You captured the #1 frustration I have with most "how I bullet journal videos": "Ship your things. Make things that work for you." Thanks for releasing this video, it's encouraging to see other people use bullet journals without feeling the need for them to be works of art and instead to use them as tools for being effective in the whole purpose of keeping a bullet journal.
Yeah I recently started bullet journaling and I make so many mistakes... mostly just because of a lack of concentration. And that's ok, in the end it's just a planner! And you use a planner to quickly jot important stuff down, not to make it beautiful.
I like your style. It's difficult to find people who are using the bullet journal system for organization rather than... cutesy scrapbook procrastination?
I totally get what you mean! I just hope that at least some of these people work in jobs that require creativity and therefore it is just their way to approach everything in life...
I love your set up. Alot of "plan with me" videos are really just come watch me decorate my expensive piece of leather videos which are more fluff than useful content. I love the clean and visual pleasing asthetic of your bullet journal. Please dont stop making videos
One of the best and realistic bullet journal set-ups I've seen! Can tell that you're focused on your goals and this journal is a helpful tool for you. Can also tell that you're working hard and not just doodling and decorating it all day long. Please share more of these as time goes by!
Something I do that makes it easier the entire time I use a notebook is to mark along the top and bottom edges of the closed book where the marks would be to divide the individual pages in half and in thirds. For any page, grab a straightedge and line up with the marks. Takes a few seconds to do it once, and beats counting dots or measuring each time.
In nearly every video about notebooks I hear that someone hates the first page being partially glued to the cover... so I just want to say that if it wouldn't, the pages would fall out of the cover ;) The text block (aka the pages) is sewn together, then connected with the cover via those thicker endpapers, which are glued to the cover and partially to the first page of text block. The spine is not glued to the pages (otherwise it would be to stiff and the pages could have problem laying flat), so this annoying stripe of glue holds it all together :)
So I may be repeating what several have said below - but for someone who hasn’t drawn in a while or has time nor the skill to draw master pieces to then organize a hectic life around it, this video makes you feel a lot better. It’s straight to the point and I’m not freaking out about what art or theme I need to create. Good job! I’m already having trouble compartmentalizing my work/life tasks. 🤦🏽♀️
I like your style. I’ve been trying to do minimalist billet journalling. It’s been going really well but it’s trial and error to figure out what layouts work for you. I started with a week to 2 pages, and now I’ve changed to a day to a page. It’s great how bullet journals allow you to be flexible and play around with different strategies.
The first and last page of every notebook is part of the binding. That is why it's glued like that. It keeps all the other pages in place and is NOT a fault.
Great video, some nice organization tips! Just wanted to say for some people here that sometimes the decorating part is therapeutic. I like setting aside an hour or so a month to plan out some minimal layouts for the month but it's still entirely functional. Bullet journalling is a really personal system and if you want stickers and bright colors, thats fine too- whatever works for your own organization system. I found quickly I didn't need half the spreads or want the stickers some other decorative journalling channels had, but those systems work well for them- and it benefits them to have it look nice as well so that's their thing.
Darn I watched this one day to late. I like the idea of going backwards with notes....just started a second journal for notes. Liked the idea with your 10 tasks.
I purchased a Barron Fig last week and I 100% agree with you . It is a beautiful notebook, BUT I will miss having the back pocket and also, the numbered pages.
I need to start tracking my feelings/moods. I'm finding that I wake up one way and then go to bed another. Thanks for sharing. Looking forward to more videos.
Matt just discovered bullet journaling and found your video this is one of the best I’ve seen. Love how you explain this journal is just for you and how engineers can use it. Please put a 2019 version I’ll check.
Love this tutorial. Thank you! Really interested in a deeper dive of the emotion tracking. I journal nearly every day and have spent the past few weeks trying to visually track emotions to look for patterns.
This video is so helpful. I use a bullet journal for more than a year, and it I'm still figuring out what works best for me. Thank you very much for this video. I think I am going to try the 10 blocks system as well.
Thank you so much for posting a "how to" that I can relate to. I appreciate the beauty of the scrapbooking- artistic-style Bullet Journals, but really needed to see a video more about function and 'getting it together' than artistic expression. Thanks!!
