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| Lesson in Bullet Journaling
BuJo101
by Echy How to Bullet JournalThe Bullet Journal is the perfect mixture of a diary, a journal and a planner. As its creator, Ryder Carroll, says the bullet journal is “the analog system for the digital age”, in his website you can find a lot of ideas to how to start one, but sometimes having too much information all at once can be overwhelming.
So let’s start with the basic, shall we?
The bullet journal is a way to track the past, organize the present and plan the future.
Remember this sentence, it’s the core of the all thing, you can put a thousand of things inside the bujo, but it’s primary goal is to help you organize your life.
When I first started bullet journaling I, too, wanted to create something artistic, with quotes and drawings and all those things you see by just googling “bullet journal”; but then when I got to actually doing it, I wrote a few pages with list and stuff and right after I realized that I didn’t need them in that moment, so I dived in writing down the task for that day and the rest of the week, started planning the big event I was going to have.
And that was it.
I wrote down what I needed, and I started adding things a few week later, when I had the time.
Because you don’t have to make time, cutting hours from your day for styling your bullet journal, your bullet journal is there so you will use your time better and you’ll have a more organized life.
Before starting I want you all to know just one thing: do not worry about wasting pages, you’ll never learn what works for you until you write it down and start using it.
Experiment with everything.
You don’t like it? Rip out the page, stick a photo on it, it’s no big deal.
No one will judge you because you made a mistake.
Now, let’s start!What do you need?Start with the basic: a notebook and a pen. You can expand your collection later.
Do you remember that old notebook that you bought three years ago and you never find a way to use it? That’s the one.
You don’t need to spend extra money, just use what you have in hand.
My BuJo is a notebook I bought for 2€ in a shopping spree and I never used it. It’s simile leather, with the side of the pages that made a little rainbow. Super cute.
I had my pencil case from my time in high school lying around still full of pens and pencils, so I use what I found there to start writing on the bujo.
You can use washi tape to decorate the pages, using some color markers for adding a little color, but it’s extra.
Start from the bottom.
Now that you have your supplies you can start with the first page…Key & IndexThe first page can be used for writing down personal info (name, surname, cellphone number, “if lost return to“) or you can write down the key and index for your bujo.
The coding is simple, just three things.
A bullet “●” is for the task you have to do. You cross it “X” when you complete the task or you migrated (postpone) by turning the bullet in an arrow “>”; if you manage to do the task before it’s due time, you have schedule it and you mark it with “<”; ore you cross it out to cancel it if you don’t have to do it anymore. If it’s important you can add a “!” before it.
A square “□” for events. Same thing as the task, you black it out or you cross it when you do it, you migrate it with an arrow and cross it out when you cancel it.
A dash “−” for notes.
Some people add new symbols for inspiration, ideas, birthdays. Or you can even choose a different coding system, it has to suit you and your needs.
After the key page, you create an index page. Just like the books, you number the pages of your bujo and you write in the index where is what so you will find it fast and easy. Need more explanation?Future LogNow that you have your keys, you can start by writing down a future log.
The future log is a way to see events and tasks through the months to come. I wrote the next six months (from June to November) and wrote down the birthdays and events I would have.
Thanks to the future log if you have to schedule an event or a task due in three months, you can easily put it in the calendar and every single time you would open you bujo and check the future log, you will remember you have to do that task or event.
Personally, I didn’t use it very much, but for someone who still goes to school or has a job, it’s a good way to keeping track of everything.
You’ll never knew, just put it in there and see if you’ll need it.
Monthly LogAfter the future log, there is the monthly log.
You have a full view of the month, you can organize the weeks by just seeing this log.
The official version of the monthly log is by just writing the number of the days one under the other and writing the task/event on the same line.
I use this version for my first monthly log, I started in the middle of May and I had already plan events and tasks for the days and I wouldn’t have time to do something different. But with June I did the two pages calendar and wrote the tasks and events in the corresponding box.
After a couple of months, I came back into doing a single page calendar, because I figure it out I didn’t use it very much.Weekly & Daily LogAfter the view of the full month, you get to the weeks (and in my opinion the weekly is the most important of all the logs) and the days.
Now you can do whatever you want.
You want to organize and plan day by day, you do that.
You want to organize and plan the entire week, just do it.
You can even do a weekly log to keep everything on tracks and then do the dailies.
There are no rules. Remember this.
Starting with the weekly log, you write down the seven days – you can do it in one page or in two, as you need and want – and you start using it to put tasks and events for the week.
You can customize the weekly layout as you want, as I show you in this post. You decide how to display your week.
Using the key code you start writing down what you have to do day by day, and you’ll notice that in this way a lot of the things that slipped your head are going to be done, because you write them down and you’ll get a constant reminder every time you look at your bujo.Migration
Sometimes you don’t manage to do all the task you wrote down and at the end of the week you got all those bullets that aren’t crossed… so you migrated them!
Easy: you change the bullet in an arrow “>” and you write the task in the next week and so one until you do it.
The migration process is just this: moving the task from the previous week to the next.
And you can migrate from month to month, year to year, century to century.
The migration can be done in a larger scale when you finish a bullet journal and you have to switch to a new one. In this case you flip through all the pages, see what works and what not, and migrate to the new bujo what you need to start exactly when you left off with the last pace of the previous one.
I’ll write a larger post about the migration from bujo to bujo when I’ll finish my first one.
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So, I convinced you to start bullet journaling?
If yes, let me know how you are doing, share your progress with me, I’d love to keep in touch and see if it works out.
…and don’t forget to check my blog for new post every Thursday and Sunday!
Live more, think less,
Echy; |
