Hi everyone! The Hobonichi Techo Official Site is currently holding the Discover! Sale. We hope you take this opportunity to discover your favorite cover!

Starting today, I’ll be introducing you to Hobonichi Techo team members and their stories related to techo covers, such as their memorable covers, or their most favorite cover.

For today, let me introduce you to how Shimada utilizes her techo cover that she isn’t using for her techo.

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Shimada

Today I’d like to share how I use my Hobonichi Techo cover.

The cover I used in 2020 was Taut, a leather cover that fits snugly around the Hobonichi Techo (pictured on the left). For this year, I chose Dark Cherry, which is a leather cover that has a deep color reminiscent of real dark cherries (pictured on the right).



Although I did switch up covers, I was quite fond of the Taut cover and kept it by my side.



It was perfect for stationery that doesn’t have much thickness, so before I knew it, my Taut cover turned into a case to store sticky notes and stickers.



I laid out everything I keep inside, but as you can see, it fits quite a lot.



I can easily open and close it and pull out items I need on the spot. Although it’s slightly different to how it’s supposed to be used, I found it comes in handy.



This was my small introduction on how I use covers I don’t use for my techo any more!

Hobonichi Techo Discover! Sale

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Period: Tuesday, April 27 11:00 AM Japan time to Wednesday, May 12 at 11:00 AM Japan time

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Hi everyone. Today's Techo News is a small technique by Techo team member Marutani on how to paste packages that have thickness in your techo. Below are her comments.

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Marutani

Recently, I've been into wind-up toys. My most recent purchase moves in such a cute way, so I decided to keep a record of that in my techo.

Firstly, I peeled the tag that was on the toy. This peeling technique is useful when you want to paste something that is thick, such as tickets and cards, but you don't really want to make your techo bulky.


▲I peel is off carefully like this


▲The tag split into two neatly. This time, I'll be pasting in the back of the tag as well.

By peeling it like this, I can paste it in my techo neatly without making my techo bulky. The pages won't get bumpy either, so it doesn't interfere with the rest of the pages.

After pasting in the tag, I wrote a lot with a ballpoint pen, but it seems quite sad when I use only a black pen . . .



In order to make the page a bit more fun,



I decided to line it using the Zebra Mildliner.

This was my first time using it, but the ink doesn't bleed so I really recommend it! Using a marker makes it easy to add some color to your spread.

The ballpoint pen I used is Zebra's "bLen'' ballpoint pen in 0.5mm; another item I hadn't used before despite purchasing it a while back. The "stress-free writing experience" makes it really easy to write, so I recommend this too.

What I actually want to do is to draw illustrations of the toys I bought! I'm sure I won't be good at it though . . .


▲Bonus. The wind-up toys I bought. I will try drawing this . . . It might be a bit hard for me . . .

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How did you find it? I also have a lot of tags that came with the items I bought that are too cute to throw away but am not sure where to keep it. Pasting it in the techo after thinning it out seems like such a great idea! I'll be sure to try it out.

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Hi everyone! This is Ono, and I'm back again to share with you another shop that carries the Hobonichi Techo. Last time, I talked about a store in Texas, but this time, let me introduce you to a store all the way from Italy!

*Please note that the photos do not reflect the latest shop status, so the items shown may not be in stock.


The entrance is already nice

Stilo&Stile is located in Rome, Italy. They started off as a fountain pen store, and so they are continuously searching for products that pair well with those kinds of writing utensils.

Their search for products also included looking into special diaries that they can place in their store, so they started to look into Japanese products too. That's when they found out about us, Hobonichi. They also actually visited us in Tokyo in 2018!



They decided to carry the Hobonichi Techo because of the paper quality and the variety in sizes such as the A6 size, A5 size and the wallet-sized Weeks.





They told us how their customers are often women, and their interest lies in bullet journaling, writing utensils and products with good designs. They also found that their customers who are interested in the Hobonichi Techo are those who love fountain pens and have a desire to write on good paper.

If you're a lover of fountain pens and live close by, I hope you stop by to see their beautiful lineup!

There are other shops around the world that carry the Hobonichi Techo. You can check them from the link below.

>Where to Buy


About Stilo&Stile

Address: Via Gallia, 101/a, 00183 Rome, Italy

Website: http://www.stiloestile.it

*Please contact them directly for their shop opening hours and current stock status.