I love seeing your style. I am a function over style when it comes to organization. I like to draw and craft, but really it can easily distract from the overall idea which is to stay organized. Hope you continue to explore, adapt, and most importantly SHARE! :)
I like the way you set your notebook up. It's simple and doesn't have all the extra stuff. I can't start doodling or my notebook turns into a sketch book. !!
Thank you for discussing the minimalist approach to bullet journals! I've tried having a bullet journal in the past but I'm not into the fancy pens and drawings so I only managed about 4 days. You've inspired me to try again so thanks! 👍
Hey Matt. Enjoyed your video. I like the Baron Fig journals, too. Well made. I do a little bookbinding, and that first page is the end paper and it is typically a heavier weight than the text block paper as you pointed out. And there is a reason that the first page is glued the way it is. It is what adds to the strength of the end paper being glued to the inside cover and a strip to the text block. The text block is Smyth sewn and the end papers are glued, not sewn to the text block. Cheers, Wade
It’s loycht turm. The first syllable is like the first syllable of “lawyer”, or the 2nd syllable in “alloy”, then kind of ch sound in the back of the throat. You can say a k sound and it’ll sound pretty good. Then the next it’s like the word tour, plus an m.
Thanks for taking the time to make. I really liked seeing how you've changed your daily list. I'm struggling with keeping the timeline for each day - I think I'm going to plan out my day this way, but it doesn't always happen. And flipping the journal to take notes from the back - genius !!
I would always use the first page as a "title page," dedication page, etc anyway, like "Amanda's journal February 2019- (blank)" Or maybe a quote or something like "do all the good that you can" or whatever resonates as a theme for me at the time. (Could be the theme or word for the year) My current book says "Love is the energy that creates the world." On the cover page. Now the funny fitting first page actually has my vision statement, mission statement, "if lost return to"/info and the year I started writing it.
The first page of a book is called the bastard title page. It is not meant to be a normal page with much text on it, ony the title and maybe the auther or so. :) In a notebook, it is probably the best page to write on your contact info. You wrote your contact info on the endpaper, which need to be stronger paper because it holds together the pages and the cover. Often it is colored or another special paper and it is absolutely not meant to write on it. * just for the ones who wonder - of course use your notebook how you like :)
that's a GREAT spread! finally found another male doing this, I felt kinda lonely! hahaha p.s. the music is pretty loud in this video, maybe you should consider turning it down a little so we can follow your words better. byee!!!!
Hi, I'm new to this bullet journal system, thank you for sharing your setup! It's simple but still very helpful, and I don't have to skip the decorating part.By the way, you messed up the year number in the Month at a glance page.
Hi Matt! Thanks for the minimalist BuJo tips! I watch a lot of planner videos, and while I love seeing all the super crafty things people do with their notebooks, I need mine to be pretty minimalist in order to be functional. All that crafty stuff distracts me too much! (I have ADHD, and I mean for real, not in that jokey "ooh, squirrel!" way.) I also wanted to give you a quick pronunciation tip since you mention not knowing how to pronounce "Leuchtturm" at the beginning of your video. :) It's like this: LOYKH-term. That "ch" sound happens at the back of your tongue. It sounds kind of like a cat hissing. :)
Nice video. I've started to journal about 2 years ago, but I have bought pre-designed journals that were hurting my pocket. Going to try out your method to save money and to see if it's just as effective, if not more! Thank you!! Also you should show us your fitness journal too! That would be helpful. (:
Hey this is a super late comment that you probably won't see. Just wanted to tell you nice video and it's awesome you live in (or near) Portland! I'm new to your channel but saw your powells books sticker. Good luck!
Hello Matt, I really like your videos on BUJO, I´m planning to set one, for the first time, for 2020. My focus is to ¨keep it simple¨, but all this information and different charts, and SO MANY different ways to set up a BUJO,has me really overwhelmed with info. What can you recommend for starting a brand new simple bujo?
Hey Matt, loved the video! The one thing I was wondering about is how you deal with new tasks that come up mid-way through a month. Since you already have your month laid out in front of you, do you omit the new task from your planner for the current month and just remember it in your head, do you start next month's planner early and add the new task to that planner, or do you do something different? Thanks for sharing!
