My 2026 planner and journal line-up is locked in and (mostly) setup so it is time for a little look into my stack for the year! 👀 If you're reading this in the future and you'd like to check in on how things are going make sure to follow us on Instagram - I share my planners and journals there regularly!

1. Hobonichi Weeks

The Hobonichi Weeks is my fave planner for fitness and health, but I haven't always successfully used it (I've been very hit or miss with my fitness oops)! I fell off using my 2025 Weeks in June when I took a hiatus from pole dancing, but after getting back into strength training consistently at the end of 2025 I decided I would try again.

I've now been using my Tamagotchi Weeks since the start of December and I am SO glad I got it for 2026 because I am LOVING it!

Here's how I use it:

• Cover Pages: I used the cover pages this year to do a big sticker collage. I have always been so afraid of using my stickers because I don't want to "waste" them, but using them has been so fun and it actually makes me want to open my planner and use it!
• Yearly Calendar: I literally never use or look at the yearly calendar page so I decided to cover it this year and make it into a goals page! These goals are fitness and health specific and separate to my main goals in my A6.
• Yearly Index: Last year I used this for tracking my steps, but since I'm tracking them in my weekly pages this year I decided to go with a period tracker instead!

• Monthly Pages: Last year I used my monthly pages to track my period, injuries, etc. but I would always forget to use it. 😅 This year I wanted something fun that I would actually use, so I turned it into a workout reward chart and I give myself a little Well Done Squish Stamp for every workout I complete!

• Weekly Pages: I simplified the way I use my weekly pages a lot from last year, and it's been SO much better!
  • Left Page: I use the left page to record my workouts! I pop in a sticker that matches my workout in the first section, and then I write noteworthy exercises and personal bests from the session in the second section. I love using our Personal Best Trophies so I can easily see when I had a PB while flipping back through my year!
  • Right Page: Last year I tried tracking moods, habits, and writing about my week in my weekly spreads, but it ended up feeling redundant and I didn't want to do it. 🤷🏻♀️ This year I simplified it and went with tracking my steps, energy, and water for the day in the first section, and then the second section is for anything I want to make a note about! These things can include music I was loving during the workout, extra info about my workout/exercises, injuries/pain notes, notes about locations I went on a walk, and notes about food I ate that I really enjoyed.
  • Materials: My go to materials each week for my weekly pages:
    • Washi tape: 5-10mm for the top and 15mm for the bottom!
    • Pens: Pentel EnerGel Clena (0.4mm) for all my main writing and Uni-Ball One for coloured titles/personal bests (my faves are the Fika Colours and I match the ink colour to my washi).
    • Ruler and Pencil: I use a pencil to rule all my lines in this planner because I just couldn't find the perfect grey pen! I use a wooden Stationery Squish Ruler (the 15cm option is sized for the Weeks).
    • Pencil Board: These are designed to stop ink transfer but I personally use them because I like a hard surface to write on under my pages! This is especially useful when your planner starts to get a bit bumpy from sticker and washi use.
    • Stickers: Stickers help me stay motivated in this planner because it's like a little reward every time I finish a workout. 😌 I also like matching my Squish stickers to the workouts I have done so it's easier to reference when flipping back!
      
    • Tabs: I used our Matte Black Tiny Tabs to make flipping to each month easier.

2. Hobonichi Original (A6)

This is my first year using a Hobonichi Original and I am OBSESSED with it. I have tried so many different planner styles for my main planner over the years and never found one that really stuck or worked for me 100%, until now! 😈 This is my everything planner - I track both work and personal tasks in it so I don't have to switch between two planners.

Here's how I use it:

• Cover Pages: Just like my Weeks, I used the cover pages of this planner to do a big sticker collage! I covered the first two spreads entirely in stickers from our shop and other artists I love, as well as the front cover!
• Tabs: I used our Rainbow Shine Tiny Tabs to make flipping to each month easier. I also used a tab for the monthly and notes sections!
• Yearly Calendar: I never look at the yearly calendar in my main planner so I also covered it here and turned it into my goals page!
• Yearly Index: I never knew what to use these pages for when I was using a Cousin (a5) size, but decided this year it would be perfect to write down something that happened every day! By the end of the year it will become a little positive summary of my 2026, so cute. 🥰 

• Monthly Pages: I am not a monthly view person. I am just terrible at planning things in advance so I do not use the monthly pages functionally. Instead I decided this year I would decorate each month with the adorable Monthly Artwork stickers from TCMC and pair them with our Large Monthly Word stickers. When the month is over I pick a fountain pen ink and doodle things that happened that month as a fun art exercise for myself! Originally I planned to do a doodle a day, but I think it's more fun to doodle everything at the end of the month!
  
