Bullet journaling?

[fitnessgurl]

6 hours ago, TMedina said:

Oooh, I'm going to have to check out the ARC system.

I love it! Very versatile.

[Infinity.Creates]

On 26/12/2016 at 11:55 AM, mightstone2k said:

I just ordered a journal to start bullet journaling. I was going to order the one off the bullet journal website (figured a $25 splurge was fine to get the first one already formatted), then saw $30 in shipping. Nope!

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Tbh you can use any notebook. Blank and dotted are just favourites for aesthetic purposes.

[TMedina]

What Infinite said.  Dotted and grid lines just make it a little easier if you want to get fancy with boxes and sections and so on.

[mightstone2k]

Tbh you can use any notebook. Blank and dotted are just favourites for aesthetic purposes.

What Infinite said.  Dotted and grid lines just make it a little easier if you want to get fancy with boxes and sections and so on.

I know. I just have a silly hankering for getting things that are specifically designed for the task at hand. It's irrational.

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[Altamarie]

Just got my gridded notebook and have started to fill it with layouts in prep for 2017. Anyone have any good layout ideas I should make sure to have?

[The Shogun]

Hey! I'm just setting my first BuJo and I was wondering if anyone has ever used it for a NF 4 week challenge. I might be interested in steal some ideas. 

[fitnessgurl]

On 12/30/2016 at 3:55 PM, The Shogun said:

Hey! I'm just setting my first BuJo and I was wondering if anyone has ever used it for a NF 4 week challenge. I might be interested in steal some ideas. 

I'm not doing that for the upcoming challenge; but playing around with layouts for the next.

[The Shogun]

2 hours ago, fitnessgurl said:

I'm not doing that for the upcoming challenge; but playing around with layouts for the next.

Oh, I might be playing around with different layouts for this one! Lemme know!

[fitnessgurl]

4 minutes ago, The Shogun said:

Oh, I might be playing around with different layouts for this one! Lemme know!

Ok.

[Jonesy]

I love using my bullet journal and so glad I discovered them. 

 

I just saw this post but if you are looking for a reasonably priced Bullet Journal to start out with and see if you like the concept, Barnes & Nobles sells 8x10 Dot Grid notebooks for under $10. They are a good inexpensive starting journal but I think you can only get them online. 

 

I bought one and I like using it for testing out markers, fonts, banners and such. 

[Bighara]

I've just started BuJo but I've created a page in it where each of my 4 week goals has a series of check boxes to help me track ho well I am keeping pace (X number of workouts, etc.). Very helpful.

[mightstone2k]

*sigh* if only I'd known that dot-grid was the way to go. I'm stuck with a lined journal, and now I'm not one of the cool kids [emoji53]

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[TMedina]

Heh.  A ruler and some patience can take care of that.

 

ETA: I routinely use a 5x7 lines notebook from the local Dollar Tree - I break out a ruler to make calendars and whatnot as needed.

[Bighara]

9 hours ago, mightstone2k said:

*sigh* if only I'd known that dot-grid was the way to go. I'm stuck with a lined journal, and now I'm not one of the cool kids

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Mine is just a lined spiral notepad I've had lying around.

 

[Darth Yoga]

I don't do bujo specifically, but I always make paper charts of the sort that I see people use in bujo/etc.

 

Up until last month, I was printing out a small booklet each challenge, the same size as my daily planner notebook, so I can tuck it inside.

 

 

They are around 3.5"x5.5" (quarter sheets trimmed a little narrower to better fit in a pocket). The challenge booklets are made of two sheets of paper, giving 16 pages.

Goals on the front cover, progress tracking on the back cover, and inside one page for each of the goals, for notes, plus for each week a lined page (for tasks/etc) and a weekly checklist grid.

 

Last month, I was falling behind, and decided I needed a larger format progress chart on my wall, where I couldn't ignore it. That was really helpful, very motivational. This month, while I did print up a blank challenge booklet, I haven't filled it out. Instead I made another progress chart for the wall, plus a large one-page version of the daily checklist grids I have in the booklets.

