Plain Lab · journal
Five-Year Line a Day
One date printed on the page for five years running, with a handful of lines under it each time.
Price
from Rp 73.000
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
- 400
- Leaves
- 200
- Sheets
- 100
- Signatures
- 20 × 20pp
- Spine
- 22.88 mm
- Paper
- white
- Ruling
- lined
- Ruling pitch
- 9.17 mm · 26.00 pt
- Rows per page
- 18
- Year
- 2027
- Covers
- 1 January – 31 December 2027
Build it
Rp 73,000
Turn to any date and it holds five short entries stacked underneath it, one for each year you keep the book. Nothing about the page changes from one year to the next except what gets written on it, which is the entire use of the format: the same date, read back five times, five years apart.
There is no room for a long entry, on purpose. A handful of lines forces a day down to what actually mattered about it, and a day boiled down that far is easier to read back later than a full page would be.
Nobody finishes a five-year diary by accident. The book supplies the five lines under every date. Showing up to fill them in for five years running is the part no notebook can do for you.
What is inside
- Five-year
- 365pp
- Every date of the year, printed once, with five short entries stacked underneath.
- Notes
- 25pp
- Plain ruled pages for whatever a five-line entry cannot hold.
- Reference
- 10pp
- The owner page and reference tables at the back.
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 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?
The PDF of this book.
We do not sell the design or the PDF. Download it free, with no conditions at all, not even tracking. What we sell is the book, a real object that is genuinely useful and can help your life.
Download PDF PDF · 400 pages · 0.6 MB
Made at the Hibrkraft bindery, Bogor · about the maker
Books that sit alongside it
- Apprentice's JournalWorks alongsideshares personal-writing
Questions
Is it dated?
Yes, printed by the date, running the whole year. It is the one journal on this shelf that is.
What happens after five years?
The book is finished. It was built to hold exactly that many entries under each date, not more.
How much room is there per day?
A handful of lines, deliberately short.
Can I start partway through the year?
Yes. Nothing about the layout assumes you started on the first of the year.
Is there a notes section for longer entries?
A separate run of plain ruled pages, for whatever a five-line entry cannot fit.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.
Price
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