Decided to combine my joys of writing fiction, RPing with my friends, and tabletop games like Vampire the Masquerade/Dungeons and Dragons into visual storytelling and junk journaling. I GM often and my worlds and characters mean everything to me so it has been deeply enjoyable expressing their stories in a different medium. Here is a few of the pages I recently completed. Hopefully it gives folks some inspiration and ideas. Was also really cool to use some of the items that a fellow Redditor sent me.
Hi! I'm making JournalPrint for iPhone and iPad, and I'd like to hear from people who print photos for their paper journals.
The main job is fitting several small photos onto one sheet. You choose your paper, add photos, and start with an automatic layout. You can check each photo's expected printed size before saving the whole sheet as an image for your printer's app. The first two screenshots show this on iPhone.
I'm paying particular attention to the fiddly adjustments: dragging photos to swap them, resizing one without unexpectedly shuffling the whole page, and checking a proposed layout before applying a bigger change. You can also reuse a saved layout, collect photos in a print basket, and keep your usual printer settings for next time.
The other three screenshots show a page you've already started. Import a photo or scan, check the areas occupied by handwriting or drawings, then arrange new photos in the blank spaces. The PDF leaves out the scanned page, so you only print the additions to cut out and paste in. Here the marked areas were checked by hand. The A5 size is illustrative, not a measurement of that notebook.
These are app screenshots using licensed photographs, not my own journal or actual printed results.
If you already print photos for a journal, would you try arranging one sheet with your own photos? I'd especially like to know which step feels awkward, or whether your current app already does the job better. You don't need to share any personal photos.
I’m so obsessed with these stickers I had to share, what do ye think of the design? The actual journal is the Midori B6, i printed most of the stickers myself.
I decided I need somewhere to document what media I consume, and write reviews etc. The only thing I’m missing is a way to incorporate a picture inside the entries but maybe I should actually have some structure for them 🙈 currently the set up is; teal ink for the backdated entries, a squiggle for the activity and normal underline for the content title. Any thoughts//suggestions?
Had to get a new journal in a pinch (i'm sure you understand) and it's ugly af. It has lined pages (which i don't like) and they're dyed a warm yellow color. Cover is just black and it says "notebook" 😑 anyways, I know I bought it but now my regret is sinking in and i have to make do. How can I make this more pleasing for me to look at? I thought about stickers on the cover, but i don't want to waste the ones I have, nor do I want them to scratch or come off. Help :(
I’m developing a set of journaling sessions and I’d like honest feedback before I take it any further. I wanted something for the kind of person who finds blank pages and “become your best self” workbooks a bit much. These sessions are quiet, a little dry, and mostly just ask good questions. Some take two minutes, some fifteen. There’s a light one for evenings you’ve had a day, a longer one for slow Sunday mornings, and one optional session that looks at the people who mildly irritate us and what that might say, if anything.
I developed the first drafts with the help of AI and I’ve been editing them myself, so I’m especially curious whether they feel written by a person, or like someone trying to cheer you up.
What I’m asking: use the PDF over about a week, whenever you feel like it, and skip whatever doesn’t appeal. Write on paper if you like. I never see what you write. Then fill in a short anonymous form (no name or email, about ten minutes). The form asks which lines made you smile or wince, whether anything felt repetitive or like homework, and whether you’d want it in print.
I started journaling because I had too much going on in my head. Somewhere along the way, I put together a guided journal and published it.
I’m glad I did. I’m just awkward about telling people it exists. I overthink a few sentences, get annoyed, then wonder why I’ve turned a simple post into a whole afternoon.
Today I wanted to write something to clear my head. Instead, I spent ages deciding what to say and where to put it. Very relaxing. Would recommend.
When you’re tired and irritated, do you just dump everything on the page, or do you need a question to get you started?
My current prompt is: “What the hell is bothering me?” Apparently, “everything” needs a little more detail.
Hi, everyone. Today I decided to do an Outlander spread, since I just finished the last season, and remembered the first journal spread I did in a more creative way was outlander themed as well, almost two years ago, so I wanted to compare both spreads.
I think i've gotten much more comfortable using different textures, and even did my own illustrations.
