I love the format and I can already feel more organised and productive.
Fast Brain Friend - Larimar
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The Fast Brain Friend is a notebook for those of us whose brains can feel like the constant swell of an orchestra, a swarm of bees, or a pinball loose in a machine.
Designed to help narrow your focus, organise your thoughts and move through your tasks one day at a time, it gives you structure when you need it, without expectations.
Goes well with:
THREE WAYS TO
ENJOY YOUR
FAST BRAINS
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01 EVERY NOTEBOOK HAS 33% MORE PAGES
Noticeably chunkier, but still snack-sized.
Page volume has increased to 64 pages in every notebook including the addition of a dot grid section at the back for bullet journalling, brain dumps, and bright ideas.
The notebooks are still slim, undated and thread sewn. They continue to slip perfectly inside all of your folios (just a touch more girth).
02 SHE'S NEVER FELT BETTER IN YOUR HANDS
The matte laminate is gone. We wanted to marry up our planner range with the same durable, tactile finish of our Hobby Note range, making sure your entire collection looks and feels like they belong together.
Fast Brain notebooks are now printed in a richer offset colour, both inside and out, all on uncoated 300gsm craft.
03 WE'VE MORE THAN DOUBLED THE DAILY LAYOUT OPTIONS AND SORTED THEM INTO MODES FOR YOU
The old edition shuffled the same 7 designs week after week. New Season Fast Brains have 16.
The new layouts can be categorised into Circular, Spine, Buckets or Timeblock - each built for a different kind of day and chosen based on what the behavioural science says actually works when the focus is hard to find.
The new layouts have been built off 5 more years of knowledge in the field of neurodiversity, and road testing from hundreds of thousands of users on how your brain truly interacts with the layouts.
They are incredibly special (and fun).
04 THE LAYOUTS HAVE BUILT IN PARALYSIS BREAKERS
Some of the most common feedback from new users was that feeling of paralysis when approaching different layouts for the first time.
So we built small, unobtrusive guidance into every layout to help you push past this moment.
These prompts give more insight into not just how a certain layout can be approached, but what is happening in your brain when you do it (pretty cool right).
Importantly - these sections remain nothing more than helpful ideas. You can still choose to use them in entirely different ways... we secretly love when you do.
05 BUILT AROUND YOUR DAYS, NOT YOUR CALENDAR
This might actually be the most important change. Fast Brain notebooks were originally built in a way that felt like they should only last a month at a time. But the reality is that not every day needs to be plotted out.
What we have found is that most people keep a Fast Brain on hand for fuzzy days, and then accompany that with one of our other notebooks for organising their actual calendar.
The increase in density of each notebook plus the shift in how layout modes work has been an ackowledgement of how people are really using the notebooks, and is why it's no longer tied to a month at all.
It's okay if one notebook lasts you months a time.
We also shifted the weekly preparation spreads to the back of the notebook. Daily focus layouts drive the goal of a Fast Brain, but weekly prep remains an option for when your executive functioning just ain't functioning.
FAST BRAIN HAS BEEN PRINTED, SEWN AND SHIPPED OUT OVER 1.5 MILLION TIMES SINCE 2021. THIS NEW SEASON MARKS OUR BIGGEST IMPROVEMENTS TO THE METHOD EVER.
MEET FAST BRAIN
STE No.101
The loyal sidekick
Planner
WHO AM I?
I'm here to make the chaos feel survivable. I'm not trying to turn you into a perfectly organised person. I just want to help you find the missing thought and make the next step feel smaller.
My job is to stand beside the mess, take your side immediately and remind you that the plan changing does not mean you have failed.
I want you to feel like your brain is not the problem. It just needs a friend who knows how to keep up.
MONTHLY VIEW
DAILY PAGES(32)
WEEKLY SPREADS(5)
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HOW IT WORKS
Trying to understand the Fast Brain method? We've simplified the science behind it into the 5 biggest reasons people find Fast Brain such a game changer.
How it's built
One day in view
One day to a page, so there is less to feel behind on — and room beside it to park whatever else the day throws at you.Four layout families
Circular, Spine, Buckets and Time Block. Rotate to whichever one your brain will cooperate with today.A week that starts planned
Priorities, fixed commitments, habits, meals and the shopping, settled before the week starts.Why that works
Built for momentum
A new colour every month, and checkboxes and trackers throughout. Small enough to finish, rewarding enough to keep going.Calm by design
Tactile covers, calm tones, thread binding and quiet pages. Nothing that jangles, and less to look at while you think.Image 01
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YOUR FAVOURITE FRIEND
1.5M
COPIES SOLD GLOBALLY
Fast Brain Notebooks very quickly gained fans around the world for finally taking notice of the fact that not everyone's brain works the same way.
Since 2021, we have sent 1.5 Million of these special little notebooks to people around the world.
We're pretty chuffed.
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Circular Visual/spatial thinking • Reflection • Low-demand
Think of your day as a whole shape, not a vertical to-do list. Circular layouts are low-pressure, generous and visual. Nothing reads as a long, intimidating column, you take the whole day in at a glance.
Turn to it when…
You're overwhelmed and a long to-do list feels like too much.
Spine Breakdown a big task • Structured days • Linear views
One central axis the whole day hangs off. Where circular layouts let you float, spines make you anchor. A structured backbone for days when you need something solid to hold onto and branch from.
Turn to it when…
You need structure and something solid to anchor to.
