I love these videos. You guys are great at being informative and educational. But on top of that, just the mutual respect you have for each other and others in your community leaps off the screen. But also you’re both super funny and I always laugh a bunch. It would be so much fun to get to meet you guys in real life.
I also “junk journal” as a way to express creativity. It is a mixture of writing my thoughts and interesting quotes - in addition to drawings, ephemera, sketches, stickers, washi, etc. I love watching you guys !
Me too. One month per journal and everything goes in it - plans, memory keeping with pics, quotes I like, reading tracker and reviews. Love going into a new journal each month.
I'm a weirdo, and I create my entire year's spreads over a bunch of days. Because I use my bullet journal as a combo reflection/self improvement slash day planner, so I need to have the future months set up (so I can add meetings and appointments etc.). But that's because my ADHD brain NEEDS structure and routine! But, after three years of using the minimalist layout I've been using, for 2026 I am expanding my layouts (based on both of your videos). BUT, I have also started separate journals (outside of my everyday journal): 5 yr journal (exactly as Jess showed how she set it up); a reading journal (inspired by Jess'), and I'm about to create a camping journal log, as I just got back into camping adventures (after a 27 yr hiatus).
I’ve been bullet journaling since 2019 but next year is going to be the first time I use a dotted journal! I’m really excited and I have all my themes figured out 😆
I got a few of the 2024 A&O planners (2 A5, 1 LS) on clearance ($5 or so each), and as I've said on Jess's discord, I've put the time and energy into creating printouts for each that can cover the dates/flags/calendars with 2025 info. I'm only changing the 1 right now, and will use the others in other years, but I wanted to make both printouts for the group in case anyone else wanted to also change an out of date planner to make it work for 2025. 🥰
20:26 I think one of the best things that I used for this was to allow my journal to be really messy when I began and didn’t have a set idea of how I wanted it to look. Try out things that you see other people to, try out anything, get rid of stuff you don’t like or need. Don’t be too precious with it. Over time, I’ve developed my own set-ups and design language and my second notebook looks way more neat and clean than my first, but it’s because of all the experimentation that it’s come this far.
Thank you, Mark, for saying that you don’t feel compelled to start a new journal at the beginning of the year. I need to start a new journal in October, but that means I won’t be starting a new one in January. I was feeling a little bad about that, but you’re right. It’s not a big deal. I also change up my weeklies when I set them up each week. I really don’t like keeping a theme for a whole month.
Yes to a live podcast, how about we all bring our journals along for a new month set up, good chance to talk about all the possibilities and challenges of a new set up.
Picture it. 2015. I decide to try Bullet Journaling because my go-to journal is no longer the same. I set up that journal, after reading RC's book, and was just done. I loathe those tiny calendars. LOATHE! Took 5 years to try again. There has not been and will never be a tiny calendar in my bullet journal since.
The best pre-printed planner I used for bullet journalling was the MUJI one. It has a weekly on one side and grid paper on the other. There's also the monthly layout and then blank pages at the end, so you can have mini collections and journals on the weekly and then bigger collections in the back. Actually, it works really well with Ryder Carrol's system. The only issue I found is that I got a B6, so I might run out of space if I did long daily spreads on the grid side. The A5 size would probably be fine.
I don't know if I should admit this but yes, I have started setting up my 2025 journal. Taking it slow because I set up too many yearly pages this year and either ignore them or force myself to fill them in. Love hearing both of you and each of your perspectives. Thank you!
I really love your dynamic. For me the next year will be the first full year of bullet journaling. But i already know from the start this year in August that i will have multiple daily journals so i am gonna use the idea of i yearly collection and maybe an reading journal. For now i have just enough space in my daily journal for 3 months. So i had an journal for augustus and september and lots of practice pages. Made a new journal for oktober, november and december. Love your inspiration this really helps. And certainly the stuff about practical layouts. In combination with easy decoration.
"Just start bullet journaling" - YES. I just used a B6 slim notebook from moleskine to start, and it was SO good to just get into something that wasn't too huge but I could learn how it functions. A lot of what I do now is what I did back then LOL.
I would love to see the unedited version as well. The real is what makes it so enjoyable to watch. Would love to meet you both. I sit and chuckle right along with you.
