An undated digital daybook for GoodNotes & Notability. Keep three hours a day — First Light, Deep Work, Wind-down. One intention per hour, one dial to fill. We don't manage every minute. We keep three hours.
First light · 5:00
The untouched start — before the phone, before the noise. Set one intention for the hour, in a single line, and keep it. The day begins on purpose, not by reaction.
Deep work
The block you protect for the thing that matters. The deep-work hour gets the most room on the page — one task, written down, with space to think over the dot grid.
Wind-down · 20:30
The shutdown — the day, finished on purpose. Fill a bullet on the dial for each hour you kept, then write tomorrow's three lines. Screens off. Done is done.
Each morning, set one intention per hour. One line. First Light, Deep Work, Wind-down.
Protect the three hours. Write over the soft dot grid with your stylus as the day runs.
Fill a bullet for every hour you kept, then write tomorrow's three lines. No streaks to break.
An undated digital daily planner for the hours you keep — hyperlinked, and made for GoodNotes, Notability, and any app that supports PDF links.
The digital Daybook is the centre of Hourlight now. Next comes the desk ritual around it: A5 lay-flat physical planners and the three matching candles — Rise, Focus and Unwind.
A5, undated and designed around the same three kept hours. One page per day, three intention blocks, and a cover made to sit beautifully beside the digital version.
Three candles for the three blocks of the day: first light, deep work and wind-down. Made as the physical companion to the planner system.
First access to the physical Daybook and candle drop. No noise, just the release note.
Hourlight began with a habit: up at five, journal open, one candle burning while the rest of the house slept. I wanted the objects on that desk to take the hour as seriously as I did — so I designed a collection around the three blocks of a deliberate day.
Hourlight is a small operation by choice. I design and curate every piece, set the standard it has to meet, and work with specialist production partners to bring it to life — so the collection stays exactly as focused as the days it serves: the digital Daybook now, with physical planners and candles coming next.
— Maryam
Join the list for the printed Daybook, the Three Hours candles, and new digital colourways. Nothing else, ever.
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