Prompts, inserts and permission to write badly.
by Fenna Visser·🇳🇱Utrecht, Netherlands
Photographs of mail sent by Canal Journal Club
A monthly envelope for people who keep journals and keep abandoning them. Contains thirty prompts printed on individual cards, a set of gridded and dotted inserts sized for common notebooks, one sheet of ephemera worth sticking in, and a letter about what the month's prompts are trying to do. The prompts are deliberately unambitious — the premise is that most journaling advice asks too much and that two honest lines beat a page of performance.
One per calendar month, from the creator
August 2026 · 4 days ago
The most common message I get is that €11 a month is more than someone wants to spend on prompts.
So from September there is a cards-only tier at €6 — thirty prompt cards, no inserts, no ephemera, same letter. It goes in a normal envelope, which is most of the saving.
What went out, month by month
Thirty prompts about minor irritations. The most popular set so far, by a distance.
Prompts about decisions not taken. Heavier than intended.
Thirty rooms you have been in. Includes inserts printed with floor plans.
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