What a fun video! For 2025, as usual, my main planning system will include google calendar, a paper preprinted vertical calendar, and a dot grid notebook for bullet journaling. I'm going to be in an A5 Hemlock & Oak Minimalist, and will choose a bullet journal closer to the start of the year, likely from my stash. Tentatively, I'm thinking of using either the gilded frame from the fall A&O box, or a notebook with a fish design on the cover from The Jotting Dots. I'm also throwing around the idea of bringing an A6 into my planning system for on the go planning, because carting my A5 around is becoming a challenge now that I have more things to do away from my desk at home.
I just got my common planner and hobonichi weeks for next year and I preordered my Aura Estelle planner a while ago and am still waiting on it to come. I use the planner part as a planner and I do bujo-y things in the back where all the blank sheets are. I use the common planner as a personal planner, the Aura Estelle for work and the hobonichi is my health and wellness tracker/planner. I have a regular bujo for a reading journal as well and I got the ghostie from A&O for next year.
I feel like I'm the opposite of both of Jashii and Mark. I cannot for the life of me use my 'thick page' notebooks. I have one from A&O and it's been opened maybe... three times in the past 4 years ? I have like 3 others that have... 10-15 pages used and then forgotten again because mental capacity just isn't a thing for me. Meanwhile I absolutely thrive with anything that has thin paper and a neutral-ish preset layout, especially Take-A-Note and Hobonichi planners. The trick on using them like a bujo is to just use them as you wish. :) Long example: I had a planner/bujo rut last year. Like areally bad, that I hadn't even done any planning or writing in my pretty little books for nearly four months. The more I looked at the vertical weekly layout of the Cousin (A5 Hobonichi if you need a picture) I felt like it was "stretching days" too long for someone who isn't in the best of head spaces and is just waiting for the 'appropriate time' to go back to sleep. So, what I did I just took out a marker - shocking, I know, what if it'll ghost? too bad, already did anyway - and just made the week layout on one page as a horizontal one with a one full note page (Hobonichi Weeks was where I began and I loved it until it became too small) and put some decorative washi over the dates of that week. And the fun part is that you can just swap back to another weekly layout just as easily. Wow, not that hard and it's just like making "a bujo layout". It might not be picturesque and instagram worthy, but I needed it to start using something without resorting on buying an expensive notebook that I'll unbox and forget once I turn my back. (Item permanence isn't a thing for me.) Depending on the planner, binding and paper quality you decide what pen you use on it and how much ephemera, washi and stickers you stuff it with. And a personal thing: I absolutely love using fountain pens and fountain pen ink on a tomoe river paper. Just a me thing probably as someone who doesn't ... bujo I guess.
My favorite way I got myself to journal consistently was giving myself permission to use pencil. I got a multi pen that also had a pencil in it. I've gotten over the anxiety that I would get at the beginning on the month because I didn't necessarily want to commit to every task yet.
I just started to bullet journal so for the first few months I am using a lined book so I can experiment on what I want before I go full in on my new journal. I will start this on January 2025!
I would LOVE to watch your podcast live! ❤❤❤❤❤ You two have such chemistry and are so fun to watch, both together and separately (I follow both of your channels!) To do a live podcast would be so much fun to hear you interact 'in the wild', so to speak!
I really enjoy these episodes and the two of you 😊 You both have some good humour! I will use a thin papered LT 1917 for next years bullet journal and some notebook therapy journals for a diary and prompts. I always find it hard to discover what works throughout the year. I find myself to go back to my LT 1917 always and to the rest I use it either a lot or not at all 🙈 But I never now it beforehand...
I have thought about my 2025 planner set up actually... I've been fascinated by the idea of combining the Hobonichi and Filofax planning systems. If my brainstorming works out, I'd have space for a year's worth of pre-made trackers and calendars with room to write in all the ancillary stuff I want to track. I have a binder that would work well for this, but the only thing I'm worried about is the space in it...
For 2025 I'm going to be bullet journalling in a pre-printed planner for the first time; after 2 years I'm tired of drawing my own. I've ordered one from Hemlock & Oak but it'll be another month before it's due to arrive. I agree with Mark on the Tomoe River Hobonichi/Sterling etc. I really don't like the ghosting. H&O has nice thick paper.