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Hi everyone! Today, I wanted to share how Techo team member Komata uses her Weeks book as her work techo. This Techo News is a re-edit of Komata's Techo News she wrote in Japanese this time last year.

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Hello! I often get asked how to use a Hobonichi Techo for work. I'm sure there are lots of you who use your Hobonichi Techo for work, but it's actually quite hard to share its content on the Internet.

So today, I want to share with you how I use my Weeks book. There are only 4 rules I've set myself upon using it. As for everything else, I use it as freely as I like.


▲I rewrote the contents of my techo from last year into this year's techo for this photo.

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Rule No. 1
Write my work schedule in blue, private schedule in black, and use red for super important factors.

Rule No. 2
Write down my to-dos for work on that day's entry after the □ mark. (If it doesn't fit, I write on the right page)

Rule No.3
Open my techo and check my to-dos in the morning, after I arrive at the office. Start working from tasks that are important. Once I'm done with the task, color in the square from □ to ■.

Rule No. 4
If I have □'s that I haven't managed to color in at the end of the day, I either work hard to finish it within that day, or slide it to the next day (consulting with my deadline that is . . . )
If I want to move it to the next day, I write a ↓ mark, and if I want to move it to the following week, I write the → mark.

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That's it! I simply write down my to-dos and tick them off, so it might be quite a simple usage example. But by organizing everything on the Weeks that I can use everyday and look at the whole week at a glance, I've been experiencing the positive aspects of it:

- I can see how much work I have that week, so I can plan out my future schedules and how to work that day.

- I won't lose my to-do list and work memos because it's all in a single book.

- I can minimize the number of times I forget to do small tasks and not meet deadlines.

I also love how the Daily Quotes give me inspiration for work.

I use the right page to write down memos and ideas for work.

On another note, I tend to take a lot of notes, so the Weeks Mega is perfect. I mainly use the 3-color ballpoint pen that comes as the Hobonichi Store exclusives and Frixion stamps as stationery to accompany my techo.



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How did you find Komata's tips? I always have the image that Komata is super efficient and always works ahead of schedule, and her Weeks book might be her secret! If you're looking to find a way to utilize your techo for work, why not try out Komata's tips?

Thanks for reading this week too, and I hope you look forward to next weeks' Techo News too!

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Hello everyone! I'm Tang from Hobonichi Techo Team.
The flowers were blooming everywhere as it got warmer in Tokyo these days.
I've been eating a few delicious snacks lately during these spring days, and it's a pity that I couldn't leave the wrapping paper in my Techo for several reasons, so I drew a little bit. Please let me share them with you!



First of all, it's the cherry blossom dessert I got in Hobonichi office. The wrapping paper was a gradual sweet cherry color, but the wrapping paper was sticky because there was a cute honey-stained cherry wrapped in jelly when I opened it, so I couldn't paste it in my Techo.

And then I encounter my long lost friend when I went shopping for the weekend, so we went to the park nearby where we encountered a “Spring Matsuri” maybe? (Matsuri means "festival" in Japanese) And then we bought potatoes with butter from at a roadside stand near a really beautiful cherry blossoms tree. The owner took it out of the steamer and we just scooped up a big scoop of salty butter and pickled fish roe sauce and put it on the potato. Both the potato and the butter comes from Hokkaido. The melted butter soaked into glutinous potatoes, and the unmelted butter tasted just like ice cream, and it was so delicious to impress us more than the cherry blossoms around that day.

Finally, there were strawberry cheese mousse cakes at dessert shop at the station near my home recently. The shop opens limited time recently so there were long lines every day when I walked by. Finally I bought myself a reward after one weeks’ work. There were slightly bitter caramel on the surface of cheese, and big strawberries in the middle layer of cream, which looked very pretty. It was very delicious with a mixture of taste.

Have you had any delicious desserts lately?

Remember to leave it in your Hobonichi Techo whether it's wrapping paper or hand-painted pictures!

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Hi everyone! Thanks for coming back this week too.



Have you seen the new Stationery Club article that went up yesterday? This week, we tried out the Hexagon Glass Pen that’s available from the Hobonichi Store. Unfortunately, this item is not available for international shipping, but if you were wondering what glass pens in general are like, we hope you take a look!



