📖 GENERAL
JOURNAL SIZE: 5.83in Width × 8.27in Height
Size Comparison:
🗓️ How to Use Your Journal
To begin, turn to today’s calendar date and fill in the year at the top of the page’s first entry. Write your thoughts about the day ✍️
📸 Take a photo each day and paste it into your journal to make each entry more meaningful.
The next day, turn the page and repeat. Continue this process throughout the year.
Once the year ends, start the next year in the second entry space on the same page. Over time, this becomes a comparative record—a personal time machine full of memories, growth, and reflection ⏳
✨ Don’t forget to use the “Dates to Remember” section at the end of the journal to quickly revisit your highlights!
📌 IMPORTANT POINTS
- FOTOJournal is a daily highlight journal—keep it simple and meaningful
- Great for bullet journaling + memory tracking 🧠
- Helps you build a personal archive of your life
- Want longer entries sometimes? Keep a second journal. Reference those longer entries in your daily FOTOJournal 📚
- Consistency matters—but don’t stress perfection:
- Miss a few days? Fill in if you can remember, but if not, pick back up at the current date and keep moving forward👍
- If you reach other years with extra photo slots → take 2 photos that day! 📸📸
- If you start any day other than January 1st 📅, when you reach the end of the year and flip back to the beginning to start a new year, keep going on the TOP LINE until you reach the day you started, then go to the second line.
💡 TIPS
📷 Don’t overthink your photos
If you don't know what to take a picture of you can take pictures of everyday things (your car, your room, your street, etc).
👉 These “normal” moments become the most nostalgic over time.
🧠 GUIDED JOURNAL PROMPTS (Simple + Effective)
List of 1000 Prompts (Thanks to r/journaling on reddit)
- https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1CE70wQ-njt5EuCuiAY21XSMik6hsSdi8nQo2Fz2yj0k/mobilebasic?usp=gmail
- Link will open google docs in new tab
Use the below prompts to:
- Set the tone 🌅
- Stay aligned 📋
- Reflect + grow 🌙
- Build accountability 🎯
- Track progress 📈
- Practice gratitude 🙏
🌅 Morning Reset
- Today I want to feel:
- My top 3 priorities:
- One thing I will not tolerate today:
- If today goes well, it will look like:
- One small win I can guarantee:
📋 Midday Check-In
- What have I accomplished so far?
- What’s draining my energy?
- What’s giving me energy?
- Do I need to adjust my plan?
- One thing I can finish today:
🌙 Evening Reflection
- 3 things that went well:
- Something I handled better than before:
- A challenge I faced:
- What I learned:
- What I’m proud of:
💭 Emotional Awareness
- Right now I feel:
- Why I feel this way:
- What I need (rest, space, action, support):
- Something I’m avoiding:
- One honest thought:
🎯 Progress + Discipline
- Did I follow through? (Yes/No + why)
- Nutrition:
- Movement:
- Energy level (1–10):
- Cravings or triggers:
- One better choice I made:
🌱 Identity + Mindset
- The person I’m becoming is:
- Today I acted like that person when:
- A thought I need to reframe:
- What would my highest self do?
- One belief I’m changing:
🙏 Gratitude
- Something simple I appreciated:
- Someone I’m grateful for:
- A moment I don’t want to forget:
- Something that didn’t go wrong:
⚡ Quick Version (2-Minute Days)
- Win:
- Challenge:
- Lesson:
- Mood:
- Tomorrow’s focus:
🧩 Weekly Reflection (Optional)
- Patterns I noticed:
- Where I self-sabotaged:
- Where I showed discipline:
- What needs to change:
⭐ PERSONAL FAVORITE METHOD
- Write daily highlights, use one of the prompts above if your day wasn't too crazy
- Add 1 line about your photo 📸
- Add a checkbox: “Won the Day” ✅ (then check off if you followed routines/habits)
- Add a checkbox: Gym 🏋️ ✅ (or your most important habit)
👉 Simple, but extremely powerful for accountability
📸 PHOTO OPTIONS FOR YOUR 3-YEAR JOURNAL
🖨️ OPTION #1: Regular Printer Paper
- ✅ Regular Printer Paper Photo Prints
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✅ Cheapest Option - Basically Free if You Have a Print
- ✅ Easy & Relatively Quick - ~5 minutes for 1 full week of photos
- ✅ Print 7 Days' Worth of Photos on One Page
- ✅ Compatible with your 3-Year Journal
Materials Needed: Your Phone, FREE Canva App, Printer + Ink, Paper, Scissors, Glue stick, Your 3-Year FOTOJournal
1. ➡️ GET SET UP:
- Download the FREE Canva App to your phone
- Choose 7 photos, 1 for each day in the past week
2. ➡️ OPEN PHOTO TEMPLATE:
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Insert Photos into 3-Year FOTOJournal Canva Photo Template
- Link to Template: https://canva.link/wnewi25mxkq4wkm
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Resize Photos to fit into the boxes
3. ➡️ PRINT & PLACE:
- Print from your phone, or from your computer
- Cut Out Photos
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Glue into entries in Your 3-Year FOTOJournal
See Blog Post on PHOTO OPTION #1 for a video tutorial and in-depth directions with photo explanations
🟡 OPTION #2: Adhesive Photo Printer
- ✅ Highest Quality Photo Prints - Glossy Photopaper Feel
- ✅ Easiest and Fastest Option - Takes Less Than 2 Minutes
- ✅ No Glue Needed - Just Cut, Peel, and Stick in your FOTOJournal
- ✅ Compatible with your 3-Year Journal
Materials Needed: Your Phone, Pearl N200 Pro Printer, Your 3-Year FOTOJournal, FREE Liene Printing App, FREE Canva App, Scissors
1. ➡️ GET SET UP:
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Purchase Liene Pearl N200 Pro Portable Photo Printer
- Amazon Link: https://amzn.to/4txkeSX
- Download the FREE Liene Printing App to your phone
- Download the FREE Canva App to your phone
2. ➡️ CREATE A COLLAGE:
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Insert photos into 3-Year FOTOJournal Photo Template to make a collage of 2 photos
- Link to Template: https://canva.link/gczdslbwk6lsttc
- Resize the photos to fit in the boxes of the template
- Download the template with the photos in place and it will go directly to your phone gallery.
3. ➡️ PRINT & PLACE:
- Open the Liene Printing App
- Choose Classic Photo Print
- Choose your newly made collage from your gallery
- Print, Peel, Cut
- Stick into Your 3-Year FOTOJournal
See Blog Post on PHOTO OPTION #2 for a video tutorial and in-depth directions with photo explanations
And that's everything you need to know about your 3-Year FOTOJournal
