Hello and welcome to best laid plans.

This is Sarah Hardanger, and this is the podcast where we talk all things planning and planning adjacent.

Today's episode is no exception, although I think I'm going to get a little bit more into

the planning adjacent as I usually do, but we will open up with a couple of bits of, I don't know,

plan or news to things I wanted to share with you guys. So the first one is, I know a lot of people

love the Hobonichi weekly layout and that it only comes in the cousin, which is A5, and I know it's very functional to me as well.

However, not everybody loves the Hobonichi Tomo River paper. I've talked about it a lot. It's very thin.

There is some show-through,

although not typically bleed-through, more just some show-through. And it plays really well with

certain fountain pens, but if you're a gel pen user or you're a lefty, it might pose some issues.

So I was really excited to see that there is an option called Hemlock and Oak.

The other complaint that some people make about the Hobanichi Cousin Weekly Layout is that it only comes in the A5 Cousin book, which also contains a daily page for every day of the year.

And I think that's a feature.

I absolutely love that.

But some people really don't like to plan daily, or they'd prefer just a blank book so that they're not, you know, specifically

having a dated page for each day. So when I saw the video of Hemlock and Oak, I think I believe

I saw it featured on Amanda's favorites. I was like, wow, this planner's weekly

layout looks so much like the Hobonichi Techo Cousin A5 weekly layout. So I highly recommend

checking that out if you've been looking for a vertical weekly layout with different paper

than Hobonichi, Toma River paper, and without the daily pages.

Because that planner has a little bit of goal setting, but it is a weekly, not a daily planner.

And it does look like the paper is significantly thicker than that used in the Hobonichi products.

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