Love the notebooks, but really disappointed with the cover. Flimsy thin material, arrived with creases and too thin to be really useful as a cover.
Fast Brain Friend - Sage
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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.
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THREE WAYS TO
ENJOY YOUR
FAST BRAINS
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)
Free Draw
STE. 1011 / SAGE
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.
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 7564 reviews.
It was cool, love the colour, would love a larger size/edition!
Beautful quality & packaging, always look forward to an order.
The paper is very thin compared to the other journals I've bought. It's really see through (the others aren't) and the dots are too dark, in my opinion. Maybe this is an older version and the new one is better, but I really don't like it.
Love these books! Perfect for Journaling.
Great products to inspire stories!
Love the look and feel. Great to add to my collection.
Love it!
Love it! Versatile!
I absolutely love my folio and all my friends!! I take them everywhere and they help me organize my brain!!!
Im using it as a book cover may need to buy one more for my journal
Have been eyeballing this for a while. Finally got my hands on it and ordered the classic notebooks set to go inside. The colour of the cover is absolutely stunning and the inserts themselves too. I have not yet put her together however I know just from opening my parcel that it will be gorgeous once all set up. So happy with my purchase and to add her to my journal family of the standard and passport TN.Thank you so much!
Fantastic item!!! I love the Fast Brain Friends but I especially love that I can buy them in a multipack!
Love the colour, and the new page layouts.
Terrific
Fantastic
Great
Great
I love these so much. I can see my week planned out but also all the other things that normally don’t fit well on a week ahead planner. The goals and lists on the side help me manage life chaos!
Love this addition super cute!
Great product! Well packed and quick delivery
Enjoying the new layouts!
The material is very flimsy, and not strong enough to stay secure over more than a couple pages
All the way from Australia. Thank you @Friend Notebooks Big thanks to Jess and the team for being so lovely and understanding when I messed up my own email address. Appreciate you all!
All the way from Australia. Thank you @Friend Notebooks Big thanks to Jess and the team for being so lovely and understanding when I messed up my own email address. Appreciate you all!
Brilliant and I love it. Some marks / scratches on the surface but nothing too extreme. The elastics could be a little tighter but this can be tightened to personal preference.
The bookmark looks great. However, it comes undone and slides around very easily, I'd personally find this easier to use it it had a stronger magnet, especially in order to use this to hold paper to the folio itself.
Good quality product
Nice to work with
The new texture of this is incredible. The dreamiest, most grounding notebooks for introspection, from my dream collab!!!
discovering dot pages has been a gamechanger for my ND brain. no longer hemmed in by those pesky long boring lines - i can write in which ever direction i fancy - and I do! :) am a dot bullet gal all the way
this is an old favourite - the weekly spread helps me keep a track of time and key projects across the week i often cover up the bits i dont' use (meal planning and hydration ) but that gives me areas to doodle or colour in :)
loving the new formats and the groupings and the instructions!! i tend to go to a few favs everytime - but they have been honestly game changers in allowing me to collate my thoughts
I’m so so impressed!!! Love the service and support offered by the team and really love the products!
Looks as good IRL as it does in photos!
Gorgeous colour, a smooth and supple folder and I appreciate the cloth storage bag to keep it clean and safe.
So sleek and so classy. Can't wait to gift it to my friend and use the folio.
A great planner, the different layouts are really helpful as I’m curious to try them all out so I have actually started properly planning for Christmas 🎄!
I love it
Yep, fantastic I reckon