I had to start a new bullet journal in July of this year and it typically takes me several years to fill up a journal. (small handwriting for the win). I am thinking about starting a reading journal in 2025. I read a lot which would be fun to keep track of but also I haven't quite figured out how to get the kinds of results I want with the reading journal that will take minimal effort to create. For reference I read over a 100 books a years so thats a lot of potential material to need to populate.
I am going back to an LT1917 for 2025. Life was crazy for me in 2023 and the start of 2024. I didn’t have the brain capacity to create a bujo spread. So I used a Hobonichi in 2023 and I am currently using a Wonderland 222. These are great planners that allowed me to rein in the crazy and move forward. But I miss the creative outlet, washi tape, colors and adaptability of my own creations. Most importantly I feel up to the task and look forward to using a bujo again.
Looking forward to Part 2 of this episode. Instead of a live episode I’d love for you to share some outtakes and bloopers sometime. I’m sure they’re are some funny ones!
Virtual meetup would be fun! Not sure how it would work, but I would definitely be down. I'm considering a dated A&O for 2025 but not sure I want to go back to the preprinted (left bullet journaling for Happy Planner for several years until I discovered A&O in Fall 2022). Love Jess' suggestion of RUclips for creative outlet! 👀😂 As always, fun hanging out with you planner pals!
Random thing I do - When I get.. annoyed? at my journal, its just not vibing, I go through, as Mark had said, and try to figure out, making a list (with mood notes) of what i do and dont like. If its a spread I have already set up, and don't like something about it, I.. cover it up. I just take another piece of paper, glue it on top and put something else in its place instead. Even if it's just doodles or decoration so i am not having to face whatever it is that just... puts me off.
For 2025 I'm using a Tiefossi notebook from their zodiac collection for my bullet journal (thank you Jess for introducing me to these notebooks!) and a B6 Stalogy for my daily journal. Thanks for another great episode!!! ♥
I have picked out my notebooks for next year. I need to figure out what collections I want to add to my new everyday journal. I have already figured out what collections I'm adding to my reading journal.
On the topic of moving out of journals... I've moved out of 1 journal prematurely... It was an A4 size, and it was simply too big for me to deal with. I used it for maybe 3 months when I should have gotten closer to 2 years out of it... I almost moved out of the official Bullet Journal, out of wear and tear concernes, and now I'm in a softcover LT1917 in a leather jacket, and having concerns about the paper thickness and durability... I'm only using a single pen (for the most part... some of my collections have some color), and I kinda like the look of the ghosting, but if it's not durable enough to last my year or two, then I can't really stay. I love the Traveler's notebook aesthetic and workflow though, so it will be a shame if I have to give it up.
New to bullet journalling but I've been refining my catch-all disc planner for a couple of years now and like what I've created. Quick question, you said RND quite a few times...what does that mean? I've tried looking but couldn't find an answer online. (Honestly I only spent 3 minutes and gave up, heh). I found your channel recently and you guys are so kind and helpful! It's nice to see men in this creative space AND being creative, showing that it can be function and/or creative. I've even shown some of Mark's videos to my husband. He's interested, I can tell but he's not quite ready to swap from his digital notekeeping to paper. Yet. I think that using it to track meetings and progress of projects would appeal to him. Thanks in advance! Oh and I went and got myself my first bullet journal last week. I spent way too much time in Barnes & Nobel comparing the many journals they carry. I finally decided on a very pretty navy blue Leuchtturm for my gaming journal, keeping all the notes for my Fallout games (hence the blue color!). Easier to grab it then to search online sometimes and go down a rabbit hole. Anyway I just wanted to say hi, ask my question and thank you both for being so informative!
RND is like R n' D, so short for Research and Development 😊 It's the notebook that I: - Set up layouts that are just for featuring in videos - Trial techniques and layout structures - Muck around in 😝 Hope that helps! - Jess
I have my 2025 planners and journals picked out and in my hand...Commit30, Laurel Denise, Hubman & Chubgirl and A&O are my planners. Two other A&O are being set up as journals. Most of my stickers are A&O and Hubman & Chubgirl.
I just set up my next “Now Playing” Journal (tv/film) using Mark’s journal. I usually have about 3 entries per page so the harsh marks and page numbers are perfect for that. I think I’m going to use the square Raven from the Halloween collection for my first everyday in 2025 and the dark academia sub box journal as my 2025 reading journal. I really need A&O to have some releases next year that are not to my taste. This year has been brutal on the wallet!
