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The Moleskine Cahier Layout That Dethroned the Wonderland222

A tiny experiment with hand drawn calendars

Ellane W
7 min readMay 5, 2025

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Black notebook, closed, with two tan leather pen holders strapped to the outside. there’s a bright blue eraser pen with a white cap and a mechanical pencil in the double pen holder on the front of the book, and a tan coloured clicky ballpoint pen in the holder that cradles the spine.
The fraying additional ribbon bookmark was cut from the inside shoulder seam of one of my jumpers (sweaters / pullovers). I may get around to neatening the edge one of these days.

To the calendar enthusiast whose physical impairments prevent them from using analog tools — Most of this article will be irrelevant to you, but the spirit of it is this: to experience the same kind of mind-refreshing reset a hand drawn calendar gives me, you could try a plain text calendar where each date is a Markdown subheading, and events are indented beneath.

Wonderland222 Planner report, 5 months in

I fell in love with the Wonderland222 planner last year after reading about it on Analog Office. It’s a Japanese-inspired, USA-produced gem that I am happy to recommend to anyone looking for a ready-made planner.

Planners, in essence, are calendars in notebook form. Some add room to make task lists, and some add a lot more, like pages for contact information, or goals, or inspirational quotes — but basically, a planner is just a portable calendar in notebook form.
—Anna Havron

Open weekly spread of a Wonderland222 planner

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Ellane W
Ellane W

Written by Ellane W

Designer and educational publisher for 30 years+. Plain-text advocate. Still using paper, but less of it. https://linktr.ee/miscellaneplans

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