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A little room for your year

A Christmas gift for someone starting 2027

In short

If you're choosing a Christmas gift for an adult who enjoys books, walks or making things, you could give them a record of their own year. Small Counts's 2027 gift buys that calendar year's digital keepsake collection, with an A4 PDF voucher you can print or email yourself after payment is confirmed.1 Tracking is free; we aren't sending a physical product.

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A gift for what they already enjoy

You could think about the little things they like remembering: books they loved, places they went, things they made or evenings with friends. Those could be the start of a record they'd enjoy looking back on.

A new-year gift doesn't need to come with a resolution. You could offer it as an invitation to keep whatever matters to them, without a target to meet or a suggestion that they need to change.

If you're unsure whether they'd enjoy keeping a notebook, you could share the demo and ask. It's fine if they'd rather have something else.

What does the gift include?

£10 buys one adult recipient's 2027 digital keepsake collection. That includes an A4 page for each month, building into a PDF book, and a picture of the whole year. The pages are made from what they choose to record.2

It's one named calendar year, not a subscription or twelve months from the day they redeem it. Buying a later year's collection is a separate choice. Tracking is free with no limit on themes, so the gift pays for the digital keepsakes, not permission to keep a notebook.1

You aren't ordering a printed diary, a posted voucher, a framed picture or a bound book. We're creating print-ready digital artwork that they can save, print themselves or take to a printer.

Can it be a last-minute Christmas gift?

It can be, because there's no parcel to wait for. When gift checkout is open and payment is confirmed, you can make an A4 landscape PDF voucher with the issued licence key. You can print it for a card or attach the saved PDF to your own email.1

The gift page shows whether checkout is open. There's no guaranteed delivery time: you'll need internet access, confirmed payment, a saved file and a working printer if you want a paper copy. You could open the saved PDF and check the key and message before giving it.

We don't email the recipient or post the voucher. You decide when and how to give it, and keep the buyer's key email for another copy if you need one.1

How to give the voucher

Once gift sales are open, this is how the flow works. UK buyers need a UK-issued card and a UK billing address.1

  1. Choose the gift checkout. Use the gifting page for a separate 2027 key for one recipient. Use your own email so the purchase email comes to you. Buying a gift doesn't activate it on your device.
  2. Make it personal, if you'd like. After payment is confirmed, add an optional name and note to the voucher on your device. You can also leave those fields blank.
  3. Save and check the PDF. Choose the home-printing setup for A4 with margins, or check the professional-printing setup with your printer. Open the saved file before you print or send it.
  4. Give it privately. The PDF contains the collection key. Send it only to your recipient; don't post the voucher or a readable photograph of its key on social media.

What could I write in the card?

You could keep it simple: For the books, the walks and the little things you want to remember in 2027. Make it your own, whenever you like.

Or you could name something they already enjoy: For your garden notes and the things you make. A year of small things, yours to keep.

These are suggestions, not instructions for how they should use the gift. You don't need to set a goal for them or ask them to share their entries with you.

When do the keepsakes become available?

The voucher is what you give at Christmas. The 2027 pages follow the year: each monthly keepsake becomes available after its month ends, and the annual picture follows the end of the year. Buying a future-year gift doesn't make finished pages available early.1

The recipient chooses what to record. A quiet month or a gap can be part of the record; they don't need a perfect run of daily entries to make it theirs.

You can see what's in the collection before deciding. If they're more interested in trying the free notebook first, you don't need to buy a gift to make that possible.

How does the recipient use it?

They open the gift redemption page and enter the key from their voucher. They don't need an account or your email address. The key unlocks its named year's collection; it doesn't contain someone else's notebook entries.1

They can choose their own themes, leave days blank and decide whether to make any prints. If they'd like a starting idea, our 2027 reading challenge suggests books, pages or minutes they could record.

If the voucher goes missing, they can ask you for another copy. You can use your original key email to make the voucher again. The gift page's questions and refund information explain purchase support before you buy.

Explore the 2027 gift

See the sample A4 voucher, what's included and whether gift checkout is open. £10 covers one adult recipient's named calendar-year digital collection. Tracking stays free, nothing renews and no physical product is sent.

Explore the gift

Sources

  1. Small Counts: gift contents, delivery and redemption ↩
  2. Small Counts: the calendar-year keepsake collection ↩

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