Plain Lab · journal
Language Learning Journal
A place to write down a new word once, in one language, before you look it up for the third time.
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
- 6.35 mm · 18.00 pt · 1/4 in
- Rows per page
- 27
A word looked up twice in the same week was never written down the first time. That is the usual failure in language study: notes scattered across a phone, the back of a bill, a notebook already full of something else. Nothing gets tested against what came before it.
The vocabulary pages give each word its own line: something to write, somewhere to check it against later, and no app update that resets the count. Notes pages follow for the grammar a single line cannot carry, a verb table, a rule you keep forgetting the exception to.
It will not conjugate anything for you and it does not know which language you are learning. What it holds still is the word you already looked up once, so the second time is for testing yourself, not searching again.
What is inside
- Vocabulary
- 72pp
- One line per word, so a term gets the same five seconds to test yourself before you check the page.
- Notes
- 18pp
- Plain lined pages for grammar rules and verb tables, anything a single line cannot hold.
- Reference
- 10pp
- Conversion tables computed from definitions, plus emergency numbers checked against two independent sources.
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
- Caregiver's JournalWorks alongsideshares personal-writing
- Dream JournalWorks alongsideshares personal-writing
- Qur'an Study JournalWorks alongsideshares personal-writing, study
- Student Academic Diary 2027Works alongsideshares study
- Student Academic Diary 2028Works alongsideshares study
Questions
What do the vocabulary pages look like?
One ruled line per word: room for the word, what it means, and how you'd use it. Nothing more is printed on the line, so you decide the rest.
How big is it?
A5, 148 x 210 mm, 100 pages, 5.72 mm across the spine.
Is it dated?
No. Start on whichever word you looked up today.
What are the notes pages for?
Grammar, verb tables, anything a single vocabulary line cannot carry.
Does it teach the language?
No. It gives you somewhere to keep what you already looked up, so you stop looking the same word up twice.
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
