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The analog journaling community is HUGE, international, and growing

These aren’t my journals; they are examples of the craft!

Stationery & journaling has been a thing in Asia for forever, but interest has exploded in the West over the past few years

All of these are US-based stationery

conventions started in the last year!

Outside of conventions and meetups, this community connects mostly over Instagram.

I’m very grateful for this!

But there are also problems with this for our community.

Problems with Instagram:

📱 Inspiration you never revisit

📱 TOO MUCH CONTENT, feel behind

📱 Feeling inadequate

📱 Need a “following” to be seen

📱 On your phone when you wanna

be in your journal

Seeing these problems, I thought to myself:

I should make an
Instagram alternative

for journalers

and by that I meant

A paper magazine

for stationery lovers

A paper magazine could solve all these problems!

Must an Instagram competitor be digital?

Speedrun through the process of making Pouch Magazine: