Planner Review: Yoseka Labs Two-Month Weekly Planner

Ana — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 15:00:00 +0000

I cannot believe that someone hadn’t thought of doing this sooner but Yoseka created the Yoseka Labs Two-Month Weekly Planner sampler ($9.50) and it is genius. (There’s your TL:DR. Go buy it now.)

In a lovely B6-sized (12.5cm x 17.6cm / 4.9in x 6.9in) cahier-style notebook with 68gsm Tomoe River paper are an assortment of differnt weekly page layouts to try. Most weekly styles include two weeks of the layouts but a couple just have one week to try. There are also a couple options for monthly overview pages as well to test out. Honestly, Yoseka, you had me at B6.

The monthly spreads include a month-on-two-pages (classic monthly view calendar), Vertical Gantt (based on Bushimen’s PAL), and Horizontal Gantt (based on Art Print Japan’s Visualife Planner). The Gantt style calendars blow my mind a little but find them useful for Habit Tracking. It’s definitely a different style.

This was one of the few layouts that left me a little stumped. Maybe for longer project planning?

The weekly spreads include:

Vertical Schedule
Horizontal + Memo
Vertical + Memo
Horizontal Quadrant
Vertical Quadrant (Divided)
Vertical Quadrant (Memo)

This is very similar to the layout in the Jibun Techo.

This is one of my favorite planner layouts. I don’t need a ton of space for specific time tracking but like to have a large area for notes, lists and to do’s.

This layout was similar enough to the previous one that I didn’t fill it out. I do like the blank area and lines at the bottom. I think it would be good for a more creative planner — sketch, lettering or ink swatch at the top, notes at the bottom?

Of the weekly layouts, the horizontal + memo and vertical + memo are my favorites. I don’t use my planner for time keeping as much as task lists and logging activities from what and where I ate to activities I did and media I consumed. I like bbeing able to got back through the year and see what movies were watched, books were read and which podcasts were keeping my attention during different moments in the year.

Yoseka, then included a printed sheet with a chart of which planners they sell that feature each of the different styles of layouts as well as the sizes available. It’s a great cheat sheet for finding which planner aligns with your favorite layout at a glance. So efficient!

Since the notebook is undated, you can try all these different layouts right now and still have tie to find your perfect planner for 2024. With a full 10 weeks of weekly planner pages, that’s enough to get you almost to the end of the calendar year too.

I think, depending on feedback from customers, Yoseka should offer some of the most popular options as full undated planners. The size is great, the paper is great. Honestly, blank B6 Tomoe River cahiers would be amazing to offer too! Please!!!

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