A mix between a memory book and a mood board, the junk journal is a colourful and unstructured alternative to the classic diary. In a notebook, you stick everything that matters, a cinema ticket ...

My diary collection is dwarfed by Sally MacNamara Ivey’s. She has read more than 10,000 unpublished diaries and spent 35 years collecting them. She keeps nearly 1,000 in her Washington State home.