The only journal I have abandoned unfilled was one that covered a period leading up to separating from my husband. I just wanted a fresh start and the content was making me sad. I barely have a blank page in all my others.
P.s. have you guys considered creating a reddit so you can answer common questions and maybe allow it to be a space for people to share their work? Just a thought!
I know I want to try a B6 for 2025, I just have to decide between a A&O northern star one or a unicorn one I got from Amazon that has a bit more pages and space and the page color is more of a cream
Haha 😂 we're talked about it a couple of times in the podcast, but long-story-short is that someone fully recreated Jess's gratitude log into their journal, including her partner's name 😅
Q: I am a very sequential person. I bought a notebook and it is beautiful! But, I have no idea how to approach it because the paper starts with wide lined, then it is blank, and then it is tiny graph paper. Any ideas?
I'm moving yearly/longer-term/reference to it's own journal, with yearly collections (which I'll start in 2025) working from the front, and reference/longer-term (orz yes some things I will track over multiple years) already started to set-up from the back. I have a new everyday and I'm STILL debating start now or just new year (well, I'll be away at the start of Jan so I'll either start mid-month or wait till Feb, I'm thinking mid-month though, I REALLY NEED to keep track of certain things). I have TONS of space in my current journal but I can't express how much I hate it (the paper, the lack of bookmarks, the lack of index which I'm too lazy to setup, it has gilded edges which I thought looked pretty and didn't consider the fact that I enjoy dutch door spreads but I fear cutting might make said edges look weird, no back pocket...). I may just keep it though bc I have some travel planned end of Oct/start of Nov and end of Dec/start of Jan so I'd only be using it for like 8 weeks, none of which are full months, and I'm thinking of trying some new systems/layouts, so maybe I can use what time is left to experiment. Now I type this, maybe I'll do Jan in here too and start Feb in my new journal. I know technically is just for me and shouldn't matter so much but order makes me happy and starting a new journal mid-month would be a bit ewwie lol (like you guys, Idc what month of the year I start in, but starting mid-month doesn't sound great). And since I almost don't care about this journal, I like the idea of a bit of space/time to just play about and see if anything sticks!
YAY FOR PART TWO 🩷 (ft. i hope you’re enjoying my live commenting as im watching lol). also lmao of COURSE i already know what my whole lineup is for next year.
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I mean, an unedited version kinda sounds like it'd be like having a YT livestream with both of you and that sounds like so much fun
41:10 ‘the journal looked at me wrong. it’s tuesday.’ made me CACKLE
@@azulolympia me too!!! -Mark
Literally same!! 😂
I love these videos. You guys are great at being informative and educational. But on top of that, just the mutual respect you have for each other and others in your community leaps off the screen. But also you’re both super funny and I always laugh a bunch. It would be so much fun to get to meet you guys in real life.
I also “junk journal” as a way to express creativity. It is a mixture of writing my thoughts and interesting quotes - in addition to drawings, ephemera, sketches, stickers, washi, etc. I love watching you guys !
Im guilty of a Chaos Journal, but it makes me happy and ir works
@@RennVillagránRuiz that’s all that matters - Mark
Me too. One month per journal and everything goes in it - plans, memory keeping with pics, quotes I like, reading tracker and reviews. Love going into a new journal each month.
I'm a weirdo, and I create my entire year's spreads over a bunch of days. Because I use my bullet journal as a combo reflection/self improvement slash day planner, so I need to have the future months set up (so I can add meetings and appointments etc.). But that's because my ADHD brain NEEDS structure and routine! But, after three years of using the minimalist layout I've been using, for 2026 I am expanding my layouts (based on both of your videos).
BUT, I have also started separate journals (outside of my everyday journal): 5 yr journal (exactly as Jess showed how she set it up); a reading journal (inspired by Jess'), and I'm about to create a camping journal log, as I just got back into camping adventures (after a 27 yr hiatus).
I’ve been bullet journaling since 2019 but next year is going to be the first time I use a dotted journal! I’m really excited and I have all my themes figured out 😆
I listen to this in the car most of the time so it's nice to see you both on RUclips!
