I have this vision for a new way to journal. It involves a notebook with specially printed pages and lines that allow a different kind of reflection. It is a very simple concept when you break it down: each page would have an extra date box on it, somewhere between half-way and three-quarters of the way down the page. I would want this measurement to be somewhat randomized so that each page (up to five or six) would be slightly different. Here are some photos of the concept in application.
Pretty simple, right? But if you read the text you’ll get the idea. The idea is that you fill the journal front-to-back, writing only above the bottom date line. Then once you finish the journal, you go back through it, filling the rest of the page, responding to what you had written the year before. Of course, this could be several or many years later as well.
I’ve been putting this into practice in one of my journals, though I don’t have any line of demarcation or the extra date box printed on the page. But I’ve been responding to topics and entries I wrote some eight to ten years prior. It’s quite a neat experience. And though it doesn’t require some massive undertaking to make it happen, I do think it’s worth pursuing. Hopefully, I’ll be bringing it to reality soon.