How To Mark Your Bible - Neat Freak Edition! | Marking the Bible for Neat Freaks w/ highlighter tape 

You are a girl after my own heart! I was beginning to think I must be a bit weird not liking to fill my Bible with all the tabs and sticky notes, and inks, and colours, and bulky crafty things, because social media is full of it, and it seems like everyone is doing it...except me! I wish I could like it but it's just not me. I find it distracting and a bit overwhelming. When I was growing up, I was taught to respect books and never write, colour, or scribble in them and that has stayed with me throughout my life, it seems. I have tried to do it but, because I'm such a neat freak, it didn't feel natural or right to me. I'm happy for those who find joy in decorating their Bibles, but I'm really happy to have found someone here on RU-vid who I can totally relate to! I have just subscribed!

I have never heard of highlighting tape! Wow! I have days where I want to be super neat. Then I have days where I want to see colors 🥳

Thanks sister for your amazing insights! I started off not marking in my bible, then used only one colour, and then I saw the online trend which uses all the different colours, pens etc. I was using it for the little while and then recently went back to single colours or two maximum because my brain just couldn’t get my head around all the distraction when I went back to read the Bible. I felt like I had too much going on, though I could see the merit of that. Now I’m onto one colour again and since finding your channel I’ve tried the pencil, and I’m really enjoying that. I used to use pencil when I was in high school for my books because I didn’t want to mark them, and the only thing I did find was that it does tend to smudge. I also find that on white page edges, i must have smudged the pencil going too close to the margin or got it on my hand and there appears some darkness there but still pencil is my firm favourite right now because it’s so versatile! But I think it really does depend on the paper and pencil as you mentioned already. I had an issue that led me to this because I wrote something down in one of my bibles and I no longer hold that theological position but there it is it’s still there permanent. So I had to cross it all out and that really bothered me because it ruins the Bible as does any bleed through. I do get disappointed when the gilding starts to chip off with regular use (must be my hands!) but I just have to get past that because the Bible is just a tool and I have neat freak tendencies which makes it hard. Love you sis, and your neat freak bringing out my own inner neat freak, really love this video. Had no idea about tape either! Ps love the coaster you’re using

If you don't want to use highlighter tape you can always use a ruler with a mild colored highligter and it will come to be neat. I use a ruler all the time

Beloveds... I am so happy to have found you, my people. I love that you use the term "neat-freak," because it's only a disorder if it disrupts your ability to live/laugh/love. And yes, pencil does fade, but not so much that you can't read it, as I can attest to from my 30-year Bible.

I have a metal bible too. My son found it in a thrift store and picked it up for me. I love it!

I love a neat Bible too! I use Tombow brush markers to highlight, the light colored ones don’t bleed and have little to no shadowing. I use a light purple that looks very similar to your tape color, they aren’t named but the color number is 620.

I use colored pencils in my Bible to highlight passages. I like it because I can erase it if I change my mind, and I can make the boxes around the text neat. It, also, doesn't bleed through.

Hey and welcome to a different type of video today as we take a short break between studying books! Some of you have noticed that I am a bit of a neat freak and have been asking questions about my methods of marking my Bible, so I want to share those tips with you today!

Tape doesn’t bleed through!! Have never heard about this till now.

I so love your insight,☺️❤️🧡 I was flipping thru mine and I was like oh my goodness mine would send you into a whirlwind wind lol (kidding you of course) but I too love yours as well. I too have one I just highlight...I call it my porch Bible...it goes outside with me and love that it's just that. thank you for your studies and these kinds of videos ❤️🧡🌺

A woman after my own heart!!! This was so fun to watch! I cannot with the rainbow colors and tabs!! If I get too overwhelmed, I wouldn’t have the desire to read! One is my first bibles had the bright highlights and it drove me nuts!!! It’s currently deep in my shelf never seeing the light of day! I also can’t with bulk it kills! I love the tape idea, but the bulk would stress me out! I do the cheap version with a pastel lavender frixon erasable and a ruler😂 I always start with pencil, but when I read through again, if the note is something I find valuable for like- like bible secrets- I’ll rewrite in either a Sakura micron or Sarasa vintage gel that matches the Bible’s cover. I found that these are the only ones that don’t bleed through and it looks pretty and matches😍 For bookmarks I use pastel page tabbies that easily peel off that match my highlighter, I tried using other bookmarks, but the bulk was real as you know I do ten chapters 😅

Thanks for this video and so grateful for your channel. Love your channel. 🙏🏻🕊

Excellent tips. Thank you.

