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azurelunatic) wrote2021-10-08 02:20 pm
azurelunatic) wrote2021-10-08 02:20 pm
Gratuitous Icon Post: Join the BuJo Cult!
I started converting my pre-existing small-sheet daily lists to something more informed by bullet journaling around the start of the pandemic, and it's been helpful to organize my braaaaaains (yay ADHD), as much as they're going to get organized without further intervention.
Since my listmaking has always been about miscellaneous scraps of recycle paper, I use disc binding to put them together. This does mean that I'm generally limited to one side of the paper, but I'm fine with that. (This does mean that I do not do "spreads" in the traditional notebook sense of bullet journaling.)
My "system" does not generally do indexes; it does do month and year tabs that poke above the standard quarter-page size sheets. I also do not use bullets the way that the original BuJo guy did. That variant uses bullets as the base of the to-do system. I use bullets as, well, bullet points. Circles or squares are my to-do. I check them off, color them in, or overwrite them as things happen.
I try to separate standalone pages by week, month, year, and project. The basement tidying/organizing/cleaning project becomes Basement (October 2021), with additional pages being (2) etc. -- this means I can migrate remaining tasks to a new monthly page, and keep the old page in the back of the month in question.
My daily layout has a section for the date; I color-code it by the day of the week so it's pretty and so I have an additional cue when I have gotten the day-of-week, date, or day color wrong. The top right corner is for things that influence the day's mood (like weather, visits, etc).
The main (left) column is for the day's tasks and events. The right column has space for a backlog section (stuff that has appeared on recent lists that I've been Meaning To Do, or Really Need To Do) and a self-care section.
I play around with sectioning; on days when I'm expecting or trying to do Many Things, I may set up a specific section for that thing in one or more of the columns. (Core self-care is in a box; additional things are above and below the box.) For things that get done in incremental bits, I do a row of bubbles to color in. On a monthly page, those might be colored in with the color of the day or a theme or status color. On a daily page, those might be colored in with any color I'm feeling at the moment (rainbow, ombre, traffic light scale).
Generally I make each daily page on the day of, or the day before. This helps keep me from getting a stack of pages for days that (organizationally) didn't happen.
Sometimes I put illustrations, which makes my art brain happy. My 2020 year page has the virus on the tab and a dumpster fire on the page itself. My 2021 year page has a mask on the tab and a Moderna vial on the page. (Using a reference for the shading and reflections was really really helpful.)
Office/art supplies!
I will eventually find the big pack of gel pens and the rest of the stencils. Currently I use a stencil for the Backlog label and one for the self-care box. (When I feel like it.) My main pens are Pigma Micron 05 and PN (both black) but I have a multicolor set of the PNs. I have the full set of Zebra Mildliners. I also have a large bucket of discount alcohol markers, which are good for additional illustration and colorful headings.
My punch is The Happy Planner Create 365 one, which takes 3 sheets max (it says). I am not best pleased with it, but it was within budget and works. I have some random multicolor 1" discs plus a set of black ones, and there's a set of small magenta ones around somewhere.
Since my listmaking has always been about miscellaneous scraps of recycle paper, I use disc binding to put them together. This does mean that I'm generally limited to one side of the paper, but I'm fine with that. (This does mean that I do not do "spreads" in the traditional notebook sense of bullet journaling.)
My "system" does not generally do indexes; it does do month and year tabs that poke above the standard quarter-page size sheets. I also do not use bullets the way that the original BuJo guy did. That variant uses bullets as the base of the to-do system. I use bullets as, well, bullet points. Circles or squares are my to-do. I check them off, color them in, or overwrite them as things happen.
I try to separate standalone pages by week, month, year, and project. The basement tidying/organizing/cleaning project becomes Basement (October 2021), with additional pages being (2) etc. -- this means I can migrate remaining tasks to a new monthly page, and keep the old page in the back of the month in question.
My daily layout has a section for the date; I color-code it by the day of the week so it's pretty and so I have an additional cue when I have gotten the day-of-week, date, or day color wrong. The top right corner is for things that influence the day's mood (like weather, visits, etc).
The main (left) column is for the day's tasks and events. The right column has space for a backlog section (stuff that has appeared on recent lists that I've been Meaning To Do, or Really Need To Do) and a self-care section.
I play around with sectioning; on days when I'm expecting or trying to do Many Things, I may set up a specific section for that thing in one or more of the columns. (Core self-care is in a box; additional things are above and below the box.) For things that get done in incremental bits, I do a row of bubbles to color in. On a monthly page, those might be colored in with the color of the day or a theme or status color. On a daily page, those might be colored in with any color I'm feeling at the moment (rainbow, ombre, traffic light scale).
Generally I make each daily page on the day of, or the day before. This helps keep me from getting a stack of pages for days that (organizationally) didn't happen.
Sometimes I put illustrations, which makes my art brain happy. My 2020 year page has the virus on the tab and a dumpster fire on the page itself. My 2021 year page has a mask on the tab and a Moderna vial on the page. (Using a reference for the shading and reflections was really really helpful.)
Office/art supplies!
I will eventually find the big pack of gel pens and the rest of the stencils. Currently I use a stencil for the Backlog label and one for the self-care box. (When I feel like it.) My main pens are Pigma Micron 05 and PN (both black) but I have a multicolor set of the PNs. I have the full set of Zebra Mildliners. I also have a large bucket of discount alcohol markers, which are good for additional illustration and colorful headings.
My punch is The Happy Planner Create 365 one, which takes 3 sheets max (it says). I am not best pleased with it, but it was within budget and works. I have some random multicolor 1" discs plus a set of black ones, and there's a set of small magenta ones around somewhere.
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