Hey Zackery, thanks for the question! I just add it in to the weekly top tasks and finish it there. If it's something that carries over to the next month or is a bigger project, I'll just create an extra page for it at the end of the month layout. Make sense? You may find this video helpful too: ruclips.net/video/jckqcRTntVg/видео.html
Dude you need to edit this video your phone number is on the first page of the journal and that is really bad to make public unless it's a fake number. Just wanted to point that out and I plan to get a planner to make a goals journal this year for my art, reading and writing thanks for this video =)
Cody Detterer thanks Cody! Lots of it just taken from years of collecting ideas. But a few resources are bulletjournal.com, Self Journal, and 5 Minute Journal were all important. I really like Austin Kleon’s daily logbook for hitting stuff down.
Can you please do a video on your 10 block? I understand that you use it to track the amount of time spent on your priorities, but I'm confused with how exactly you track the percentage of what's been completed. I'm not sure I'm explaining myself well enough... If you spent 2 hours on meetings, how does that translate to the percentage bar?
Love your layout! Do you happen to have a vid up of your previous layout in more detail or a blogpost? Also, which minimalist bujo-er is your inspiration? Looking for more ideas to organise mine :-)
Min S Thanks Min! Lots of it just taken from years of collecting ideas. But a few resources are bulletjournal.com, Self Journal, and 5 Minute Journal were all important. I really like Austin Kleon’s daily logbook for hitting stuff down.
Why don't you make your own pocket on this notebook? I like the Leuchutturm, as they are guaranteed not to bleed and I don't have the spine issue on the first page. If you get the normal one instead of the bullet journal version you get 1 book mark rather than 3. I really like using field notes as a task book - using todoist is not really the same and I am going back to paper.
You went quite quick on the first part of your 10 task bar chart. What is the count of 100 marking for each? 100hours? So if you were balanced would be only about 10 or 20 a bar? Or some sort of % or story points?
Been wondering how you track any web content, like links? I’ve been thinking of starting a text note with “year-day” and then numbering any of the links I would need to track.
I have a question about the 10 blocks is that for the whole month of January? and if it is on an average a month has 730 hours, but yours is a 1000 hours can you please explain your concept, I am lost. btw, i like your simple bujo others are so focused on visual than productivity
Is it even worth it? I would try it but then I noticed I don't even have time to make a book because I work late and all I could do is eat, sleep, shower and get ready for work. Mabey Saturday and Sunday. Any suggestions anyone?
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You captured the #1 frustration I have with most "how I bullet journal videos": "Ship your things. Make things that work for you." Thanks for releasing this video, it's encouraging to see other people use bullet journals without feeling the need for them to be works of art and instead to use them as tools for being effective in the whole purpose of keeping a bullet journal.
Chase Adams amen! Thanks for the kind words Chase, lots more coming on this topic too!
Yeah I recently started bullet journaling and I make so many mistakes... mostly just because of a lack of concentration. And that's ok, in the end it's just a planner! And you use a planner to quickly jot important stuff down, not to make it beautiful.
Chase is on the case
Yes @ChaseAdams!!!🙏🏼
I like your style. It's difficult to find people who are using the bullet journal system for organization rather than... cutesy scrapbook procrastination?
Lauren Hannah this is one of my favorite comments 😂 thanks Lauren!
Oh yes I feel you. ^^ This is why I do not bullet journal but plan in a premade calender, otherwise I would just decorate to procrastinate.
AD absolutely!
Nachtfalter that makes sense too!
I totally get what you mean!
I just hope that at least some of these people work in jobs that require creativity and therefore it is just their way to approach everything in life...
I love your set up. Alot of "plan with me" videos are really just come watch me decorate my expensive piece of leather videos which are more fluff than useful content. I love the clean and visual pleasing asthetic of your bullet journal. Please dont stop making videos
Jessica this comment means so much to me! Thanks for taking the time to let me know you enjoyed it, can't stop won't stop!
One of the best and realistic bullet journal set-ups I've seen! Can tell that you're focused on your goals and this journal is a helpful tool for you. Can also tell that you're working hard and not just doodling and decorating it all day long. Please share more of these as time goes by!
AnastasiaOva I will, count on it!
Something I do that makes it easier the entire time I use a notebook is to mark along the top and bottom edges of the closed book where the marks would be to divide the individual pages in half and in thirds. For any page, grab a straightedge and line up with the marks. Takes a few seconds to do it once, and beats counting dots or measuring each time.
