Hi Jess! Last September (in my country the academic year starts in October) I set up a designated study journal for my first year of uni, and your videos and spread ideas were the best inspiration for that! I'd like to share what spreads worked for me this year in case some other students would find the ideas helpful! • My first spread is a uni information spread where I have my uni's adress, my login information for the school website, the grading point system, anything that's just general info that's always useful to have. • Of course, year at a glance and a future log. I found out later that, since I made a future log with little calendars for every month, the year at a glance ended up being redundant for me, but there I highlighted in different colours the "exam weeks" for every semester, and marked days of the exams/midterms/science conventions. • I have a simple spread for every course I'm taking, where on one page I have professor info, emails, their consultation times, their office number and how many points the course is worth. The other page is empty, and that's where I write out a rough outline of how I wanna study for that course's exam (what books, how many chapters, checkboxes for progress) • On a monthly basis, I do a regular bullet journal type monthly calendar, where I try to ration study time for each day. I kinda estimate how many hours studying for an exam would take, and divide it by the number of days I expect to be studying for, and give myself a "daily quota" of sorts. That's what I track in the monthly calendar! • Also, since I high key struggle with executive function, if I'm doing pretty badly, I like to make little entries every time I study, where I write out what I found difficult and what I did about it. (Example: "I lost focus after 30mins of reading, I started thinking of ideas I'd have if I were making a movie - I dealt with it by writing it down on a spare piece of paper, and I didn't think about it for the rest of the session." // Or literally just: "I couldn't sit in silence so I used a study with me video for background noise. It kinda worked.") I like to think that, if I ever end up seeing a therapist/psychiatrist about it, it would be useful to have it all written down. I hope this might be useful for someone - a lot of people in uni have complimented me on my notebook and it always makes me happy, so hopefully more of us can benefit from a nice organized planner!!
i love such comments. I think as a student its so difficult to find the right pages which fit for your own Bujostyle. The idea with the capters for studying is my favorite bc i never know where i put these information.🥰
This is spooky. Are you a mind reader Jess? Registered for my “just for fun” university classes today and thought to myself “I should set up a bujo for this”. You’re a genius Jess! Also found a lot of great ideas from the other video. Thanks 💜
When I was in undergrad in the 90s, our sorority had a guest who explained the whole Franklin Covey planner system to us and how to use it. I had always loved stationery, but in the stationery desert of the US in the 90s that wasn’t on the coasts, there were minimal planner options. While I no longer use it, for many years through grad school and my early professional work years, my Franklin planner was my bible. I always bought the “Seasons” version (pretty designs!) and all the extra blank grid pages that fit it (approx large A4/small A5) so that I could add in all the additional sheets I needed. I got the full daily (which meant two pages for each day…maybe one…sort of like a Hobonichi Cousin) with a two page monthly spread, and I’d use some of the blank sheets for projects/timelines for finals, presentations and papers. I got a few ziplock clear bags (from the Franklin store) where I could keep small things that didn’t fit in there. COLOR CODING!!!! It saved my life. Everything had its own distinct color and was made as a small notation in the monthly, then further explained in the daily. That way I could look over my month/week and know what needed to be done for what. Since grad school meant juggling a zillion different responsibilities…this saved my life! Early in my professional career, someone emailed me a link to the bullet journal website (yeah, this was really early UA-cam, so just the really short videos.) My Franklin still worked, but always had a ton I didn’t need or use, and I’d get tired of everything looking the same…and, so much cool stationery was so easily available…I switched right over, and have used a blank journal ever since for organizing (recently got a Hobonichi cause I wanted some more structure, and the pretty journals are for more ‘fun.’) Having something that was always available to me at my desk, in my backpack, etc, to instantly make notes on (keep in mind, Palm Pilots were the newest cool thing my last year of grad school) was so helpful. Having something that had a basic structure to it that I could build onto was helpful for me during that period of my life…less so now (everyone is different.) My first BuJo was a teal Leuchterm 1917 dot grid, and I bought my first fountain pen, a metallic sage green Lamy Safari (with blue/black and purple ink cartridges.) I had more fun with pens and being free to create my calendar exactly as I needed it, and also have the digital part I wanted to compliment it. And I still color code everything…why not? It gives you an excuse to buy more pens!! Such as: Well, I know I have the entire color set of Paper Mate Flairs (cause as a kid in the 70s, those were my gateway drug into stationery! Love ‘em!) but I NEED the entire color set of the Zebra Clickart…cause…clickable felt tip? The design is so sleek…yes, not as cool as that giant pack of Stabilo 88s that look like wooden yellow pencils and come in a zillion colors…that was also a NEED, not a want. 😉 Thanks, Jess for bringing me back to the experience of finding a system that worked when I needed intense structure and didn’t know how to create it…and then discovering the freedom of the BuJo where you have all of your organization and your unique self exactly as you want it!
