Techo Kaigi | My 2024 “end-of-the-year” planner system review

Techo Kaigi: End-of-the-year planner usage review 2024

It’s December of 2024 and the End is Nigh…
So I’m once again going through my planners to evaluate their usage, make adjustments and fine-tune my system in preparation for the new year. Below is an in-depth discussion of changes made throughout the year, reasoning behind them and how changes to one part of my system affected everything else.

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Setups | Notebooks for language learning

deutsch: my language learning notebooksMy notebooks for language learning | Мои тетради для изучения языка

Огромная роль в процессе моего самостоятельного изучения немецкого языка отводится моим рабочим тетрадям. Ниже рассказ про процесс и нюансы моей работы с этими тетрадями.
A huge role in my process of self-learning of a new language is reserved for my notebooks. Here is an overview of my notebooks and their usage.

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Care packages | Stickers & yellow stuff

Stickers package: пиздец на каждый день!

Tsepesh прислал мне четыре A4 листа с моими же стикерами.

Выбор пал на самые востребованные в нашей нынешней обычной жизни:

  • Hell YES!
  • Пиздец: большие и много мелких, “на каждый день”
  • Это символизирует
  • Сurrent mood

Винтажный вкладыш с желтой машинкой от жевачки Turbo – бонус!

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How-to | Kaweco tin box pen case

Kaweco tin turned into a pen case

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a you can’t leave Kaweco metal tin empty, it begs to be used to hold something. As soon as I got my Kaweco x Tokyobike pen, I started to look what to put there and obviously, your consideration starts with pens.
It’s originally a case for a pen, right?

But it’s a case for a particularly small pen, so what else can fit there?

Apparently, Pilot Prera (which is a smaller pen) fits perfectly and you can fit 3 of those in one case. I was over the moon with this discovery, as Pilot Prera are one of my favourits for writing on the go and while I can fit one into the pen loop of my Van Der Spek planner, a pen case for several + handful of accessories would be just the thing.

Kaweco tin box is metal, so it would require some padding for safekeeping my lovely solid-colour Preras.
I’ve decided to make padded inserts myself, it’s a quick and easy project, how-to with photos is available below for anyone interested.

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Kaweco x Tokyobike fountain pen review

Kaweco x Tokyobike promo

I don’t celebrate my birthday with a huge party – I prefer meeting friends in small groups or one-on-one when our timetables allow, so celebration usually lasts for at least a month. During pandemic years, it stretched even further – to three summer months… But this year is a record breaker – with war and my moving, I’m still recieving birthday gifts 6 month after.

One of the staples of my Wishlist is “Anything in YELLOW”, so after expressing interest in fountain pens I wasn’t surprised to receive several yellow ones. Today I got Kaweco x Tokyobike collaboration in Dynamic Yellow as a late birthday present and here is my review of it with some unboxing pictures.

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