My 2025 Journal Lineup 📚 Bullet Journal, Reading Journal & More

[@kurosven]

"Mustard is just not my jam." Condiments as adjectives is always funny.

[@chefany01]

I am actually starting my journaling journey next year! Today I ordered my first journal, a thermal printer and Tombow pens! There is still so much to buy, but I am looking forward to it. Your videos have been a great inspiration and ideas source ✨✨✨

[@cheriichanamandine1397]

I used only one journal for everything 👌🏻 but I began to add my reading pages when I saw your video ! It is nice to track what we read !

[@SipsofJoy]

I have to admit that I stopped the video to go check out that beautiful A5 from Tiefossi! That is a new brand for me and I can tell already will be a favorite. Placed an order then came back to finish your video. 😁 I love seeing all the beautiful journals and how you are using them next year. I’ll be watching!

[@thebloodredfern]

In LOVE with your line up! I've started a reading journal because of you. I used to start and stop journals all the time because I would get overwhelmed with creating art for each spread, but you showed me a different way of journaling that I'm in love with right now. Thank you!

[@ErinSmith]

This makes me so happy to hear! 😍😍

[@jennifergentry144]

This video was so fun! Journals are addiction! I cannot pass up a beautiful journal! I love the texture, the smell, the endless possibilities that they represent. I currently have a commonplace journal which I use for spread ideas, project notes, holiday planning and just general stuff I want to remember now. I also have a long term collections journal as well as a reading journal. I have one that I use only for quotes or book passages as well. I’m excited for planner season set-ups!😃

[@witchy_bookworm]

I started a reading journal this year and did it in an A&O 8x8 journal and have loved it. Space to decorate and review.

[@CJs_Papercrafts]

OMG a preset up Book Journal? That's fantastic!!!

[@ErinSmith]

I’m so excited about it!

[@In_TheMoonlight]

I’ve been bullet journaling for a few years but I’m gonna be starting my first ever reading journal in 2025 and I’m so excited!!

[@alyxbeauchamp7883]

I'm using the same embroidered mustard color journal from the sub box for my reading journal this year! I had been considering it for that purpose for ages and seeing you use yours that way made me want the bigger pages for large decoration! I have a lot of art/letters from authors I wanted the space to he able to glue or tape in. I use the square journals for my bullet journal each year (love it) but I know most people do the reverse to me and use an a5 (what i had been using previously for reading) for daily bujo and square for reading. I hope you enjoy the square! It's my favorite size for so many reasons ♡

[@GigglesFPS]

I’m so excited! I have some of these journals so I can’t wait to see your vision in them!! ❤😊

[@DancingBats]

Your 2025 reading journal is gorgeous! 😍

[@Bookbonkers8439]

I use a pre printed planner and I have a reading journal. My first reading journal was a square A&O, which I loved that size, but I’m currently using a B5, which I also like. You could use the Travelers size for your reading journal all the time, just do the first half of the year in one and the second half of the year in another. 🤷‍♀️

[@karamichelle6919]

Currently, I've got a B5 a&o as my reading journal. I really only started in sept, so im just going to keep using it until it's full...not sure if I'll start with a new books read list for 2025. The next reading journal after that will be a blackout square, so I'm super excited for that one, too. Just started another a5 for my everyday (3rd one this year). Am going to start long form journaling in it in January. Hoping to use up 1 per quarter... Have 2 pocket bujos from bullet journal - one has my TBR list, one has pen swatches in the front and washi swatches in the back. Have some other a5s set aside for yearly collections and long term collections but might combine them into one...still planning those. Oh and i havent decided if i want to do finances/debt in my every day one...or a yearly one. 😉 Love all the inspo I get from your channel... and I might join page mages for 2025, too!

[@In_TheMoonlight]

What a wonderful video to wake up to!

[@alexwolfe3359]

FYI the embroidered mustard journal that you used as a reading journal in a subscription box is is NOW AVAILABLE on the Archer and Olive Black Friday sale! They brought it back specifically for the sale

[@thelegaultlife3096]

So mustard isn’t my jam either, HOWEVER the strawberry plant was so this very journal became my Garden Journal! I love it for this

[@Handmadebypoo]

Lovely notebook.. i love stationery so maybe i loved every single one of them 😊❤

[@elliesnotes]

Love this! I thought that I would be using about 6 journals next year but I keep adding ones 🤣😂 I will have to do an updated video when I finalize the list

[@evebananas]

I do everything in one A5 journal from A&O and use bout 3 per year!

[@mariakeogh1147]

Omg I got the notebook therapy's lucky bag too, so excited for it to arrive 😂

[@caithenry8429]

I've moved away from journaling into hobonichi planners because I got too in my head about creating beautiful spreads, but man do I miss having a physical journal/diary. I think I'll try a reading journal next year because as much as I love the stats in StoryGraph, I don't wholly remember the books I've read and reviewed 😂

[@savannahwoods3222]

I'm using 5 journals: bullet journal in a5, pocket sized to do list journal, a letter sized spell book from A+O for a media journal, an a5 politics and news journal and an a6 for a mental health journal :)

[@noornamu6677]

A politics journal sounds really interesting may I ask what are you writing in it?

