You keep photographs of what you make. This is for everything the photograph doesn’t show.

The ideas that arrive at completely inconvenient times.

The things you tried that nobody asked you to try.

The piece you nearly launched across the room.

The customer comment you want to remember forever.

The strange request that required a short walk before replying.

The thing you were certain would sell.

The thing you nearly didn't make that everybody suddenly wanted.

And all those little moments you were absolutely convinced you'd remember.

The Maker’s Chaos Book is part journal, part creative dumping ground and part maker time capsule - created especially for people who make things.

It's a place to get ideas out of your head, keep track of the moments worth remembering and build a record of your creative life as it changes.

Not another productivity system.

Not another planner telling you what you should be doing.

And definitely no expectation that you fill it in perfectly.

Start anywhere. Skip pages. Scribble. Stick things in. Come back months later. Make it yours.

There is no order you have to follow and no page you have to complete first.

More than somewhere to write down ideas

The Chaos Book gives all those little parts of being a maker somewhere to live.

Use it to capture ideas before they disappear, remember projects you want to try and park expensive ideas before one convincing video results in another piece of equipment arriving at your house.

Keep a record of how your making is changing — the things you can do now that once felt difficult, experiments that worked, experiments that absolutely didn't and lessons you learned along the way.

Save the people and moments behind your work, from comments that made the whole thing worthwhile to customer requests, people who supported you and the things only another maker would understand.

If you sell what you make, there's space for the business memories worth keeping too - unexpected bestsellers, products that didn't perform as expected, memorable orders, market-day aftermaths and the things you've learned you'd rather say no to next time.

And because progress can be surprisingly difficult to notice while you're living it, there's somewhere to keep the firsts, tiny wins and milestones too - from your first sale or repeat customer to the small creative victories nobody else would understand.

And then there's the time capsule...

Keep photographs, old product tags, packaging, business cards, swatches, stickers, notes and other little flat pieces of your making life.

Record what you're making now, what people know you for and what you're hoping might change.

Compare your early work with what you're making today.

Write something to the maker you'll be in the future.

Because one day, this won't just be a book you've filled in.

It'll be a record of the maker you were becoming.

This might be for you if…

• Your ideas currently live in screenshots, scraps of paper and your head.
• You've bought materials for a project you can no longer remember.
• You've said “I'll remember that” and absolutely did not.
• You want somewhere for the fun bits of making, not just the admin.
• You've been making for years but rarely stop to notice how much better you've become.
• You sell your work and want to remember the stories behind the business, not only the numbers.
• You make purely because you love it.
• You'd love to open something years from now and rediscover things you'd completely forgotten.

You don't need to run a business to use it. If you don't sell what you make, the business pages can simply be skipped.

Choose your format

PRINT AT HOME EDITION

Want to start filling your Chaos Book immediately?

Download the Print at Home Edition and print it yourself at home, through a local printer or using your preferred printing service.

Perfect if you like working with pen and paper, want the freedom to print the pages that appeal to you most, or fancy building your own gloriously chaotic binder over time.

Write on it. Draw on it. Stick things to it. There is absolutely no requirement for it to remain pristine.

Digital PDF download. No physical product will be posted.

INTERACTIVE DIGITAL EDITION

Prefer keeping your creative chaos digitally?

The Interactive Digital Edition lets you keep your Chaos Book on a compatible tablet or device, so your ideas, memories, experiments and maker moments can live somewhere other than your head.

Ideal for makers who already sketch, plan, write or work digitally and want their creative record with them wherever they make.

Digital product. No physical product will be posted.

PHYSICAL BOOK EDITION

This is the one for makers who want their Chaos Book to become something worth keeping.

Write in it. Scribble in the margins. Add photographs. Stick in an old label, a little piece of packaging or a material swatch. Record the brilliant idea and the spectacular disaster.

Over time, the book becomes more than something you filled in.

It becomes your maker time capsule.

Something you can pull off a shelf years from now and rediscover the things you were making, thinking, learning, dreaming about and laughing at.

The book itself is undated, so you can start whenever you like and keep using it for as long as it takes to fill.

Made for makers everywhere

GLOBAL EDITION 

Whether you've just discovered a craft, have been making for years or somehow woke up one morning to discover your hobby had become an actual business, the Chaos Book starts wherever you are.

It also makes a rather lovely gift

For the person who always has another project on the go. The maker whose supplies are slowly taking over the house. 

The person starting their first creative business. Or the one who has been making for years and deserves somewhere to keep the story of it.

There's even a page inside specifically for the person giving the book to write who it's from and why they thought of them.

Because eventually, all that chaos becomes a body of work.