What is Bullet Journaling?
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- Опубликовано: 2 авг 2024
- Brian and Drew have been asked, "Bullet Journaling - what IS it?" and did their best to give a basic overview and point out some good resources and starting points, in case you're ALSO curious!
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0:00 The Question
1:00 What is it, how does it work?
2:26 How it began
3:41 The Bullet Journal Method book
4:40 The official Bullet Journal
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Bravo Brian !!! Excellent explanation. I highly recommend that anyone interested in bullet journaling go to the links that Brian mentioned to see the originator (Ryder Carroll's) original system of Bullet Journaling. It is very minimalist..... very plain..... no art work. Then..... if you are interested in how other people have taken Mr. Carroll's original concept and turned it into a very complex art form..... then.... google Bullet Journal and you will see 100s... if not 1000s... of very intricate, embellished ways that people do super fancy bullet journaling. Which is fine, but it is not the way that it was originally designed....... Good job explaining it Brian !!!
I just recently bought a bullet journal.
I have always been into writing in journals. Writing stories down on electronics devices wasn’t my thing. Seven years ago I was diagnosed with cancer …17 surgeries later, I decided I really need to write things down in more detail. I would write using my mom’s old 1948 Schaeffer fountain pen.
Then I went down the rabbit hole, Pen after pen, journal after journal… I’m looking forward to learning how to use my bullet journal, there is not a day that goes by I don’t write a letter or in my journals.
Bullet journaling is what got me into fountain pens - my first order was from Goulet with Pilot Metro F and Diamine Grey (both still favorites) - then the ink colors... ohh..
Bravo Brian on an excellent summary of the BuJo practice! (I’ve been a BuJo-ist for about 3 years now.) Side note, the 2nd edition of Ryder’s bullet journal Leuchtturm notebook is way more fountain pen friendly than the first. The 120 GSM paper is a joy!
This episode has been brought to you by the word "endpaper"! And the number 84!
I think the word Brian was looking for is 'endsheet'. I suspect 'inside front cover' would have worked just as well.
As someone who retired from the printing industry, we also referred to it as an "endsheet".
The term you’re looking for Brian is “end papers”. ☺️ we all knew what you meant though. I like that you made sure to mention those of us who don’t create these gorgeous bullet journals.
@5:20 - Is the word "fly leaf"? Or maybe "end paper"?
I've been bullet journalling since May 2014. Mine is more like the minimalist style that Ryder Carroll invented, not artwork & drawings like some folks do. I also found that I didn't use the lists/data sections so I just have my monthly calendar and daily schedules/task lists. It works for me. For the big picture long-term calendar, I just buy one of those $1-2 staple-bound calendars at the discount store, tear off the covers, and tape it in the front of my BuJo: why spend my time drawing calendars? BTW, you could try using the Bullet Journal method with any blank book that has a dozen or more usable pages: just start at the beginning of next month and see how it goes for you. If you like it, then buy a dedicated journal to use. :-)
Big fan from India
The first time I tried bullet journaling it lasted about 2 weeks.
The second time, I gave myself permission to have the ugliest bullet journal in the world. That was in 2016, and I've been using the system ever since.
I go back and forth between extra and basic: if it feels overwhelming, I go back to just the basic spreads. A few months later, when I start feeling the urge to do some creative stuff, I'll go all-out. Lots of color and fancy fonts and maybe some drawing. It's flexible enough to suit the fact that I have different needs at different times.
I also go back and forth between extra and basic! This is why it works so well for me, too. ❤️
Bullet Journal=>
A way to turn any notebook into a planner. It gives you a key/ legend that let's use have a free-form planner.
You can make it as complex, or as minimal as you would like.
Personally, I am too lazy to make a customized planner, and would rather use one where the formatting has already been done for me.
However, the cool part of the bullet journal concept, you can still implement the legend in a traditional planner.
[The benefit of a bullet journal is you can use ANY notebook, so you have virtually no limits on paper quality; unlike a traditional planner where you are at the mercy of whatever the manufacturer uses. Franklin Planner paper ≠ Rhodia paper 😭]
Hi Brian and Drew, I started my stationery journey with a planner (Erin Condren and Happy Planner both aren't FP friendly). Then I re-discovered fountain pens, and then I fell down the rabbit hole, and well, here I am. Now I use a bullet journal, the none pretty type :)
Chels
QUESTION for pencast 🙂 Am I the only crazy one who thinks that filling cartridges with a Goulet syringe is sooooooo much easier than using converters? Granted, I only have 3 brands of modern pens - Pilot, Platinum and Lamy.... including Custom 74 (2), Platinum 3776, Pilot E95s for writing and then various other pens for sketching - Explorer, Kakuno, Platinum Carbon, Metropolitan, Safari, etc.)....... so... only having 3 brands makes it easy to have proprietary cartridges for those brands. Once I use up the ink in the cartridge (or empty it out without using it... LOL) then I refill the empty cartridges from my bottles of ink with the Goulet syringe. Easy peasy. I never use converters anymore...... Just sayin". And I learned the trick from a video that Brian made many years ago. Thanks Brian. But am I the only one who does this consistently? I realize that if you have dozens of brands of pens, it would be more difficult with all of the cartridge types that you would have to own... but... still.....
