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I used to have trouble keeping up with my bullet journal, but I finally found a system that works with my brain over the last few years. I guess it was more of a mental shift than technical, really? I shared my experience and a couple of tips in my journal (Link: How I've kept up with Bullet Journalling for the last 3 years), perhaps others can also find something helpful in there!

Did anyone else go through this kind of perspective shift that helped when starting out, or a similar experience to share?

dewladen

I've been having fun with my new bujo weekly spread! It's not beautiful but it's so easy to set up (I don't even pull out a ruler because I'm lazy haha).I have a ton crammed in here, but because this is also a long-form journal and where I take my study notes, it's nice to not flip too much.

At the top we have the dates of the week, and then the top tasks for the day, then the large space in between is part of the daily log/to-do list, and then we have some meal planning, and a block schedule at the bottom (very similar to Google calendar). On the very right is a column that I can just put whatever I need--for this week, I'm using it to keep track of my five projects at work. Stickers are a bit haphazardly thrown on depending on my mood but they really add a colorful pop.

kaberett

Over on reddit: What are you keeping, adding, and leaving behind for 2023?

There was also one of these last year, which I found helpful and interesting at the time -- though I didn't comment.

... this year I have written... at least a novella, surely, which I have reproduced under the cut.

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How about you? What's your 2023 set-up looking like? :)

vriddy

Crossposted to

journalsandplanners and my own journal.

At the moment, I'm really happy with the weekly planner template I use. Most of the tutorials I found initially were about monthly and daily views, so I thought I'd share my weekly template example here in case someone else finds something to take from it! I tend to plan in terms of weeks so this has been working well for me.

This is what my view looks like at the start of the week:

I have a large section on top where I park what I want to accomplish during the week but not necessarily on Monday. This makes my daily migrations less painful and is helpful as I often have a bunch of phone calls or other "following up on appointments" things to do, that I tend to forget about until the end of the month if I leave them in the monthly section. Migrating them daily was super painful in the past and I always ended up giving up. This way, I also get a weekly reminder when I do a weekly migration. When I do that, I also go look at my monthly to-dos to see if I want to bring something else in.

( More explanations and pictures )

And that's how I adapted the method to my needs :) Do you have a weekly view yourself, or other tips you found helpful for managing weekly tasks, recurring or not?

kaberett

[Cross-posted to my own journal for my own records!]

Several times recently I've ended up explaining how I track symptoms and "habits" in my bullet journal, so have a proper write-up of my current system! It. Is long. I hope it is also useful, or at the very least interesting!

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vriddy

I was recently looking for the bullet journal tutorial on the official website and as far as I can tell, the quick and easy learning page has been replaced by a link to a US$249 course? I wanted to share it with a friend who has the same problem I used to have, which is thinking "too much stuff to do, I need a planner!" then spending the next 4 days researching the Perfect Planner, ordering it, and having completely lost motivation by the time it arrives. I really liked that quick tutorial page because it didn't take a lot of time to read and basically required no money, just a pen and notebook, so no excuses not to get started right away.

I'm going to look for another tutorial to recommend from now on, but I'm wondering if anyone here also may have come across resources you would recommend for getting started? I think quick and simple and not too intimidating would work best, considering the use case.

kaberett

Case in point: a half-year-at-a-glance migraine tracker.

two pages of a notebook, with a six-month calendar

[Two pages of a notebook. Numbers 1-31 are written vertically down the leftmost and rightmost edges. There are six vertical columns labelled with the months July to December. Space along the bottom of the page is taken up with a key, along with notes on the symptoms prodrome, main attack and postdrome stages of a migraine for me, along with a list of tools I can use to manage symptoms.]
I've also posted over at mine with all the healthwork notes.

I'm mulling over the part where I feel like, in the last month or so, I've reached a tipping point -- I've gone from a page of long-term todos and book lists, plus monthly meal planning and physio logs, plus daily todos and (brief!) reflections, to suddenly (or at least it feels like it) having a bunch of longer-term collections, including but not limited to the migraine tracker; daydreaming about things I'd like to do on a specific holiday; organising my wishlist into one place; actually tracking my sleep and naps; and sketches of my allotment for the purposes of tracking which beds contained what crops in each year, along with an all-in-one-place record of how much of each thing I actually wind up harvesting. It's a little disorienting to be building a more complicated system when Lurking On The Internet seems to indicate that it's very common to Start Complex and then aggressively pare down, but -- my mind seems to have ticked over to thinking about organising-and-tracking in ways that usefully fit this format, and I'm enjoying feeling that bit more settled and robust.

milo_r

So, I have a complicated relationship with the kind of bujos they parade around on instagram in that they look pretty but I know they'd take me enough time that they would defeat the purpose

HOWEVER, I'd still like to have some kind of supplies like the fancy washi tapes or vintage paper stickers every IGer, however everything I find seems to be shipping from China. Is there really no EU-based shop that mass imports and sells the kind of thing I'd find here for example? I mostly feel guilty about having a tiny parcel of stickers and tape shipped all the way from China just for me...

annofowlshire

Current Mood: curious

... has anyone read The Bullet Journal Method yet? Thoughts?

goss

Hi, thought I'd share this with you guys in case anyone would like to try it...