We tried out how the ink pairs with the techo’s paper, how much you can write by dipping the pen in the ink just one time (turns out, a lot), and other fun ways to use the glass pen.



There are short clips too, which might make it easier to know what it’s actually like.


^This clip is where Hoshino draws using Herbin's Fountain Pen Ink


Crew member Annen (a member of the Stationery Club) uses the glass pen for her 5-Year Techo.


An example of Annen's spread

She writes her day's events on the left page, and draws a quick illustration on the right. She used to only write on the left page, but ever since switching to using a glass pen, she felt the urge to write more and decided to draw on the right page! She occasionally uses a brush to color in her drawings too. Annen says that the time spent in choosing an ink color of her choice is a fun one.




She used a sparkly ink here and colored in the bowl with a brush!

Yes, that’s the other thing about the glass pen ? it’s so fun to switch between the different inks! You simply have to rinse the pen tip with water anytime you want to switch ink colors, so as long as you have a small cup (I personally use a paper cup) by your side, you’re good to go.



Annen fills an empty jam jar with water and changes the water once a week. She says that keeping things low key motivates her to write every day which is an important factor when it comes to writing in a 5-Year Techo.


This is what Annen’s desk looks like

That’s all I’ve got for this week. For anyone who was interested in how much you can exactly write with a glass pen, I hope it came in handy. Stay tuned for next week’s Techo News too! (Can you believe it’ll already be the end of March by then...?)

On another note, we're currently holding the Hobonichi Techo 2021 survey!



We always look forward to hearing how you use the techo and your thoughts on it through this annual survey. This year we have several questions just for our international customers too.

100 survey participants will be chosen at random to receive a HOBO penguin mug, so if you haven't checked the survey out yet, we hope you take a look!


The HOBO Penguin mug

>Check out the survey page

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Hi everyone. Today’s techo news is about a small technique by crew member Iwakuro on how he turns his drawings into stickers!

Iwakuro has two small daughters, and often draws with them.

He decided to turn animals he drew out of an encyclopedia with his children into stickers.



First of all, he draws using a pencil and colored pencil. (His tip is to not worry too much even if the proportions get wonky.) He then scans the drawing.



He lines up the scanned animals once shrinking them down in size, and prints them out on an A4 sized printable sticker paper. (Iwakuro used the A-one label seal in Matte white.)



Once he cuts them out with scissors, they’re all complete! He feels that when they turn out into these cute small stickers, the wonkiness doesn’t bother him anymore.



It might be fun to paste it in your techo,



or paste it on simple sticky notes.



The Anything Pocket (Clear) is perfect to store the stickers you haven’t used!

That’s all I’ve got today. I hope you have fun making your very own stickers to make your techo even more special!

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Hi everyone, I'm Ono, and I manage fulfillment of wholesale orders from outside Japan and also communicate closely with the clients.

Here in the techo news, I'll occasionally be introducing you to stores that carry the Hobonichi Techo!

For todays news, I'll be talking about a shop named Little Craft Place. Eunice, who is one of the owners of this shop, kindly talked us through what their shop is like via email, and sent us several photos too.

*Please note that the photos do not reflect the latest shop status, so the items shown may not be in stock.




Their beautiful shop front.

Little Craft Place is located in Spring, Texas. They carry scrapbooking, stamp and paper crafting supplies, as well as a line of planner products as well - including the Hobonichi Techo!





They've been carrying the Hobonichi Techo since 2018, with Eunice initially being a Hobonichi Techo user herself.

　
Here is their corner of Hobonichi Techos. *Does not reflect their current stock status.

　

Her Hobonichi Techo is used as a journal for memory keeping. She tells us that she uses the Hobonichi Techo because of the flexibility of being able to use her medium of choice, and particularly paints with watercolor, acrylic and markers.


She kindly shared with us her spread. Look how dreamy they look!



According to her, "the Hobonichi papers are so amazing it allows me to do mixed media on my spreads, it's like scrapbooking and memory keeping but on-the-go, I can paint wherever and whenever I like."







Customers of Little Craft Shop are mainly planners, crafters, students, scrapbookers and people who like Japanese stationery.


They have this dreamy wall of Washi Tape . . .! I'd probably spend a good hour admiring it.

If you happen to live close by, stop by this beautiful shop!

