Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-26119768-20170113005439

This suggestion is rather small, but I think it will add immersion and functionality when using the Red Book.

Red Journal
When the Red Book is put in a crafting table with a feather, you get a "Red Journal". This is like the Red Book in all ways except you get a button labeled "Journal", like so (see image). The item icon is a red book with a quill.

When you click on this tab, you go to a page with three buttons: "Read Journal", "Edit Title", and "Add Page". The add page button will bring you to a blank page, which has the current date in the top right. Here you can type whatever you want (despite the button name you aren't limited to one page. Maybe a max of 3 pages). There is also a field where you can make a title for the entry.

When you are done you press a button in the top left corner labeled "finish page". This will bring you back to the journal menu page.

The "Read Journal page brings you to a list of all entries, sorted by date, from oldest to newest. Each entry will have the title if there is one, otherwise it will have the first few words in the entry. It will also have the date the entry is made. Clicking on one of the entries will bring up what you wrote. Your past 2 entries will have an "edit" button, allowing you to add or remove from them, but all other entries are set in stone.

The "Edit Title" button will allow you to name your collection of entries, whether it be "There and Back Again", or "Pillaging log, 2nd Division". You will have a place to enter a title, and a place to enter a subtitle, such as "by [username]", or "years 1405-1408". The Edit Title menu will also have a "finish journal" button, which we will get into later.

Finishing your journal
There are two ways to finish a journal: you can select the finish journal button that's in the Edit Title menu, confirm your action, and finish it like that, or you can reach the max number of "pages". A Red Journal can hold up to five years of info, which means you can make one entry every day for five years until you run out of space. When this happens, attempting to make a new entry will inform you that you've run out of space, and will bring you to the "Edit Title" menu, where you can change the title and finish the book. The reason for a limit is to encourage "libraries", or collections of your adventures, especially on servers. When you finish a book you get an item with the title you gave the journal. The item looks like a red book minus the page marker. This item's lore will be your subtitle, and when opened, you start at the title page. The title page has the title and subtitle, written in gold text. Next comes the table of contents, which lists all the entries made in the journal, the same way the "Read Journal" works. Clicking on an entry will bring up the full text.