I was well out of college by the time bullet journaling came around, but I agree that I would have been so much more productive if I'd had this tool back then. Especially when working on my Masters and working full time.
If I were a student again, I’d use a TN system for all my notes. Or in college I used a five subject notebook and that went sooooo well! But a TN system would be easier because I could swap out inserts as I fill them.
I am a teaching assistant and yes, Week A and Week B is essential in the UK. We have 5 lessons a day but also do some work before and after school so I have 7 slots a day in my journal.
Yeah, when I was at school (at least at one of my schools) we had 5 periods a day with one weekly timetable 😝 It's interesting to see how they're different between schools!
knowing im at an alt college but clicking anyways because my biggest character flaw is looking at journal layouts but never using my 4 different unfinished journals
My school in the Uk actually gave us a homework diary that had some of these sections in it. That was in the early 80s (just outed how old I am). Great video Jess, will definitely show it to a friends daughter who's intrigued by bullet journalling.
I'm at post-grad now and I did try having a journal when I was in highschool and was studying to get in college. It was a huge failure for me as I would lose too much time looking for pretty layouts lol, this video would have been useful back then...
Could do, but I promise it's really simple! You just: 1. Google "QR Code generator" 2. Click through on any website that comes up near the top (pretty much any of them are good) 3. Paste in the URL you want to make a QR code for into the website you opened 4. Save the QR code picture that's generated Most of them are free, at least for a certain number of codes made 😊🤙
Thank you, i just ordered 2 bullet journals at teifossi, with you code, now it is waiting on how long it will take to get it in the Netherlands. My first bullet journal is a cheap one that i not really like because of the tinner paper. But the journaling it self i really like. So i think i have a new expensive hobby.
I'm kind of wondering if the idea of a Toolkit might work for job searching as well. Keep QR codes that link to things like a PDF copy of my resume or my LinkedIn. Things that are professional in nature that it might be good to have something easy to scan if needed. I do have a graphic QR code that links to my Beacons but I'm wondering if a page like this might also be handy since I take notes at any interviews or workshops throughout the job search process.
Thank you so much for this video! Just about to go on holiday so I need to set up my journal for the new school year before I go! Off to put in a bunch of these ideas!
Just found you on the Summer Creative Retreat. You’re so funny and so creative! Haven’t even finished the session yet and already following and subscribing.
I've found it normally doesn't get stuck enough for me to worry too much about it (my double-sided tape holds the paper together fairly well so things don't tend to get between the stuck down segments) but that's certainly a solution if it's going to bother people, yah 👌
You can just google for any QR code generator :) Usually it just involves putting in the website you want to refer to and it'll generate the code for you :) @onesoccerkate
When I put them on the document, I ordered the codes in the same way I'd arrange them on the page. As I was cutting them out, I made sure to keep note of which one I was cutting out and where it should go 😊 Easier if you cut-then-stick one at once though 😛
We have a few videos on the channel about teaching-related layouts that could help! This playlist has them: ua-cam.com/play/PLFmDbK4-NLnlmpUTKyv_hXLOT9re14Ras.html 💜
Up to you! These ones I set up as temporary ones just as they were only for the sake of example, but in a “real” journal setup I’d keep them as permanent fixtures
The general steps are: 1. Google "QR Code generator" 2. Click through on any website that comes up near the top (pretty much any of them are good) 3. Paste in the URL you want to make a QR code for into the website you opened 4. Save the QR code picture that's generated Most of them are free, at least for a certain number of codes made 😊🤙
Love the spaces repetition log idea! I taught AVID for years, and there was a big emphasis to encourage teachers and students schoolwide to revisit notes overtime to combat the "Curve of Forgetting"... But it would have been so much more effective with a simple tracker like this! Screenshot this to send to my teacher friends! Magical! 🧙♀️🪄
Of course I had to use all the QR codes to see what surprises could be found. Jess is a marketing genius 😀
Haha 😂 Well I wanted them to go *somewhere* 😝💜
The QR codes are genius!
