About
A small press for deliberate living.
Quiet Days Press makes practical tools for reflection and attention: guided journals and the single-page framework cards that go with them. Books that ask for a few honest minutes rather than an hour of enthusiasm.
The story
It started with one page.
The press began with a single card kept on a nightstand: three questions in the morning, four at night. It worked because it was short, because it was on paper, and because it did not need a login. That card is still free, and it is still the front door to everything here.
Everything since has been built the same way — a fixed shape, repeated, with nothing added that has to be maintained. Every journal shares one colophon, one hairline rule, and one pair of typefaces. All of them are undated, because a good year does not begin in January. No streaks, no badges, no dashboard.
The catalogue is deliberately narrow: four journals, one of them a two-volume series. Titles are released when they are finished, not when a calendar says so, which is why they are still listed as coming soon rather than pretending otherwise. The three framework cards are free and ready today, and each is the front door to its journal.
- Imprint
- Quiet Days Press · est. MMXXVI
- Trims
- 8.5 × 8.5 in and 6 × 9 in
- Type
- Cormorant Garamond & DM Sans
- Mind Field
- A Stoic’s Clean Slate · 13 weeks
- One Percent
- A 100-Day Kaizen Journal
- Ascend
- Two volumes · 120 days
- Framework cards
- Three · free · printable
- Printed books
- Amazon · coming soon
- Digital & printable
- Etsy · coming soon
Publishing philosophy
Four rules for the shelf.
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Finish it, then sell it
Nothing is announced from an outline. Every title on this site was a finished print file before it was mentioned here.
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Short enough to complete
Thirteen weeks, a hundred days, or sixty — not a year. Seven questions, or three. A tool you abandon in February was too big in January.
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Paper first
Everything is designed to be printed and written on with a pen. If it only works on a screen, it is not a Quiet Days product.
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No noise
No streak counters, no gamification, no daily notifications. The page does its job and then leaves you alone.
The publisher
Raul Pinalez
Quiet Days Press is the work of one person. Raul Pinalez writes, designs, and typesets the books, and would rather publish five things worth keeping than fifty worth scrolling past. He works from San Antonio, Texas.
Years of technical production work — where a job either works on the night or it does not — left him with a bias for tools that are simple enough to survive a bad week. That is the whole editorial position: make the useful thing, set it well, and stop.
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The framework cards
Three free printable companions, one per journal. Available now.
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Mind Field
A 13-week Stoic journal. Coming soon on Amazon.
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One Percent
A 100-day Kaizen journal. Coming soon on Amazon.
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Ascend
Two volumes, 120 days. Coming soon on Amazon.