There are other shops around the world that carry the Hobonichi Techo. You can check them from the link below.
>Where to Buy

That's all I've got for today! I'll occasionally be posting about other shops that carry the Hobonichi Techo, so I hope you look forward to it. See you next time!

About Little Craft Place

Address:
9702 Spring Cypress Rd, Suite 125, Spring, TX 77379, USA

Website:
https://www.littlecraftplace.com/

*Please contact them directly for their shop opening hours and current stock status.

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Hi everyone. Today’s Techo News is about how Hobonichi Techo team member Hoshino uses her 5-Year Techo.

Hoshino started using her 5-Year Techo in 2018. She opens her techo after breakfast, looks back on her entries for the past few years, and briefly writes about how the day before was.

Below are Hoshino’s comments.


▲My 5-Year Techo set. Fountain pen that I choose depending on my mood, pencil board in place of a bookmark, and blotting paper.

To be honest, there were days when I didn't feel like writing. However, from my second year, it was interesting to be able to look back on the year before, and sometimes even find days where I had done the exact same thing. I’m glad I pushed through and wrote every day. I feel that the 5-Year Techo gets way more interesting from the second year.


▲My techo has puffed up nicely over the years.


★How I use the pages on the right side

The right side of the Hobonichi 5-Year Techo are blank pages. At first, I wasn’t sure how to use it, but have settled to write in things that didn’t fit in the left pages, or paste things that I want to look back on throughout the five years.

More recently I’ve decided to boldly paste thick postcards or things that fill up the whole page.


▲A postcard I received during lockdown.


▲A sticker that was pasted on a snack that my mother bought me, and a drawing that someone drew for me on a package that was sent to me at work.


▲A saying that was on a page-a-day calendar that made me surprised.


▲Lyrics of “Bridge Over Troubled Water” that I listened to for the first time in a long time.

I still have lots of blank pages though, so I might paste and write something everyday in my fifth year.

★The “My Lists” at the back of the book

The 5-Year Techo includes a page named “My Lists” where you can create lists of a theme of your choice.

I made a list of places I want to go during the five years, and I currently have ticked off one place, Russia.



It might not seem a lot considering I’ve used it for more than 3 years, but Russia is a country that I wanted to go since I was a teenager so it was a big step for me.




▲I always dreamed of going to Russia. My chosen destination was Vladivostok.

I also recommend writing a list of food to cheer you up when you’re feeling low.



These things are actually quite easy to forget when you’re not feeling your best.





The fun of the 5-Year Techo comes from seeing how you overlap with, or differ from your past self. 5-Year Techo users in your 2nd, 3rd, or 4th year, how is your techo from the second year onwards?

Now might be a time when you're feeling less motivated to write everyday (and there's definitely no need to do so of course) but we hope you enjoy writing in it so it'll be more exciting for your future self!

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Hi everyone! This is Asako again.

Recently, several Hobonichi Techo team members who like stationery got together to create a Stationery Club. Our club activities would include talking about stationery (goes without saying), find stationery that’s perfect for the techo, and think of new products. We hope to connect with stationery-lovers across the world to exchange information on stationery too.



Once we started talking, we couldn’t stop.
“The color scheme of the Clickart pens are on point!”
“The pens that recently came out from Muji have such cute colors!”
“I want to try out pen calligraphy that’s on the Tombow ABT website!”
“A pen that I can’t live without is the Frixion pen!”
“There seems to be lots of cute stationery shops in Ogikubo!”
... The topics are endless.



We went to buy a techo to use for our club activities at Tobichi. We all look serious here, picking out which pencil board we should go for.



There’ll be a new series of articles named the “Hobonichi Stationery Club” starting really soon. We’ve been taking photos and creating content for it recently.



Pens, stickers, pencil sharpeners, correction tape and magnets...



When we brought all of our favorite stationery, the table soon became a huge mess.



These are drawing tools that Annen loves using. All the colors make it fun to see!


These are a collection of Silly Bandz I own (who remembers them?)



We found ourselves exclaiming how cute each item is and putting the shoot on halt.



There are lots of content ideas we want to try. We already feel ourselves immersing ourselves into the world of stationery.



We also started an exchange diary - a diary where you write entries among a group of friends and pass it around (this was popular when we were in elementary school). This brings back all the memories...!

We aim to create a fun series and may be also asking you not only for your recommended stationery, but your thoughts on stationery and questions you may have. We hope you look forward to it!

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