I was thinking whether there was place in my life for Hobonichi. So, when August came around this year, I started to give some thought to my analogue systems for 2017 especially since Hobonichi 2017 were soon to be released. I’ve come to conclude that I’m not a page-a-day person. Ironically, there were other days when I wanted to write more but I was still limited to one page. I used them afterwards to write quotes but it always felt like cheating. Still, there were some days when I was not able to do anything and the outdated empty pages mocked me. Some days I just wrote the quotes, some days just the gratitudes and yet others, I did both. I found this combination easiest for me to maintain. At some point I started writing a motivational quote on each page interspersed with a few things I was grateful for each day. Very quickly I changed course and started using the Hobonichi as a gratitude journal. Plus, what I was writing in the Hobo was basically a shorter form of what I was writing in my Traveler’s Notebook in my daily summaries. This was easy enough while I was vacationing on a Caribbean Island but my day-to-day life is often not so exciting. I initially used it to document highlights of my day. While there’s a lot I love about the Hobo apart from the paper (small form factor, dotted grid lines, quirky quotes and at least one recipe), I found the dated planner a challenge to use consistently. I love seeing the creativity that some people put into their Hobo’s. Hobonichi Techo has a great fan and user base. I learned of Hobonichi Techo last year and was compelled to get it for the fabulous Tomoe River paper.
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