Guys, I wanted to know the layout you use for the day's block, or techniques for summarizing the notes, when I start writing it exceeds 2 pages on weekdays and I didn't want to consume too many pages.

i create a playlist every month as a sort of music diary to document my life through the music i’m listening to/loving at the time. i recently started my first bujo & finally have a place to log my monthly playlists :)

Just in case anyone wonders…

I purchased an inexpensive dot journal from Michael’s. It was only about eight bucks. 120 gsm, 180 pages, two ribbons, pen loop

It’s working out fine…except. The dots are much fainter than the Leuchtturm that I used last year.

The dots are faint enough that my aging eyes are requesting the Leuchtturm.

didn’t really fuss about the spacing about being perfect; this was a quick one. used a long metal ruler, and a Uni-ball Vision Elite pen. went back and forth about doing a black box on the last day of January? curious what others think. the first day of March is blacked out, because I made a mistake 😂

I've been a Leuchtturm fan for a while, but I'm looking for alternatives. I stopped using mechanical pencils because my handwriting is immensely better when using ink, but any ink I use on my Leuchtturm smears - even non-smearing brands. A blotter helps sometimes but it's a ridiculous notion for me to have to use it at all and even then, it only works most of the time.

I'm currently using a Pentel Energel 7.0 but I've tried others that claim to be non-smearing as well and have had no luck - but I'm open to suggestions.

I’ve seen a few but they just don’t fit my brain layout. What’s your favorite?

A fun and cute way to list the TV shows I've watched/rewatched in 2025! Don't judge me, I let the TV play in the background 👀

I loved this idea and continuing it :] such a fun way to put goals / habits of the month.

When do you set up your daily log: in the morning or the evening before? I struggle with writing it all in the morning.

I really like the idea of rapid logging. however , sometimes I feel that future logs are where tasks go to die. I move them to the week or the month and then never look at them again. Are there other frameworks out there? having everything one one list seems overwhelming , but I am considering giving that a try. I need a dead simple set up or again, I will never use it.

I got a pretty late start with January, as it's been both too slow and too hectic at the same time.

I've always struggled with what to do on the right side of the monthly spread, as my monthly to-do list never gets too long. Then I realized there's nothing keeping me from starting the daily log there. Feeling much better about this! It might change once classes start and assignments start to pile in though.

Calendar view helps me visualize the weeks a lot better. I also made a 2025 bingo with goals I want to achieve, and focusing on smaller goals each month seems to be the way to go for me.

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Hi y’all has anyone else been experiencing delays with Archer & Olive’s deliveries? I contacted them and they’re sending out a new one but it’s literally almost been a month since I placed my original order. Was wondering if anybody else was experiencing this and if you did anything to remedy it?

How do I use a bullet journal to organise future tasks and appointments?

A few days ago I started bullet journaling, but I am struggling with todo item for "tomorrow," and scheduled appointments.

• The daily log does not seem suitable, as I would need to record a task for tomorrow in today's list. I tried this, but I found it too distracting from what I want to focus on today.
• The "day list" in the monthly log appears to be for after-the-fact entries, not for "planning," if I understand it correctly.
• Future logs and similar seem to be too vague for planning—I would have to check it every single day, which seems impractical.

I have read that the bullet journal is not meant to replace calendars (and that Ryder Carroll still uses a digital calendar). However, I find this confusing, if the bullet journal is designed to help with organising oneself, should it not also support planning tasks for tomorrow, next Thursday, or an appointment on February 12?

Heyyy! New to this sub.

I was wondering if any of you have tips and tricks on how to create an efficient workout tracking page! What do you find works best for you?

Quite often I mentally jerk awake with the thought 'I haven't reached out to X in so long!' Now that I have some energy to spare, I would like to make 2025 a bit more about reaching out to friends who may or may not be doing well. (I won't know until I actually ask, right? ) I'm looking for tips or ideas on how to plan and track that through the year, so I don't have those 'startles'. Does anyone do something similar?

Hey everyone, avid Bullet journal-er here.

I use my BuJo for checklists and project management at work. I like to use a hybrid of original bullet journaling, the Alastair method, and my own personalised system - All of which I try to keep as minimalist, clear, and easy to read as possible.

If anyone has any systems/methods they use to track projects or tasks, I’d love to see them!

