Loved this video!  I’m glad to know I’m not the only one having the same conversations going on in my head!

I agree with you- I too stand on the sterling ink hill and don’t want off!  I just ordered and only bought one extra…

Girl… I understand the feeling with the love for planners. I love specifically paper and pens and notebooks and journals!!!

And I agree with the Complete Planner. I initially got the 2026 Complete Planner thinking omg this is it! The best planner!
Well I ended up hating the repeating weeks and the weird blank pages throughout. I hated using it and so I sold it soon after around January 2026.

For 2027, I’m thinking (and all Sterling ink as it’s my FAVORITE brand)
But I’m thinking:
- B6 Core Planner in Fairy Floss and Gold Edges
- A6 Notebook OR A6 Common Planner Vertical Compact OR Pocket Core. THIS part I’m having issues with and struggling to make a final plan on 😭😭

I’m so grateful to have so many choices of planners. When I STARTED planning there were Hobonichi and two more but now there are 10 great planners and then I watch these videos to narrow it down.

Our brains, SI planners and Garmins are literally twinsies!!!!!

seeing your set up I have been able to see the thickness of her books and now I think I need to grab one my self looool oh no

I love that you made a video about planner stuff!

I looove that you’re doing a different style planner video than everyone else 🥰 It's so engaging.

I also love getting a sale planner and then using the 'early' pages the following year, and staying in the sale cycle!

I had my first baby last year and she DEFINITELY changed my stationery habits. I'm hoping I'll be able to spend more time on it in 2027.

I find the core kind of silly because people want a smaller book, not the exact same thickness book with 20 notes pages lol. She should have just made it TRP and it'd sell like hotcakes. Why would I buy a core when compact is the exact same size (unless someone really likes cosmo air paper)?

I can't handle that the passport vertical is 1 grid per hour while every other book is 1 grid per half hour. I can't 'see' my time correctly when it's smooshed like that.

Girl I need you to stop hyping the flex before I impulse-buy one!!! The only thing keeping me safe is the adorable Hobonichi Weeks I bought and am committed to lol.

Tomorrow's the day! I enjoyed watching your thought process and I think you have solid choices lined up. I tried a pocket monthly booklet in my purse a couple of years ago but never ended up using it, was just easier to quickly put appointments into my phone. But I wasn't using it for doctor's appointments either and I think having something to write notes in is a smart idea.
I thought about the complete softcover, but I know I'll hate the chunk and heaviness and I probably would leave a lot of notes pages blank. So I'm going with my third compact CP, but I'll try the horizontal weeklies rather than the vertical I've always used. I like the idea of dividing up the area into different sections.
I picked up the core on sale this summer, and tried it out in August. The Cosmo Air paper is lovely with fountain pens, but I do need more than 23 blank pages in the back.
My CP preferred size is B6. I have a Moterm cover I bought years ago and I don't want to buy a different size cover. It's small enough so that I don't mind carrying it around with only the extra 120 pages or so. In 2025 I bought the full size CP because I  wanted the mulberry, but probably used 25% of those blank pages.

Haven’t been into planner videos until I saw yours! Makes me feel like we are just hanging out 😂

I am the same way....if I look at all the other planners, I will WANT the other planners!

23:40 yes, things will be very different with an scorpio baby haha 🥰

What a gun video! I was having these same conversations with myself above what to use. I’m a Sterling Ink fan also. This year I have loved my Complete planner. I’ve been using it for home/fun mostly and love it for that. I have tried combining everything in one previous years and hated it. I don’t want to carry my journal pages to work. So I have to have something specific for work. For 2027, I’m redoing the Complete and doing an N1 full for work and on the go. I’ve used the N2 in the past in the full year and used every single page (>500 pages)! So I think this will give me space for scheduling and for work notes and whatever else I need on the go.
I love stationery/planner season but decisions are hard!

I seee alot of people use the stickers this way on videos related to this topic! I do something similar as well but I use the  square or  pot dot adhesives rather than actual tape under the sticker so I can reuse ones I really like

I admire people who fill out their planners with memory keeping and morning pages but I know for me, I will fill out their planners scheduling parts but I will never get the daily pages done so I just accept myself where I am.

I love videos like this.  I am planning on getting the Core Planner in the B6 horizontal for health and meal tracking, and the pocket vertical for my daily and work schedule.  The pocket will fit in my Paper Republic pocket journal.  Both will be in Fairy Floss with gold edges.   I will also be picking up a monthly booklet in. the A5 Slim size to track project deadlines throughout the year.  This can fit into my Louise Carmen Roadbook for when I need to take it with me, and when I don’t it can sit on my desk at home.

I totally get you’re happy in your sterling ink bubble buuuut Hobonichi weeks is a great throw in your bag option - and there’s a mega with extra notes but it’s still light enough 😊 love hearing your thoughts and congrats on the future baby!

I'm the same way. I only am obsessed with sterling ink

It's not dumb to keep your notebooks in a cover, it's convenient to have all your pockets and stickers etc right there with your book at all times. Plus you can decorate it to make it cozy and give you more reason to look forward to opening it.

I’ve been using an A6 notebook and making my own weekly spreads- one weekly for work and then a second weekly for everything else, and it fits neatly into my big pockets for on the go, but I’m a little annoyed with having to set up the spreads far enough ahead to put things down in them. Considered going back to an N2 compact for work since it would fit in my pencil case, and having an A6 for everything else. Remembered how much better I liked it when I accidentally ordered N1 and how much I loved the extra space…
Current plan is N1 horizontal full for work, and because I don’t always need many notes pages for work, and the way my notes are formatted there’s no sensitive information since it’s just reference codes you’d need access to cross-reference, so for personal/on the go planning I could flip it upside down and work from the back of the book. Even if I decide to set up weeklies I’d only have to do one set.
And an N1 520pg notebook for my reading journal.
I’m also dithering on whether I want to get passport weeklies since they might fit in my pocket with the N1 and then I wouldn’t have to set them up and could just use the N1s notes pages for overflow.