I use micron pens with correction tape. The correction tape makes it so that the mistake was never there! I am very concerned that pencil markings will get very smudgy over time from the oils in my hand whereas microns have archival ink and oils don’t affect it.

I am a new subscriber and now a huge fan! I love how simple your journaling and annotations are! I recently started reading the Bible and have been enjoying this journey 💜 I started to highlight and use post it’s using five different colors. I soon realized that this became too overwhelming for me having to remember what color goes with what theme of notes. I found this video and you motivated me to only stick with one color for a simpler look. I am now using only a purple gel highlighter and purple post-its for any annotations I have to write in pen. Thank you for this video💜

Huzzah for pencils in Bibles! Graphite pencils are superior to pens in nearly every way for Bible notating. And Huzzah to England for giving the world the King James Bible, the Book of Common Prayer, and the graphite pencil (celebrated in that order). New subscriber; love your channel.

I think I’m somewhere between your neat freak style and the bold colorful stuff all over the web. I like the Bible’s with cool patterns, mine has a butterfly design on it 😊 and I use my ribbon and I got some magnetic bookmarks since I use the same bible for multiple studies and to take to church. and I added some tabs, of course the color scheme had to match the cover 😉 but I don’t do all the colors inside. I agree that it’s distracting and overwhelming to see all the colors and I can’t focus on the content. I do use an ink pen to make notes and I have transparent sticky notes in case I run out of space in my wide margins because I don’t like to add many notes in unlined areas. I love following your Bible studies! Your minimalism makes it super easy to follow and you always have so many good comments to add to my notes 💕

Excellent video!

I can relate to you! I am a neat freak too for my bible marking. Like yourself I only use a 0.5 mechanical pencil and 2 colour pencils(blue and orange). I don't like ribbons either. Instead I use soft materials like felt.

A metal Bible, how amazing, never seen one. Love the cleanness of that look. Thought of Mr. Pen products. If they don’t they need to make these

Thank you!!

Thank you,MWB🌹⭐🌹

Oh good, I'm not crazy.

Just found you I just subscribed it's really good 👍😊😊😊😊😊😊👍👍👍👍😊

I like this it's cool

🤗 Part 1: To everyone that is on here that likes the simplicity that she's talking about...PLEASE be true to yourself. More than anything we are to hide God's word in our hearts so that we will not sin against him. ~Psalm 119:11 📖 We are supposed to spend time with the Lord getting to know Him, Jesus and the Holy Spirit. All of the highlighters, washi tape, sticky notes ...and all of the cute stickers are not going to get us closer to God. What those things do for someone like me., Because I 💜🩶💜 all of it.... It just makes my time with God special because I am a creative person and love annotating and journaling.

I love reading my Bibles as well taking notes I have a world bible school study edition journaling bible and King James version bibles and a Spanish bible as well can I write in them with a pompom pen

Way better then a pencil is a super thin black pen. Something like a 0.05 or a 0.03

I only use yellow highlighter

Take it from me, since I have tons of experience with mechanical pencils of all kinds, mechanical pencils are not all created equal. The mechanisms wear at different rates, the erasers wear out at different rates, the erasers are of differing ease of usage, the lead breaks at different rates, there is differing amounts of wobble in the lead mechanism, etc. This is not to say that you need to get an expensive one, because some of the cheap ones are some of the best (cough, cough, Mitsubishi Uni Kuru Toga), as long as you do your research and buy the right model.

I saw someone on here that uses crayons to highlight in her bible and thought that was brilliant too. She even erases the highlights.

You can get mechanical pencils that are different colors.

Temu sells it cheaper. Is it removable without damage?

I would love to know how you are able to make the tape work so neatly. The tape looks wider than each line of text. Are you cutting down the center?

Hey would consider linking all the items in the video, especially your bible? 🫣 also the bulb light. It seems necessary for my studies. Aesthetics helps me study better 😅