In nearly every video about notebooks I hear that someone hates the first page being partially glued to the cover... so I just want to say that if it wouldn't, the pages would fall out of the cover ;) The text block (aka the pages) is sewn together, then connected with the cover via those thicker endpapers, which are glued to the cover and partially to the first page of text block. The spine is not glued to the pages (otherwise it would be to stiff and the pages could have problem laying flat), so this annoying stripe of glue holds it all together :)
Agata W ah great point!
So I may be repeating what several have said below - but for someone who hasn’t drawn in a while or has time nor the skill to draw master pieces to then organize a hectic life around it, this video makes you feel a lot better. It’s straight to the point and I’m not freaking out about what art or theme I need to create. Good job!
I’m already having trouble compartmentalizing my work/life tasks. 🤦🏽♀️
Thank you -- finally some serious planning without all the frills.
Martina Fern you’re welcome! Glad you like it.
I love minimalist bujos, I feel the really complicated bujos are cluttered in my mind, but then again to each his own.
Anthology Notes yep I agree with that too!
I like your style. I’ve been trying to do minimalist billet journalling. It’s been going really well but it’s trial and error to figure out what layouts work for you. I started with a week to 2 pages, and now I’ve changed to a day to a page. It’s great how bullet journals allow you to be flexible and play around with different strategies.
Totally agree! Thanks for watching Brooke :)
The first and last page of every notebook is part of the binding. That is why it's glued like that. It keeps all the other pages in place and is NOT a fault.
great video, man.
just a word of advice: lower the background music volume. it's too loud.
Great video, some nice organization tips! Just wanted to say for some people here that sometimes the decorating part is therapeutic. I like setting aside an hour or so a month to plan out some minimal layouts for the month but it's still entirely functional. Bullet journalling is a really personal system and if you want stickers and bright colors, thats fine too- whatever works for your own organization system.
I found quickly I didn't need half the spreads or want the stickers some other decorative journalling channels had, but those systems work well for them- and it benefits them to have it look nice as well so that's their thing.
ok, so far the only useful BJ videos for me are those made by men, I need to let the youtube algorithm know this somehow
I am so glad I discovered this world! I think it’ll change my life... I usually get overwhelmed w planing n organization
Kat Carvajal glad you’re here! Lots of available videos and other people in the Bujo community to help 😄
Darn I watched this one day to late. I like the idea of going backwards with notes....just started a second journal for notes. Liked the idea with your 10 tasks.
I purchased a Barron Fig last week and I 100% agree with you . It is a beautiful notebook, BUT I will miss having the back pocket and also, the numbered pages.
I need to start tracking my feelings/moods. I'm finding that I wake up one way and then go to bed another. Thanks for sharing. Looking forward to more videos.
My daily notebook is just a bunch of sketches and watercolors. Wow, very different but I think it does the same thing. Cheers.
Matt just discovered bullet journaling and found your video this is one of the best I’ve seen. Love how you explain this journal is just for you and how engineers can use it. Please put a 2019 version I’ll check.
Thanks! 2019 version is coming next week!
Love this tutorial. Thank you! Really interested in a deeper dive of the emotion tracking. I journal nearly every day and have spent the past few weeks trying to visually track emotions to look for patterns.
This video is so helpful. I use a bullet journal for more than a year, and it I'm still figuring out what works best for me. Thank you very much for this video. I think I am going to try the 10 blocks system as well.
Thank you so much for posting a "how to" that I can relate to. I appreciate the beauty of the scrapbooking- artistic-style Bullet Journals, but really needed to see a video more about function and 'getting it together' than artistic expression. Thanks!!
I love seeing your style. I am a function over style when it comes to organization. I like to draw and craft, but really it can easily distract from the overall idea which is to stay organized. Hope you continue to explore, adapt, and most importantly SHARE! :)
Matthew thanks Matthew, I will! New video coming today!
I like the way you set your notebook up. It's simple and doesn't have all the extra stuff. I can't start doodling or my notebook turns into a sketch book. !!