I got a few of the 2024 A&O planners (2 A5, 1 LS) on clearance ($5 or so each), and as I've said on Jess's discord, I've put the time and energy into creating printouts for each that can cover the dates/flags/calendars with 2025 info. I'm only changing the 1 right now, and will use the others in other years, but I wanted to make both printouts for the group in case anyone else wanted to also change an out of date planner to make it work for 2025. 🥰
20:26 I think one of the best things that I used for this was to allow my journal to be really messy when I began and didn’t have a set idea of how I wanted it to look. Try out things that you see other people to, try out anything, get rid of stuff you don’t like or need. Don’t be too precious with it. Over time, I’ve developed my own set-ups and design language and my second notebook looks way more neat and clean than my first, but it’s because of all the experimentation that it’s come this far.
Unedited Jess and Mark genuinely sounds like a treat! Dw about that so much! There is absolutely no way im alone in that either.
Thank you, Mark, for saying that you don’t feel compelled to start a new journal at the beginning of the year. I need to start a new journal in October, but that means I won’t be starting a new one in January. I was feeling a little bad about that, but you’re right. It’s not a big deal. I also change up my weeklies when I set them up each week. I really don’t like keeping a theme for a whole month.
Yes to a live podcast, how about we all bring our journals along for a new month set up, good chance to talk about all the possibilities and challenges of a new set up.
Picture it. 2015. I decide to try Bullet Journaling because my go-to journal is no longer the same. I set up that journal, after reading RC's book, and was just done. I loathe those tiny calendars. LOATHE! Took 5 years to try again. There has not been and will never be a tiny calendar in my bullet journal since.
Yes please!!!!! Love to be an audience person thingy!!!
The best pre-printed planner I used for bullet journalling was the MUJI one. It has a weekly on one side and grid paper on the other. There's also the monthly layout and then blank pages at the end, so you can have mini collections and journals on the weekly and then bigger collections in the back. Actually, it works really well with Ryder Carrol's system. The only issue I found is that I got a B6, so I might run out of space if I did long daily spreads on the grid side. The A5 size would probably be fine.
I don't know if I should admit this but yes, I have started setting up my 2025 journal. Taking it slow because I set up too many yearly pages this year and either ignore them or force myself to fill them in. Love hearing both of you and each of your perspectives. Thank you!
No shame in starting early! Easiest way to get on top of things👌
Yay! A new episode! 🎉
Fun insights and great suggestions from both of you! Looking forward to part 2!
I love your A & O Journal Mark! I'm ready to start using it for 2025, but am still at the "I don't want to mess it up stage." :)
I really love your dynamic. For me the next year will be the first full year of bullet journaling. But i already know from the start this year in August that i will have multiple daily journals so i am gonna use the idea of i yearly collection and maybe an reading journal. For now i have just enough space in my daily journal for 3 months. So i had an journal for augustus and september and lots of practice pages. Made a new journal for oktober, november and december. Love your inspiration this really helps. And certainly the stuff about practical layouts. In combination with easy decoration.
"Just start bullet journaling" - YES. I just used a B6 slim notebook from moleskine to start, and it was SO good to just get into something that wasn't too huge but I could learn how it functions. A lot of what I do now is what I did back then LOL.
I love these videos!! Q&A's are always lots of fun. I will be trying a B5 for 2025. I am a sticker addict, so lots of stickers in my journal.
I would love to see the unedited version as well. The real is what makes it so enjoyable to watch. Would love to meet you both. I sit and chuckle right along with you.
I'm using a Kinbor daily planner next year. I'm glad I didn't spurge for Hobonichi because honestly, I prefer Kinbor's paper to TRP
What a fun video! For 2025, as usual, my main planning system will include google calendar, a paper preprinted vertical calendar, and a dot grid notebook for bullet journaling. I'm going to be in an A5 Hemlock & Oak Minimalist, and will choose a bullet journal closer to the start of the year, likely from my stash. Tentatively, I'm thinking of using either the gilded frame from the fall A&O box, or a notebook with a fish design on the cover from The Jotting Dots. I'm also throwing around the idea of bringing an A6 into my planning system for on the go planning, because carting my A5 around is becoming a challenge now that I have more things to do away from my desk at home.
I follow you both but had no idea about the podcast! Y’all are delightful and I’ll be digging through the back catalogue 😊
I bought some square journals at the fall release but I’m waiting for some sneaks on the winter release before I make a final decision
I just got my common planner and hobonichi weeks for next year and I preordered my Aura Estelle planner a while ago and am still waiting on it to come. I use the planner part as a planner and I do bujo-y things in the back where all the blank sheets are. I use the common planner as a personal planner, the Aura Estelle for work and the hobonichi is my health and wellness tracker/planner. I have a regular bujo for a reading journal as well and I got the ghostie from A&O for next year.
