#bullet journals

[oodling-and-doodling]

26-6-24//i have nothing to post today. please look at this spread i made in my first bullet journal from when i was 14

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[paperpersephone]

I completely forgot to share my Hayden Christensen-themed journal spread from last month! 🥹 I've been so overwhelmed with college work that I barely have the time or energy to spend on journaling.

— PaperPersephone

[stardustystudies]

spooky season is coming 👻

[notebookishbalderdash]

setting up august and decided we need more yellow. feat. my Lamy Safari

[sassblogsstuff]

Journal Entrie

I've found a bullet journal prompt that works for me. It's become easier to make a habit of doing it, though it can be hard at some points because my last journal had so much emotion and abuse from my past relationship. Writing is starting to feel normal again, and I am having fun now. It's not like it's a chore or making me feel worse after writing. 💌

[finallychicagoanplans]

My 2023 planner and journal stack

[maahiecore]

was feeling stressed, so we ordered two new journals ✨💌

[kittykate47]

I’ve started bullet journaling.

[mental-bycatch]

I have a bullet journal somewhere that started out with the original system in the video, but I felt pressured to fill it with stickers and it rendered the whole thing useless.

What my neurodivergent ass has found helpful is applying the same principles to Google Keep.

1. Put the Google Keep widget on one of your homescreens. Personally I keep mine at half a screen.

2. Click the + sign and use "list"

3. Give it a title. I call mine "Ongoing".

4. Pin it so it's always showing on your homescreen.

5. Add everything to this one big list.

Because Google Keep doesn't have all of the artistic bells and whistles of a document program, it forces you to develop a similar system to a bullet journal.

For example:

I use bold on the most important things I must do that day.

I use CAPITALS after an item I need to purchase to remind me where I wanted to go shopping.

I nest tasks by indenting them under a heading if they should be grouped. I can check off each individual task as I clean the kitchen, and when I'm finished all of them I can check off "Clean kitchen." I find this helpful to break down large tasks and to remind me to finish the ones I wasn't able to complete in one go.

Each check box can be moved up and down the list by pressing on the six dots and dragging it, so you can keep the most important stuff at the top. Once you check the box it goes to the bottom of the page in grey with a line through it. It also remembers what you type so if you write "pick up drycleaning" every week it will help you auto fill.

You can also add letters at the start of the item:

o buy milk

z phone the dentist

If you want to use something closer to the original bullet journal system.

This has been an absolute game changer for me. I also put notes for things I promised to remind my partner of because I never remember them. Everything is in one spot so I don't have to remember to check multiple lists.

I hope this helps someone out there. Good luck!

Still reeling from the realization that bullet journaling was essentially created to be a disability aid and got legit fuckin gentrified

[lelair]

Notebook Stickers

I printed and re-edited some Arashi memes found on the internet. Now I can open my bullet journals with the members' silly faces.

[oodling-and-doodling]

4-9-24//not only have I finally started my first scripting class, but i also made the honour roll at my school! to celebrate, i went to the bookstore and picked up a gift for my sibling

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[leuchtturm1917aus]

Weekly planners offer a structured framework to organise duties, appointments, and responsibilities. This helps people gain a clear overview of their week, controlling oversights and confirming that nothing essential is missed. Using a weekly planner enables a constant planning habit and makes it easier to stay on top of tasks and commitments.

[suedeuxnim]

Love that Tim Drake is the kind of person who's entire life is on fire and he's like yes. A list will fix this. And then generates the most depressing list the world has ever scene while like, 90's skateboarding shredder music plays in his brain because he's soooo nailed it and this is totally gonna fix his life this time.

[notebookishbalderdash]

i was setting up my bullet journal for June this afternoon and still thinking about previous posts I reblogged about the gentrification of journaling and what is 'necessary' to start journaling, so I decided to do something very unusual for me and share a few completed pages. The top two images are from my current bujo, and the bottom two are from my last one. I had no pictures of my first one, which is a shame. You'll notice I have completely dropped the trackers, rearranged the layout (no more monthly pages!), and started writing snippets about my day in the space leftover. For a year, I also wrote my readings for class in a different space than daily chores, which helped me distinguish between meetings and homework. In my first bujo, I also had a separate section for recording what I ate for dinner (which was sparingly used).

Bullet journaling may not seem worth doing anymore for me, since I have all but resorted to a common weekly planner layout without any bells or whistles, but I still find it works for me. It doesn't take me very long to set up a month (maybe 20 minutes?), nor do I have to stick to a layout if I choose to switch it up. For instance, the top right photo shows that I tried a-page-a-day set up to little success - I wanted to fill all that space with detailed journal entries as a new year's resolution, but by the time February rolled around, I was back to writing two or three bullet points, if anything. I reverted back to weekly spreads when planning the rest of February. I also fill pages from the back with notes from lectures, meetings, and brainstorming sessions, so I usually finish a journal in a year's time. All my supplies are from my undergrad days, and I'm not sure I'll rebuy things like the mildliners or the huge Stabilo pen pack when they dry up.

Does having the markers make it fun? Sure! Will I someday returned to printed planners? Maybe! Do you need this stuff to be a proper bullet journaler? Absolutely not.

[sassblogsstuff]

My little book journal ✨️ 💕

[dailyrandomwriter]

Day 414

It's been almost a month since I started using a journal to keep track of things and I’ve discovered things about myself.

Or, maybe, I just realized the things that have always been an issue, but it’s always been written off as a vague failing of mine.

Let me explain.

I’ve always been unorganized (which makes my work life fascinating because I’m super organized with that shit). Ever since I was little my binders would be a mess, papers would be everywhere, and at one point in my life I had a daily planner that my parents had to sign off on because I wasn’t doing my homework. 

Part of these failings were shoved aside or excused due to the stupid amount of hospitalizations I had growing up, but the other reason, or so I’ve been told growing up, is that I’m lazy. And I accepted that, because it was, as far as I was concerned, true. I would prefer to play video games than to clean my place, and I just can’t seem to be bothered in organizing anything.

Yet, when I found my stride academically speaking, I never had this trouble. Same thing with work, and at the time I figured it was because academics and work had higher stakes. I would be wasting money if I didn’t graduate from university (and disappoint my parents), and work is how I can live on my own (and not disappoint my parents). 

I forgot (or maybe I ignored) the fact that I arrange my working life, very differently than my personal life. Like I had mentioned previously, I make lists for everything, and I live off of those lists. When I’m working, it’s fine that they’re all digital, I work at a computer for work, so to have those lists digital, makes sense. They’re in programs I have to have open all the time and work in anyways. I forgot that in university I was given a daily planner for free as part of being an accessible educated student, and I lived out of that planner in university.

I had, from the time I graduated from university to a month ago, never had any equivalent that I could live out of. 

The point I’m trying to make is, I’m learning that I’m not lazy, but I certainly have ways of thinking that make it difficult to function the same way my parents do. So I've been spending my week off setting up a new journal. The green one will get use as an art journal, but I wanted to set up my journal in the way I need it.

It may need adjusting as time goes on, as I figure out what works and what doesn't, but it's a start.