Ha! I say if that's what you like, do it :)
Thank you for discussing the minimalist approach to bullet journals! I've tried having a bullet journal in the past but I'm not into the fancy pens and drawings so I only managed about 4 days. You've inspired me to try again so thanks! 👍
Hey Matt. Enjoyed your video. I like the Baron Fig journals, too. Well made. I do a little bookbinding, and that first page is the end paper and it is typically a heavier weight than the text block paper as you pointed out. And there is a reason that the first page is glued the way it is. It is what adds to the strength of the end paper being glued to the inside cover and a strip to the text block. The text block is Smyth sewn and the end papers are glued, not sewn to the text block. Cheers, Wade
Wade Berridge thanks so much for sharing that Wade, I’ll lay off book binders in the future now, makes total sense 😄
I always knew there had to be a reason to the glued page, since every company does it. I’m glad to finally know why. Thanks!
Hey matt, my name is jacob neufeld and i would like to thank you for your videos, i am 16 and i have my journal set up for 2019
It’s loycht turm. The first syllable is like the first syllable of “lawyer”, or the 2nd syllable in “alloy”, then kind of ch sound in the back of the throat. You can say a k sound and it’ll sound pretty good. Then the next it’s like the word tour, plus an m.
Thank you for this video. I’m starting my first bullet journal tomorrow! I just finished writing in July dates!
Thanks for taking the time to make. I really liked seeing how you've changed your daily list. I'm struggling with keeping the timeline for each day - I think I'm going to plan out my day this way, but it doesn't always happen. And flipping the journal to take notes from the back - genius !!
jclive08 thanks!
I would always use the first page as a "title page," dedication page, etc anyway, like "Amanda's journal February 2019- (blank)"
Or maybe a quote or something like "do all the good that you can" or whatever resonates as a theme for me at the time. (Could be the theme or word for the year)
My current book says "Love is the energy that creates the world." On the cover page. Now the funny fitting first page actually has my vision statement, mission statement, "if lost return to"/info and the year I started writing it.
Thanks for the video, will try the 10 blocks system this week and report back!
Enjoyed your video. You mentioned the back pocket...you can glue an envelope back there to hold the misc stuff.
Mary Loadholt great idea! Thanks!
10 blocks, spiraldex clock method is an alternative method if you prefer day on 1 or 2 pages
I have the same complaint about that first page. I like companies that leave it blank... like let's just ignore that mess :)
LifeintheMitten totally agree!
I always take a glue dot runner to the first and last pages to get away from those awkward pages lol
I could use it for my index cuz I'm never going to make/use my index, lol
Saw this vid, then saw GoRuck ATL. I'm sold!
Michael Biltz thanks man!
That first page OCD Is real! I never heard anyone else explain that but, yup Its real
Thanks for sharing such an amazing and creative planner. you're really great! Hello from Tel Aviv - Israel!
First BuJo video that I actually found helpful. Thank you for this.
The first page of a book is called the bastard title page. It is not meant to be a normal page with much text on it, ony the title and maybe the auther or so. :) In a notebook, it is probably the best page to write on your contact info. You wrote your contact info on the endpaper, which need to be stronger paper because it holds together the pages and the cover. Often it is colored or another special paper and it is absolutely not meant to write on it.
* just for the ones who wonder - of course use your notebook how you like :)
Nachtfalter thanks for the story behind it!
Use that first page that ypu dont like as a vision board for the year 🤗
Watching this end of 2018 :)
Thanks! Just posted the 2019 planning video if you want to watch that too! ruclips.net/video/8wWpReMc-eY/видео.html
Love this vid! So many ideas & you share so much info. Thx!
that's a GREAT spread! finally found another male doing this, I felt kinda lonely! hahaha
p.s. the music is pretty loud in this video, maybe you should consider turning it down a little so we can follow your words better. byee!!!!
Hi, I'm new to this bullet journal system, thank you for sharing your setup! It's simple but still very helpful, and I don't have to skip the decorating part.By the way, you messed up the year number in the Month at a glance page.
Thanks for checking out the video! My bad on the year title, always happens at the new year haha.
Hi Matt! Thanks for the minimalist BuJo tips! I watch a lot of planner videos, and while I love seeing all the super crafty things people do with their notebooks, I need mine to be pretty minimalist in order to be functional. All that crafty stuff distracts me too much! (I have ADHD, and I mean for real, not in that jokey "ooh, squirrel!" way.) I also wanted to give you a quick pronunciation tip since you mention not knowing how to pronounce "Leuchtturm" at the beginning of your video. :) It's like this: LOYKH-term. That "ch" sound happens at the back of your tongue. It sounds kind of like a cat hissing. :)
Thanks Sharon! Appreciate the pronunciation tip, that’s great 😃 Agree that the crafty stuff distracts me too!