  Mid-January I also decided to write down all my friends and family's Birthdays in the monthly pages. Just a simple "This Person's Birthday" and a cute sticker. 🥰

• Daily Pages: This has been the biggest change to previous years for my weekly planner! I went from a Hobonichi Cousin in 2024 (only using the weekly pages), to my own layouts in an A5 Leuchtturm1917 in 2025, to this planner for 2026.
  
  At the end of 2025 I realised that a weekly view planner just wasn't working for me. My planner was looking super cute and was working for memory keeping purposes, but I was not staying on top of my tasks. I switched layouts to a simple daily to-do list in October 2025 and by December I knew the Hobonichi Original was going to be perfect for me!
  
  My layout for the daily page is the same every day and the consistency has been super helpful for me.
  
  • Top Date: I use one of our date cover stickers every day in this planner. I need my planner to be functional AND cute for me to want to look at it, and date cover stickers are an easy way to achieve that.
  • Top Checklists: The five checklists at the top of my page are my daily locked in tasks - taking my meds, workouts, and any cleaning tasks. I like keeping them separate from my other tasks so I don't forget them.
  • Main Area: The main area is my basic running to-do list. I will do a / line before each task, which later becomes an X when completed. If a task isn't completed I put a yellow star next to it and move it to the next day.
    
    I will also write a small paragraph on days that have anything noteworthy! But mostly this planner is just tasks and it has helped me stay on top of everything. Yay!
  • Stickers: I use stickers every day in this planner and I LOVE it! I will pick a random decorative sticker to match the theme of the day, but I will also use Squish stickers to make it easy to visually reference things I've done each day when flipping back through my planner. My most used include:
    
    • Laundry Squish on laundry days.
    • Laptop Squish on busy work days.
    • Currently Watching Squish when I watch a movie.
      
    • Shower Squish when I wash my hair.
    • Poop stickers when I am on dog poop pickup duty.
    • Mowing Squish when Tom mows the lawn.
  • Bottom Washi: Washi is another one of my fave ways to make a spread cute without much effort so I pick a washi tape each day to match my date cover!

3. Leuchtturm1917 120GSM (A5) Creative Journal

I'm now on year three of using a Leuchtturm A5 for my creative journal and I have no plans of ever stopping TBH. 💖 I absolutely love the quality of their dot grid journals and love the 120GSM paper edition because it doesn't ghost or bleed with any medium I use.

This journal is what I call my "Creative Journal" and it's a mix of a junk journal, daily journal, and art journal. I put everything in here.

Here's how I use it:

• Reviews: I love making entire spreads dedicated to movies, TV shows, and games I really enjoyed. I'll use a Five Star Rating sticker to rate what I finished, write my thoughts, and doodle my fave characters or scenes.
• Journal Entries: I will also write entries like you would in any daily journal. Fun events, trips with friends, a new cafe, or even just how I'm feeling over something, I can and will journal about what I want, when I want. 🥰 And unlike a dated journal or planner I am not left with blank pages if I haven't done anything interesting for a week!
• Junk Spreads: I hoard little scraps of junk from everywhere I go like a little rodent. 😌 Tried food at a new cafe? You better believe I'm taking a bit of the tissue paper and a logo sticker home with me so I can stick them right in my creative journal! The same goes for movie tickets, stamps off happy mail, brochures from zoos, and packaging from anything cute I buy!
• Drawings: I don't just doodle when I'm writing my movie reviews, I will also doodle food, my pets, and anything else I want when I'm in a drawing mood.
• Fun Spreads: I will also just include any fun trends I see online. 2026 Bingo, a Dopamine Menu, Fruit Sticker spreads, etc. You can find so much fun inspiration online!

And that is my stack for 2026! Hopefully you found this useful for your own planner/journal line-up.

P.S. I'd love to know what you're using this year in the comments! 👀