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An app for digital scrapbooking — build beautiful diary collages with palettes, fonts, stickers, backgrounds, and templates already picked to work together.
Read the announcement →The best way to stay focused
Most productivity systems work like coffee. They squeeze the most out of you today and leave you exhausted tomorrow. But there is one approach that actually helps you achieve more over time.
Read the post →Color, from quiet to loud
One rule runs through both posts — background, main, accent. What changes is only how loudly you say it.
How to pick 3 colors that always work
Three colors as three roles, the 60-30-10 rule, and the one saturation cheat that makes any palette look expensive.
Turn it up: playing with color without losing control
Triadic schemes, shade / tint / tone, five color vibe families, and swapping black-on-white for color-on-color.
The index
| # | Title | You'll learn | Volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | How to pick 3 colors that always work | Roles, 60-30-10, muting, four ready-made trios | quiet |
| 02 | Turn it up: playing with color without losing control | Triadic wheel, shade/tint/tone, vibe families, swapping black | loud |
Everything except color
The craft under a good page: how it's arranged, how it contrasts, what it's set in — and the habit that turns it all into taste. Each post builds on the one before.
How to build a layout that holds together
Align to invisible lines, group by meaning, add air, and give the page one anchor.
Loud on purpose, quiet on purpose
Make the different things clearly different and the same things honestly the same.
How to pick fonts that get along
Three roles, three families: a headline that leads, an accent that flashes, a body that reads.
Steal with your eyes: how to build an eye
Collect a moodboard, count what favorites are made of (almost always: little), and repeat.
The index
| # | Title | You'll learn | Focus |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | How to build a layout that holds together | Alignment, proximity, whitespace, anchor | order |
| 02 | Loud on purpose, quiet on purpose | Contrast, repetition, hierarchy, rhythm | contrast |
| 03 | How to pick fonts that get along | Font roles, pairing, three families max | type |
| 04 | Steal with your eyes: how to build an eye | Moodboards, the count exercise, the habit | the eye |
The craft under a good collage
For pages you've already tidied up: depth and shadows, the routes the eye travels, weight and balance, deliberate rule-breaking — the techniques that make a collage feel hand-made and composed. Every post has a live, playable demo.
Layers and depth: what makes a collage a collage
Overlap, tucked edges, and shadow physics — one sun per page, quiet shadows, height decides.
The repetition triangle
Scatter one motif to three unequal points — a dominant, two echoes — and the eye stitches the page.
Anchor and visual weight
The biggest thing isn't always the heaviest. Stack a focal point, then balance it like a scale.
The grid and one act of rebellion
Keep the whole page in line and let exactly one element tilt, cross a margin, or bleed off the edge.
Air as a participant
Emptiness has a shape and a weight. Pool it into one generous region and let it push back.
Leaving the grid entirely
The freeform page: when to abandon the grid — and the systems that hold it up instead.
Flow: the invisible route across the page
Where the eye enters, what it visits, and how to keep it from leaking off the edge.
Page skeletons: one recipe under a hundred sketches
Block, band, breath — the go-to formula behind every layout sketch, with a machine and a gallery to steal from.
The index
| # | Title | You'll learn | Focus |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Layers and depth | Overlap, tucked edges, shadow physics, stack order | depth |
| 02 | The repetition triangle | Three unequal points, repeat with variety | route |
| 03 | Anchor and visual weight | Weight beyond size, focal formula, sweet spots | balance |
| 04 | The grid and one act of rebellion | One deliberate break against visible order | tension |
| 05 | Air as a participant | Micro/macro air, active emptiness, the shape of nothing | air |
| 06 | Leaving the grid entirely | Freeform pages and what holds them together | freedom |
| 07 | Flow: the invisible route | Reading gravity, sight lines, exit control | flow |
| 08 | Page skeletons | Block · band · breath, golden splits, a sketch library | recipe |