I've found bullet journalling great for the most part in what it does for me. Everything's there and everything works as intended. However, some days I forget to write, some days I miss things, some days my journal is not in reach. How can I not rely on it too much such that maybe I can train myself to not need it in the future, or that I can remember and function during times without it? Will daily reflection help out with things like that?

Thanks!

Hi - I love the concept of the bullet journal but it feels very fiddly in application - has anyone had the same experience and how to get over it - the daily, weekly and monthly plus future logs are a sound idea but I want something that works for my random life ! I am a list maker and love the idea of collections - maybe I just need to keep at it ? Welcome enthusiastic and encouraging ideas or thoughts - thank you

Normal habit tracker aren't motivating enough so I made my own sticker with tetris blocks for next week. 7 of the pieces should fit perfectly inside the box. One extra block just for fun.

Like for building a reading habit, do logs and maybe a small note of what you read on each daily logs?

Recently, for reasons that would take too long to explain, I needed to get some tax documents from 2021. I changed banks in 2022, and my old bank changed their online portal provider in 2023, so this process was labyrinthine:

1. I tried to log into the bank's current online portal, but since I don't bank with them anymore, I couldn't get into it.
2. I emailed the bank.
3. The bank sent me a link to their old portal. I couldn't get into that either, because the bank no longer had service through the portal provider. I emailed them again.
4. They said, "sorry, nothing we can do, contact the portal provider." They gave me the number for the portal provider.
5. The number they gave me for the portal provider had an automated menu with no options relevant to me, so I found a different number on the provider's website.
6. I called the provider's other number and got a person! They needed my bank account number, which I don't have because I can't log into the portal. I told them this and they used my SSN instead.
7. After looking my account up by my SSN, the portal provider told me the account was "orphaned" and I would need to talk to their "orphan department." They gave me the number for the orphan department.
8. I called the orphan department. They just had a voicemail inbox, which said to allow up to 5 business days (!) for them to respond to voicemails. I left a voicemail.

I'm still waiting for the old portal provider to call me back, but I feel confident that I'll be able to get everything I need eventually--and that I will, because I'll remember what I need to do and actually do it!

Before I started bullet journaling, I never would have been able to complete a process with so many steps and such long time delays between the steps. I would've forgotten about it entirely until the CPA reminded me, which would've increased the wait time between steps from days to weeks. I might've forgotten about the same step and needed reminding multiple times, and eventually the CPA might have just given up on reminding me. The whole thing would take months instead of weeks, if it ever got done at all.

Now, because I'm writing everything down in one consistent place and checking it multiple times a day, I know what I need to do, and I won't forget! I have ADHD, so those are both incredible achievements that I have basically never experienced on this time scale before. (At least not in my personal life; I take adderall for work, but that's another story.)

Tl;dr: I was able to do an incredibly long, bureaucratic process because I kept track of it in my bullet journal!

Hi all! New here. :)

Anyone have good go-to templates for to-do lists, meeting notes, that kind of thing? Open to all inspo!

The digital tracker on Nanowrimo's website was doing my head in so I created this tracker.

Does anyone else track their writing?

Hello everyone,

I have been bullet journaling on and off again for years. My formatting changed recently and I am finding that I have more blank space on pages than usual. My brain doesn't like this.

What can I use to fill up blank spaces on a bullet journal page?

Hi guys, I don't intend to create collections for recurring habits and tasks, I'm going to mark the habits in the loop app and tasks in Google calendar. Even so, would it still be good for me to keep habits (such as exercise, reading, etc.) and recurring tasks in the daily log? Or is it just in the monthly log? The problem is that there would be a duplication of information, but I don't know if it would be a problem. thanks!

I saw in a recent video by Ryder Carroll that he supposedly uses timeblock on Google calendar, in the book or in some other source does he mention that this would be the best method for time management or is he simply just choosing tasks in his notebook?

So, I've been doing my bojo out of a lined notebook in the B5 size for the last three months. I decided to invest in a better journal and better/more supplies to create my spreads. I just got the B5 Dotted STM journal. I love it so far, despite not having set virtually anything up in it yet!

But I have an element of confusion. The journal comes with a ruler guide with markings on it for what I assume are supposed to be either number of dots between two spaces or number of spaces between two dots. However, no matter how I line it up, it does not seem to make sense.