I feel like I'm the opposite of both of Jashii and Mark. I cannot for the life of me use my 'thick page' notebooks. I have one from A&O and it's been opened maybe... three times in the past 4 years ? I have like 3 others that have... 10-15 pages used and then forgotten again because mental capacity just isn't a thing for me. Meanwhile I absolutely thrive with anything that has thin paper and a neutral-ish preset layout, especially Take-A-Note and Hobonichi planners. The trick on using them like a bujo is to just use them as you wish. :)
Long example: I had a planner/bujo rut last year. Like areally bad, that I hadn't even done any planning or writing in my pretty little books for nearly four months. The more I looked at the vertical weekly layout of the Cousin (A5 Hobonichi if you need a picture) I felt like it was "stretching days" too long for someone who isn't in the best of head spaces and is just waiting for the 'appropriate time' to go back to sleep. So, what I did I just took out a marker - shocking, I know, what if it'll ghost? too bad, already did anyway - and just made the week layout on one page as a horizontal one with a one full note page (Hobonichi Weeks was where I began and I loved it until it became too small) and put some decorative washi over the dates of that week. And the fun part is that you can just swap back to another weekly layout just as easily.
Wow, not that hard and it's just like making "a bujo layout". It might not be picturesque and instagram worthy, but I needed it to start using something without resorting on buying an expensive notebook that I'll unbox and forget once I turn my back. (Item permanence isn't a thing for me.) Depending on the planner, binding and paper quality you decide what pen you use on it and how much ephemera, washi and stickers you stuff it with.
And a personal thing: I absolutely love using fountain pens and fountain pen ink on a tomoe river paper. Just a me thing probably as someone who doesn't ... bujo I guess.
I would enjoy to see the unedited version ❤ I love your two bantering over everything
My favorite way I got myself to journal consistently was giving myself permission to use pencil. I got a multi pen that also had a pencil in it. I've gotten over the anxiety that I would get at the beginning on the month because I didn't necessarily want to commit to every task yet.
I just started to bullet journal so for the first few months I am using a lined book so I can experiment on what I want before I go full in on my new journal. I will start this on January 2025!
I would LOVE to watch your podcast live! ❤❤❤❤❤ You two have such chemistry and are so fun to watch, both together and separately (I follow both of your channels!) To do a live podcast would be so much fun to hear you interact 'in the wild', so to speak!
I really enjoy these episodes and the two of you 😊 You both have some good humour! I will use a thin papered LT 1917 for next years bullet journal and some notebook therapy journals for a diary and prompts. I always find it hard to discover what works throughout the year. I find myself to go back to my LT 1917 always and to the rest I use it either a lot or not at all 🙈 But I never now it beforehand...
I have thought about my 2025 planner set up actually... I've been fascinated by the idea of combining the Hobonichi and Filofax planning systems. If my brainstorming works out, I'd have space for a year's worth of pre-made trackers and calendars with room to write in all the ancillary stuff I want to track. I have a binder that would work well for this, but the only thing I'm worried about is the space in it...
For 2025 I'm going to be bullet journalling in a pre-printed planner for the first time; after 2 years I'm tired of drawing my own. I've ordered one from Hemlock & Oak but it'll be another month before it's due to arrive. I agree with Mark on the Tomoe River Hobonichi/Sterling etc. I really don't like the ghosting. H&O has nice thick paper.
I had to start a new bullet journal in July of this year and it typically takes me several years to fill up a journal. (small handwriting for the win). I am thinking about starting a reading journal in 2025. I read a lot which would be fun to keep track of but also I haven't quite figured out how to get the kinds of results I want with the reading journal that will take minimal effort to create. For reference I read over a 100 books a years so thats a lot of potential material to need to populate.
I am going back to an LT1917 for 2025. Life was crazy for me in 2023 and the start of 2024. I didn’t have the brain capacity to create a bujo spread. So I used a Hobonichi in 2023 and I am currently using a Wonderland 222. These are great planners that allowed me to rein in the crazy and move forward. But I miss the creative outlet, washi tape, colors and adaptability of my own creations. Most importantly I feel up to the task and look forward to using a bujo again.
