Nicely done Jerad! I too have a morphed the best of different journaling styles to maximize my productivity. Mine looks much like yours does on a daily basis and look forward to trying the weekly recap. I think that is important.
Great follow up video and you still have inspired me to move forward with your simple method. Calendar has been my struggle and I am thinking I will print a calendar and tape it in or even purchase stickers. I will continue to use Apple notes for customer meetings and will give it a quarter before I do any major changes.
1. It’s your journal, if you can read it…the journal is there to help you not to be beautiful 2. Monthly view: put the days (M,T,W) before the date and split in parts if time is important. As a digital planner is helping me to remind the time (and others plan in it), I use the monthly view only to see what is coming up and put in a highlight at the end. Mainly following the way Ryder Carrol does… with the “me” sauce. I like your weekly recap, think I’m gonna steal that 😅. (I use it in hybrid with Notion.. what I “need” to have, lives in Notion (or Obsidian).
Hello! Of course it's always good to have a form of traceability. I tend to make written projects, so it's usefull to have a digital version of them. I don't do it for my bullet journal system, but I it can help to archive, or for other reasons, why not? I like your weekly recap. Recaps are like feedbacks but onto paper. I have trackers to see progress in my workouts, more simple than going into much details about it. I do a "codex" system for everything i have to plan at home: A Letter for the subject, a number for the word, and I recap that in a page like the keys one (I don't use all Ryder Caroll's keys, I just took what was right for me). It saves time everyday for routines and chores, and it takes not much space. But my dailys don't look like yours at all. On that month recap, you can allow a column with the first letter of the day next to the number it correspond. That will help you. Also i do all my monthlys in pencil, saves times, removable, and i never have to worry about the time it takes to make it neat. Love how your notebook is turning. Looking forward for more I still have to see (I'm like 9 months late obviously). 😊
There is bullet journal app where you can take photos so your notes/days are then backed up. I’m guessing they could then be traceable? Love this video, very inspiring for my own journal ideas
As I start to plan my week and review the previous weeks notes, and scan the pages into Apple Notes. I can search the notes if I need to find information at a later date.
I hear you on the monthly calendar. The list style that Ryder uses doesn't help me know what day of week it is. Drove me nuts. My SOLUTION: I find a monthly template online, shrink it to a size that fits my notebook, print it, then use washi tape to paste it into my journal. Print all 12 months at a time, and paste them in as you go each month. Easy peasy. 🙃
Ryder recommends to write the first two letters of the day, though? so like 01 Mo, 02 Tu etc. This way you you see the day. Also, he recommends to write down what you achieved or learned that day at the END of the month like a kind of reflection.
Keep the updates coming. The learning as you go becomes a learning together. Have/know/will you try the Livetracker System? Currently I am testing and adapting it. You basicly setup a monthly page (your March), but instead of a plan it is a growing record. You have the date, weekday, space for one noteworty or memorable thing, that happend on the day and maybe some habittrackers/30 day challenges/stats. A second page can be filled with goal, if desired. Using it take a few seconds a day or minutes every few days. Optionally you can write as many pages journal as you want. My guess is this does what your weekly reviews so in minimal format for a month. There are similar base urges/thoughts involved.
Ryder, the founder of the BuJo method, doesn’t recommend to use the monthly page as a kind of calendar view. it‘s a tool for reflection.. that‘s why he writes down the highlight of the day at the end of the month as part of his monthly reflection. I find this a great way to remember your accomplishments. :)
If it doesn't help you, stop it. That’s the great thing about bujo - you should adapt it to your needs. I’m currently jotting down the highlights of the day in the monthly view as a reflection of what I did and what happened in my life because my intention for the whole bujo is to reflect more :).
I use that method in Notion for projects. Though I have been bullet journaling this year and am now digital bullet journaling (see latest video), I still need something that is archival and easier to view the status of multiple projects. I've been thinking about doing a video showing my hybrid process.
I really don’t think your handwriting is “bad” at all! I didn’t really even notice it until you brought it up. I actually can’t stand “perfect” penmanship. Distinctive and unique handwriting is much more interesting! Re your notebook, I’m stealing your weekly review idea. I don’t do much digitally because i simply cannot type fast enough on my phone. It’s beyond frustrating.
Please keep us posted on how you're using your bullet journal. I'm really enjoying your bujo vids so far.
Nicely done Jerad! I too have a morphed the best of different journaling styles to maximize my productivity. Mine looks much like yours does on a daily basis and look forward to trying the weekly recap. I think that is important.
