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Trying out health tracking spreads in the Hobonichi Weeks

My 2025 Hobonichi Weeks

So far, I've been using my 2025 Hobonichi Weeks for a variety of purposes. I've used it as a planner, a health tracker, a diary. Next year, my new Weeks will have a very clear purpose: tracking my (mental) health status by logging workouts, scoring my sleep and mood, and writing about outliers (good and bad).

I tried out a spread in my current Weeks, to see if it'll work when my new Weeks starts on December 1st.

The first idea I had is to use the monthly page to track a sleep score and mood score. This is how that will look, this is just a test page with example scores:

I divided each day square vertically in the middle, so I can track sleep and mood with a score out of 10.

When there's an outlier, I will mark it. Apparently, a marker doesn't work as the number gets smudged too much, so I'll just circle it with a contrasting colour or something.

The score of 6 (test score) was too low, so I want to write about it. I put down which page in the back holds info about this score.

On days with a bad score, I will use the blank pages in the back of my Weeks to write in more detail what was going on. Since the blank pages are numbered, it's easy to create a reference here on the monthly page.

here's how a detailed explanation could work. This is just a test entry, so it doesn't matter what it says for now, just testing if this system could work.

I think using the monthly pages as a sleep and mood tracker could work! This also gives the blank pages in the back a nice purpose.

For the year at a glance pages, I already know how to use it: as a weight tracker. I've been doing that this year as well, and that works out fine.

This leaves the week pages themselves, which are the core of this type of planner. I am trying out a spread this week:

I divided the left page into 2 parts with a blue highlighter, to track exercise and give a "day rating". The blank page on the right will have comments on my mental health.

This spread is extremely simple and easy, as I'm not into aesthetic journaling at all, but into "getting the job done" journaling. I just slap some washi tape on the page, and I'm a happy gal.

Overall, I think this set-up can work as a starting point for my new health-themed Weeks (which is, fittingly, the Tamagotchi Weeks!).