Buckets Low time-pressure • Clear mental overload • Prioritise
Empty the swarm onto the page, then sort it into containers. This is the most literal expression of the method: externalise your working memory, then triage.
Turn to it when…
Your head is loud and full, and you need to empty it out.
Timeblock Stop over-planning • Simplify time perception
The playful answer to time-blindness. Allocate hours and see clear progress on the page, without it feeling like a rigid corporate planner.
Turn to it when…
The day is packed or time keeps slipping away from you.
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The Fast Brain Series
Creator of the Fast Brain daily method, Alanah Purtell, recently sat down to talk us through what has gone into building the neuro-friendly notebook that has become a global phenomenon.
Customer Reviews
Overall rating: 4.6 / 5 from 7253 reviews.
Very cool notebooks and perfect for a little civic observation project I’m working on. Arrived safely in the UK!
This is the third time you’ve hassled me to write a review for something that took you weeks to put in the post. The book is fine. Your unnecessary CRM hounding is not.
Nice!
I’ve tried your daily ones and loved the idea of having lots of different layouts but it got too much for me. This however is perfect, has the variation but only a small amount and working brillaint
I am loving ALL of my creators friends products so far. I still experiment with what works best for me, but I have 4 notebooks in my folio now that keeps all of my work in the one easy place and it helps me so much with my productivity. I use the running list, a normal lined creators friend notebook, a dotted creators friend notebook and a fast brain friend. LOVE the quality, love the layouts!
It’s great!
Looks great. Love the layout.
Love the font and all caps. The embossing is centered on the edge, which I think ok. Would love it better if the words started at the bottom right corner. All's good tho. It's so pretty and a helpful reminder of my dad's life philosophy.
I like the feel of the new folios. I'm using this one mainly now. I also have a brown folio in the old style. This makes the books better secured.
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Love the quality and style.
Can’t WAIT to finish my planner I have and start this! My ADHD brain is already excited 😊
I absolutely love the individual notebooks. The folio not so much. It is well crafted and really beautiful but I don’t like the whole process of the elastics and the notebooks don’t sit straight. I made a drawstring bag for my notebooks instead. I am sure the folio works great for some people but for me it’s not practical. That being said- I will be using all the notebooks I ordered. So great. 😊
Absolutely love my new folio set. The colour (olive green) is gorgeous and the vegan leather is beautifully soft. It's a generous size, so easily holds many notebooks. I'm in my first week of using the Fast Brain notebook and so far, really enjoying it. I also ordered the Classics Pack so I have lined, blank, dotted, and a grid journal to add to my collection. The quality is excellent. The paper holds fountain pen, washi, stickers etc. perfectly. I live in Ireland, so it was a long wait for my goodies to arrive all the way from Australia, but so worth it! Thanks to all at Creator's Friend! xx
Easy to fit so I can add extra notebooks to my folio.
Shipping took much longer then expected and promised, even after I reached out and the shipping date was recalculated. The size is smaller then I expected. I'm glad I only ordered three because I don't think I will use it beyond the ones I have.
Amazing products!
I absolutely love the page setups , Ive struggled for years trying to find a planner that works for my brain. Now that I have something that works I remember things I have to do and when!
Great experience love my journal
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You are incredible
Just started using it and I LOVEit!
As always the books and folios are beautiful. I was grateful it was laced already and it came with full instructions
Its nice to have a nice place to keep track and record everything. It helps to build the habit!
I love the variety of page formats. I love that it is only a 1 month committment for each book. It is working well for me so far!
Love this product! Have been eyeing it up for sometime and so glad I finally did it! Very happy
A nice journal but disappointed in the delays. 2 weeks of production and shipping that took longer than the estimated 1-4 days express advertised,
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Feels and looks great, like that it can be a month planner or just use as a notebook
Thought the handling and dispatch time was too long - esp for those of us with fast brains that have an idea and want to act on it as soon as possible... by the time they arrived I was a bit over the idea of using them... but trying
Receiving the product took over a month (shipping to US says 7-10 days) order placed 7/22/26, order delivered 8/21/26. Use of this planner is overwhelming and confusing. Every different page takes up too much brain power to understand and get into in order to use efficiently. I have ADHD and believed the claims about people loving this tool for organization and I haven’t even been able to make it through two pages. I don't need my lists in an entirely different notebook, or random blocks for habits, all of this seems counterintuitive to the way ADHD brains process information. I should have to ask myself “hmm which of the 5 notebooks did I write that down in?” The pages are thin and most pens bleed through. The only piece of this gift set I’m enjoying (hence one star) is the purple bound case but I’ll be replacing the notebooks with moleskin or something more durable, less confusing. Totally wish I didn’t fall for the gimmick.
I like the idea of this system a lot more than I liked it in reality. As someone with severe ADHD it was overwhelming. I loved the different inserts, but when I got them all into the system, I just didn't even know where to begin. And it was very confusing to switch from one to the next in terms of the reset it required. If you are going for just one insert type, you will probably be fine.
Gave it to a friend who just started studying. They took it on immediately!
Love it !
Great
Can’t wait to set it up. I ordered just as you were moving a lot of old stock out…I now have to go back and check out the new category notebooks🩷and place another order.So happy I found a product to match my brain!
I love this cover! It is well made, and you can tell they put some TLC into it.
Great color! Lovely contrast with the olive cover.
Love this notebook!