 

 

Mainly I don't use bujo because I really like having a pre-printed time grid for every day, which I use for tracking how I spent my time. (I use Google Calendar for my main scheduling tool, because I need to be able to coordinate with people about use of the office, car, etc.) I make these daily planners myself, because I want a specific size, format, layout, etc. (Like I want my "day" to start at 8pm the previous night.) They are laid out in MS word, cut and stitched on a sewing machine because they are too thick to staple. I write the days on them by hand, because otherwise getting it printed correctly is an epic struggle. I make a new one at the start of each challenge, so they are 35 days. In the past, I've included checkboxes for challenge goals pre-printed right on these sheets, but I kept wanting more checkboxes, and it got too crowded, so now they are just blank.

 

 

(Randomly selected planner page. Looks like I was unsuccessfully trying to catch up on sleep that night...)

 

Anyway, I love the freedom of a paper planner, being able to scribble things anywhere. If I don't have many tasks for the day, I can just use that part as scratch paper. I've tried using "nice" notebooks, and it was too much pressure to make everything look good. I need to feel comfortable scribbling things out, messing it up.

[Odonate]

I use a US$2.50ish graph paper composition book from an office supply chain for my vaguely bujo-style planner. I personally prefer 1/5" grid but 1/4" seems to be more common; if you have a preference then be sure to check on whether a given graph paper item is 4 or 5 squares per inch.

[TheHailey]

Just spent my morning looking up bullet journaling. Looks like a great way to combine all the journals and lists I end up making anyways.

Great. Now I need one.

[TMedina]

Eeeeexcellent.  Welcome to the fold.

[Haikoo]

I've been bullet journaling for 3-4 years now. I do it more like Ryder's original style, though. I add in a few fancy layouts here and there plus a habit tracker. I also have the occasional pretty colored pens or tape, but most days are just lists of tasks and reminders/notes  I don't have the time nor artistic ability to do what some of those peeps do. I am in the Bullet Journal Junkies FB group, though

 

[TMedina]

On 1/16/2017 at 2:31 PM, TheHailey said:

Just spent my morning looking up bullet journaling. Looks like a great way to combine all the journals and lists I end up making anyways.

Great. Now I need one.

 

How's the bullet journaling coming along?

[IslandGirl_Becks]

On 1/16/2017 at 0:31 PM, TheHailey said:

Just spent my morning looking up bullet journaling. Looks like a great way to combine all the journals and lists I end up making anyways.

Great. Now I need one.

 

[TMedina]

5 hours ago, IslandGirl_Becks said:

 

 

[FitChick_Maybe]

On 9/25/2016 at 6:55 PM, Stellakin said:

Hi there!

 

So I know I can't be the only one here who loves to be creative and stay organized! Does anybody else here use a bullet journal? Anybody keen on giving it ago? And do you track your fitness there, if so? I do and I'm trying to fit my four week challenge somewhere into the mix whilst also keeping updates on it every day; I suppose we'll see how it goes! 

 

Also, feel free to share photos or any articles if you feel so obliged!

 

~Stella  

Hi Stella,

 

I'm actually a writer and I have tried using a bullet journal to track my daily life, ideas or thoughts to blog or write about, and keeping track of physical activity (which was limited from my chronic illness). I have thought about tracking my fitness goals as well. I have not joined any of the fitness challenges yet, since I'm new here. But I think I will give it a try. Since I'm slowly working my way into the fitness world, it would be good to set goals and then see what it takes to reach them. Thanks for the inspiration!

~Kris

[RevQu]

I've never heard of it before so just spent a while googling and loooove it!

 

I use a planner, make a lot of lists, and generally have to write stuff down to remember it. The problem always comes down to too many lists in too many places, no way to reference where I wrote something down, etc.

 

The idea of a system where I could keep it all in one spot, and organized? Sounds like exactly what I have been looking for!

 

 

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[Kaite the Nomad]

I heard of this recently but haven't looked it up until now. It looks pretty interesting. I tend to end up with To do lists everywhere so maybe this could help organise things for me better.