A5 Money Diary standing closed on a plain surface, dark cover with a coin motif, about six millimetres thick.

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Money Diary

Four fixed columns for what you bought, how you paid, and how much it cost, with room afterward to see where it actually went.

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from Rp 58.000

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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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A receipt folded into a pocket gets read once, at the till, and never again. By the time the statement arrives a fortnight later, the amount is right but the reason for it is gone, and every entry starts to look like every other entry.

The day book fixes four columns: the date, what was bought, whether it went on cash or card, and the amount. Nothing else is asked of the line, so filling it in takes about as long as reading the receipt did. Finance pages further back give the totals somewhere to sit once a week or a month is done, apart from the daily record.

It does not categorise a purchase as necessary or wasteful, and it carries no column for that judgement. What it keeps is the plain fact of what left your hand and when, which is the part memory drops first.

What is inside

Day book: 60pp; Four columns fixed, so a purchase is written down the same way whether it was cash or card.
Finance: 6pp; Short pages for totals worth adding up on their own, apart from the daily line.
Notes: 16pp; Plain lined pages for the spending a column can't explain.
Reflection: 6pp; A shorter page for looking back at where the money actually went.
Reference: 12pp; Weight and length tables worked from definitions, with emergency numbers checked against two sources.

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 Money Diary laid out as cards: a four-column day book page, a finance totals page, a lined notes page, a reflection page, and a reference table. — Five pages straight from the print file: the four-column day book, a finance totals page, a lined notes page, a reflection page, and the reference table at the back. The day book columns are the reason to buy this rather than rule a plain notebook yourself: date, item, method, amount, in that order, every time.

Specification card for the Money Diary: day book, finance, notes and reflection pages, 100 pages total, A5, five signatures of twenty. — 60 day book pages at four columns each: date, what I bought, cash or card, amount. 6 finance pages for totals. 16 lined notes pages for the spending a column can't explain. 6 reflection pages for looking back on where the money went. 12 reference pages close it out. 100 pages total, A5, five signatures of twenty, 5.72 mm spine.

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. — Money Diary — 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. — Money Diary — Emergency numbers

One page for your name and number, so a book that goes missing can come back. — Money Diary — This book belongs to

A pictogram grid captioned in English above and Indonesian below, for when there is no shared language. — Money Diary — 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. — Money Diary — World map

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