Looking forward to Part 2 of this episode. Instead of a live episode I’d love for you to share some outtakes and bloopers sometime. I’m sure they’re are some funny ones!
Haha I've been collecting some of them, as well as ones from my own videos 😝 - Jess
@@PlannerPalsPodcast I feel like there might be a “nib” one from the fountain pen episode. 😂
Virtual meetup would be fun! Not sure how it would work, but I would definitely be down. I'm considering a dated A&O for 2025 but not sure I want to go back to the preprinted (left bullet journaling for Happy Planner for several years until I discovered A&O in Fall 2022). Love Jess' suggestion of RUclips for creative outlet! 👀😂 As always, fun hanging out with you planner pals!
Random thing I do - When I get.. annoyed? at my journal, its just not vibing, I go through, as Mark had said, and try to figure out, making a list (with mood notes) of what i do and dont like. If its a spread I have already set up, and don't like something about it, I.. cover it up. I just take another piece of paper, glue it on top and put something else in its place instead. Even if it's just doodles or decoration so i am not having to face whatever it is that just... puts me off.
I love your videos! Next time both of you are in the same country, party meet up!
Sounds like a perfect idea, haha 🥳
For 2025 I'm using a Tiefossi notebook from their zodiac collection for my bullet journal (thank you Jess for introducing me to these notebooks!) and a B6 Stalogy for my daily journal.
Thanks for another great episode!!! ♥
Yes! I have my line up thought out :)
I have picked out my notebooks for next year. I need to figure out what collections I want to add to my new everyday journal. I have already figured out what collections I'm adding to my reading journal.
On the topic of moving out of journals... I've moved out of 1 journal prematurely... It was an A4 size, and it was simply too big for me to deal with. I used it for maybe 3 months when I should have gotten closer to 2 years out of it...
I almost moved out of the official Bullet Journal, out of wear and tear concernes, and now I'm in a softcover LT1917 in a leather jacket, and having concerns about the paper thickness and durability... I'm only using a single pen (for the most part... some of my collections have some color), and I kinda like the look of the ghosting, but if it's not durable enough to last my year or two, then I can't really stay. I love the Traveler's notebook aesthetic and workflow though, so it will be a shame if I have to give it up.
New to bullet journalling but I've been refining my catch-all disc planner for a couple of years now and like what I've created.
Quick question, you said RND quite a few times...what does that mean?
I've tried looking but couldn't find an answer online. (Honestly I only spent 3 minutes and gave up, heh).
I found your channel recently and you guys are so kind and helpful! It's nice to see men in this creative space AND being creative, showing that it can be function and/or creative.
I've even shown some of Mark's videos to my husband. He's interested, I can tell but he's not quite ready to swap from his digital notekeeping to paper. Yet. I think that using it to track meetings and progress of projects would appeal to him.
Thanks in advance! Oh and I went and got myself my first bullet journal last week. I spent way too much time in Barnes & Nobel comparing the many journals they carry. I finally decided on a very pretty navy blue Leuchtturm for my gaming journal, keeping all the notes for my Fallout games (hence the blue color!). Easier to grab it then to search online sometimes and go down a rabbit hole.
Anyway I just wanted to say hi, ask my question and thank you both for being so informative!
RND is like R n' D, so short for Research and Development 😊 It's the notebook that I:
- Set up layouts that are just for featuring in videos
- Trial techniques and layout structures
- Muck around in 😝
Hope that helps! - Jess
guyssss this episode gave me the warm fuzzies aww 🥰
I have my 2025 planners and journals picked out and in my hand...Commit30, Laurel Denise, Hubman & Chubgirl and A&O are my planners. Two other A&O are being set up as journals. Most of my stickers are A&O and Hubman & Chubgirl.
Mark's biggest contribution to the art world is that little swatch booklet. 😆🥰
I would love to see the chaos of your unedited videos.😂❤
I just set up my next “Now Playing” Journal (tv/film) using Mark’s journal. I usually have about 3 entries per page so the harsh marks and page numbers are perfect for that. I think I’m going to use the square Raven from the Halloween collection for my first everyday in 2025 and the dark academia sub box journal as my 2025 reading journal. I really need A&O to have some releases next year that are not to my taste. This year has been brutal on the wallet!
