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Learn the Japanese Art of Creative Journaling

Your first journal in 2 hours even if you never journaled before.

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Creative journal page example

Imagine if you could:

open a blank notebook and know exactly what to put on the page, instead of closing it again and telling yourself you'll start properly next month.

make pages that look genuinely beautiful without being able to draw, because a few boxes, a banner and two colours do almost all of the work.

watch a month of your life fill in, square by coloured square, in trackers that show your habits, your sleep and your mood at a glance.

have a calm, offline hour that is entirely yours, one that leaves you more organised at the end of it instead of just more entertained.

You might think you have to be artistic for this to work.

Hand-lettered titles, perfect little florals, spreads that look like they belong in a shop window? It looks like something only people who can draw are allowed to make.

But what if I told you that you don't need to draw, letter, or own a single expensive marker?

Here's what most people don't realize.

Almost every beautiful journal page is built from four shapes.

A box. A line. A circle. A dot. $20 of materials, two or three colours, and those four shapes are enough to build a monthly calendar, a habit tracker, a reading log and a gratitude page.

The pages that stop you scrolling online aren't drawings. They're arrangements.

You copy a layout. You fill in the boxes. You add one heading and one colour. And a blank page quietly becomes something you want to open again tomorrow.

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"Will this actually work for me, when I can barely draw a straight line?"

Yes.

You're not making art. You're making pages you use, and used pages are allowed to be imperfect. That is half of their charm.

If you can rule a box and write a word inside it, you can do this.

This course teaches the three things that matter:
which pages are worth making, how to lay them out so they look good, and how to keep the notebook going once the first excitement wears off.

Anyone can keep a creative journal.

→ Even if you have a drawer of beautiful notebooks and every one is empty. You'll fill the first pages of one of them in your first sitting.

→ Even if you can't draw. Boxes, lines and dots. Every doodle in the course is built from shapes you already know how to make, and you get tracing sheets for the rest.

→ Even if normal planners bore you. This one has your books, your mood, your garden, your travel list and your gratitude pages in it. Nobody else's notebook looks like yours.

→ Even if you have ten minutes, not two hours. Every layout comes in three levels: minimal, colourful and decorative. You pick the one that fits the week you're actually having.

The Four Principles of Creative Journaling

Drawn from zuihitsu, the thousand-year-old Japanese tradition of “following the brush”, these four ideas shape every page you'll make.

気づき
Kizuki
Noticing

A journal is not a record of everything. It's a record of what you noticed: the book that stayed with you, the week you slept badly, the small thing that made an ordinary Tuesday good. You'll learn to choose what is worth a page.

簡素
Kanso
Simplicity

Two colours. One heading. A grid of small squares. The pages that look best are almost always the ones that left the most out, which is very good news if you can't draw.

Ma
The space between

In Japanese aesthetics the empty space carries as much meaning as the marks. It's also the difference between a page that feels calm and a page that feels crowded, and it's learnable in an afternoon.

侘寂
Wabi-sabi
Beauty in imperfection

The wobbly line, the letter that came out too big, the day you left blank. A handmade notebook is supposed to look handmade. Polished isn't the goal. Yours is.

Aiko Mori

My name is Aiko Mori.

12+ years of creative journaling. Monthly spreads, habit and mood trackers, reading logs, gratitude pages, and a lot of ordinary weeks held together by a notebook and three pens.

Over 40 notebooks filled and kept. Taught 500+ students in workshops across three countries to make their first page and then keep going.

What I teach is the achievable version. Not the six-hour spreads you see online, but the pages a real person makes on a Sunday evening with a cup of tea and ten spare minutes.

I came to it the way most people do: a shelf of gorgeous empty notebooks and no idea what belonged on page one. The moment I stopped trying to make art and started making pages that were useful, the notebook finally stayed open. That habit never left. I just learned to teach it.

Introducing: The Creative
Journaling Masterclass

✎ ・ Plan your days, track your habits, and create pages you love.

Everything included in the course
Everything included in the course

2+ hours of step-by-step videos across 15+ lessons

✦ What's Inside ✦

Module 1

Start Your Creative Journal (Under $20)

Notebook, pens, palette, and your first finished page. By the end of this module the blank-page problem is solved for good.
Module 1 - Start Your Creative Journal
  • ✦ The $20 starter kit with exact links: one notebook, a few pens, and nothing you don't need
  • Dot-grid vs lined vs blank, which pens bleed through cheap paper, and why the notebook you already own is fine
  • ✦ The two-or-three colour rule that makes every page look designed instead of decorated
  • Pencil first, ink after: how to plan a page in 60 seconds and fix small mistakes so they disappear
  • ✦ Your first project, a "This Journal Belongs To" page so easy you'll finish it in one sitting and actually like it
Module 2

