I accidentally spilled water on my page. Do you guys now how can I fix this?

I've started using my bujo for my work tasks on top of personal. I have three rough categories of work things- tasks, meetings, and things I'm tracking. The things I'm tracking don't require any action from me at this time (or for a while) but will eventually result in a task. Think like tracking a document that's going through approvals that I'll post on our website once it's approved. I'm not sure what sort of key symbol to use for these things. I use a circle for tasks and a triangle for meetings. Square is already taken- I use that for projects.

I feel like the planning/bujo community has been bombarded with 2025 content since August. It generally made me feel fomo and that feeling of being "behind."

But honestly I've found that there is still time to both work toward 2024 goals and enjoy my system/planning routine.

So I just wanted to say, hey, you don't have to have your "system" figured out, or to think about the new year yet. Look at where you are and what you (and your bujo) can do from right here.

For me, on a really long project, I like to record my medium- and long-term ideas (since I often forget my original thoughts as I go) as well as the insights I gain along the way.

I've been practicing aspects of the bullet journal method for at least five years. Last night I was making a few entries in my evening review. I was starting my fourth or fifth oneliner when I wondered how this bullet method might be effecting my ability to write cohesive longer form. Had anyone noticed a move to shorter sentences in their other writings? I remember many years ago finding some sort of odd pleasure when I read a long complex flowing sentence from someone like W. Somerset Maugham and preferring that over the style possibly made famous by Hemingway. I'm not saying I'm anywhere near them, as you can likely see from this post. Nor do I aspire to be anytime like them. Just wondering how a bullet journal practice might effect my other writings.

hi! i’ve been journaling and doing bujo for about a year now. i just started a new medication and have been feeling some side effects and i wanted to track them on my bujo. has anyone done this before? what works for y’all? i’d love some inspiration

Hi!

I’ve recently started using google calendar and ticktick as my main productivity tools for university. I now want to incorporate bujo in my life again, but I can’t come up with a good hybrid setup.

Can you share how you do yours?

Thanks!

I want to start a journal for work where I can track all the projects we do and mock-ups for each (multiple per week but we only have a couple dozen clients); ideas for improving our department or space; keeping a daily log to track random things for accountability purposes, like what I did that day, or when higher ups tell me to do something a certain way and blames me later for their bad decision (lol); meeting notes; etc.

But how can I keep all these thoughts organized in a way where they’re easy to look up and access? I have a notebook now where I just write whatever but there is so much volume to my notes every day that when I get a question weeks or months later I sometimes can’t even find what I wanted.

I love pilot brand pens (juice, precise v5, g2) but I just started my first bujo and all my pilots smudge since I'm left handed. Is that something I just have to deal with or are there good pens anyone can recommend that dry really really quickly to avoid smudging? I've had some success with papermate flare pens but I really like finer pens like the pilot juice 0.35mm. Any recommendations would be lovely! Thanks!

Anyone here track their c-pap events along with sleep? I’d like to see what comes from tracking hours, events, and quality. Just looking for ideas of the structure of the log.

Brand new to BUJO (or any type of journaling for that matter), and got a little ahead of my self. I started my Bujo with my monthly and then a weekly spread for October on page 1. I didn't leave any pages for Key, Index, Future Log... or any thing else needing room to grow. Anyone else been here and have suggestions? I was considering cutting out the pages, or just leaving it as a reminder to slow down (one of my flaws), and then just put the missing pages right after what I have started. I'm also not sure what I should do with the fact that I'm only starting in October. Should I keep going with as many months, or call this the late 2024 bujo and start a fresh bujo in Jan 2025?

Hi so I recently put a selfcare bingo in my bujo but don't really know what to do for rewards. Any ideas?

The system involves doing little and often approach where ideas spring up as you work on them little by little. Give it a try with your daily log. Here's a short version of it:

1. Write down everything you have to do without judgement, the system will take care of it
2. Read quickly through the list
3. Read again slowly until one task stands out
4. Work on that task as long as you feel like it and rewrite it if it is not completed

This was proposed by Mark Forster, learn more at his website where he explains this in more detail and the science behind it. http://markforster.squarespace.com/autofocus-system/

hi! i’ve been using the bullet journal for about 1 year and I love it, but i would love to have it in digital. i tried the official app but its too simple. i have a specific way of managing my daily log and weekly view on my notebook. also i’ve incorporated the “writing” part into my notebook + ideas.

so i would love to have suggestions of bullet journal apps that lets you customize the weekly planning and the daily view.

any suggestions?

thanks :)

I am one of those people who constantly has way too many tabs open (usually between 50 and 100). And I hate it. Most of my work happens in the browser, so it's the equivalent of having a badly cluttered desktop. While I already use a bullet journal to "unclutter my mind", is there a way that can be expanded to "unclutter my browser"?

I thought of seeing every tab as a task to put into my bullet journal. But that would be way too many tasks. Although, as soon as I look at one, I could have the rule to spend 5 minutes per tab and then either close it or put it into the journal. That might get the number down already. And there is probably a way to group the tabs, so several tabs could be just one task.
They'd also be missing the URLs. While I could write them up, I don't think that would make any sense.

I suspect any method would need to work together with bookmarks (or similar).

