Editing The Pen Addict 278/transcript (section)

== Hobonichi Tech Show ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' I didn't last year. Okay. So I held off on the... Did I last year? I might have. I probably did last year.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I think you did. I'm the worst. We're talking about the Hobonichi Tech Show. Yeah. And Brad has gone ahead and got another one of these planners, these diary planners that he is going to pretend that he'll use for the year. That's exactly right. And then dump off for a week. But this year, Brad has upped it a notch and bought all three sizes because that will help. That's what will help. That's what you needed. You needed all the sizes. That was what was going wrong before, I think.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I mean, that's what you do, right? If your planner app is not going well, you go out and buy the new version of things.

'''Myke Hurley:''' If it doesn't work, try and try again and then spend more money and try again. That's how it goes.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So I'll have you know, I will not be using the Tech Show. Okay. Okay. But I'm using the giant size one cousin. So let's rewind this. Let's rewind this. I did buy three Hobonichis. I shouldn't say buy. I ordered them through my partnership with JetPen. So I didn't exactly pay for them. And people should know that. You know, full disclosure and all. So when I say buy, y'all should just assume I probably get most stuff for free, although I do buy plenty, which is what we're going to talk about later. I bought all this stuff. Anyway, the Hobonichis where I wanted the current models to take pictures with for the new NotCo stuff. So I needed the cousin for the A5 because that's what it's built around. Then I needed the Techo for the A6. So I wanted the current year planners to take pictures. And then I just threw in the weeks because I wanted to see what it was like. But then I got all these and I was like, well, it would be kind of sinful to not at least use one of them for me for, you know, go through the year and be able to have like current pictures with like current, you know, usage patterns. And seeing as I have failed two years with the Techo, I don't think I've made it past March. That may be an exaggeration even.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I've definitely made it into February. I'd have to go back and look and see how far, but yeah. So I want, I'm going to try and not use the Techo and not use the weeks and I'm going to go for the big boy, Myke. I'm going all in on the cousin and I just, I'm already overwhelmed. You haven't even got it yet. Have you? Oh, I've got it. Oh yeah. Oh, cause you've got the 2017s. No, no, no, no. These are all 2018 models. Just got them last week.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's weird that they ship them now. It's very early.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' They've always, September 1st has always been their launch date. I don't know why. They're just getting ready for the holidays. They start January, do they? Um, some of them have the not full page calendar that starts earlier. Okay. So, but usually the full page layout starts in late December or January, but then like some of this, the general planning calendars, like the month per two page kind of layout, you know, some of those might start early, but still, yeah, they're, they're out early. They always are. Um, you know, I'm already setting myself up for failure, which I shouldn't do, but it's, it's definitely a thing. This is the Hobonichi Techo. The one that I failed at twice. And the one I'm not going to use is the best planner on the market. I will tell you that right now. Um, and that's why I'm not using it because I've tried it and I failed at it. So I'm going to try this bigger one, see if I can do some other things with it, some different than normal things with it. Um, and see how it goes. It's a really impressive journal. When you get it in the hand, it's huge and it's really well made and the paper's awesome. So it's really cool. The weeks is a really neat layout, but it's full of what I think is, is wasted space. They have, it's supposed to be a thin weeks planner with your, if you're, your basic, um, fold open, you know, if you open up your notebook, you have seven slots for your seven weekdays on the left side of the page. And then like a blank, you know, gridded page on the right for notes. So your whole week is on that open, you know, two page layout. But what the weeks does is sticks another 68 pages of blank pages in the back. I was like, well, that's not really what it's for. I would think, but I mean, maybe people use those. I'm sure, I'm sure people use those notes, but it seems to be overkill for me. So that's actually my least favorite. The, you can get a Midori, um, weekly planner that's blank and you can fill out your own dates, which is one I actually use a lot, um, that I would prefer over the weeks. The Techo, I still think is kind of the best for everybody planner. And the cousin is just kind of a beast. It's the beast mode of all the, of all the planners. So of course, that's the one I'm going to attempt to use and we'll have to see how quickly I get flogged, but I'm going to go for it, Myke. I'm going to do, I'm going to make something out of it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I'm intrigued to see how it works for you. I mean, honestly, I don't know why you're continuing to try. Like it is, I know why you bought these for the photos.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Right. I wasn't planning on doing a planner at all this year. I was going to skip it. And I was like, well, you know, this is all of the justification stuff that we do as consumers, right? We're listening to a podcast about pens. This is the story of our life, right? All these justifications why I need these things and I don't need one of them. I need three, right? Need. So what do you need, Myke? Do you, you don't, you don't use a paper planner, do you?

'''Myke Hurley:''' No. You know what I, what I need or what I, what I want is a Hobonichi Techo Weeks without any of the diary stuff in it. That's what I want. Yeah. I want a traveler's notebook sized notebook that has Tomoe River paper in it. That's what I want. Well, yeah, you should, uh, you should try the weeks.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' But I don't want the diary stuff. I don't, I mean, it's not fixed. It's not fixed diary stuff. It's just blank. It's not, you don't have room for like a diary page. Oh. Like on the, on the scheduled date. Okay. I'll bring, I'll, I'll pack this to Chicago.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Bring it. I need to see this. I feel like I've never fully understood the Hobonichi Techo. Please bring them. I need to see them.