Hi! First post here! I love this sub and hopefully I can ask this.

My hands are so so dry all the time, esp in winter, but I also have eczema which makes it worse as it shows up constantly on my hands. So I have my eczema cream I use, and I've also started using nail oil bc I'm trying to take care of them poor dried out babies too.. and I don't know how to apply it all while wanting to use my journal. I have a hectic life so the only time to use my journal is often the only time to sit down and rest for a moment to myself and use those self care products. I've usually just picked one, so either I journal but my hands are dry af and hurt all day, or I take care of my hands & nails but I don't get to journal. Both options make me sad.

Any ideas? ♡

Although the original method puts a lot of importance on monthly (or more frequent) reflections, it doesn't have many features to do that. One feature is the monthly (or more frequent) migration. Although that invites reflection, it doesn't make it very visible. If I understood it correctly, Ryder was using the monthly calendar feature to provide some kind of overview of the most important things that happened during that month, but very few people use it that way. (I don't either.)

What I've been doing to help with that is writing a monthly "summary", which is always the last page before the next monthly spread. After the monthly migration I go through all the daily logs that month and summarise anything that is important to me.

I keep a personal and a work BuJo. I do this for both of them (and it's usually very different from each other).
In my personal BuJo I add a section for "insights" on that page, anything I learned that month about myself or things that I wanted to remember.
In my work BuJo I add a section for "kudos" on that page. As part of our retro that we have once a cycle (which in our case is 4 weeks, which is also the cadence I keep my work BuJo in) we give each other some kudos, to thank our colleagues when they were helpful and to highlight what they have done well. Because I have a bit of an impostor syndrome, I like to add these things to my BuJo to remind myself that I didn't do as bad a job as I sometimes think I did.

So far this practice of keeping a monthly summary (or 4-weekly in the case of my work) has already had unintended benefits. When my line manager and I went through my performance review, I was able to very quickly remember and talk through everything that happened during the last 3, 6 and 12 months.

What about annual reflections?
I only started bullet-journalling in April last year. When it came to doing an annual migration and reflection I wondered what I should do with my newfound treasure.
Theoretically I wanted to reflect on the whole year and summarise it. But then I had the idea to copy all the monthly summaries into a new notebook. And that's what I did. I always have one spread for one month, personal summary on the left and work summary on the right.
I also copied data from some of my trackers. (Although I'm not too sure about the outcome. I might change something about that when I do it again next year.)

Is anyone doing anything similar? If not, what do you do to help with reflection that is not part of the original method?

This is what it looks like:

My monthly BuJo summary from November 2024

I'm happy I decided to do these little trackers, it helped me to look at them every day when I checked my weekly to try to do something that would lift my mood or sleep just a bit earlier. Normally I wouldn't have thought I made any progress, but I can see I did! It's a very gradual slope, but it's there and I can keep working at it.

In a Youtube-Video Ryder Carroll suggests to set Intentions instead of goals - if I get this right. Do you know resources, where this is explained more in detail. I'm not a native English speaker and somehow think I don't understand it right.

I’m looking to log my books in my BuJo. But I’m looking for a minimalist setup.

Would love to see yours!

Sorry for the super long post!

I have two books that I always have on me, one is my Amazon basics 250 page bujo, A5. The second is a super skinny 60 page A5 notebook that I keep for long term collections. Every year is different but in the last 12 months I've been bujo-ing more frequently than usual so I run out of notebooks more quickly, and keeping a long term small notebook helps move collections without having to re-write. This addition of my small long term collections is new, uptil now I was putting them on paper that is stick in each notebook and when done would move the pages into the next book, but the small notebook thing is so much more convenient.

Now the issue is that I kept it inside the back cover of my main bujo. This notebook has a nice elastic closure that keeps both books safe together, but having a small book tucked in kind of damages the spine of main book, which already gets pretty bulky as I get to the end of it.

I tried this thing where I put in a rubber band through the back of my main bujo and the middle of my small book so it would be kind of like a traveller's journal thingy, and so far it's helped a lot but the small book is softcover, so it's gotten a little bit damaged, and I don't want to put it through more. I expect it to last me at least another two years.

Has anyone else had this kind of issue where you want to safely carry two notebooks in one, and how did you fix it? I looked into notebook covers, off brand ones and the ones other people keep talking about, but they're super expensive where I live.