Canvas One Line a Day: A Five-Year Memory Book (Yearly Memory Journal and Diary, Natural Canvas Cover)

Every graduation announcement I receive, I come here and choose one of these one line a day journals to send as a gift. Love that it is small and easy to take anywhere so no matter where you are you can still write it it! Great way to store up some memories that ISN'T online ;)

My wife absolutely adores this thing. She started using it right away, which is a good sign. It was such a great gift idea, I'm really pleased. She's already filled several pages. I definitely recommend it.

I love this book. Super fast delivery and a great gift.

My MIL loved this. I got it for her to keep memories in.

Beware — these are 4x6 inches. They were a lot smaller than I thought. I thought they would be closer to 5.8 x 8.3 inches (A5) — the common journal size.They look like they are quality and will hold up for 5 years. It reminds me of a book you would see in a regency/Jane Austen movie.

Before I stumbled on this journal, I wasn't familiar with the multi-year journal format, and it really appeals to me in a way that other daily journaling doesn't. Having only a few lines per day to fill, along with the ability to compare days of the year across a five-year period, is making it extremely likely that I'll actually keep up with this style of journal where I've failed with, uh, literally every other daily journaling attempt in my life. Some people have complained about the size of the journal, but I don't know what they were expecting. The listing clearly describes the dimensions (cover is 4" x 6 1/2"; pages are about 3 5/8" x 6 1/8"), and the entire point is to make a very short entry every day. If you need more space, just... buy a normal journal?For the USD $15ish price, the quality is also excellent. The binding feels sturdy, and it being stitched means there's basically no chance of individual pages falling out. The pages open comfortably, especially after properly breaking in the binding (which is a technique you should google if you're not used to hardbacks). The cloth cover has a nice feel, though it may develop a tendency to attract and retain dust and pet hair. The paper is thick and takes ink well; I've posted photos of tests for three different fountain pens and inks, and you can see that there's minimal feathering or bleeding and practically no ghosting. (The photo with the test writing on February 14 is pretty color-accurate; the February 15 photo showing the backside of the test page is lighter/whiter than in person.) I also have had zero need to use a blotter; everything dried/absorbed just in the time it took to write each day's entry and close the cover again.I ended up discovering the Midori 5 Year Diary after I'd been using this one for over a month, and while I've decided I prefer the Midori enough to justify the significant price jump, I'm extremely bummed I'd already written in this One Line a Day journal so much, because it's a shame that I can't pass it on to someone else. (For anybody else trying to decide between the two, note that the Midori diary has shown zero bleeding or feathering, but there IS extremely visible ghosting—particularly with darker inks—so if that's a nonstarter for you, you'll want to avoid it. Writing space for is comparable between the One Line a Day journal and the Midori 5 Year diary—all my OlaD entries transferred to my new Midori journal—but watch out for the Mini version of the latter, which is smaller. Other features are easy to compare online.)

The bar is so low for adding today's entry that it is hard to justify procrastination. One line a day. I can do that.

I love these books! They’re great for keeping track of memories and would make a great gift, either blank or filled out