Moleskine Passion Journals - Review Part one

Received my Moleskine passion journals the other day. I ordered from www.mojolondon.co.uk - great service - Ordered three - Book journal, Wellness journal and Recipe journal.

Each is similar in style and features:

• Embossed cover with relevant images e.g. the wellness one has images of people doing sports, yoga etc.
• A planning section of two pages
• Predefined sections with templates; the Wellness one has weekly goals; Exercise log, Diet, General Health, Sports and Inspirations - each template page fits the theme e.g. exercise log has 4 date rows with columns for date, type of exercise, time, distance/repetitions & workout notes
• 6 freeform sections with the labels blank,  five 'boxes per page - there are plenty of options with labels included or you could do you own on label printer - examples of mine are Gear - for training gadgets, kit I want to buy, Routes for bike or run route , workouts where I can log specific circuits, Classes for kaiser bike sessions or circuit training sessions or swim sessions.
• Three ribbon markets - like those in the City Books - very useful given the different sections.
• Size - the journals are the large Moleskine ie the 'A5' size which is great given the information that can be kept.

Useful?

Yes if you have specific interests the wellness works great for me asa fitness log - previously kept one in free form this has proved more useful - the inspirations section has proved really useful for writing sports quotes and I have taken to pasting in photos.

I'm an avid reader so the book journal stays by the bed and with the page per book format  I can keep references and notes from the books as I'm reading them.

They are flexible enough to make them personal - no journal would ever be the same.

Yes you could do this in one journal or a specific blank journal for each interest.

However these are nice books - OK I may well be addicted to Moleskine and can't wait for the rest of the folio range due out later this year. In the digital world it is nice to take time out and use a journal for reflection and log memories or locate specific information for future use - e.g. books to buy, gear to buy recipes to try - I'm hooked

Cost about £15 expensive, possibly  - though you could pay that for a software application to do some of the same things but there's something appealing about the tactile feel of these journals and using the journal does feel good.

I will add another review with photos shortly.