I was taught it is like you were trying to get a popcorn kernel husk out of your throat.
LOL. That works too.
Was looking for a review for Baron Fig and a minimalist style for bullet journalling. Kiddos to you for reading my mind!
small one you’re welcome! Happy to be of service 😄
Nice video. I've started to journal about 2 years ago, but I have bought pre-designed journals that were hurting my pocket. Going to try out your method to save money and to see if it's just as effective, if not more! Thank you!! Also you should show us your fitness journal too! That would be helpful. (:
Can you do a journal flip please?
interesting all looks very well organised.
Hey this is a super late comment that you probably won't see. Just wanted to tell you nice video and it's awesome you live in (or near) Portland! I'm new to your channel but saw your powells books sticker. Good luck!
Omg you are soo organized..
Love your channel and tips Matt. Thought I'd give you an idea that I borrowed, tape an envelope on back inside cover of the baron and fig book. :)
Thanks Karen! I need to do that, great idea!
Love the field notes booklet
Also really like the focus that “this is just for me”... there are so many great ideas.
Thanks Craig! Appreciate you saying that!
Hello Matt, I really like your videos on BUJO, I´m planning to set one, for the first time, for 2020. My focus is to ¨keep it simple¨, but all this information and different charts, and SO MANY different ways to set up a BUJO,has me really overwhelmed with info. What can you recommend for starting a brand new simple bujo?
September October are low points for me too... since I hit teenage years 😖just coming out of mine now
Got that ESV study Bible though 💪🏻👍🏻
Daniel Murphy absolutely
Hey Matt, loved the video! The one thing I was wondering about is how you deal with new tasks that come up mid-way through a month. Since you already have your month laid out in front of you, do you omit the new task from your planner for the current month and just remember it in your head, do you start next month's planner early and add the new task to that planner, or do you do something different? Thanks for sharing!
Hey Zackery, thanks for the question! I just add it in to the weekly top tasks and finish it there. If it's something that carries over to the next month or is a bigger project, I'll just create an extra page for it at the end of the month layout. Make sense? You may find this video helpful too: ruclips.net/video/jckqcRTntVg/видео.html
When you talked about the first page being glued weird LOL
I got a lull after 30 seconds
Dude you need to edit this video your phone number is on the first page of the journal and that is really bad to make public unless it's a fake number. Just wanted to point that out and I plan to get a planner to make a goals journal this year for my art, reading and writing thanks for this video =)
R. William Lake yep totally agree, will need to cover it up. Glad you like the video!
No worries man I just wanted you to know it was there and I have started a bullet journal thanks to this video. =)
Matt, I've been loving your channel, I just binge watched probably 2 hours worth. What resources have you found for note taking ?
Cody Detterer thanks Cody! Lots of it just taken from years of collecting ideas. But a few resources are bulletjournal.com, Self Journal, and 5 Minute Journal were all important. I really like Austin Kleon’s daily logbook for hitting stuff down.
Awesome, Thanks! I'll give them a look. I just say note taking in your development section so I thought I would see what your learning.
I'm a subscriber now.
Thanks Elaine!
I love your layout ideas. Thanks for sharing!
alyssa mayley you’re welcome! Glad you like them 😄
Just discovered you.. Loveeee seeing this type of video by a guy.. great ideas for productivity 😁😁
Thanks Kristin!
Can you please do a video on your 10 block? I understand that you use it to track the amount of time spent on your priorities, but I'm confused with how exactly you track the percentage of what's been completed. I'm not sure I'm explaining myself well enough... If you spent 2 hours on meetings, how does that translate to the percentage bar?
mia2005830 good questions! Here’s the video on the 10 blocks: ruclips.net/video/jckqcRTntVg/видео.html
Just getting started with bullet journaling - thanks for the tips. How are you filming the overhead shots?
Custom rig on the overhead, will send you some pics!
sweet, please do
Also Interested! Keep rolling!
strategy show thanks!
11 different moods/feelings with 11 different colors, and 2 kinds of hash marks. But, this is minimal, kids!
