Design your own journal

Start from a style you like and change the questions, the layout and the spacing. We print it and post it to you.

It opens in our editor, and you only pay when you order.

An open journal called Our first home. The left page has One thing for the house today, Put away this week, Deposit so far and the question What are we looking forward to?, each filled in by hand. The right page is dotted, with a list to tick, a chart of what was put away each month and Keys by Christmas? written under it.

It’s a savings log with a dotted page to draw on. Start from this one

What goes on your pages?

Yours might be a planner with the hours down the page, or a bullet journal that’s mostly dots. Whatever the style, start with the big thing you want and give it a mention on every day.

One page of a journal called The family week. Three things that matter this week are written at the top, and under them a box for each day from Monday to Saturday holds swimming, a parent-teacher meeting, dinner at Mam’s and a match.

If you want a home with more fun and love in it, put Fun and Love on the page and write a line under each every night. If you’re saving for your first house, ask what you did for it today.

Two or three prompts is enough for one page. Plenty of us have a planner in a drawer because it asked for too much, so start small and add one when you miss it.

Write them the way you’d say them. If What am I grateful for? sounds like homework to you, try What was the best bit of today?

Change anything before you order

You can rewrite any question, try a different layout and give each part more or less room. Add a quote, notes or the hours of the day under any section.

A change can go on one day or on every day in the book, so your birthday can ask something different!

The Astera editor open on the first day of My days. The question at the top of the left page is picked, with a bar of buttons over it and a handle on each side.

Then we print it and post it to you

When your pages are right, open the preview and read the whole journal on screen as it’ll print.

Then pick your cover! It can be a softcover, a hardcover or linen with your title pressed into the cloth in gold or silver foil.

It’s one price whatever you change in the book, and the post is included.

Start your journal
The cover of Our first home, a hardcover in Sage with its title on the front. The cover of Fiadh’s first year, a hardcover in Blush with its title on the front. The cover of My days, a hardcover in Navy with its title on the front.

Or make it in ChatGPT

Tell it what you want on each page and ChatGPT sets your journal up in Astera. You can change anything before it’s printed.

ChatGPT opens with your words in the box. Press send. You can also send it a photo of a page you’ve drawn.

Questions

Can I read it before I pay?

Yes. The preview shows every page, and you order from there.

Can I get just one copy printed?

Yes! We print a single copy of every journal.

Where do you post to?

We post to 205 countries, including Australia, Canada, Ireland, the UK and the US.

What size is the journal?

A5, which is 148 by 210 millimetres.

Can I add my own photos?

Yes. Add a photo between any two sections of a page, or put a Vision page at the front and arrange your photos on it.

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