Right there with you Susan. In fact, I have a wood Conklin that I haven’t figured out how to keep the ink from drying out with the converter in it. Even after just one day of not writing - I’d have to jump through hoops to get the ink flowing again. Not so when the cartridge is in it, though. I can leave it for weeks and pick it ip and it writes with no skips, no problems. Made me a cartridge/ink syringe convert!
@@reneseking1428 Thanks !!! Glad to hear that I'm not alone !!!
I think what you are calling the front page is a key reference page
Thank you for this definition, Brian. Bullet Journaling is a productivity methodology, outlined in the book you mentioned. A lot of people are creating very colorful and artistically beautiful scrapbooks, containing lists of favorite movies, etc and are calling them "bullet journals". Technically they are not. Personally, I don't care, as I don't do either method, but I appreciate the clarification.
Oh I have seen these folks with their gorgeous artistic "bullet journals." I had to stop following one when she started listing "do bullet journal pages" as actual tasks in her bullet journal. It all became way too meta.
It's a Table of Contents! Nice video ❤
Been using one with fountain pens since you first released the leuchtturm bullet journal like 6 years ago ish
Endsheet or end paper :)
Endpaper. When blank, it's sometimes called an Endleaf.
I tried using this system but it felt too complex, too many rules and terms, so I became fatigued by it. Filling in the journal became a task in itself, something I had to plan for and populate. This meant any spontaneity was killed off before I even picked up a pen. Respect and admiration for anyone who does enjoy the system. If it gets a pen into your hand then all power to you. It just didn't work for me.
One thing I didn't understand with bullet journaling is why it's preferable to use a dot grid rather than lined. For text entry at least, lined paper makes more sense to me and feels more convenient.
This is why I stopped doing anything in my BuJo other than a monthly calendar to list meetings/scheduled events + daily lists of tasks/meetings - no artwork, no tracking this or that, no record of ideas for the future. Anything above the minimum actually hurts my productivity. I can see the value of making lists like "what to pack for travel/vacation" that you could use from year to year, but if I put those in my BuJo, I had to copy them out longhand when I went to a new book; that kind of thing is better tracked electronically or in a dedicated tool, not part of short-term to-do lists. My 22 cents, at least.
@@kimlindseyOH Indeed. I know it's very anti fountain pen but for such things as to-do lists, I usually put them into a plain text note on my phone. I always have my phone near me and the notes are backed up off-device, so even if I lose or trash it I should eventually be able to retrieve what could be essential details.
@Graham
Other than Index, Future log, Monthly log and rapid log, everything else is a module that you can decide to include or not. More like a Lego if you get the idea of it.
And you didn't need to fill your daily log religiously. You can skip it if you're bored, draw a doodle, write your thoughts, etc. And all you need to do is to record the page numbers where you're stopping at with your daily log, to your Index. It's simple, but I can understand how someone whose only have 3 tasks per day being overwhelmed to fill it. So the best solution is to start from A6 notebook. And dotted is preferred since it gives more freedom in creating template.
@@arapaimagold8088 The problem I had was forever migrating (if that's even the right term, I'd call it deferring) stuff from month to month, a load of things I know needed doing, bigger or harder tasks or activities. Recording them in this way was actually demotivating as I was just reminding myself that I wasn't getting them done. I was writing things down for the sake of writing. Like I say, all credit to those using this to their benefit and to the creator of the system. To me though, at least at this point in my life, it is a solution looking for a problem. It also didn't help that we lost one of our beloved cats during this journalling period. I was writing about how I felt, what he was going through, and it all became too much. I'm never going to look back over those entries as they're just too painful. So for those entries at least, it was a write-only medium that just amplified the pain.
For me, the key to my bujo becoming essential and helpful was putting a lot of thought before I started doing it into what I actually needed it to do for me that Google calendar and Omnifocus or a planner could not do, and setting it up with a specific intention of ensuring nothing I put in it is redundant to my existing digital systems. I read Ryder’s materials (he hadn’t published a book yet), watched people’s RUclips videos for weeks before I picked up a pen and brainstormed about what would be useful, what wouldn’t. Happily, I only used the parts of the system that were helpful from day one.
Brian,
I believe the term you are looking for is the Front End Paper or Front Endsheet.
Really like your videos
Brian would be a good teacher!
Thanks! There are sooooo many more content creators that are more educated than we are about this! - Drew
I use grid notebooks for mine too. Bujo is fun!
endpages?
the word you couldn't think of is endpaper
Bullet journal vol 2 has nice booklet in it that is a cheaper way to go than buying that book.
Flyleaf
so thats what bujo is, i thought its a mistranslation somewhere off of Spanish 'dibujo', or drawing
I know there are several BuJo Masters on Yt, Instagram, etc,,, that actually show how they have adapted Ryder’s methods for difference needs, feelings, whatever, I just don’t have any recollection of who those people are. Can anyone start a list of good sources for BuJo journaling in the wild? TIA!
Plant based bride and Boho berry.
@@arapaimagold8088 Many thanks!
Summarize: It's a notebook you keep notes in to plan and track your achievements. Blah blah blah blah blah. Words words words, more words.