One of the planners I'm considering for the official desktop planner is a Hobonichi Cousin. I have it already and it's sitting in its cover directly to my right.
I want to use it now.
Every day, I hate my usual planner more and more. There simply isn't enough space on any day of the week without writing two items on one line, and the weekends are worse because they share a page. I'm chafing against the restriction.
The Cousin isn't even my first choice for my new official planner. That hasn't arrived yet, although it should be coming soon.
I keep telling myself that I'd have to duplicate information anyway because the official desktop planner gets archived. It's my record of my year, the mundane and the exciting. I'm not going to rewrite 11 months of information from my current daily planner into a new one, so even if I could pick up a 2024 Cousin for a few bucks, I'm not doing it.
My first choice for new official planner: Not here yet. My second choice is here, but it's not as if I'm going to set it up until I know whether or not option one will work. Third choice is the Cousin. There would be a lot of set up for it, too, that's why I'm hoping option one works out. It will require a lot less work.
My Cousin in its cover, ready to go should the first two options fail me.
There would have been a fourth option, one that would have probably been at the top of the list, but it got disqualified because it's two volumes. I want everything in one book. This isn't a planner I carry with me. It stays at home on my desk.
My 2025 Everyday Carry is a Sterling Ink Weeks Size Compact. The compact means there's only 119 blank pages at the back of it instead of 367. This planner is light and easy to tote around, but it's not the official planner. Not the one that gets archived for memory keeping.
I'm really, truly trying to stop talking about planners, but it's hard when I hate my current planner so, so much and have been dying to jettison it since September. I'll try to do better.