So agree. What a great idea!
Can have a lot of applications, yeah! 😄💜
Thank you. I am 48, and back in college, so this helps me very much!
Glad it’s useful for you! Hope college is going well 😄💜
@@JashiiCorrin thank you. It is going very well, I'm happy and proud of myself.
Hi Jess! Last September (in my country the academic year starts in October) I set up a designated study journal for my first year of uni, and your videos and spread ideas were the best inspiration for that!
I'd like to share what spreads worked for me this year in case some other students would find the ideas helpful!
• My first spread is a uni information spread where I have my uni's adress, my login information for the school website, the grading point system, anything that's just general info that's always useful to have.
• Of course, year at a glance and a future log. I found out later that, since I made a future log with little calendars for every month, the year at a glance ended up being redundant for me, but there I highlighted in different colours the "exam weeks" for every semester, and marked days of the exams/midterms/science conventions.
• I have a simple spread for every course I'm taking, where on one page I have professor info, emails, their consultation times, their office number and how many points the course is worth. The other page is empty, and that's where I write out a rough outline of how I wanna study for that course's exam (what books, how many chapters, checkboxes for progress)
• On a monthly basis, I do a regular bullet journal type monthly calendar, where I try to ration study time for each day. I kinda estimate how many hours studying for an exam would take, and divide it by the number of days I expect to be studying for, and give myself a "daily quota" of sorts. That's what I track in the monthly calendar!
• Also, since I high key struggle with executive function, if I'm doing pretty badly, I like to make little entries every time I study, where I write out what I found difficult and what I did about it. (Example: "I lost focus after 30mins of reading, I started thinking of ideas I'd have if I were making a movie - I dealt with it by writing it down on a spare piece of paper, and I didn't think about it for the rest of the session." // Or literally just: "I couldn't sit in silence so I used a study with me video for background noise. It kinda worked.") I like to think that, if I ever end up seeing a therapist/psychiatrist about it, it would be useful to have it all written down.
I hope this might be useful for someone - a lot of people in uni have complimented me on my notebook and it always makes me happy, so hopefully more of us can benefit from a nice organized planner!!
Thanks for the list of the ones you found most useful! And glad to hear that the other videos we have on the channel proved useful for you too 😄💜
i love such comments. I think as a student its so difficult to find the right pages which fit for your own Bujostyle. The idea with the capters for studying is my favorite bc i never know where i put these information.🥰
This is spooky. Are you a mind reader Jess? Registered for my “just for fun” university classes today and thought to myself “I should set up a bujo for this”. You’re a genius Jess! Also found a lot of great ideas from the other video. Thanks 💜
Well I'm not a student but I'll integrate some of this in my bujo. Very nice.
Awesome to hear! I know that most of these ideas can be tweaked to fit people in different life areas, so glad to hear you'll be doing that 😄💜
When I was in undergrad in the 90s, our sorority had a guest who explained the whole Franklin Covey planner system to us and how to use it. I had always loved stationery, but in the stationery desert of the US in the 90s that wasn’t on the coasts, there were minimal planner options. While I no longer use it, for many years through grad school and my early professional work years, my Franklin planner was my bible. I always bought the “Seasons” version (pretty designs!) and all the extra blank grid pages that fit it (approx large A4/small A5) so that I could add in all the additional sheets I needed. I got the full daily (which meant two pages for each day…maybe one…sort of like a Hobonichi Cousin) with a two page monthly spread, and I’d use some of the blank sheets for projects/timelines for finals, presentations and papers. I got a few ziplock clear bags (from the Franklin store) where I could keep small things that didn’t fit in there. COLOR CODING!!!! It saved my life. Everything had its own distinct color and was made as a small notation in the monthly, then further explained in the daily. That way I could look over my month/week and know what needed to be done for what. Since grad school meant juggling a zillion different responsibilities…this saved my life! Early in my professional career, someone emailed me a link to the bullet journal website (yeah, this was really early UA-cam, so just the really short videos.) My Franklin still worked, but always had a ton I didn’t need or use, and I’d get tired of everything looking the same…and, so much cool stationery was so easily available…I switched right over, and have used a blank journal ever since for organizing (recently got a Hobonichi cause I wanted some more structure, and the pretty journals are for more ‘fun.’) Having something that was always available to me at my desk, in my backpack, etc, to instantly make notes on (keep in mind, Palm Pilots were the newest cool thing my last year of grad school) was so helpful. Having something that had a basic structure to it that I could build onto was helpful for me during that period of my life…less so now (everyone is different.) My first BuJo was a teal Leuchterm 1917 dot grid, and I bought my first fountain pen, a metallic sage green Lamy Safari (with blue/black and purple ink cartridges.) I had more fun with pens and being free to create my calendar exactly as I needed it, and also have the digital part I wanted to compliment it. And I still color code everything…why not? It gives you an excuse to buy more pens!! Such as: Well, I know I have the entire color set of Paper Mate Flairs (cause as a kid in the 70s, those were my gateway drug into stationery! Love ‘em!) but I NEED the entire color set of the Zebra Clickart…cause…clickable felt tip? The design is so sleek…yes, not as cool as that giant pack of Stabilo 88s that look like wooden yellow pencils and come in a zillion colors…that was also a NEED, not a want. 😉 Thanks, Jess for bringing me back to the experience of finding a system that worked when I needed intense structure and didn’t know how to create it…and then discovering the freedom of the BuJo where you have all of your organization and your unique self exactly as you want it!
