Hello, I’m Komata from the Hobonichi Techo team.

At Hobonichi, almost every crew member uses the Hobonichi Techo. In this series, Hobonichi Techo team members will be reporting how crew members, from product team members, designers, system team members to general affairs and accountings, on how they use their Hobonichi Techo.



To start off, I interviewed (Tomita) who is in charge of promotions.

Tomita used to be involved in the Hobonichi Techo for fourteen years. She launched The secret of the Hobonichi Techo which is the predecessor of the Hobonichi Techo Official Guidebook and flew all over Japan to interview people for the Hobonichi Techo guidebook. She’s currently involved in the Hobonichi MOTHER project and events held in our physical stores.



The techo she chose for 2024 is the Day-Free (A5 Size), and she uses it with the mina perhonen: hello swallow cover that came out last year.



It seems you have two Day-Free books in there?


“I’ve tried out various book types such as the Original and Weeks, and decided to try out the A5 size Day-Free the year before last. However, because I used up the memo pages, I bought my second Day-Free around August.

Last year, I switched to a new Day-Free in January, but this year I found I had a lot of tasks that are a continuation from last year so I decided to keep on using the same book. This is what’s great about the Day-Free.”

I see, so you have both the 2023 and 2024 Day-Free. How do you use between the two?


“In my 2023 Day-Free, I write down work memos that I have done since last year. This year marks the 30th anniversary since the sales of the MOTHER 2 game, so there’s a lot going on. That’s why I decided to use my 2024 Day-Free solely for MOTHER and write all kinds of things here. Because the Day-Free has monthly calendars, it’s easy to link schedules with memos compared to a normal notebook!”



Wow, I see that your memos taken during meetings and summary of thoughts are all lined up chronologically. I like how you can write a lot because it’s an A5 size notebook. Let’s take a look inside!


^She uses one page of the memo pages per meeting. Here’s a memo from when she looked back at past techos and the techo team for the Hobonichi Techo 10-million sales project.


^Because she writes future plans, she writes them on the Hobonichi Translucent Sticky Notes so she can move it around when the schedule changes.


^A memo of a choreo for hula dancing when she forgot to bring her notebook.


^She pastes her favorite stickers and sticky notes on the endpaper.




^She keeps pens, sticky notes, memo pads and other stationery, as well as her business cards, in the Stappo.


^She keeps washi tapes that take up space in the Hobonichi Store Exclusive Everlasting “Paper” Bag (Mini).



“I started using the Hobonichi 5-Year Techo in 2018, and have ever since written diaries about my personal life, tickets that bear fun memories and memos all in the 5-Year Techo. The Day-Free was perfect to write and summarize memos for work that didn’t fit in there. I used to try out various techo book combinations like using the Original and Weeks together, but my current style seems to be the simplest.

I keep the Day-Free in the office and read it during work, and write in it. I feel like many people choose to write memos during meetings in their laptop these days, but I prefer to write by hand first. It helps organize my thoughts.”

The Day-Free may seem large but is slim and seems easy to use. Hearing Tomita’s story made me want to try using the Day-Free for work!

[Tomita’s techo and stationery]
- Techo Book Day-Free (A5)
- mina perhonen: hello swallow (White) [A5 Cousin size cover] *Sales for this product has ended
- Stappo (Dark Plaid)
- Hobonichi Translucent Sticky Notes)

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