[Planner Inventory] study+diary

Good work today!

Hello, this is Sogen.
Well then, I'm going to do an inventory of my planners.
I'm curious about new planners too, but I'm going to do an inventory.
Today, it's this one.

■study+diary

This is a study planner for adults published by Impress.
Since you can buy it at bookstores, the barrier to seeing the actual product is low.
I also bought it at a bookstore at first (from the second year onwards, I bought it on Amazon, for reasons I'll mention later).
First, let's start with the simple specs.

• Modified A5 size (a little bigger than B6, a little smaller than A5)

• About 200 pages

• The cover color is Salt Blue... I think, blue (Amazon exclusive)

• The paper is OK Prince High Quality, a white and durable paper

• Monthly with habit tracker

• Weekly vertical

• Future map (What do you want to be in 3 years?)

• Study plan

• Wish list

• Habit tracker

• Monthly 3 good things

• 2 types of worksheets

I mentioned it briefly, but there are exclusive colors on Amazon and Rakuten.
I often prefer the Amazon exclusive color, so I've been buying it on Amazon for the past few years.
Since last year, the limited edition comes with a desk mat, so the price is over 2000 yen.
Even including that, I think it's a planner that's easy to get and affordable.

■Usage: Roughly tracking free time

Seeing is believing, it looks like this.

The blue lines at the top and bottom represent my target wake-up and bedtime, respectively.
It's a bit faint, but the pink line is the time I dedicate to work.
Yellow is marked as dinner, but I also group bathing and housework into that time.
Orange is for outings and fixed appointments.
The space between those is my available time. Sometimes I draw a vertical green line to make it easier to see.
I either forgot to do that in the sample, or I ran out of green marker...

The sample is rough, but I actually write things in a bit more detail.
Then, I fill in the empty spaces with hobby plans or things I want to get done soon.
In the sample, it looks like I want to update my website, so maybe I'll copy the necessary images and pages on a weekday night, and then tweak the HTML and upload it on one of the weekend days.

The icons at the bottom are a simple mood tracker, and next to that, by the thermometer mark, is my morning body temperature.
I've also used the space originally meant for recording study time to write down my sleep hours.
I've been using FocusEito for that this year, so I haven't been using this for that purpose much.

■ What I like: Design, quality, and accessibility

Well, first of all, the simple design.
There are some exercises, but the volume is small. Once you decide on a direction at the beginning, you just focus on acting and recording... well, I guess that's how a study planner should be.
The page layout also feels like it has all the essentials.

And then the quality.
I open and close it almost every day, and I'm genuinely impressed by the binding, which hasn't given up at all.
Also, the OK Prince high-quality paper. I love this paper.
It has a nice thickness, is easy to flip through, and doesn't bleed through easily. It's white, so markers look great on it too.
I mainly use a Uni-ball One, and it's a perfect match with a very smooth writing feel. It's a pleasure to write with.

And the accessibility.
I sometimes see them in bookstores that carry planners, so it's good that there are many opportunities to see the actual product before deciding.
The price is around 2,000 yen, which is a more accessible price range compared to other planners I use in parallel.

It's marketed as a study planner, but I use it to set goals for my creative work.
I think it's a versatile planner that can be adapted for things other than just studying.

■ What about next year?

Well, I'm full of praise for it again, haha.
If I think it's such a great planner, will I use it next year? No, I won't!
Hmm, well, I feel like I'm using it a bit wastefully right now...
Just to keep track of my free time? Using a whole book just for that? Is that why I have so many planners?
If I could integrate it into the planner where I write my action logs, I could compare the planned vs. actual, and maybe I could use the planner to improve my actions a little bit, right?

I intend to take over the action logs I've been doing in FocusEito this year into the Time Coordinate Planner starting in October.
Since I want to track my schedule and free time there as well, I think I'll take a break from study+diary for a while.
After all, I want to write on OK Prince paper! I can't forget that writing feel!
Once I've tried various things and figured out what exercises I need, and the time comes when I just want the bare minimum format, I'd like to use it again.
The Amazon-exclusive blue this year is also such a nice color... haha.

■ Well, that's all for now.

Now, I'd like to talk about the Time Coordinate Planner, which is the successor to the two planners I've inventoried.
I bought it this year too. And it's also a planner I gave up on.
Why did I give up on it? There's no need to even think about it—there were too many vertical columns.
What kind of planner is it, and how did I want to use it?
It would be nice to talk about why this one remained, and so on.

Thank you for sticking with me this far.
I hope to see you again.