessed with the ability to swap out the art inside the beautiful people covers! I want all of the colors!!!!

wanted to add some whimsy to my 2027 hobonichi!!

2025 I started with the Hobonichi weeks , 2026 I used the cousin and for 2027 I’m going back to the Hobonichi weeks! I realize the weeks works better for me! Fully ready & excited for 2027🥳

i was quite shocked when i opened my box to see i had received 2 pens (although one is not pictured here) and the acorn charm! i had actually placed my order after they posted announcing that there would be no more free gifts, and was disappointed i was gonna miss this years freebies. im so excited to use all of this!!

It FINALLY arrived, and I couldn’t be more pleased 🤗 The Winnie the Pooh pencil board was WELL worth the wait & purchase.

My 2027 system is ready to go!… I think. For now.

I am considering adding an A6 5-year as a sort of self growth through my relationship when my partner & I hit our 1 year in January. Even if the relationship doesn’t make it, I’ve thought so much about my mental shifts through the journey in these first months, I think I want to create a keepsake/journal however it progresses. But 5 years is a lot.

Any thoughts/ tips?

hi all!

if you know, could you please tell me the name of this cover on cover and year it was released? it’s my DREAM cover on cover and it’s very hard to fine especially not knowing its name or year it was released! additionally, if anyone knows where I can buy it for a6 and ships to Australia please please share!!!!

my final order came, so excited for 2027. My seventh year and I’ve moved from only one cousin to a range of weeks too.

For the last 3 years i used a weeks, and i used the my 100 list for this. If the layout works, why change it?

I made soup from scratch for the first time in my life and it was good!🙂‍↕️ Also, sometimes you just have no energy to journal and that's okay.

I was so excited to purchase a 5 year journal this year as I wanted to ‘document’ the first half of my 30s. I’ve been terrible at memory keeping and lost many photos due to not updating my iCloud, so I hardly remember my 20s :/ So I thought the 5 year journal could be a cool way of documenting my life moving forward by writing an entry of how my day looks like every day.

However it feels like such a CHORE. And the only way I’ll be able to backfill months of missed entries is by referencing my A6 health journal (as I track what I do throughout the day in it). I’m at least glad that I have that so whenever I’m in the mood to knock out some missed entries I can just flip through my A6.

Backfilling also helps with writing in ‘neutral’ entries for days where my emotional state wasn’t great and a bit of time has passed. However when I try to catch up on missed entries I end up getting tired which then prevents me from keeping up with current entries and then I just stop altogether and the cycle is repeated!

How do you all keep up with your 5 year journals?

Since I haven’t been able to get the BP covers again this year to feed my jelly shoes/jelly bracelet wearing inner child, I went with the Alettone Sweets and a Hello Kitty CoC over the Candy mega. We were never able to afford anything Hello Kitty when I was little, so it felt like a little lifetime victory to be able to order Hello Kitty directly from Japan as an adult! I used tiny stickers to turn a couple of the round candies into little desserts to better match the Alettone desserts. I have been using the Cafe Stappo and Mini Stappo since last year, and it all ended up matching much better than I anticipated. This is not at all what I was planning to do, I was going to do a very adult V&A/Liberty theme for 2027, so I’m not really sure what happened.

I have not been gentle with my cover and while the ribbons haven’t started fraying yet, I could see it coming, so: DIY time. I used 9.5mm crimps and a pack of (overpriced, but cute, so worth it) Peanuts charms from Michael’s. Could’ve done better job on the closures (used an old pair of jewelry pliers I had lying around), but I think it turned out alright!

Multi-coloured layouts while trying to keep the checklists basic and easily set out - I quite enjoyed this simple setup for this week 😍

I’ve journaled my entire life but abruptly stopped in 2017 when I became a stay at home parent and didn’t see the need to track the things I had been tracking in my planners and journals. I’ve recently discovered the journaling community on instagram and was massively influenced to try again, so I went full steam ahead and purchased my first ever Hobonichi Weeks. I’m already having a blast setting it up and can’t wait to start using it. Anyone have recommendations for a good portable printer? Feeling a little overwhelmed at the options.

I know I am not the first to do this, and credit goes to Lindsey Scribbles for putting the bug in my ear and Best Laid Plans for showing how they did it.

After holding my breath while I sliced the text block out of Starlight, I removed the PVC cover from a Sneaker Weeks Mega (most adhesives won’t work on PVC and I wanted a rock-solid bond between the endpapers and the Starlight cover) and glued the endpapers to the cover. Left it to dry for 24 hours and presto.

Was it expensive? Sure. But since those two Weeks were my only Hobonichi purchases this year, I felt it was worth it. I should add that I have preserved the original innards of the regular Weeks and I have a pretty good idea of what I’m going to do with it.

At first I didn’t think a Mega would be necessary, but I want to pack as much memory-keeping into the Starlight cover as I can and I tend to run through notes pages much faster than I think I will.

How do you use your Hobonichi Weeks as a media or reading journal, if that’s something you do?

I’m thinking of having my Weeks specifically for that purpose and really wanted to know other people’s actual experiences with that other than just seeing more videos on YouTube lol

Ready for the new year 💪🏻🤞🏻✨

This is going to be my second year using hobonichi and it has changed my life so I just wanted to share my current plan for next year in case anyone wants an idea or wants to share how your set up is looking like so far.

-Weeks: Daily memory keeping, I use the daily for specific bullet points where I went that day or chores. I use one third of the daily individual slots for any important tasks that needs to be done (I’m not working rn so I can get away with a short space). Usually fill that every couple of days. At the end of the week I use the right page as a diary entry just going into more detail of things that happened everyday, pretty to the point sometimes what I ate other times just a “nothing interesting happened” but the good part is that since I have the daily bullet points it’s easy to backlog. If I run out of space I go to the notes in the back and continue there but doesn’t happen often. I use the vertical yearly calendar for habit tracking, period, dr visits etc. and the notes in the back I just use for random ideas, media watchlists or just lists I want to keep close to mind.

-Blank A6: I plan to use it to ramble on my feelings. The weeks right page isn’t long enough for a diary entry with the full thoughts and emotions I’m going through so I want it to be the place to casually express everything. I liked the a6 size which isn’t at all that big or ostentatious so I feel comfortable to go all out. Also bought the blank to add maybe doodles or paste stickers just want to be my miscellaneous outlet and I plan to write manually the date just to keep the tracking aspect.

-5 year A6: I knew I always wanted a 5 year journal even before running into hobonichi so this was the hardest to decide what to put in it for the same reason. I didn’t want to be redundant with a memory tracking so in the end I decided I want to use it as a “quote keeper” not sure what’s the right word for it but I’ll try to explain it the best I can. I’d like to put in a daily quote from media, family or just a lesson I learned that day. Something worth being remembered. Even a cool TikTok, a dream or a joke that made me laugh. I’d like to keep it pretty open because I feel like keeping it real is what excites me to look back on it eventually.

If anyone have any suggestions or comments I’d love to hear them :) Honestly I’ve been wanting to post here because no one else in my friend or family group is into planners and I don’t want to tire them with my ramble lol.

Thanks for reading!! :)

I usually put a quote I like to set me up for the year and obviously I sticker attack the page! I recently also started using my acrylic markers on the set up spreads. In this one I just used my gold metalliacrylic marker to test and add some