[@ErinSmith]

I’m also curious about your politics and news journal, that sounds like an incredible snapshot of humanity in this moment! I feel like there will be historians thanking you for that in the future! Also, LOVE a media journal! Letter size would give you SO much flexibility with that!

[@savannahwoods3222]

@noornamu6677 I'm keeping track of changes that are happening in the USA given the results of the last election, I'm in a minority group that is being targeted by the new administration so I'm trying to keep myself and my family safe by staying informed :) also notes from political science books📚

[@errorsans6302]

I ordered the notebook therapy luck box too! Coming on Saturday and I can’t wait!

[@ErinSmith]

My tracking info isn’t working but I’m hoping it arrives soon 🤣

[@juliangelus]

I'm thinking of doing a memory keeping journal, I have the red one you use for your morris dancing and think that would be the perfect size. I have most of my next years reading journal pencilled out but now I've seen you're doing a square I'm going to wait until your set up comes out so I can steal ideas lol . Great video Erin :)

[@amandafoxton6463]

I can’t afford journals!! I have just bought an A5 Yop and Tom journal for 2025. Far fancier than my first one! I only started this year. So nervous and excited to start. I am not creative and have no calligraphy skills so mine won’t be looking as great as yours but it’s all about the process and getting better. Thank you so much for your Skillshare month subscription I have used it for my lettering and it seems very affordable so I am thinking of subscribing. It seems like a good idea to get an Archer and Olive subscription box as you get such good value for the money and as someone who has just started my supplies are very limited! Thank you for all that you do for me. 😊

[@ErinSmith]

The Yop and Tom journals are so good! We all have to start somewhere, I promise my first few journals weren’t very pretty but I’m 7 years in now - it’s all about practice! You’re off to an excellent start with the Skillshare classes! 😍

[@Haffina]

I have 2 five-year journals that are 3 years old at this point, so still a couple of years to go in them. I have a yearly collections journal that I am on my 3rd year in. I am moving my reading journal into my current everyday journal, which is A4 and will give me space to do multiple books on one page and will therefore last me at least a couple of years. I have a long term collections journal which I have neglected horribly so I really want to get back into that. And my everyday journal will be one of the several A5 journals I have collected in the last couple of years, but I haven't decided which one I am going with. I have really enjoyed using an A4 in terms of the amount of space I have to work with, and being able to put what usually takes 2 pages into just one. I also have a journal that I use for the gym, but I want to set it up better than it currently is so it is easier to track progress. I have so many ideas and plans for 2025, no idea if any of it will come to pass LOL. Also, that journal for the reading journal giveaway is freaking gorgeous!

[@noornamu6677]

I LOVE your stack, I tried a travelers size notebook this year and I really really loved it, and if you want to make a memory keeping journal may I suggest a hobonichi notebook it is perfect for pasting lots of ephemera inside the paper is very thin but really durable For 2025 I’m going to use a Bullet journal in the original size of notebook therapy (I’m going to use the one in the lucky box) A hobonichi weeks planner A5 year diary from hobonichi

[@ChantelleArts]

this is so cute, I love these covers so much ☺☺

[@ErinSmith]

I’m really enjoying the detailed full-cover embossing trend lately, I hope that sticks around for a while! 😍

[@justine9282]

Hi ! I jumped on your video as soon as I saw it online. Im using 7 notebooks this year. One A5 bujo, one B5 diary, one Square reading journal, one Traveller's size for my game sheet, a letter size for my herbalism (fully decorated and beautiful) + one A5 for my herbalism reserches (full of markers, flowers drawn everythere, notes and stuff all around the place) and a pocket size for my little stupid notes.

[@Life.W.Walkinshaw]

So excited to see what you create and how you use the square notebook another youtuber who loves this size and aesthetics' just so beautiful is Plant Based Bride :)

[@themazeballet]

I have my plannere (Hobonichi Weeks), a commonplace notebook (Moleskine--I know the complaints about the paper but I only use gel pens or ballpoints in there so they hold up) and a journal for prompts/thoughts (Leuchtturn 1917). The planner and the commonplace are new since I finished my 2024 planner (Hobonichi A6 Hon) and I just finished my old commonplace book (also a Moleskine). I am nowhere near done with my journal, so I will continue with that. Everything else I keep on my laptop or my phone (reading journal, budget, etc). Oh! nearly forgot, I have a 5 year prompt journal that I finished this year and will start again next year! Different cover, same questions, but I am looking forward to that.