I started a new bullet journal this month, and left one of the first pages free for adding Goals and Resolutions.

This year, it's a long laundry list, consisting of mostly mundane self-care stuff (plan healthier meals, do yoga, start taking supplements, travel, have fun, regulate my sleep, etc.). Instead of putting up my usual written list though, I decided to make little doodles of each item (as part of a drawing challenge), and I love how my 2018 Goals page turned out!

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Now, instead of feeling sort of overwhelmed by a huge list of tasks ahead of me, it puts a smile on my face whenever I look at the page. I really like the idea of making your goals into visuals (pasting pictures, doodles, etc.) as an added motivation. :)

vampiresincowboyboots

I've recently stumbled across bullet journalling on youtube and I'm gearing up to start my first notebook. I'm literally just using a pukka pad I had lying around the house and a black biro, nothing fancy until I know if the system is going to work for me.

I've got plenty of ideas spinning around my head over what I think I want to include and how I think I'm going to use it.

What would you say are your essentials for your bullet journal? What's worked best for you? What's not worked? And... what did you wish you knew before you started?

thank you in advance! :)

olivermoss

My old one that I am retiring:

( Babble on why I am switching to a new one )

musyc

I'm wanting to try out some handwritten headers this year, but my idea of calligraphy is this Ye Olde English font-like thing that I learned years ago and which is not the best for my purposes unless I'm copying the Magna Carta. I'm not keen on the current trend of "thicken your downstrokes" that makes every single bullet journal look like every other. So I thought, why not try to imitate some fun fonts?

So.

What are your favorite decorative fonts that could be converted to handwriting?

daidoji_gisei

I started a bullet journal in January of this year, and though I don't use all of the possible pages I've found it has helped me become more organized. However. I have a problem with the habit tracker grid, in that I have never been able to go more than two weeks in keeping it updated--there is a month that I think I have about three days tracked. This pains me because I love the idea of the habit tracker and I have several habits I want to establish in my life.

Does anyone have ideas about how I could have more diligence in sticking to the habit tracker? Or bullet journal alternatives to the habit tracker grid? I feel like a failure for not being able to make the grid work for me.

musyc

Does anyone use stencils or similar sort of drawing assists? I'm not even very good at a straight line, so I don't tend to do anything sketchy beyond the one banner style I've (satisfactorily, to me) perfected. I looked around Michael's for stencils today, and didn't come up with anything I liked. Any favorite links or recs?

fellinara

Current Mood: artistic

Hi Everyone! I'm pretty new to bullet journalling and am looking at getting a Leuchttrum 1917 journal. Amazon has them on Prime for just shy of $20. I'm currently using a small temp bullet journal for August to get an idea on what spreads and collections will work for me and which ones are not really. I see that these journals/notebooks (also Moleskine and a few other brands)use a system of type of journal(??) such as A5, A6, etc. New to the bullet journal movement, I am not entirely sure what that means. I figured if anyone knows, it will be here.

Thanks!

annofowlshire

Current Mood: chipper

I went for a little ramble today and on a whim popped into the gift shop for the Tower of London and found... these:

It's certainly not where I expected to find tea cup sticky tabs and washi tape (although they don't call it that, of course), but I snapped them right up!

Have you found Bujo supplies in unexpected places?

annofowlshire

Current Mood: curious

I've been Bujo-ing in various incarnations for a couple of years now, and while I'm great at the journaling and collections aspects of Bujo, the use of it as a planner I constantly fall down on. I make a spread for the week or the month and then completely forget about it. Oops.

I know there are a eleventy-billion examples of logs and spreads on the 'net, but I'm wondering which sorts of monthly/weekly spreads/logs have been most successful for the community in keeping you organized? Which ones haven't worked? Why? How much info do you put on it? Elaborate? Minimalist? How often do you refer to it? How do you keep it from getting lost and forgotten 30 pages later?

(I feel like this is a ridiculous question, but clearly I haven't found a good answer on my own.)

musyc

(From last month's post: I do a bit of a daily journal/recap in my bujo, and every day, I try to write down one to three things that I appreciated that day.)

I've posted my May appreciation list! Right this way!

I really like tracking this in my bujo. It gives me something to remember from every day and little hints of what had my attention in a month. From glancing at my list for May, I can see that I: spoiled my cats, planted my petunias, looked at lots of pictures of pretty hair, and saw Guardians of the Galaxy. XD

finch

I like to change books at month-end when I know I'm not going to get through the next month in my current book. I pretty reliably can fit three months in a pocket Leuchtturm.

Since I'm thinking about migration, I'm curious if other people have a process for it, and how you decide what to bring over?

Part of my process is the "closing up" of the old book by typing up anything that's left to need moved to Evernote, like story or poem notes, blog post ideas, that kind of thing. I gather up all of my outstanding to-dos for the first Master List in the new journal, and then move over the current month's bill calendar. If I have any ongoing projects, I might copy over relevant information, but very little actually moves.

I get the impression from youtube that this is a fairly basic process compared to how some people handle it. ;) What are your thoughts?

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