Has anyone tried to combine browser tabs with a bullet journal? How did you do it?

1. With bound notebook, I had to carry the entire year, even though some old pages were no longer relevant. With a ring planner, I can remove unnecessary pages and only keep the most recent month or so, making it more portable

2. With a ring planner, I can add pages whenever I have new ideas, without worrying about where to fit them in.

3. bound notebook combines work and personal life, but with a ring planner, I can separate them easily.

4. If I mess up a page in bound notebook, I can't easily remove it. With a ring planner, I can just replace the page without any stress.

Hello, I really am in struggle right now because I feel the need to start journaling again but actually don't know how.

Background: I have stopped journaling about half a year ago because I tried a new calendar system (an undated calendar) because I thought that way I wouldn't need to setup as much, but in the end it kept restricting me so I stopped using it.

Situation now: Because I stopped using the undated calendar and also didn't had a bujo at hand and have been sunk in depression I sticked to apps.

So now,

I use Google calendar and tasks for daily things.

I got an selfcare / mental health app due to my anxiety and depression phases (called mindDoc)

I got a task and feel better app (called Finch).

And now... I am burned out kinda. Because these apps are good on their own, but none of them make me feel as if I can let go my thoughts, if this makes sense. Noting down things analog, in a bujo, felt more comfortable and relaxing to me. Also I just miss living out creativity.

On the other hand the apps give me a summary, an overview of how my condition is and has been a week/month ago.

And now I struggle so much because I neither know where I should start a bujo when everything is on apps. And otherwise I don't know where to minimize the apps because these need my daily input and it's hard letting them down. And I am afraid I'd might get overwhelmed by preparing lists and weeks and months and tracker systems in a bujo.

Does anyone knows this and has a working solution for it?

Because I can't imagine writing my thoughts and emotions down three times... Like app 1, app 2 and bujo.

And I can't let down Google because that's shared with family and gives a good and working overview on everything.

So the next bujo I create should have no calendar or only in a different way.

• I lack daily structures and self-confidence. (I want to do more sports or outside activities for example. But I am super insecure and introvert so that's really difficult. My energy level is super low as well).

• I need something to braindump.

• I love planning and structuring things down into detail even tho I know it'd never happen.

• I tend to forget things, an issue which lasted after having COVID, my brain isn't the same anymore.

• I love lists? If that's weird.... XD

• I know that especially mood trackers never worked for me, in none of my bujos. Not even a "year in pixels" worked for me.

So if anyone has ideas how to solve the main problem or has ideas on how I could fill the bujo in a good way without making it feel doubled or simply irrelevant please let me know.

I already had a look on similar themes on Reddit regarding bujo and apps but these kinda weren't exactly like my problem so I hope to get some answers here. Thank you for reading :3

CRM Bujo Spread

I started my bujo around mid August and it has done wonders for my personal and work life. I am extremely more organized and my tasks are handled more efficiently since I’ve been fast journaling.

I work at a business and tax compliance firm, I am an Analyst and project manager and have been struggling to adapt a spread specifically to follow client accounts and progress. Our projects are based per client and their needs, but no specific timelines, unless its accounting which tac returns do have a specific deadline. So a project would be like setting up a clients new business, applying for their permits and licenses and gathering all the government compliance doc’s, while another client is just payroll management, and another would just be file their tax return once.

The more and more clients I get assigned, on top of my analyst research projects to better improve efficiency on taxes and incentives, I find it harder to keep record on my bujo with just the daily spread and monthly outline. You can see in the picture my attempt at tracking clients. Even though it worked well, I am finding hard to just do it like that. My other two pictures are of my monthly outline and my daily spread.

Any suggestions?

I am loving the bujo method! However I am a little confused about one thing and am curious what other people do. What do you do when a tasks takes much longer than planned and messes with your whole day. Do you just restructure your day accordingly and try to shift things around? Or do you have some kind of plan in place? Thank you!

Hey redditors, so I have started to work on switching my life management over to a bullet journal.

I am in what some might call a bit of a self dug hole in life, finances, work, etc. I have been trying to make sense of everything that I have to do by following the GTD method. I have more or less captured, clarified, organized and done some reflection on everything that needs to get done, but after doing so, I am feeling even less confident in my ability to get my head back above water, let alone getting ahead of the firehose of life.

Enter: The bullet journal method. I am about half way through part one of the audio book, and I am wondering how you guys would approach using a bujo to help me “think smaller” and use it as a way to help me to look at everything I have to do in manageable chunks rather than as the massive hairy monster I have allowed to grow through stupidity and impulsive laziness.

However, I don’t even know where to start. My future log is supposed to have everything, so should I just start the journal with page after page of shit I have to do? When I did my mental inventory as recommended in the book, my “should be doing” section was about 15 pages long.

Should I just say “eff the future log” and jump in to just tackling bite sized chunks? Should I start from today, as in “Forget the past, we will worry about it and about getting that stuff taken care of but we are going to start with a blank slate and only look at things that come in from today forward” or just get the big ugly lists into my journal and slowly work on chopping away at things? Should I even bother to bujo right now or would the effort needed to grow to a level of competence make it not worth the effort?

I guess I just need help, so any help would be appreciated.