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The best journals to buy for 2025
We feel a stationery spree coming on...
We're getting super organised ahead of 2025, and are already starting to plan our stationery for the year ahead. Admit it, it's time to step up from keeping your "very important ideas" in your notes app and invest in a journal. Whether it's for general to do lists, tracking your wellbeing, focusing on gratitude, scrapbooking, or even keeping your fave recipes to hand, there are journals for whatever you need.
From calendar-style offerings so you can keep track of your weekly schedule to ones that remind you to be mindful, here's our pick of the 13 best journals to buy ahead of 2025.
If your 2025 is shaping up to be a big one full of exciting plans, get ahead and get organised with this planner which has a monthly and weekly breakdown, as well as to-do lists, weekly mood trackers and a productivity companion to help you achieve your monthly goals.
Get those feel-good holiday vibes all year long with this beach towel themed wellness journal. Inside, fill the pages with your daily intentions, dreams, sleeping patterns and self care plans.
If you plan for next year to be full of new books then keep a track of them in this reading journal. It allows you to keep an overarching index of every read before going in depth with two pages for your review of each.
If you want to get into manifesting your best life possible in 2025, then this journal with a helpful guide on how to manifest is ideal and filled with 112 blank pages to get you thinking about your goals.
If you just want a small pocket sized journal to keep track of your most important dates and events, then we love this weekly diary from Smythson which is available in a range of colours.
We don't know if its the sleek cover, or the perfectly crisp lined pages, but using a Moleskine notebook makes us feel like proper grownups. You know the ones who have their s**t together. So even if you don't feel responsible you'll be able to have all your important thoughts and notes documented in a proper notebook.
Getting this beyond cute cowboy design planner out every day might just be enough to motivate us to get through our mammoth to-do list.
Ok, so this is definitely on the spenny side of journals, but it's worth it as it will last you for years to come as the journal is refillable. We're obsessed with the black croc effect of this journal, although it also comes in a brown colour too. Oh, and you can personalise it too.
While we may not have the greatest artistic skills, the girlies on TikTok have convinced us scrapbooking is the hobby to get into next year. And so to get started we'll be getting this scrapbook.
For all the culinary queens among us, how cute is this recipes journal? Whether you're experimenting with your own dishes or you need a space to write down the instructions for your great great great grandmother's fudge, we're loving the vibe of this Papier offering.
Ok, this is going straight to the top of our Christmas lists. The genuine leather notebook can be personalised and there's a variety of colours available too.
Keep it simple with this pack of black journals.
Got a lot to say? This journal has you covered. With 320 pages to use, it's time to start writing that novel.
Sophie Williams is a Freelance Journalist and Copywriter, covering everything from Fashion to Entertainment to music, Lifestyle and Features. She has interviewed a range of musical artists and authors including Alyssa Edwards, Courtney Barnett, Confidence Man, The Vaccines, Loyle Carner, Gabrielle, and John Niven, and has written for publications like Metro, Reader's Digest, ITV's Woo! and Vice’s NBGA. She is also working on a book for HarperCollins about Taylor Swift, due to be published in 2024.
Lydia Venn is Cosmopolitan UK’s Senior Entertainment and Lifestyle Writer. She covers everything from TV and film, to the latest celebrity news. She also writes across our work/life section regularly creating quizzes, covering exciting new food releases and sharing the latest interior must-haves. In her role she’s interviewed everyone from Margot Robbie to Niall Horan, and her work has appeared on an episode of The Kardashians. After completing a degree in English at the University of Exeter, Lydia moved into fashion journalism, writing for the Daily Express, before working as Features Editor at The Tab, where she spoke on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour and Talk Radio. She has an encyclopedic knowledge of Gilmore Girls and 00s teen movies, and in her free time can be found with a margarita in hand watching the Real Housewives on repeat. Find her on LinkedIn.
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