If anyone has any experience using this guide, I would very much appreciate some help!

Hi all! I’ve been bullet journalling since januari and like to keep things simple and minimalistic. I have several basic spreads, like future log, monthly and daily spread. But I was wondering how you all would handle tasks with a deadline or events with a date?

Normally I would write them in my future log when it it not in the current month, but what if it is? I am writing stuff in my monthly log’s calendar when it has actually happened (to give a quick overview of what I did that month). When I just write them in my daily log I tend to loose track of them.

Looking for advice on this.

I just starting using a bullet journal, but I'm finding I can split each page of my daily log in half to save on pages. The main times this becomes an issue is when prefixing my tasks with certain project names, which tend to be long as they're often domain names for project websites I'm working on.

My idea is to keep an index of abbreviations, although I'm not sure if that's the best solution, so I'm hoping for some feedback from people who have already worked through this issue.

I'll give a concrete example. On April 1st, do I continue using the same page that March's daily log entries are on, or is it best to start a fresh page?

I am new to bullet journaling so I'm still figuring things out.

So, I have a hard time using bound journals. it's hard to talk myself into opening it every day, making them not super ADHD friendly. with spirals, I can keep the book open for any length of time so it limits the need to keep opening. I'm currently using a 6 ring binder and I like the flexibility because I can remove/move pages. I guess what I wanna know is, what's your favorite dot grid spiral or binder? preferably with decent paper quality (100gsm or higher)

I am having a heck of a time finding dotted 8x11.5 paper (with no holes). Loose leaf. Suggestions?

So besides making it myself, is there somewhere on the internet where I can find a schedule format of days of the week down the side and times on the top? It's quite an uncommon format but I can't seem to find anything digital to achieve this. Anyone got any suggestions? Tia.

Does anybody know where I could get one of these stamps that would fill one complete page in my BuJo?

Hey everyone,

I've been pondering something lately and wanted to get your honest opinions. Remember the days when BuJo was all the rage? It seemed like everyone was into it, with colorful pages, intricate designs, and the promise of analog productivity amidst a digital world.

But now, as the hype seems to have dwindled, I can't help but wonder: Was BuJo just a fancy trend, a fleeting movement connected to the desire to disconnect from mobile phones and embrace digital detox? Or is it a genuine, enduring tool for self-management and time management?

Personally, I've noticed that many "new" time-management or self-management systems often seem to revolve around similar principles, just packaged in different ways. It's like there's a never-ending stream of productivity solutions out there, each claiming to be the ultimate fix for all our organizational woes. And let's not forget the abundance of products they all try to sell us.

Full disclosure: I'm not here to bash BuJo, I use it myself. In the past, alongside with BuJo I experimented with the Covey method, tried out various systems like Kanban and sprints/scrum, and surprisingly, they all seemed to work in their own way. And there is something to grab and adopt from each one!

So, what are your thoughts? Is BuJo a passing fad, or is there something timeless about its approach to organization and productivity? Have you found it unique method OR just another system in a sea of options?

I'm new to BuJo, & I think that a digital app version would serve me best. (So that, rather than having to lug a physical notebook around, I can access it via my iPhone wherever I go. And so that the app simplifies/eliminates some of the more tedious tasks that are required when creating & keeping up a physical BuJo notebook.) I've searched a bit online/on Reddit, but am wondering if there's a consensus on a simple app that's already set up in the basic Ryder Carroll format? Ideally it would still be somewhat customizable, but not so completely open-ended that I would have to manually set up an entire digital notebook in the BuJo format. I'm looking to use BuJo for productivity, combined with mindfulness, & will likely keep it streamlined & minimal, as I don't want to get bogged down in spending time making it look pretty. So I don't need "stickers" or to be able to "paint" or otherwise add extraneous aesthetic stuff to it. Also looking to avoid apps that are reliant on "AI", or that are data privacy/tracking vampires. Appreciate any suggestions!

Someone asked me to share this after I explained my method. A little expansion of my shortenings and a translation for the non German speakers among us: Angst/Irrit : anxiety or irritation Sui : Suicidal thoughts Erschöpft : Exhausted/fatigued Unsicher : insecure