Creating a low-content journal or planner

Low-content books (gratitude journals, planners, habit trackers, logbooks) are built from a page plan rather than a manuscript. Each entry in the plan is a section, and the platform fills each section with the number and kind of pages it describes. Getting the plan right is the whole job — everything downstream follows it.

1. Describe the book, then check the plan

1. In Phase 1 describe the finished book, not just the idea: who it is for, how many days or weeks it covers, and what each day or week should contain (for example "90 days, one page per day with a morning prompt and an evening reflection, plus a weekly review page").
2. Generate the blueprint in Phase 2 and read the section list. Rename, reorder, add or remove sections — this is free.
3. Put the page count you want directly in a section title when it matters, e.g. "Daily Gratitude Pages (90 Pages)" or "Weekly Reset (13 Pages)". The interior builder honors these counts when it lays out the book.

2. Daily pages, prompts and weekly resets

• A section whose title says daily ("Daily Pages", "Day 1–90", "Daily Gratitude") is built as a run of dated daily pages: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3 … numbered continuously across the whole book, each with a rotating written prompt and the guided fields (gratitude lines, mood, intention) beneath it.
• If your plan has its own "Weekly Reset" or "Weekly Review" section, those pages are built there and numbered Week 1, Week 2 … If it does not, a weekly review page is placed after every seven daily pages automatically.
• Milestone sections ("30-Day Check-in", "60/90-Day Reflection"), a how-to-use page, a prompt reference card and blank notes pages are all fine to include — each becomes the page type its title describes.
• Keep one idea per section. A section called "Everything else" gives the builder nothing to work from.

3. Title vs description

The project title is lettered onto the cover exactly as written. Keep it a real title (a few words, optionally a subtitle) and put the concept — "a gratitude journal for busy parents with 90 daily prompts…" — in the description instead. If the title still reads like a sentence when you generate a cover, the cover step will stop and ask you to shorten it before any credits are spent.

4. Interior, then cover

1. Generate the interior in Phase 5 and page through the preview. Check that the daily run has the count you asked for and that the day numbers continue without restarting.
2. Fix anything in the plan and rebuild the interior rather than regenerating individual pages one by one — for journals the plan is the cheapest place to make a change.
3. Generate covers only after the interior is final so the spine width matches the real page count.