Journals and planners sell all year: gratitude journals, habit trackers, daily planners and prompt journals. ResultsAiX Publisher draws journal pages as clean vector lines and real text when you export, so they cost nothing to make and print perfectly crisp. The only image a journal needs is its cover.
Where to find it:
Pick Journal / Planner on step 1 of the New Book wizard. The default is 120 pages at 6 x 9 inches. In the page grid every inside page shows Template page (drawn in the PDF), and only the cover card has a picture.
The five page styles:
The plugin uses five templates and repeats them in the same order through the whole book: lined, dot grid, habit tracker, daily planner, prompt, then lined again.
- Lined: light grey ruled lines down the page.
- Dot grid: a fine grid of dots for bullet journals, lists and sketches.
- Habit tracker: a page titled Habit Tracker with a Month line, a Habit column and 31 numbered day columns. It fits between 4 and 14 habit rows, depending on the page height.
- Daily planner: a page titled Daily Planner with a Date line and an hour by hour schedule from 06:00 to 21:00.
- Prompt: a writing prompt in italics at the top with lines underneath. In version 1.0.20 each prompt page reads Today I am grateful for...
Making a journal:
- Open New Book and click Journal / Planner.
- Type your idea, for example A calm morning gratitude journal for busy women: soft sunrise colors, lined pages, daily planner and habit tracker. The idea is used for the cover art and the listing kit.
- Pick an Art Style for the cover. Storybook Watercolor gives soft covers.
- Keep 120 pages or change the number, then click Create Book.
- The queue makes the cover first and marks every inside page done straight away.
- Open the Publish tab and click Build Export Files.
Why do journals build so fast?
Only the cover is generated. The inside pages are drawing instructions, so the interior PDF of a 120 page journal is small and quick to build.
The spine on a journal:
A journal is long enough for text on the spine. Once a book has 79 interior pages or more, the cover PDF prints the title down the spine for you. See Spine Width, Paper Type And The Wraparound Cover.
Ideas for journals that sell steadily:
- Gratitude journals for a season of life, such as new mums or teachers.
- Habit trackers for a goal, such as running, reading or saving.
- Daily planners for a job, such as small business owners or nurses.
- Prompt journals as gifts for birthdays and holidays.
The cover and the listing kit do the work of telling buyers who the journal is for, so put that reader in your idea. For example: A calm morning gratitude journal for busy women.
A real example:
Calm Mornings Gratitude Journal has 120 pages plus the title and copyright pages the plugin adds, 122 in all. Ella set her paper type to cream in Settings before exporting, a common choice for journals, so the spine on her cover was worked out for cream paper.
Tips:
- A 6 x 9 journal with 100 to 150 pages feels like a proper notebook in the hand.
- Want a different prompt on each prompt page? That is not available in version 1.0.20, so lined and dot grid pages are the flexible choice for free writing.