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Reminders where everyone walks past
A laminated card in the right spot gets read many times a day. How our home reminders grew from handwritten notes into the Juz 'Amma poster families asked for.
A reminder at home does not have to be high-tech. Often it is as simple as a blank piece of paper. We print something or write something, laminate it, put it up, and move on to the next.
What matters is where it goes. A card in a high-traffic spot of the house is seen many times a day by everyone walking past. We have found this useful for anyone, at every stage of life.
Small cards
This laminated card carries a verse from Surah Az-Zukhruf in Arabic and English, under the heading "Syaitan as your best friend". It is plain, and it does its job.
Some of the notes we keep came from other people. This one is a teacher's note to former students, written on the back of a small card:
"To my beloved ex Students. Enjoy reading the books and may you continue to ponder Allah's majestic sky and be the khalifahtul fil ard!"
From rough prints to posters
The next step was better-designed printables, made in-house. We print them, laminate them, and sell them or sometimes give them away. People found them most useful placed where the family passes often. There are reminders and trackers for a parent's Quran journey, a child's Quran journey, and the journey they make together.
The Juz 'Amma poster, from 2015, is one of them. A road climbs from the Makkiah surahs to the Madaniah surahs. Each surah sits beside a tree showing how many verses it has, with an apple or a star to colour in once it is memorised. The tips on the poster say the information is based on Tafsir Ibn Kathir.
The Quran Conversations cards work the same way. Each card holds a short phrase from the Quran in large Arabic letters, to put up where it will be seen.
Looking back, the change happened naturally: from handwritten notes, to roughly printed cards, to designed printables that families liked and, most importantly, used on their journey together. The Juz 'Amma poster was also the starting point for the progress view in our Hafiz tool.
To try this at home, pick one spot everyone walks past, such as the fridge door, the front door or the bathroom mirror, and put up one card. When it stops being noticed, change it.