Love the journey in your planner evolution! 💜 Can totally understand of the "it's a need, not a want" feeling 😝
I was well out of college by the time bullet journaling came around, but I agree that I would have been so much more productive if I'd had this tool back then. Especially when working on my Masters and working full time.
Very helpful! Love the layouts. Thank you!
Most welcome! 😄💜
If I were a student again, I’d use a TN system for all my notes. Or in college I used a five subject notebook and that went sooooo well! But a TN system would be easier because I could swap out inserts as I fill them.
Good idea! I probably wouldn't use my bullet journal for note taking, but a traveler's system would work well for that 😄💜
Definitely going to incorporate some of these into my bujo ❤
Yay! Glad to hear it 😄💜
These all look so good, might have to steal a couple of these layouts ☺☺
Glad you like them! 😄
I am a teaching assistant and yes, Week A and Week B is essential in the UK. We have 5 lessons a day but also do some work before and after school so I have 7 slots a day in my journal.
Yeah, when I was at school (at least at one of my schools) we had 5 periods a day with one weekly timetable 😝 It's interesting to see how they're different between schools!
knowing im at an alt college but clicking anyways because my biggest character flaw is looking at journal layouts but never using my 4 different unfinished journals
Haha at least you have self awareness? 😅 glad to have you here all the same! 💜
My school in the Uk actually gave us a homework diary that had some of these sections in it. That was in the early 80s (just outed how old I am). Great video Jess, will definitely show it to a friends daughter who's intrigued by bullet journalling.
What an excellent idea Jess!
Thanks Shanya! 😄💜
Inspired by Jess. After watching this video, I think I'll do over my notebook for this coming semester. Thanks, Jess!
Most welcome! Hope the layouts prove useful 😄💜
I'm at post-grad now and I did try having a journal when I was in highschool and was studying to get in college. It was a huge failure for me as I would lose too much time looking for pretty layouts lol, this video would have been useful back then...
Love the QR code idea!!! ❤❤❤
Glad you liked it! Has a lot of cool applications 😄💜
Well I know I am old, but whaaaatt? You can make a QR code?? Please can you show us how at some point? 😊
Could do, but I promise it's really simple! You just:
1. Google "QR Code generator"
2. Click through on any website that comes up near the top (pretty much any of them are good)
3. Paste in the URL you want to make a QR code for into the website you opened
4. Save the QR code picture that's generated
Most of them are free, at least for a certain number of codes made 😊🤙
@@JashiiCorrin wow, ok thank you.. I will give it a try!
Heck, you make me want to go back to uni and start studying again, just so I could set up a bujo for it 😅😂
Haha, don't worry, I've done the same to myself 😂💜
Thank you, i just ordered 2 bullet journals at teifossi, with you code, now it is waiting on how long it will take to get it in the Netherlands. My first bullet journal is a cheap one that i not really like because of the tinner paper. But the journaling it self i really like. So i think i have a new expensive hobby.
I think if I used the Future Log, I'd spilt it up for my 5 classes and list the major assignments coming up! (I'm in Uni)
Smart move! Makes it easier to see what needs to be done for each 👌
I'm not a student, but the type of freelance work I do might actually benefit from a modified version of some of these. Thanks for sharing!
