Maker disclosure up front: I also make a paid journaling app, so weigh that however you want. But this is a free PDF, it isn't tied to the app, and there's no email gate or account. I'd rather say that plainly than have anyone wonder if it's bait.
I keep a handwritten journal, and I've always liked the old "one line a day" idea: one page per date, five year-slots stacked on the page, a single line for each year. You write today's line, and right above it you can see what you wrote on this date last year, and the year before. After a couple of years, the same date shows you how much you've changed.
I couldn't find a version that actually fit the reMarkable, so I made one and I'm giving it away.
What makes it reMarkable-specific and not just any PDF:
- The page is 157.5 x 210 mm, the exact 3:4 ratio of the rM2 and Paper Pro, so it fills the screen with no white margins.
- It's a vector PDF, so one file stays sharp on rM1, rM2, and Paper Pro without re-exporting per device.
- The contents page links each month to its first day, and every month is an outline bookmark, so month navigation shows up in the reMarkable sidebar.
- Fonts are embedded, it's about 400 KB and 369 pages, and the day pages are deliberately plain: lots of whitespace, no branding sitting on them.
It's CC BY 4.0, so it's yours to use and change however you like. Direct download, no signup:
inkward.life/en/one-line-a-day
It's on the site in six languages total (also German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish) if English isn't your first.
If you already keep a five-year or one-line-a-day journal on your rM, I'd like to know how you handle the year-slots, and whether one line a day feels like enough or too little. That limit is the whole idea of the format, but it seems to be the part people either love or bounce right off.