Hi!! Your bullet journal is very interesting. Could you possibly do a journal flip through? I am interested in what all you put in it. - Donna
TheLadySurvivor I can do one of those, sure thing 😄
Matt Ragland Awesome! Thank you!
Love your layout! Do you happen to have a vid up of your previous layout in more detail or a blogpost? Also, which minimalist bujo-er is your inspiration? Looking for more ideas to organise mine :-)
Min S Thanks Min! Lots of it just taken from years of collecting ideas. But a few resources are bulletjournal.com, Self Journal, and 5 Minute Journal were all important. I really like Austin Kleon’s daily logbook for hitting stuff down.
Min S here’s a blog post link too! mattragland.com/planning
Matt Ragland thank you!
Why don't you make your own pocket on this notebook? I like the Leuchutturm, as they are guaranteed not to bleed and I don't have the spine issue on the first page. If you get the normal one instead of the bullet journal version you get 1 book mark rather than 3. I really like using field notes as a task book - using todoist is not really the same and I am going back to paper.
Hi Matt. Have you made a video about the books you read and which have helped you or you recommend?
Chi Yung Wong I have! ruclips.net/video/YiMHiZY7QXk/видео.html
Why don't you have more subs? Keep up the great work!
Thanks Austin! At the time I published this video I had about 650 subs, so it's been a big help so far!
Subbed in the first 10 seconds
hope people are decent enough not to disturb him since he accidentally shared his number. btw loved ur video. 😍
Thanks Sasi, actually did have to change my number though ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@MattRagland oh god!! :( people really need manners to be taught
I am unable to download the PDF for the 10 Blocks. Is it still available? Thank you.
You went quite quick on the first part of your 10 task bar chart. What is the count of 100 marking for each? 100hours? So if you were balanced would be only about 10 or 20 a bar? Or some sort of % or story points?
I loved the video. You should probably not show you phone number.
Thanks! Yeah I agree, whoops :)
I’ve seen BuJo YTers cover sensitive info with pale post-its
since you shared your number though can I give you a call lol jk jk 😂
Been wondering how you track any web content, like links? I’ve been thinking of starting a text note with “year-day” and then numbering any of the links I would need to track.
Noticed the Powell books sticker, are you in the PNW?
Steve Sheehan no I’m in Nashville, just have visited Portland a couple times. Love it there (and here).
LOL! I hate the first pages of notebooks too!!
This is great!
Danielle Tong thanks!
Amazing 💛💛💛💛
I have the same ESV study Bible! Lol
I have a question about the 10 blocks is that for the whole month of January? and if it is on an average a month has 730 hours, but yours is a 1000 hours can you please explain your concept, I am lost. btw, i like your simple bujo others are so focused on visual than productivity
Did you mention an article on 6 week sprints that you would put in the notes?
Ah yes thanks for the reminder! Here it is m.signalvnoise.com/how-we-set-up-our-work-cbce3d3d9cae
Thank you! Don't work in engineering tech, but interested to try out this idea in a rapidly evolving non-profit environment :)
Martine Holston I think it’s pretty wide-ranging, keeps the emphasis on quickly moving through the projects and having them build on each other!
You are so Cute.. Love your smile!!
2:54 the obnoxious music finally goes OFF!
awesome video!
Thank you so much!
nice video please think about lowering the background music volume
Is it even worth it? I would try it but then I noticed I don't even have time to make a book because I work late and all I could do is eat, sleep, shower and get ready for work. Mabey Saturday and Sunday. Any suggestions anyone?
I really liked your system and the setup, but I found a little bit hard to understand how it actually works.
Then I watched other videos and it started to make sense! Thank you!
This is really nice!
//sara// thanks Sara!
What would you keep in the pocket if it had one?
Can anybody tell me how many dots there are on a baron fig confidant flagship? Like how many across and how many vertically?
love the spread x
Thanks Alex!
Loved and subbed! Is this journal paginated?
Thanks! It's not paginated, one of my only complaints about the notebook :(
from what I've seen so far, I thought bullet journal was something for women. 😀 Thank you for sharing
heliocereus you’re welcome! Nah definitely for guys too 😄
The creator or the one who started bullet journaling is actually a guy.
Javes David very true! Ryder is great.