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Hand account
Narrowly speaking, hand account is a small size of well-made notebook, which can help to record people’s schedule. In a larger sense, a hand account can be a plan book, diary, memorandum and so on. As a new type of living style, making hand accounts are getting more and more among young people.

Origin
Hand account origin from Janpan. In Japan, people of all ages and sexes will carry around a notebook called "hand books" with them. It can be easily flipped or recorded on it.

Some Japanese say that the hands account is indispensable for Japanese people, not only because its function of memory, but its role of a planner has become a kind of life style in Japan.

Classification

 * Schedule(Memorandum ): Some notebook pages will be printed as calendars. People can write or paint everywhere under the date accordingly. This type can make your hand account more time effective.


 * Diary:  Some notebook pages are blank except from some elaborately-painted pictures, so that people could enjoy their recording time to their hearts’ content.


 * Account book: sometimes people will be very confused about where the money has gone. Hand account will be a good choice to record where they have spent the money, so that a better spending plan can be made.

Misunderstanding

 * Hand account is only for female. People may think making a hand account is quite womanish, but actually it’s useful for man, too. In Japan, man are more than willing to take their hand account as a schedule or notebook, which assistant to remind them of something important.


 * Can’t draw, can’t make a hand account. The main function of your hand account depends on you. If it is your notebook, try to make it clear, then it is a good helper. If you are a good draw, it’s better for you to paint your hand account as beautiful as you want.


 * Making a hand account is time consuming. People who are not familiar with hand account may think that it will cost a long time to write one, but actually, you can write it according to your time. It’s not necessary to keep it every day or to decorate it elaborately.

Influence
Individually, keeping the habit of making a hand account can help to make our life more effective.

With the assistant of the hand account, people can have a clear picture of their daily routine and the future schedule. What’s more, because a hand account is capable, so it’s more likely for people to record trifles in life. Socially, the prevalence of hand account help to develop social economy.

Socially,The popularity of hand account flourish the industry of stationery.

The most successful case is a Japanese company, HOBO. Nearly 500 hundred of hand account stationery shops are founded in Taobao. People whether they are interested in making hand account or not will be attracted by the beautiful stationery, including notebooks, color pens, pasters and so on.

Some electronic companies benefit from it, too. Till now, there have been more than 10 mobile APPs developed to fit this social phenomenon.(e.g pipi, mori, shiguangshouzhang )