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CookbookHobbies and playNo. 60

A Hobonichi planning librarygoals, habits, pens and spreads to try

Recipe No. 60 · Hobbies and play

For: A Hobonichi Techo user who plans the year on paper

You get: The year’s goals, a habit tracker, a pen log and spreads to try

Time: An evening to set up, minutes a week

See it in know.sh

The year’s document: a summer of habits shaded day by day with the turning points marked, and the year’s goals on one chart.

Techo 2026No. 1

2026 in the Techogoals and habits

9 sections, 1,380 words, about 6 minutes, filed 3 January, revised 27 September, 4 highlights.

An Original, A6, one page a day. Five habits along the top of each page: twenty pages read, a walk, a sketch, the plants watered and the phone off by ten. A square filled for each one kept.

Moving the walk to the morning did more than any app ever did. Since the phone left the bedroom, five of five is the usual day.

Sections

  1. 1Monthly plans, January to DecemberObservation, 12 linksThe month’s three things, copied onto the calendar pages each 1st.
  2. 2Pens and inksEvidence, key
  3. 3Spreads to trySuggestionFive ideas on cards, each with the pens it needs and a link to a photo.

and 6 more sections

The pen log as a table, the everyday list pen marked as the pick, and a spread idea on a card, waiting for October.

Techo 20262026 in the Techo

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Pens and inks

Evidence, key section, 2 highlights, 1 note, 260 words

Swatched on a spare page at the back of this year’s book. Dry times are mine, counted with a thumb test, so treat them as rough.

Try it. Plan a Hobonichi daily page: pick a kind of day, give each block more or fewer rows, and see what fits the 3.7 mm grid.

How it works

Your Techo holds the days; this library holds the plan behind them. The year’s goals sit on one chart, your habits shade in day by day, every pen and ink has its notes, and the spreads you want to try wait on cards until a quiet Sunday.

  1. Set out the year’s goals

    Tell your assistant this year’s goals and when each starts and ends. Ask for a Gantt chart element in a Year document, with the finished ones marked done.

  2. Shade in your habits

    Each Sunday, read out the week from your habit strip: how many of your five habits you kept each day. Ask for a calendar element, with the days that changed things marked.

  3. Keep the pen and ink log

    Ask for a table element of pens and inks: nib, ink, how it dries and what shows through. Swatch on a spare page, then correct the table from what you see.

  4. File spreads to try

    Describe a spread you saw or dreamed up and ask for a card element: where it goes, which pens, how long it takes. Link a photo of it; never upload one.

Try this prompt

Your assistant, connected to know.sh (Claude, ChatGPT or a local model):

In my know.sh document 2026 in the Techo, add a calendar element of my habits: one value a day from 1 June, the number of my five habits I kept, from the list I give you. Mark the days I changed something, with a short note on each, and say in the source where the counts come from.

Your assistant, connected to know.sh (Claude, ChatGPT or a local model):

Add a widget element to my Techo shelf: a daily page planner for a Hobonichi Original, A6, with a 3.7 mm grid. Let me share out rows between to-do, notes, journal and sketch with + and − buttons, draw the page, and say how many rows are left. Keep it plain and say in the caption what it simplifies.

Made with

ShelfDocumentSectionElementsYour AI assistant

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