What makes a bujo a bujo?

[fay_e]

Recently there's been a bit of angst on the other bujo communities I follow that the comms have become more about planners than bullet journals.

So out of curiousity, I want to ask this comm: What do you feel makes a bullet journal a bullet journal? And what part of Ryder Carroll's system do you find the most useful for you?

For me, the part that makes my journal a bullet journal is rapid logging, the way I use signifiers/bullets for each item and the way items get migrated between my modules/spreads. I do use different modules/spreads from the usual system though, since I feel the rapid logging is the most useful!

Comments

[musyc]

I call mine a bullet journal even if it's really more of a old-fashioned journal? Not quite a diary, and most of my quickie entries deal with my cats and what they did cute that day. XD

I don't use a monthly or weekly layout at all, my habit tracker is like ... thirty things because it's really more of a "you need to do this every day/week, so make sure you did it" tracker, there's no such thing as a future log in my world, and the little symbols are nowhere to be found! I don't do artsy stuff because I am lousy at drawing, I don't like the idea of stickers/washi tape because I don't like pages that don't lie flat.

I don't call it a planner because there's no planning involved, really. It's more of a record of a day rather than thinking ahead.

I do use colored pens in my habit tracker, though? XD

[fay_e]

Yeah, I started to use habit trackers because my rapid logging really became "repeat the same thing daily/weekly". So I guess habit trackers are your way of rapid logging!

I don't use washi tape and stickers either, and I only journal in a black pen /o\ Really unartistic.