Most welcome! Glad to hear you'll be using some of these for yourself 💪💜
I'm kind of wondering if the idea of a Toolkit might work for job searching as well. Keep QR codes that link to things like a PDF copy of my resume or my LinkedIn. Things that are professional in nature that it might be good to have something easy to scan if needed. I do have a graphic QR code that links to my Beacons but I'm wondering if a page like this might also be handy since I take notes at any interviews or workshops throughout the job search process.
looove the layouts! definitely thinking about using them for this semester in my bullet journal. great video as always, jess! love from chile 🤍
Glad you liked them! 💜😄
Thank you so much for this video! Just about to go on holiday so I need to set up my journal for the new school year before I go! Off to put in a bunch of these ideas!
Glad they were useful for you! 😄💜
Just found you on the Summer Creative Retreat. You’re so funny and so creative! Haven’t even finished the session yet and already following and subscribing.
Thanks Claire! Glad to have you here with us 😄💜
Yay. I'm not the only one who paused the video to scan the codes! Hehehe
It’s cool to see that people did, yeah 😄💜
Thanks
Most welcome! 💜
use wet glue for the pocket because the paper you put in the pocket will get stuck in the tape.
I've found it normally doesn't get stuck enough for me to worry too much about it (my double-sided tape holds the paper together fairly well so things don't tend to get between the stuck down segments) but that's certainly a solution if it's going to bother people, yah 👌
I love the journal cover!! Where did you find it?❤
That’s actually part of the journal itself rather than a separate cover! It’s from The Washi Tape Shop 🤙💜
How you create the qr codes?
Agreed! Someone tag me when theres an answer!
You can just google for any QR code generator :) Usually it just involves putting in the website you want to refer to and it'll generate the code for you :) @onesoccerkate
Yup, just like @SayaShinigami said, legit just Google “QR code generator” 👌 most of them are free up until a certain amount of codes made 😊💜
@@JashiiCorrin thank you Jess❤️
very well done with the qr codes😂😂!
Haha thanks! 😈💜
How did you know which bar code went with which? Or was this just for demonstration purposes? 😅 x
When I put them on the document, I ordered the codes in the same way I'd arrange them on the page. As I was cutting them out, I made sure to keep note of which one I was cutting out and where it should go 😊 Easier if you cut-then-stick one at once though 😛
Hi im new. Can you share how u would bujo as a teacher. Thanks a lot. Itll will help me as a new teacher and getting forgetful 😅❤
We have a few videos on the channel about teaching-related layouts that could help! This playlist has them: ua-cam.com/play/PLFmDbK4-NLnlmpUTKyv_hXLOT9re14Ras.html 💜
@@JashiiCorrin OMG a whole Playlist. I'll catch up. Thank a lot 🌷🩷
What are those amazing dot markers called?! I need to get my hands on those.
They're the Zig Clean Colour Dot Marker 😄 certainly a staple supply for me 👏 amzn.to/41n5wjw
@@JashiiCorrin thank you!!
Heyy, do I stick new QR codes over the old ones or do I use a new page?
Up to you! These ones I set up as temporary ones just as they were only for the sake of example, but in a “real” journal setup I’d keep them as permanent fixtures
If I had a bujo in school I may not have dropped out and getting my ged later a couple years after... I may have also gotten good grades lol
For sure, I would have been so much more on to it 😝💜
So can you show how to do a QR code or tell me how to find a how to.
The general steps are:
1. Google "QR Code generator"
2. Click through on any website that comes up near the top (pretty much any of them are good)
3. Paste in the URL you want to make a QR code for into the website you opened
4. Save the QR code picture that's generated
Most of them are free, at least for a certain number of codes made 😊🤙
What is that pen?
Not sure which one you're talking about sorry, but the ones I used are linked in the description box 😊
I don’t know why but the background music was stressing me out I couldn’t focus on your words 🤦🏻♀️ please change it
Not going to lie, I’m probably not going to change it because I’ve used it for years now, but I can look at adjusting the volume 🤙
@@JashiiCorrin so I assume the volume has been the problem coz I had never noticed 😂
Love the spaces repetition log idea! I taught AVID for years, and there was a big emphasis to encourage teachers and students schoolwide to revisit notes overtime to combat the "Curve of Forgetting"... But it would have been so much more effective with a simple tracker like this! Screenshot this to send to my teacher friends! Magical! 🧙♀️🪄
Glad you liked it! 😄 thanks!