My first Bujo

[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! :)

Comments

[misslucyjane]

The index. Absolutely the index. I've been keeping notebooks for years and I have no idea what's in most of them, and I think the adding of an index is the most useful part of the whole system.

Some kind of to-do/appointments list is also helpful. The spread depends on how busy your are: classes or kids' activities or project tracking for the self-employed, that sort of thing.

I tried out a key at first, but don't bother anymore because I was changing it all the time anyway. I don't do a habit tracker, as such, but I do mark off that I've taken all of my medications every day using a habit tracker-style grid. And I have no artistic ability whatsoever so I don't do things like Hello pages. (I do use washi tape to jazz up various pages, though, and sometimes small dot or heart stickers. I love washi tape.)

I was introduced to it basically by Ryder Carroll's original concept, so I've always had the idea of a KISS journal as the starting point.