Plain paper, plain language, and no advice
Every book in this shop started from the same observation: the moment something happens to your health, or to someone you look after, you are suddenly the person keeping the records — and nobody gives you anything to keep them in.
So you end up with a note in your phone, an envelope of appointment letters, a date you are fairly sure about, and a memory of the fortnight when things were bad that has quietly rewritten itself. Then somebody who can actually help asks you a specific question, and none of it is in a form you can answer with.
These are the forms.
What they have in common
They record. They do not instruct. There is no clinical guidance in any of them, no diet, no dosing, no plan to fall behind on, and nothing that tells you what a symptom means — because none of that is mine to give, and a book that pretends otherwise is worse than no book. What they do is put the right box on the page at the point you need it, so that six weeks later there is a record instead of an impression.
They are designed to be written in by hand. Handwriting is slower than typing, which is the point: thirty seconds with a pen at the kitchen table gets done on the days a phone app does not.
They assume the bad weeks. Almost every planner ever printed assumes twelve consecutive good ones. These have a page for the week it falls apart, because that week is coming and it is not a failure of the book or of you.
They are plain. No inspirational quotes, no mandala to colour in, no talk of a journey. Black type on white paper, a decent grid, and enough room to write.
How they are made
Each book is drawn from scratch — every grid, every form, every illustration — so the boxes are the right size for what actually goes in them and the sections run in the order you reach for them, not alphabetically. The emergency page comes first because that is when it is needed. The medication list is one page so it can be photographed on a phone and handed to somebody.
No drug brand names appear anywhere in the shop, and no product makes a claim about an outcome.
I started this because I wanted to share what I know about keeping records — and because nothing beats pen and paper.
Everything is a digital download. Nothing is posted, nothing arrives late, and you can print a page again the week after you spill tea on it.