MINIMALIST DIARY 日誌 N° 001 / ED. 2026
LOC / TOKYO, JP STATUS / LIVE 2026.04.30
N° 001 — INTRODUCTION

A diary for people who find planners overwhelming.

Five printable PDF editions. No prompts you didn't ask for, no trackers, no apps. Designed to be lived with for a year, printed at home, written by hand, kept forever.

EDITIONS5 · Weekly · Daily · Year · Pack · Creator
SIZESA5 (148 × 210 mm) · US Letter · A4
FORMATUndated · printable · archival PDF
PRICE$5 – $24 USD · one-time
LICENSEPersonal use · lifetime updates
FIG. 001 SCALE 1 : 2 MINIMALIST DIARY / DAILY A5 — 148 × 210 mm N° 047 — II NO DATE Thursday MORNING / AFTERNOON / EVENING MINIMALIST.DIARY / NO. 001 / 2026 148 mm 210 mm ① HEADER No date, just page no. ② DAY Mon–Sun, undated ③ RULED 10 lines, 8mm ④ MARK Edition label 0 25 74 mm 100 148
N° 001A — THE PRACTICE

A diary is a deck of questions.

Not a planner. Not a gratitude journal. Not an OKR tracker. The Weekly is a 52-spread reflection practice in 8 structures, mixed deliberately so no two consecutive weeks ask you the same thing. The Daily layers a similar idea across 365 quietly varied pages.

SAMPLE PROMPTS · WEEKLY
  • One thing I noticed this week —
  • One thing I'm changing my mind about —
  • What I said. / What I meant.
  • What I chose. / What I nearly chose.
  • Flip back to a spread from earlier in the deck. What do you notice now that you didn't then?
WEEKLY End-of-week reflection. The cadence that survives. 8 spread types: STANDARD · OBSERVATION · COMPRESSION · RE-READ · DIALOGUE · MILESTONE · RESET · QUARTER-PIVOT.
DAILY End-of-day capture. 5 day types: STANDARD · SUNDAY · MONTH-START · PIVOT · QUIET — the QUIET pages are intentionally near-blank, for the days you need silence.
YEAR The annual scaffolding. Year-in-pixels grid · life calendar · habit matrix · twelve things · year-end letter.

Every spread carries one of 72 micro-seasons at the footer — 七十二候. "East wind melts the ice" · "Bush warblers sing in the mountains" · "Frost descends." A sentence per page from an old Japanese almanac, marking your year against the natural one.

N° 001B — WHAT IT ISN'T

What this isn't.

A diary that asks better questions, and stops asking them on the days you need silence.

N° 002

The catalogue

05 EDITIONS · UPDATED 2026.04
MD·001 / THE WEEKLY PDF
MTW TFSS STANDARD THE WEEK IN ONE SENTENCE — WHAT PATTERN SHOWED UP — NEXT WEEK I WANT TO — 52 SPREADS · 8 TYPES

The Weekly

週刊日誌 / しゅうかんにっし

52 weekly spreads across 8 reflection types. Left page: seven-day columns. Right page: rotating structure — standard reflection, observation, compression, dialogue, milestone, and quarterly pivot.

PAGES52 spreads + bookends
SIZEA5 · US Letter
FORMATPDF · undated
WEIGHT~ 8 MB
MD·002 / THE DAILY PDF
Tuesday 148 210

The Daily

毎日の日誌 / まいにちのにっし

One page for each day of the year. Five page types: standard, sunday mini-review, month-start, quarterly pivot, and quiet rest days. Undated — start any day.

PAGES365 days + bookends
SIZEA5 · US Letter
FORMATPDF · undated
WEIGHT~ 14 MB
MD·003 / THE YEAR PDF
YEAR IN PIXELS JAN DEC

The Year

年間一覧 / ねんかんいちらん

Six pages for the whole year. Intentions, quarter overviews, a 52-week map, and a year-end review. The annual layer that gives the weekly and daily context.

PAGES6
SIZEA5 · US Letter
FORMATPDF · undated
WEIGHT~ 1 MB
MD·004 / COMPLETE PACK RECOMMENDED
Mon Tue Wed 4 EDITIONS · 1 PACK

The Complete Pack

全三冊 / ぜんさんさつ

All three. The Weekly, The Daily, and The Year. One purchase, one download. Save $7 vs. buying separately.

CONTAINS3 PDFs
SIZEA5 · US Letter
FORMATPDF · undated
WEIGHT~ 23 MB
MD·005 / CREATOR ED. PDF + SRC
DATE HEADER BODY COL.A COL.B EDITABLE GRID AFF · INDD · PDF

Creator Edition

制作者版 / せいさくしゃばん

Everything in the Complete Pack, plus editable source files. For designers and shops who want to customize.

CONTAINS3 PDFs + editable sources
SOURCEAffinity + InDesign
LICENSECustomization · personal
WEIGHT~ 110 MB
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N° 003
NOTES
01.

Printable at any scale

Print A5 at home on standard paper, or send the Letter version to any print shop. No specialty stock required.

02.

Undated by design

No calendar dates on any page. Start on a Tuesday in March. Miss three weeks. Nothing breaks.

03.

Designed for print

Optimised for A5 home printers and standard paper. Every page is clean and designed to look good with any pen.

04.

No account required

One-time purchase. Download once, keep forever. No cloud, no login, no subscription to forget to cancel.

05.

Lifetime updates

When a file is revised, existing owners receive the new version by email. No re-purchase, no version anxiety.

06.

No apps, ever

A PDF is a file. A file does not get acquired, deprecated, or paywalled behind a redesign. This is the point.