My 2024 Techo Kaigi

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If you’re active in the online analog planning community, you’ve probably stumbled upon the Japanese term Techo Kaigi. “Techou” translates to a notebook or planner, and “Kaigi” means a meeting or conference. In simple terms, it’s a “planner meeting” or “meeting with oneself”. I recently discovered this concept via @fer_plans on Instagram.

Techo Kaigi is the practice of reflecting on one’s planners, journals and notebooks from the past year. Throughout this period of introspection, we can review the systems that have worked well and those that maybe fell a bit short. It’s like a system audit for your personal life wherein the idea is to implement these lessons and insights into your set up for the upcoming year.

As we’re wrapping up the year, I thought it would be fun to adapt this practice to the digital world of tools and workspaces. Most of my planning and personal productivity routines reside within my digital workspace which consists of applications that I use day in and day out.

While the analog community has bullet journals, Hobonichi techos, traveler’s notebooks, and Moleskines, we digital planning enthusiasts have our app stacks. Think Obsidian, Notion, Tana, Google Workspace, and so much more. In this review, I’m zooming in on the tools that…