Hobonichi Cousin Planner Blueprint

I instantly fell in love with the Hobonichi Cousin after snagging the planner with some left over Amazon credit back in 2024. It has become my go to tool for memory keeping, logging, tracking, creative writing, and brain dumping. Here is a detailed outline of how I'm using it this year. 

This Year Calendar

I will highlight all my days off work (holidays, vacation days, and flex days), so they're easy to spot at glance.

Year at a Glance

• Top Section: Listing birthdays and holidays. 

• Middle Dated Section: An index for my daily pages.

• Bottom Section: Tracking social media stats on the first of each month.

Monthly Layouts

• Perfect for tracking my scent of the day, weight, non-essential spending, self care, reading, and creative writing. 

Weekly Layouts

• These will serve as a space for memory keeping and logging my meals.

Daily Layouts

• The ideas are endless for this section.

• I'm mainly reserving this for commonplacing, daily news highlights, creative writing, journal freewriting, and incorporating a rotating theme.

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Extra Pages and Sections

• Blank Pages: Using for an "adulting" and/or other fun logs.

• Time Table: Testing ink, highlighter, and marker swatches.

• Graph Paper: Creating a credit card debt payoff tracker.

• Favorites Section: Writing down one favorite thing each month.

• My 100: I'm turning this into a seasonal bucket list.

• Words to Remember: Recording my favorite quotes from the year.

I'm always on the hunt for new ideas to make the most out of my planners.