Journal or Diary: Which One Fits You?

Diary

Blank pages, a date, and then what? A diary tells the story of your day. That's lovely if you like to write, and hard when the page just stares back at you. Lots of diaries are empty after three weeks. Not because nothing happened, but because nobody told you where to start.

Journal

A journal holds on to what mattered. A list, a photo with three words, a question with an answer. There's no order and nothing you have to do. Some pages fill up in two minutes, others stay with you all fall.

Memory book

SUNKISSED and COZY AUTUMN are neither one nor the other. They combine a diary, a friendship book, a memory album, and a fill-in book: questions, lists, profiles, letters, spaces to stick in photos, a calendar with one word per day, plus short stories about Mila and Liv. Every page tells you what to do. And you fill in the year yourself.

Which one fits you?

• You love to write, and you write a lot: a blank notebook, plus the 50 journaling ideas for days when nothing comes.
• You'd rather collect than write: COZY AUTUMN or SUNKISSED, with spaces to stick things in and a spot for a pressed leaf.
• You want to start right now, without a book: print GOLDEN MOMENTS, one page, one moment.
• You're more of a Liv: one page with a big headline, a crooked photo, done.
• You're more of a Mila: the date on the back of every photo, and then the story that goes with it.