Plain Lab · journal
Gratitude Ledger
A daily ledger of three things, kept short enough that a bad day still gets an entry.
Specification
- Trim
- 148 × 210 mm · 5.827 × 8.268 in
- Pages
- 80
- Leaves
- 40
- Sheets
- 20
- Signatures
- 4 × 20pp
- Spine
- 4.58 mm
- Paper
- white
- Ruling
- lined
- Ruling pitch
- 9.17 mm · 26.00 pt
- Rows per page
- 18
Three good things a day sounds thin until you try writing it on a day that gave you nothing obvious to work with. That is the day the exercise actually does something, forcing you past nothing good happened today and into the smaller true things that were usually still there.
Gratitude pages carry most of the book, one short entry at a time. A smaller run of ruled notes pages sits behind them for whatever does not fit the format, and a handful of reflection pages further back are for reading a month of entries together rather than one at a time.
A bad day does not turn good because three lines got written about it. The small things just stop disappearing along with the rest of the day.
What is inside
- Gratitude
- 48pp
- Short daily entries, most of the book.
- Notes
- 13pp
- Plain ruled pages for whatever does not fit the daily format.
- Reflection
- 6pp
- For reading back a month of entries at once.
- Reference
- 13pp
- The owner page and reference tables at the back.
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
- Apprentice's JournalWorks alongsideshares personal-writing
- Cash BookWorks alongsideshares accountant, record-keeping
- Cash Flow PlannerWorks alongsideshares accountant, record-keeping
- Complaint LogWorks alongsideshares record-keeping
- Evening LedgerWorks alongsideshares accountant, personal-writing, record-keeping
- Failure LogWorks alongsideshares record-keeping
- Hajj and Umrah JournalWorks alongsideshares personal-writing
- Inventory LedgerWorks alongsideshares accountant, record-keeping
Questions
Is it dated?
No. Start it any day.
How much room is there per entry?
Enough for three short lines, no more.
What if I cannot think of anything?
The page does not ask for anything large. Small is the point.
Why is it called a ledger?
Because it asks for an entry every day, the way an account gets kept rather than remembered.
Are the reflection pages required?
No. They are there if you want to read a stretch of entries back together, not to grade what you wrote.
Nothing was given me of which I have not rendered some account.
