Productive Tool: The Bullet Journal System For Productivity
BULLET JOURNALING
Productive Tool The Bullet Journal
I love journals, but not all are useful. I use them for a time and then forget about them. They don’t suit my daily routines in the long-term. I love the bullet journal concept because I tailor around my daily, weekly, monthly even yearly needs using it for many things e.g. project planning or creating a collection of words or inventorying my Star Wars collection, making lists, scheduling my day.
Since any journal works, I can go back and use those old discarded journals now that I understand how it works. That saved me some money because I have several discarded journals. The Bullet Journal is a system for allowing you to be productive in work or organizing your thoughts and life. I tend to make my journal an all-inclusive, instead of a single journal for each need.
NOTE: You can use any kind of journal even a spiral notebook for a bullet journal. I use a 9×12 spiral sketch pad for mine. I get mine from Amazon.
I have a small ruler and protractor for creating. I use color pens, pencils, and sometimes pre-made stencils to trace.
I use my bullet journal for everything. Planning, Scheduling, Brain Storming, Mind Mapping, Doodling, Notes, Lists, Calendars or writing flash fiction or whatever else I think of doing.
I don’t do the monthly calendar but I do make a weekly one and use a per day page calendar for my day planning and scheduling. The space within the monthly calendar creates limits, plus, creating a monthly layout takes more time. The bullet journal gives me a more creative way to break down my plans and schedules, encourages deep thought in the process without having to worry about space in a little square. I bought a pre-made Weekly/Monthly planner created by Blue Sky for basic calendar use in a 5×7 handy size for quick referral.
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I love the idea behind bullet journaling, but I think I would have to add sticky notes or markers of some sort to keep me organized. The idea of flipping to the correctly numbered page blows my mind and would make the journal a little too difficult for me to use.
One question – If you move an item to your yearly overview (from your daily list) as something that needs to be completed by a certain time … but sometime in the future, how do you know to go back to it when you should? I feel like I would move things to the yearly overview and completely forget about it before it needed to be done.
I use tabs and bookmarks for easy flipping and making my place. I also do a daily calendar and what is not done is moved forward. You can use an extra tab to mark a deadline and then mark the tab with the date. Every time you pick it up you see it. Since I use it daily I pick it up every day. I also doodle take note use stickies on pages too and on cover on outside, so you can do all that too. I even brain storm and mind map in my journal.
Basically you it as simple or as complicated as you need it to be.. I use a sketch book so anything goes and changes as I need it.
It seems like a cool idea. I know I’ve had a terrible history of actually using tools like this though. 🙂
Me too and have many unused and half used, but the bullet journal I love as it lets me use up all those laying around empty. Never was good at this until now.
Sounds like it’s made for me! Thanks for this informative post 🙂 Now to start organising my thoughts and to-do lists…
I really love mine, never thought I keep up with something like this, never have in past, but the bullet journal approach is awe inspiring and I do now.
Cool. Love my Bullet Jornal
I do this already but didn’t know its name. Too funny that.
Anna from elements of emaginette
Very cool.
I’ve tried bullet journaling! Love it! Great post on it! ?
Thank you. I use my bullet journal for everything. It really has help organize and my creativity. It is something about the way my brain approaches organizing in the bullet journal that is creative and triggers my innate creativity too.
I’m always open to new journaling techniques, To-Do lists, etc. Will check this out – thanks!
Your Welcome.
I keep hearing about these things, all of a sudden. I may have to start in on one at some point, but right now, I’m still wrapping my head around the idea. You’ll have to tell me how it works out for you.
I’ve been using for a little bit. I love it.
And here I just use one as my to-do list…
I use those too, but i now I do them in my bullet journal
That was interesting. I can see how useful it would be.
It is very useful and keeps me on track better than other things I have I tried.