Monthly & Weekly Pages (Your Planning System)

The layouts you'll reuse every single month, each one taught at three levels so it fits the week you're actually having.
Module 2 - Monthly and Weekly Pages
  • ✦ The monthly set: title page, simple calendar, important dates and a short priorities list
  • Six weekly layouts to choose from: horizontal, vertical columns, one-page week, rolling list, week plus meals, week plus priorities
  • ✦ Every layout in minimal, colourful and decorative, so a busy week never means skipping the notebook
  • The ten-minute weekly page, the lesson that stops journaling from becoming another obligation
  • ✦ A small monthly theme (one colour, one motif) that ties the whole month together with almost no extra work
Module 3

Trackers For Habits & Wellbeing

The most satisfying pages in the whole notebook: a month of your life filling in, one coloured square at a time.
Module 3 - Trackers For Habits and Wellbeing
  • Six tracker layouts: habits, sleep, water, mood, movement and self-care, from a plain grid to a colour-in illustration
  • How to choose habits worth tracking, so you don't build twenty trackers, use them for four days and quit
  • ✦ The mood tracker colour key that turns a month of feelings into something you can actually read at a glance
  • Reading a finished tracker: spotting the patterns behind your bad weeks instead of just recording them
  • ✦ What to do with a tracker full of gaps (nothing, and here is why that's the right answer)
Module 4

Goals, Gratitude & Collections

The pages that make the notebook feel like yours: what you're working toward, what you're grateful for, and everything you love keeping lists of.
Module 4 - Goals, Gratitude and Collections
  • Goal pages that move: progress bars, a savings thermometer, a 30-day challenge grid and a simple project planner
  • ✦ The self-care set: gratitude log, daily wins, energy tracker, self-care bingo, and a "when I feel overwhelmed" page you'll be glad exists
  • Collections to make it personal: books to read, film watchlist, recipes to try, travel list, garden plan, gift ideas, favourite quotes
  • Morning and evening routine pages that take two minutes to fill in and quietly shape the whole day
  • ✦ How to pick the eight or nine pages that suit your life instead of copying someone else's notebook wholesale
Module 5

Make Every Page Look Beautiful

The small decorative skills that do 90% of the work, plus your final project: a complete mini-journal you build from the pages you chose.
Module 5 - Make Every Page Look Beautiful
  • Simple lettering and headings: two styles, no calligraphy pens, no years of practice
  • Banners, boxes, borders and dividers, and the one-line shadow trick that makes anything look finished
  • Easy botanicals and icons: leaves, small flowers, stars, hearts and weather, each built from shapes you already draw
  • Colour combinations and composition: balancing full and empty space, and how to rescue a page that came out too crowded
  • Final project, Your Personal Journal System: one monthly page, one weekly layout, three trackers, a goals page, a reflective page and one fun collection. A usable mini-journal, not practice sheets

You've seen what's inside. Five modules. A complete collection of page systems you can mix, reuse and make your own, month after month.

The full price for this course is $97.

You're not going to pay that today. And the reason is simple.

This is the first time I've offered this course to the public. I want 50 people to go through it. I want to see your first spreads, hear which layouts you reached for, and find out where you got stuck.

That feedback is worth more to me right now than charging full price. Honestly, I also need to find out if I can keep up with 50 support inboxes and still finish my own monthly spread.

So for this first group, the price is dramatically lower. Once those 50 spots fill, this page comes down and the full price goes live.

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Get access to the full course. Take one of those empty notebooks off the shelf. Make your first page, then a monthly spread, then a tracker, and watch the notebook slowly start to look like yours.

If you don't love it, email hello@bulletjournalclass.com within 90 days for a full refund. Within 24 hours. No questions asked.

But wait, there's more

Order today and you also get:

Bonus 1
$47 value

30 Printable Journal Layouts

Hit print, open your notebook, and copy. Every layout from the course as a clean printable page, so you never have to invent a spread from scratch on a Sunday night.
Bonus 1 - 30 Printable Journal Layouts
  • 30 layout templates: monthly calendars, six weekly spreads, trackers, goal pages and collections, sized for Letter and A4
  • Grid guides you can slip under a page to keep your lines straight without ruling a single one
  • Blank and filled-in versions of every layout, so you can see exactly how a finished page should look
  • High-resolution PDFs that print crisp every time, reprintable as often as you like
Bonus 2
$37 value