Great follow up video and you still have inspired me to move forward with your simple method. Calendar has been my struggle and I am thinking I will print a calendar and tape it in or even purchase stickers. I will continue to use Apple notes for customer meetings and will give it a quarter before I do any major changes.
1. It’s your journal, if you can read it…the journal is there to help you not to be beautiful 2. Monthly view: put the days (M,T,W) before the date and split in parts if time is important. As a digital planner is helping me to remind the time (and others plan in it), I use the monthly view only to see what is coming up and put in a highlight at the end. Mainly following the way Ryder Carrol does… with the “me” sauce. I like your weekly recap, think I’m gonna steal that 😅. (I use it in hybrid with Notion.. what I “need” to have, lives in Notion (or Obsidian).
Hello! Of course it's always good to have a form of traceability. I tend to make written projects, so it's usefull to have a digital version of them. I don't do it for my bullet journal system, but I it can help to archive, or for other reasons, why not? I like your weekly recap. Recaps are like feedbacks but onto paper.
I have trackers to see progress in my workouts, more simple than going into much details about it.
I do a "codex" system for everything i have to plan at home: A Letter for the subject, a number for the word, and I recap that in a page like the keys one (I don't use all Ryder Caroll's keys, I just took what was right for me). It saves time everyday for routines and chores, and it takes not much space. But my dailys don't look like yours at all.
On that month recap, you can allow a column with the first letter of the day next to the number it correspond. That will help you.
Also i do all my monthlys in pencil, saves times, removable, and i never have to worry about the time it takes to make it neat.
Love how your notebook is turning. Looking forward for more I still have to see (I'm like 9 months late obviously). 😊
When you do your Monthly list next to the date put the Letter of the week so you can find what day.
There is bullet journal app where you can take photos so your notes/days are then backed up. I’m guessing they could then be traceable? Love this video, very inspiring for my own journal ideas
As I start to plan my week and review the previous weeks notes, and scan the pages into Apple Notes. I can search the notes if I need to find information at a later date.
I hear you on the monthly calendar. The list style that Ryder uses doesn't help me know what day of week it is. Drove me nuts. My SOLUTION: I find a monthly template online, shrink it to a size that fits my notebook, print it, then use washi tape to paste it into my journal. Print all 12 months at a time, and paste them in as you go each month. Easy peasy. 🙃
Ryder recommends to write the first two letters of the day, though? so like 01 Mo, 02 Tu etc. This way you you see the day. Also, he recommends to write down what you achieved or learned that day at the END of the month like a kind of reflection.
Keep the updates coming. The learning as you go becomes a learning together.
Have/know/will you try the Livetracker System?
Currently I am testing and adapting it. You basicly setup a monthly page (your March), but instead of a plan it is a growing record. You have the date, weekday, space for one noteworty or memorable thing, that happend on the day and maybe some habittrackers/30 day challenges/stats. A second page can be filled with goal, if desired.
Using it take a few seconds a day or minutes every few days. Optionally you can write as many pages journal as you want.
My guess is this does what your weekly reviews so in minimal format for a month. There are similar base urges/thoughts involved.
Ryder, the founder of the BuJo method, doesn’t recommend to use the monthly page as a kind of calendar view. it‘s a tool for reflection.. that‘s why he writes down the highlight of the day at the end of the month as part of his monthly reflection. I find this a great way to remember your accomplishments. :)
I stopped the monthly view quite a while ago because I found it useless.
If it doesn't help you, stop it. That’s the great thing about bujo - you should adapt it to your needs. I’m currently jotting down the highlights of the day in the monthly view as a reflection of what I did and what happened in my life because my intention for the whole bujo is to reflect more :).
Try the everbook concept! It works
Have you tried the Alistair method? The weekly log that uses helped me.
I use that method in Notion for projects. Though I have been bullet journaling this year and am now digital bullet journaling (see latest video), I still need something that is archival and easier to view the status of multiple projects. I've been thinking about doing a video showing my hybrid process.
With your second monthly set up you were to put the days of the week next to the number
Secret to Bullet Journaling: use a pencil.
Personally, I don't do bullet journaling cause my handwriting is horrible.
Same. That was my first point in my earlier video. I get mad at myself when I look at my handwriting. Had to get over that.
I really don’t think your handwriting is “bad” at all! I didn’t really even notice it until you brought it up. I actually can’t stand “perfect” penmanship. Distinctive and unique handwriting is much more interesting! Re your notebook, I’m stealing your weekly review idea. I don’t do much digitally because i simply cannot type fast enough on my phone. It’s beyond frustrating.