It can be fun to watch the many planner flip throughs, hauls, unboxing, and other videos on YouTube but also overwhelming!
Below is a list of active planner creators on YouTube and other platforms who each have their own niche to get you started.
Rachelle in Theory
Rachelle creates videos about functional planning and takes you through her own planner journey with an eye toward sharing useful and actionable lessons she learns about planning habits. She has an analytical approach that takes into account the many different planning styles that exist. She’s primarily a Common Planner and Hobonichi Weeks user, but experiments happily and publishes videos regularly.
Lindsey Scribbles
Lindsey Scribbles uses a variety of planning and journaling methods across different notebook systems and shares all of it with her viewers. People with a lot of different interests, and who love layouts with a minimalist aesthetic would enjoy watching her videos for inspiration. Her system includes Travelers Notebooks, and various Hobonichi and pocket sized notebooks. She is a bullet journaler.
anomalily
Anomalily isn’t strictly a planner YouTuber—her channel is about economics and finance—but she does end up making lots of videos about planners and stationery and has refreshing takes on the industry.
Yoseka Stationery
Yoseka is a family-owned stationery retailer so they do sell a lot of products, but their content is informative, not sales, and so much fun to watch. The team is made up of creatives, all who have their own planner and journaling styles, and everyone who works in the shop is featured on their channel in some way. Recently, Yoseka even created a small booklet with sample layouts from a variety of different planners so people can test them before committing to a 2024 book.
Among my favorite of Yoseka’s videos are the videos they do where they interview each person on their team about how they use their planners, and their very detailed nib comparison videos where they will break down the differences between every single nib in a line of fountain pens. Fun fact: the private Hobonichi event this year was at their store in Brooklyn!
Whoops I did it again
I recently found this channel through a referral by another member of the planner community, and love the way her mind works as far as how she thinks through her planner usage systemically and is introspective about the psychology of planner nerdom. She’s a Take a Note user among other books as well, and seems to have a decorative planner style for those who are really interested in stickers etc.
Scientist Plans
Cecilia is a prolific Hobonichi Weeks user and by that I mean she uses multiple Weeks each year, all in creative and/or functional ways, and shares tons of fun flip throughs.
Megan Rhiannon
Megan Rhiannon is a vibe. She does a lot of chatty vlogs about journaling, reading, her very aesthetic method of keeping a commonplace book, and her various adventures trying out different planner systems. The example below is her review of how she uses Filofax, but she has similar videos for lots of others. She also talks about living with autism which I find really interesting and helpful to understand.
Filoplanner
Alesia’s steady feed of Midori Hibino spreads on Instagram is mesmerizing. It appears she plans on the left side of each page and journals on the right.
Goulet Pens
Goulet Pens is another retailer, and they’re planner-adjacent in that they sell fountain pens and make some of the most enjoyable fountain pen content around. Every week, they produce a long (often more than two hours) Pencast that is about a lot of random things that are tangentially related to fountain pens or just of interest to the kinds of people who use them. They’re a joy to watch/listen to.
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