Plain Lab · journal
Caregiver's Journal
A daybook for what a doctor said, a page for the rest, and nothing that promises to make caregiving easier.
Specification
- Trim
- 148 × 210 mm · 5.827 × 8.268 in
- Pages
- 100
- Leaves
- 50
- Sheets
- 25
- Signatures
- 5 × 20pp
- Spine
- 5.72 mm
- Paper
- white
- Ruling
- lined
- Ruling pitch
- 7.14 mm · 20.25 pt · 9/32 in
- Rows per page
- 24
Eight daybook pages run on four columns: date, who, what was said, what to do. A caregiver sits in more appointments than anyone warns you about going in, and half of what gets said in one is gone by the car park unless it gets written down while it is still fresh.
The larger run of pages is plain ruled space for everything a column cannot hold: a medication that got changed, a question for the next visit, a night that went badly. There is no page anywhere in the book asking how you are coping. That question belongs to a person, not a printed line.
A hard week stays hard whether or not it gets written down anywhere. The book just keeps a plain record of what happened in it.
What is inside
- Daybook
- 8pp
- Four columns fixed the same way every time: date, who, what was said, what to do.
- Compose
- 62pp
- Ruled space for everything that happens between appointments.
- Notes
- 18pp
- Extra ruled pages for whatever runs long.
- Reference
- 12pp
- An owner page and the reference tables every book on this shelf carries.
The film
Page by page
A vertical film from our own bench — this page contacts nobody's server to play it, and downloads nothing until you press play.
Real pages
Made at the Hibrkraft bindery, Bogor · about the maker
Books that sit alongside it
- Commonplace InsertWorks alongsideshares personal-writing
- Dream JournalWorks alongsideshares personal-writing
- Evening InsertWorks alongsideshares personal-writing
- Evening LedgerWorks alongsideshares personal-writing
- Field Naturalist's JournalWorks alongsideshares personal-writing
- Grief JournalWorks alongsideshares personal-writing
- Interview JournalWorks alongsideshares personal-writing
- Language Learning JournalWorks alongsideshares personal-writing
Questions
What are the daybook columns?
Date, who, what was said, what to do.
Is it dated?
No. Start it on whatever day you need it.
Does it ask how I am feeling?
No. There is no page for that. It is built to hold what was said and done, not to manage how you are coping with it.
How is it ruled?
College pitch, close-set lines, for someone writing while holding a phone in the other hand.
Can two people share one?
Nothing stops you, and the daybook's who column is there for exactly that.
Do, you who are about the sick or who visit the sick, try and give them pleasure, remember to tell them what will do so.
