They opened theirs. Here’s what they said.
“The quality of my journal is excellent! I absolutely love the charms I added.”
Verified buyer“The delivery was fast and product is beautiful!!!! Love it”
Verified buyer“I’m excited for this to hold my memories... I can look back on when I’m 70.”
Verified buyer
Someone asked it under one of our ads: "Why is hers so thick?" The short answer is that she never had to start over. Here's the longer one.
It's a fair question, because most journals never get thick. They get a few weeks of pages, then they go in a drawer with the others.
A thick one is what a journal looks like when nobody had to start over. Every insert she filled is still there, in the same cover.
The Momento is a cover with refillable inserts. When one fills up, you add the next one and keep going.
Keep the full one in the cover beside it, or slide it out and put it on a shelf. The cover stays the same either way.
One woman told us that, and she's far from the only one. A lot of us have a stack of notebooks with a few good pages in each.
Every new notebook is a fresh start, and every fresh start is one more place to stop. A cover you keep adding to takes that away.
The Momento has no printed dates. Skip a week, or a month, and there are no blank dated pages waiting to show you how long it's been.
You pick it back up and write on the next page. That's how they get thick: not every day, just again and again.
The cover holds several inserts at once, so one can be for lists, one for the trip and one for everything else.
Every Momento arrives with two paper inserts of about 76 pages each and a zipper organizer already in place. Add more as you need them.
The zipper organizer holds the ticket stub, the card from your granddaughter, the receipt from the dinner you want to remember.
That's part of why hers is so thick. The pages and everything that goes with them stay in one book.
Pick the Pocket, 4.25 x 6.89 inches, if it's coming everywhere with you, or the Classic, 4.72 x 7.87 inches, if you like more room on the page.
When an insert fills, refills start at $12, about 76 pages each, and the cover stays. Right now the Momento is 50% off and comes with a free charm, with easy 100-day returns.
The complete starter kit. Your leather cover in the size and color you pick, two 76-page Daolin inserts (one lined, one blank), an organizer insert for cards, stamps, photos, or loose notes, and a linen travel bag. Restock Event adds a complimentary charm. Everything you need to start writing on day one.
A Moleskine is a notebook. You fill it, finish it, buy another. A Midori is a traveler's notebook system designed around buying inserts separately. Momento is the refillable cover plus a complete starter kit in one box, with US shipping and a lifetime warranty. Same cover, new pages, forever.
Pocket if you carry it daily and write in shorter sessions. Back pocket, jacket, small purse. Classic if you sit down to write. Letters, longer entries, sketching, planning. Pocket fits anywhere. Classic gives you room to breathe.
Pocket fits a back pocket, small purse, or jacket pocket. Classic is a bit larger than the size of a paperback and lives in a tote or purse.
Each insert has 76 pages of smooth, high-quality Daolin paper. It is fountain-pen friendly with minimal bleed-through and feathering, so it handles everything from a pencil or gel pen to a wet fountain nib beautifully.
Slide the used insert out, slide a new one in. Refills start at $12, about 76 pages each. Most customers set them on a 3-month cadence and stop thinking about it. Skip, pause, change cadence, or cancel from your account anytime. No phone calls, no retention scripts.
Binding failure, cover failure, and hardware like the grommets. If something structural breaks, we replace it for free immediately, no shipping fee.
Yes. Every Momento ships in a gift-ready linen bag, so you can hand it over as-is. It's our most-gifted product. If you're unsure on color, Bordeaux and Mocha are safe picks for someone whose taste you don't know well.
Try Momento for 100 days. If you don't fall in love, easy 100-day returns. Just email help@stillarchive.com and we'll take care of it.
Based on a survey of 3,000+ Momento buyers
87%
Stayed consistent longer
94%
Stopped reaching for their phone first
3.2 hrs
Fewer screen time per day
89%
Say it is the first journal they finished
Most of us have three of these already. Most of us stopped using all three within a month.
| Criteria | Momento | Your Notes app | Moleskine | Your last planner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Still being used 6 months in | ||||
| Off the cloud. Into your hands. | ||||
| A separate space for each part of your lifeA separate space for each part of life | Sort of | |||
| Runs out? Keep the cover. Replace the pages. | Sort of | |||
| Feels like something you want to hold | ||||
| Backed for life |
This is the one you keep, because it keeps up with you.
