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14 MARCH 2026 journalhabits

How I keep a five-minute journal that I actually finish

Three prompts, one page, no guilt about the days I skip — and the moment I stopped buying a new notebook every time I fell behind.

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28 FEBRUARY 2026 paper

Twelve ways to use up a nearly-empty notebook

The last eleven pages are the hardest part of any notebook. Shopping lists were not the answer; tearing the pages out was.

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9 FEBRUARY 2026 slow days

A slow Sunday, written down

An hour-by-hour record of a day where nothing happened on purpose, kept to find out where the hours actually go.

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21 JANUARY 2026 makingpaper

Making paper from junk mail — badly, then well

Two failed batches, one good one, and the drying trick that nobody in any tutorial seems to mention.

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6 JANUARY 2026paper

The pen I stopped losing

A short note about tying a pen to a notebook with elastic, and how silly it felt for about four days.

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18 DECEMBER 2025 journalslow days

What a year of index cards taught me

One card a day, a shoebox to keep them in, and a surprising amount of evidence that the good days outnumber the other kind.

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