The 100 Doodles & Tracing Pack

The shortcut for everyone who says they cannot draw. One hundred simple doodles broken into steps, plus tracing sheets so your first attempt already looks good.
Bonus 2 - The 100 Doodles and Tracing Pack
  • 100 doodles in step-by-step stages: leaves, flowers, weather, stars, coffee cups, books, seasonal icons
  • Tracing pages for every doodle, the fastest way to a page you're proud of on day one
  • Banner, heading and border practice sheets to warm up on before you touch the real notebook
  • Printable stencil pages for boxes, circles and tracker grids, so nothing comes out crooked
Bonus 3
$27 value

The Colour & Theme Guide

Why some pages look calm and expensive and others look busy. This is the part nobody teaches beginners, and it is mostly just picking three colours and sticking to them.
Bonus 3 - The Colour and Theme Guide
  • 24 ready-made colour palettes with pen and marker matches, from soft botanical to bold and graphic
  • 12 monthly theme ideas (one per month) with a matching palette, motif and heading style
  • ✦ The three-colour rule and where to break it, so your notebook stays coherent from January to December
  • Before-and-after page fixes: the five most common ways a spread goes wrong, and the one change that rescues each

Here's everything you get:

✓ 5 Core Modules$139
✓ 30 Printable Journal Layouts$47
✓ The 100 Doodles & Tracing Pack$37
✓ The Colour & Theme Guide$27
Total Value$250
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The Journal Idea Book & 7-Day Challenge

The cure for the blank page, in two printable books. One answers "what should I even put in here?" for the next two years. The other walks you through your first week, one small page a day.
Mega Bonus - The Journal Idea Book and 7-Day Challenge
  • 200+ page ideas sorted by mood and season, so you always have something to make when you sit down
  • The 7-Day Creative Journal Challenge: one small, finishable page a day, from your cover page to your first full weekly spread
  • A daily prompt sheet for the reflective pages, for the evenings when you want to write but don't know where to start
  • A twelve-month planning calendar so you know what to set up at the start of each month without thinking about it

Students Usually Ask

Yes, and it is who the course was built for. Everything you make comes from straight lines, boxes, circles and a handful of shapes anyone can copy. Module 5 teaches the small decorative tricks (banners, headings, borders, simple leaves) that make a plain page look finished, and the bonus doodle pack includes tracing sheets so you can get a beautiful result on day one without drawing freehand.

That is the exact problem this course solves. You are never asked to invent a page from nothing. Every module gives you finished page systems you copy and adapt, starting with a first project so easy you will have a page you like within the first hour.

Under $20 total. One notebook ($8 to $15) and one pen ($2 to $5) is genuinely enough, and a notebook you already own works fine. Module 1 covers which pens will not bleed through cheap paper and how to build a palette from two or three colours instead of a drawer full of markers.

No. Dot grid is popular because it guides your lines without showing up in photos, but lined and blank notebooks both work. Module 1 covers the trade-offs in a few minutes so you can start with what is already on your shelf.

Every layout in the course comes in three levels: minimal, colourful and decorative. A minimal weekly page takes about ten minutes. A decorative monthly spread takes closer to an hour if you want it to. You choose the level per page, per week, depending on how much time you have.

Both, on purpose. You get real planning systems (monthly and weekly layouts, habit trackers, goal pages) and just enough simple decoration to make them something you want to open. It is not a drawing course, and it is not a productivity bootcamp.

Bullet journaling is one specific method with fixed notation. This is broader and gentler. You build a notebook that fits your life out of the pages you actually want: planning, trackers, reflection, memory keeping, collections and a little art. There are no rules to break and nothing to fall behind on.

Nothing happens. There is no streak to lose and no catching up. You open the notebook and start the next page. The course covers exactly how to come back after a gap, because every long-term journaler has them.

No. Each page stands on its own. A monthly spread that got you through one busy month was still worth making. The habit is built to be forgiving, which is precisely why it lasts longer than a rigid planner.

All included, at no extra cost. 30 layout templates, 100 simple doodles with tracing sheets, the colour and heading guide, the idea book and the 7-day challenge are all high-resolution PDFs you download and print on Letter or A4 as many times as you like.

90-day money-back guarantee. Make a few pages, live with the notebook for a while, and if you do not love it, email us within 90 days for a full refund. No questions asked. No hoops.

Instant access to our private course platform. All video lessons and downloadable PDFs organized by module. Watch on any device: phone, tablet, or computer. Lifetime access, so go at your own pace. There's no schedule and no expiration.

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Email us at hello@bulletjournalclass.com and we'll get back to you as soon as possible.

Here's everything you get:

✓ 5 Core Modules$139
✓ 30 Printable Journal Layouts$47
✓ The 100 Doodles & Tracing Pack$37
✓ The Colour & Theme Guide$27
✓ The Journal Idea Book & 7-Day Challenge$79
Total Value$329
Normally $97

Now Only $47

One time payment. Lifetime access.

90 Day Money Back Guarantee

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