Planning My 2025 Reading Journal 📖 🧠 Mind Map With Me 

Sterling ink 500 paged travelers size notebook. It’ll be enough space for ALL of your layouts and then some. That’s my vote. It’s tomoe river paper as well.

Maybe include everything you want with no care of how many pages it would take? It would give you a better idea of how many pages you would need in the future and you could always spilt 2025 into two a&o notebooks?

Yes adding a bubble to the end of your index to color code the genre would be great. I started a creative reading journal in A5 & should have watched this 1st. I like the idea of the tip ins & outs. And that you're using a standard size for it.

I like the “more impactful” separate genre tracker idea. I loved seeing all of your book journals. Thanks for another great video. Can’t wait to see your 2025 theme.

What about a myths retelling readalong for 2025

Maybe combine the genre tracker with the log, and color code by genre, with a tip-in key?

I use a 192 page A5 journal which lasts me a year. For my index I set aside the amount of space I need for how many books I read each year with a bit extra just in case, plus 26 for a header for each letter, then I pencil everything in. At the end of the year I pen it all in and do the headers so the index is nice and full. I keep a small statistics page that sums up how many books each month were library or owned, ebook or audio or physical, and what genres, and then totals for the year. I just make it part of an end of month ritual to finish writing my reviews for the month, fill in my stats, and check through my other yearly spreads, then fill in my tbr for the next month. I’m looking forward to seeing your setup! ❤

I'm planning to do dutch doors for my index so that might be another consideration instead of a flip out so you don't have to add extra bulk? I do my index by month, though and I call it a Year at a Glance. I second what someone else said about combining the genre tracker with the log and just color code it. I do this with reading format instead of genre, but I am thinking of adding genre colors and then letters (P, A, E) for format into my squares for my book challenge spread. And on the key, I will have a space to put the final count for the end of the year. I am thinking of changing the format to type this next year (novel, manga, webcomic, light novel, etc.). I also read a lot of manga so I'm thinking of combining my manga series trackers with the corresponding anime tracker. Like for specific series, have a dual line with the books on one and movies/episodes/arcs on another line. I keep all my recommendations, release radar, and tbr on Goodreads so I don't have to take up space in my journal. I will have a spread at the end of books I plan to have on my # books to read in the coming year.

I absolutely love your journal! It's so beautiful and well organized for what you need which is fantastic. I am not sure I could make it in a travelers for a reading journal as I am a full review writer for the books I read but I think your set up is so gorgeous!

Paused the video to say that if it were me I would make the number of lines for each letter in the index directly proportional to the frequency of its use. I would rather a set up be logical than symmetrical (but symmetry is its own type of logic.. I just can't think of a better word than "logical") Also I very much relate to the education-reading-burnout

Adding a genre tracker to your index would probably require you to color code things, and you already said earlier in the video that including too many colors doesn't work for you. So maybe if you do a genre tracker it should have its own page?

Why do you need to have just one book? Set it up in a way that makes you happy. If you need two notebooks, that’s okay. I also love the idea of a traditional TN with inserts. That way you can have one insert for the “front matter” and first lines, etc. Then as many inserts as you need to make it through the tear. Done and dusted 😊

I think a genre tracker is interesting, especially because I have two book clubs that read genres I'd never touch. I'll probably add one this year.

I love watching book journal set ups, but my journal is just plain lists. 😊

I spy Witcher #9 on your release radar for 2025, it's on mine too :3

I can’t help thinking the Sterling Ink N1 notebook might be a good choice for you.