After each weekly spread is a page-a-day for each day plus an extra page following Sunday. Down the left hand side is the hourly markings from 06-24:00. I never thought to keep a tally of the days but if you’re working on a 365 project, having the day count at the top of your planner might come in handy. The notation next to the month number is the week number and the day count for each week. The first pages include year-at-a-glance for the current and coming year, then some open notes pages with 4mm dotted grid (its grid but with dotted lines, not solid). The website description of “Tomo eriba” makes me think I am correct in my assumption as well. The paper in this planner is most likely Tomoe River as it has the tissue-like feeling. The chipboard would look awesome with stickers and paint pen artwork. The simplicity makes it perfect for someone looking for minimalist design or someone who wants to personalize their planner with their own look. The cover is stiff chipboard with a wrapped sticker on the spine with the date. It breaks the year down into four, quarterly booklets. The JIYU-Style U-Line Four Seasons Planner is a thin booklet-style planner. If you find a vendor who is selling these planners to the US market, let me know! JIYU-Style U-Line Four Seasons (Naked) Planner At the moment, the only downside I see with this planner is figuring out how to get a hold of one. There are refill versions of this insert as well as beautiful cover options that rival Hobonichi. There was no feathering and very little show through. The paper stood up to a bevy of pen tests with no issues. Even at a half a page per day, that would be an ambitious goal and would be a year’s worth of journaling or personal record keeping. Writing a page-a-day, that’s almost six months of journaling. (This photo is a bit too yellow-y for some reason and starts the trend of slightly-too-yellow photos.) There are roughly 126 pages in the back for additional notes. The last half of the book is free space for additional notes. Then at the bottom is a horizontal timeline of the month indicating with a grey highlight where this week falls. I envision these to be a combination of meeting notes, to-do lists, groceries, project ideas, etc. The rest of the two pages is open for notes. I often just have things that have to be done around meetings that are scheduled for blocks of an hour at a time. If you are inclined to block plan your calendar, this format might be useful to you too. They can be divided however you see fit - morning, afternoon and evening work, family and personal etc. The week itself is set up vertically across two pages with space for three quadrants. Below the dates for the week is the week count. The weekly pages were my favorite part of this planner. There’s a large blank area on the left for “theme” and a checklist area for “to-dos”. I like having the option of splitting it up a bit. There is a dotted line between each day that can be used to separate personal from professional tasks or all-day activities from scheduled events. Next is a series of month-on-two-pages calendar pages. The photo above probably represents the paper color most accurately. Since I tend to stall out on a planner around March, I would really like to pick up the 2019 edition that starts in March of this particular planner as I will probably be stalling out on whatever planner or planners I have about that time. The Mark’s Edit planner spanned 2017-2018 from March 2017-April 2018 in the monthly calendars and March 2017 through the end of March 2018 in the weekly calendars. I appreciate this being a minor feature as I tend not to use this much in my planner. The paper is a warm white color (not bright white but not ivory) and the first few pages include year-at-a-glance calendars, project timelines, and a couple pages for yearly planning, topics and review. It has two ribbon bookmarks but the ends are not finished. The Mark’s Edit Planner – Weekly with Notes is slightly smaller than A5 (197x139mm) giving it a slightly more squarish overall proportion. From the outside, it is a simple PU pleather with gold foil stamped date (in a nice typeface). I decided to start with this planner because, of the lot, this one was my favorite. I’ll start with the planner that is unique in size. Through my research, I discovered that some of the companies sell their own covers for these planners but since most are standard A5 sizes, it would be easy to find a cover or use something you might already own. And only one of the planners was sent to me with an additional cover. All but one of them are standard A5 size. There are five different planners in this post. Over the last two weeks, I went through all of them to compare the layouts of each and did a series of pen tests to assess the paper. Thanks to a very kind reader, Elise, I found myself in possession of an assortment of very unusual Japanese planners.
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