Journal
The Card Game Journal
Record What the Questions Uncover
The question starts the conversation. The journal keeps what you learned.
Anyone who has played a Name It First card game and wants a structured place to record what the questions surfaced — the answers, the revelations, the things said that deserved more than a moment.
The Name It First Experience
The card game does what it was designed to do: it opens things up. A question lands. Someone answers honestly. Something is said that changes the room. And then the game moves on and what was named disappears into the air. The Card Game Journal is designed to catch what shouldn't be lost. After each session — or in the days following — use the structured prompts to record the answers that mattered, the things you learned, the questions you want to return to. Built to pair with any Name It First card game. The output is The Revelation Log: a written record of what the questions uncovered.
You can opt into 30-, 60-, and 90-day check-ins from your account. We recommend you do — the point is to see what changed.
Sample questions
- What came up in the card game that you have been thinking about since — the answer you gave or the one your partner gave?
- What question from the game are you still sitting with — and why?
- What would Your Card Game Record hold from these conversations that you want to keep somewhere more permanent than memory?
Research basis
Grounded in narrative identity research (McAdams) on the value of recording self-revelatory conversation / journaling and insight consolidation research (Pennebaker) on written processing and retention.
Choose your format.
Every format asks the same questions and produces the same document.
Print Paperbackpersonalize
A real book and a pen. Write in the margins. The most permanent version of you on a page.
$16.99
eBook + journal
The full guide on any screen, with a companion journal to write your answers by hand.
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Audiobook
We read every question and every scenario aloud. For the commute, the walk, the dishes.
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Hardcoverpersonalize
The keepsake edition — sewn, ribboned, made to sit on a shelf and be returned to.
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Digital Fill + membership+membership
Answer on screen. Your responses save as you go and assemble into your finished document.
$7.99
Hands-Free Interactive + membership+membership
Listen to each question and speak your answer. We capture it. You never touch a keyboard.
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Everything packages
The Paperback Everything Package
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The Hardcover Everything Package
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The Premium Hardcover Everything Package
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Choose your pace.
The Essential path takes you to your finished document by the questions that matter most. The Full-depth path walks every question, every scenario, every angle. Both produce the same signed document — one just goes deeper on the way there.
Essential path
Shorter sessions. The questions that go directly to the document.
Full depth
Every question. Every scenario, every angle.
Partner Pair
Built for two. You each work your own copy, on your own time — then you bring them together and compare, one answer at a time.
The comparison is the conversation.
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