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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for the bullet journal tutorial on the official website and as far as I can tell, the quick and easy learning page has been replaced by a link to a US$249 course?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.

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! :)

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: 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.)

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?

fay_e

Current Mood: curious

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!

lunabee34

My Leuchtturm1917 dot grid A5 in navy blue should be arriving soon, and I'm gearing up to journal in my new fancy notebook.

Does anybody have links to decorative journal pages or pretty collections or layouts? Or post me a picture from your own journal I can use for inspiration.

Thanks so much, everyone.

inkstone

I'm thinking of adding a habit tracker to my bujo. For those of you who use them, could you possibly post a pic or two? I'm trying to get a feel for how everyday people (versus Instagram superstars) use them on a practical, routine basis.

It doesn't matter if it's weekly vs monthly (or even daily!). I'm not wedded to format. I'm just trying to figure out what would work best for me, what I'd find useful to track, etc etc.

Thanks!

eleanorjane

So, as I've mentioned in comments on a few previous posts, I've changed notebooks recently for my work bujo and it's been a revelation. Unfortunately I have realised that my holy grail notebook might not exist.

Here are the qualities I want, in order of preference:

1) B5 or quarto-ish size (definitely larger than standard Moleskine or A5)
2) larger than 5mm, preferably 7mm ish
3) grid or dot grid!
4) nice paper
5) as close to white (rather than cream) as possible

I'm currently using a J Burrows journal which meets 1, 2 and 4 above, and is okay on 5.

I reeeeeeeally want something that meets 1, 2, and 3 - a B5 notebook with a 7mm grid or dot grid - but it's really hard to find anything like that and I suspect it just flat out may not exist.

Does anyone have a line on such a thing or any suggestions to investigate?

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