FAQs

While anyone keen on starting, building and maintaining a journaling practice will love Journer, we designed it specifically for:

• beginners
• anyone who struggles with journaling
• non-journalers

Journaling is scientifically-proven practice that can help you become more self-aware, productive, and calm. Famous minds and thinkers like Oprah Winfrey, Warren Buffet, Richard Branson, Charles Darwin to name a few who kept journals. Specifically, journaling helps:

1. Improve your mental health and wellbeing.
2. Boost your memory.
3. Help achieve goals and improve performance.
4. Improve your communication skills.
5. Improve your sleep.

While an abundance of analog journals, planners, notebooks and apps exist, Journer cuts through the clutter and keeps things simple. The goal is to give you a 1-stop-shop of guidance and inspiration to get you started, and give you freedom to build a journaling practice that works for you.

We don't like to assume or dictate how you should journal or prioritize your wellbeing. Our unique hybrid format offers a high-quality notebook with guidance at your fingertips whenever you get stuck.

A guided journal typically focuses on a specific theme (like Gratitude or Productivity) with pre-printed prompts on a fixed schedule. While great for structure, they can feel repetitive and limit your freedom to explore or learn different journaling techniques.

Journer, on the other hand, is a 2-in-1 guide and notebook. It combines practical guidance and inspiration with plenty of blank space, giving you the freedom to tailor journaling to your needs—no rigid prompts, no boring workbook!

Journer offers a diverse set of 75 prompts for easy use and reuse for some of the most common scenarios and real life situations. We have prompts across 8 categories -
1) beginners
2) self-reflection & awareness
3) happiness
4) coping through challenge
5) major life transition
6) productivity
7) winning at work
8) fun

And if none of these work for you, you always have the flexibility to use your own prompt!

A journaling template is like a recipe for journaling. It's an intentional collection of themed prompts with instructions that you can use for a journaling session. For example, Journer offers a "Happy Journer" template that you can use as often as you need if your goal is to focus on "being happy". It has 5 prompts that touch upon different aspects of positivity that you can use in under 5 minutes.

Most traditional guided journals will offer you only 1 journaling template. But with Journer, you get six!
1) The Newbie Journer
2) The All-Inclusive Journer
3) The Happy Journer
4) The Get-sh*t-Done Journer
5) The Wholesome Journer
6) The Destress Journer

NAMI stands for the National Alliance for Mental Illness. As a purpose-driven brand, we want to support the grass-roots level work to destigmatize mental health because it aligns with our mission of helping people prioritize their mental health. For that reason, we'll be donating 5% of all profits to NAMI.

Yes! Journer is 100% vegan and bound in a natural linen fabric. Our pages are 100% FSC certified.

Journer successfully launched on Kickstarter in October 2025, was funded over 400% of our target, raising almost $10K and earning the recognition of Kickstarter's "Projects we love". You can see our campaign page here.