Closed a5 Caregiver's Journal resting on a plain surface, a tiled illustration field on the cover, a cream label plate near the middle, a narrow binding strip down the spine.

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Caregiver's Journal

A daybook for what a doctor said, a page for the rest, and nothing that promises to make caregiving easier.

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Softcover, French link sewing. Printed and sewn to order.

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Specification

Type: Journal
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
Dating: Undated

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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.

In every book

The same six pages open every book: your details, who to call, the signs to point at when you have no shared language, and the map. They sit at the front because the moment you need them is not the moment to be flicking through.

How to use it: One page describing this book, not a different one.
This book belongs to: One page for your name and number, so a book that goes missing can come back.
My details: Blood group, allergies, who to call. Written once, carried everywhere.
Emergency numbers: Forty countries, taken from Wikidata property P2852 (CC0), agreed across two sources, every row carrying its QID. Numbers change and a book does not — verify locally on arrival.
Point at this: A pictogram grid captioned in English above and Indonesian below, for when there is no shared language.
World map: Natural Earth 110m, public domain, equirectangular, with UTC hour meridians computed from the projection rather than from a timezone database. For orientation and for pointing at, not a navigation chart.
Conversion tables: Computed from definitions — 25.4 mm to the inch — and not copied from anywhere, so every row can be checked by anyone holding the book.
Pen test leaf: The last page, printed for it on purpose. Every notebook is used this way; printing it deliberately is cheaper than losing the last leaf to it by accident.

The film

Page by page

A vertical film, 52 seconds: the cover, the ruling page, then 5 reference pages. Synthesised ambient bed, no dialogue — captions in three languages.

A vertical film from our own bench — this page contacts nobody's server to play it, and downloads nothing until you press play.

What is inside this book?

Five pages from the Caregiver's Journal laid out as cards: a four-column daybook page, a ruled notes page, a divider, the owner page, and a reference page. — Five pages taken from the print file: a daybook page with its four columns, a ruled notes page, a section divider, the front owner page, and a reference page. The daybook is the reason to buy this over a plain notebook: two visits recorded the same way are easier to compare later than two visits described however you happened to phrase them that day.

Detail card listing the Caregiver's Journal contents: a four-column daybook, ruled notes pages, and the reference pages at the back. — A short daybook section ruled into four columns: date, who, what was said, what to do. A longer run of plain ruled pages behind it, for medication changes, questions for the next visit, and the parts of a week a column cannot hold. An owner page and reference tables at the back, the same furniture every book on this shelf carries.

Computed from definitions — 25.4 mm to the inch — and not copied from anywhere, so every row can be checked by anyone holding the book. — Caregiver's Journal — Conversion tables

Forty countries, taken from Wikidata property P2852 (CC0), agreed across two sources, every row carrying its QID. Numbers change and a book does not — verify locally on arrival. — Caregiver's Journal — Emergency numbers

One page for your name and number, so a book that goes missing can come back. — Caregiver's Journal — This book belongs to

A pictogram grid captioned in English above and Indonesian below, for when there is no shared language. — Caregiver's Journal — Point at this

Natural Earth 110m, public domain, equirectangular, with UTC hour meridians computed from the projection rather than from a timezone database. For orientation and for pointing at, not a navigation chart. — Caregiver's Journal — World map

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