Love you guys. I vote "live".... just let it be what it'll be. We'll have a blast, you'll see. ( Uh-oh, I didn't plan to be cheesy....but it rhymes.)
Hey Mark! Jess's live weeklies are on Sunday afternoons for our time zone. You could pop in if she would let you. 😁 Christina 🦝
I would totally show up for a live, raw, podcast with you guys!!!
A live would be so much fun!!!
The only journal I have abandoned unfilled was one that covered a period leading up to separating from my husband. I just wanted a fresh start and the content was making me sad. I barely have a blank page in all my others.
P.s. have you guys considered creating a reddit so you can answer common questions and maybe allow it to be a space for people to share their work? Just a thought!
For excess creativity, you could start a reading journal. Same idea, but not getting ahead in your bujo.
maybe a live chat of it once a quarter would be nice with chat to ask questions live
I'm too wordy for bujo. 😉 Thus having a "long form" journal, as Mark described it.
I know I want to try a B6 for 2025, I just have to decide between a A&O northern star one or a unicorn one I got from Amazon that has a bit more pages and space and the page color is more of a cream
19:43 “otherwise you end up with a gratitude log with someone else’s partner’s name on it” felt personal… story time?
Haha 😂 we're talked about it a couple of times in the podcast, but long-story-short is that someone fully recreated Jess's gratitude log into their journal, including her partner's name 😅
Q: I am a very sequential person. I bought a notebook and it is beautiful! But, I have no idea how to approach it because the paper starts with wide lined, then it is blank, and then it is tiny graph paper. Any ideas?
I skipped the Halloween box but I did buy the spellbook and the raven in blackout paper
Nice picks! 👌
Unedited pls!
Making shimmering ink isn't difficult... distilled water or colored fountain pen ink, colored mica powder, and gum arabic!
Sweet.
Im new here, but the comment about the gratitude log with the wrong partner's name on it sounded like it had a backstory 😂
Hahahaha, it was a copy and paste job that someone did when duplicating Jess' spread idea -Mark
Boho berry for new Zealand 😊😂 I miss Kara.
I would have come to YT sooner with more consistency.
Me too! Boho Berry forever!
I'm moving yearly/longer-term/reference to it's own journal, with yearly collections (which I'll start in 2025) working from the front, and reference/longer-term (orz yes some things I will track over multiple years) already started to set-up from the back.
I have a new everyday and I'm STILL debating start now or just new year (well, I'll be away at the start of Jan so I'll either start mid-month or wait till Feb, I'm thinking mid-month though, I REALLY NEED to keep track of certain things). I have TONS of space in my current journal but I can't express how much I hate it (the paper, the lack of bookmarks, the lack of index which I'm too lazy to setup, it has gilded edges which I thought looked pretty and didn't consider the fact that I enjoy dutch door spreads but I fear cutting might make said edges look weird, no back pocket...). I may just keep it though bc I have some travel planned end of Oct/start of Nov and end of Dec/start of Jan so I'd only be using it for like 8 weeks, none of which are full months, and I'm thinking of trying some new systems/layouts, so maybe I can use what time is left to experiment. Now I type this, maybe I'll do Jan in here too and start Feb in my new journal. I know technically is just for me and shouldn't matter so much but order makes me happy and starting a new journal mid-month would be a bit ewwie lol (like you guys, Idc what month of the year I start in, but starting mid-month doesn't sound great). And since I almost don't care about this journal, I like the idea of a bit of space/time to just play about and see if anything sticks!
Virtual Meet up!
THERE ARE PLANNER CONFERENCES?!
Yup! One of which is GO Wild which we were both at earlier this year 😄
Try and set a meet and greet halfway like Europe 😅 not me trying to convince you to accommodate my expectations 😂❤
Yes please ❤❤ I wanted to suggest it as well 😂😂 Which country are you from?
@@katharinawichmann8284 I live in Italy now
@@mahroutabesh that is reachable to me 😍😍 I live in south Germany.
@@katharinawichmann8284 so what us left is only to get these pals here 😂😂
@@mahroutabesh haha, I wish ❤❤
YAY FOR PART TWO 🩷 (ft. i hope you’re enjoying my live commenting as im watching lol). also lmao of COURSE i already know what my whole lineup is for next year.