Plannerd Features: Hobonichi Cousin January & February

It has only been a couple of months and I feel like I’ve been using this planner for way longer. Thanks to sites like iheartorganizing, the Hobonichi Users Group (on Facebook), and various users on Instagram and Pinterest, my Cousin is shaping up to something I’m glad to have in my life day after day. ​

(Left): January Layout. (Right): February Layout.

The yearly and monthly pages remain the same as they did when I wrote about it in my previous #Hobonichi365 post. Most of my changes, however, were made after compiling a list of post-mortem pointers after using the planner in January.
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What really helped was removing financial information and moving my focus of the day to purely the upper right corner, where the To-Do squares are. Fewer things to worry about, greater focus. ​

Speaking in terms of a greater focus, the Tiger introduced this method to me while I was having a huge guilt trip about doing so much but still not moving. What I used to do was to assign different personal projects to different days – with the intent of focussing on just one thing as much as possible a day.

However, that induced a lot of guilt if I felt tired or sick on that day.

So having a few major points like these help with goal and process-tracking – and that, in turn, helps with personal To-Dos for each week and each day.
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Bonus Pages: Collections – Projects

Another great incident which happened within these couple of months was how my good friend, Mintea, got a Hobonichi Cousin as well. Inspired by her talking about trying to fit a Collections page into her own planner, I decided to give it a try as well.

And I think I’ve found a new way to track and limit the amount of creative projects I can take in a year.

So that’s 54 days into #hobonichi365. I’m excited to see how the rest of the year will be like =)