[@sharonlovesbooks]

I am currently using two journals. One is for personal day-to-day memory keeping and the other one is a reading journal.

[@sharonlovesbooks]

Reading journal from you would be a dream come true 😊

[@lauratolhurst3443]

I've found the same thing when using a B5 for my reading journal, I thought I'd love all the extra space, and while sometimes it is nice, sometimes i look at a book spread and think it'd look nicer on an A5 page. 😅 So I'm going back to an A5 next year! But I don't know which one from which brand to get at the moment! I also use a Hobnichi weeks as my general life planner and an A6 Hobonichi techo for memory keeping.

[@nildam.bonilla5849]

Ooohhh the rough sized pages look interesting

[@sassypigeonhq]

What a beautiful line up!! That square reading journal, wow! *drools a little * I'm starting to get quite interested in these reading journals.. I might have to pay more attention to them and think about creating one for myself ❤

[@ErinSmith]

I have a video about where to start with that 😉 which of your collection would you use for a reading journal? 😍

[@sassypigeonhq]

@ErinSmith Haha! Yes!! I will have to watch it again! .. I think I would use the black skull notebook! I love crime/cop/who done it type books! Currently 19 books in to the James Patterson, Women's Murder club series. It has been SO nice reading a series and not having to work out what I'm going to read next!! Haha ❤️❤️

[@mopete9830]

All my journals are digital and on my boox note air 3c. So I have my bullet journal set up already I'm currently moving bills and important dates into it when I want to journal and am bored. I've got my reading journal set up and I moved my medical journal back into my bullet journal because my last one was only a couple of pages. I am setting up a common place journal soon and I'm thinking of adding a better formatted long form journal. Currently my long form is just lined pages and I would like the options for photos and such. I have a journal that's just important dates and info, so things like care matenince and long term goals and astrological dates is in that. And I have one that I sketch in that I want to practice more in. So that's like seven I'm working in. The notes app on the boox device makes it very easy to go to pages and search and just copy pages out of notebooks and paste them into others. It saves me a lot of time and space. I'm a van lifer so I had to switch to digital but picked a color eink tablet so I still get a lot of the same experience as physical. I still use washi and stickers and paste in photos they are just all jpegs.

[@ChaptersWeLove]

I love the mustard color 😍 I think I’ll try the travel journal in 2025 - ohhh that spell book ❤❤❤ great line up!

[@suzannebrownbill9232]

I uses the same A&O b5 journal for my 2024 reading journal... only I don't do full spreads for my books. So I'm only halfway though the journal and it will also be my 2025 reading journal (or entertainment journal as I also uses it for tv, movies, plays etc.)

[@ErinSmith]

I love that! It sounds like it’s serving you so well 😍

[@mizzlove95]

If you are looking for more embroidered notebooks, check out Baylee Jae's ones. Hobonichi is a brand that makes traveler sized notebooks, if that could be something for you.

[@Chaos_and_Creativity]

OK!!! it would ONLY Seem fair that I get to add a reading journal (my first one mind you, AND my first archer and Olive EVER) to the collection of Erin I'm trying to sport in my home!! I wanted this journal from them so bad but they sold out quickly and it's just not in the cards for me UNLESS I'm lucky enough to win this beauty. Also, never enough notebooks!!! NEVER!!!! 😂

[@anuviitala3463]

The small blue notebook feels perfect for anyone collecting autographs or signatures.

[@ErinSmith]

That’s such a good idea! Perfect size for throwing in a pocket or handbag!

[@emilybastong3896]

I only have two journals planned for next year (three if you count my swatch book I guess). One is my everyday bullet journal (though I only use monthly collections and habit trackers plus book reviews) and the other one is a 5-year-journal that will be set up to track my transition (I came out as non-binary a year ago and would like to document the process, as I will start social and medical transitioning in 2025). I additionally keep a few notebooks for work and my writing projects but they don't really count in my opinion as they're meant for note taking and not very pretty at all

[@ErinSmith]

What a wonderful idea for your 5 year journal! All the best with this next stage of your transition journey 💕 I love a swatch book! Do you swatch inks in yours too, or something else?

[@emilybastong3896]

​@@ErinSmith Thank you❤ I have a lot of different pens, mostly alcohol and water-based markers, coloured pencils and oil pastels. I also use it to sample my bullet journal themes before committing

[@mooncraftbujo]

Erin I'm screaming that's so many notebooks 😂 I really want one of the NT travellers notebooks but they're all ivory paper and I'm a white paper girlie! Fingers crossed they'll bring out some white paper ones 🤞

[@ErinSmith]

It is a lot of notebooks, I’m lowkey screaming too 🤣 I’m personally on team ivory paper, how wild that I don’t have one yet!

[@mooncraftbujo]

@ErinSmith I can't really talk, I'm using 5 🤣

[@TJulieta]

1:27 how beautiful 😍

[@rosildacristina2415]

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