This Notebook Transformed My Schedule 

I love that! Wrote it down :)

@@bulletjournal 😊❤️

Yes, please!

I would love that so much!!

​@@bulletjournal definitely - some body doubling for us adhers please! Im in progress of getting diagnosed at 45 😅.... thank you for your channel !

This is brilliant! I like writing my plans so I can visualize the month ahead, but couldn’t figure out how to integrate that with the reflection aspect.

I love her channel cause her systems are so simple and easy to adapt. Nothing against pretty things (I too have expensive planners 😂) but if it takes more time to write down than to do the actual task it’s not very effective

I really appreciate this - and we love Simie!

@Simielriarte

Yes, I do something similar and it is so helpful for being intentional with our capacity!

Great idea!

That's amazing! Where do you keep them?

I am the same

How are they bridging the gap? They are digital

@@brendalg4 true that eink devices are digital, but they "bridge the gap" in the sense that they don't have backlights, don't normally have notifications, or messaging. As a result, they get close to the focus of a pen and paper experience.

That's always the goal, thank you!

Oh that's interesting, is that a setting on your digital calendar? Mine keeps everything

@@bulletjournal It might be. I’ve just never found the place to change it. Bigger fish to fry and all that.

best of both worlds!

Ah thank you! Welcome!

I personally use my notebook as the place where all the stuff goes in first. As things come up throughout the day, be it new tasks, events or other thoughts I write them down in the daily log of today. Then during my evening ritual, I figure out what to do with them. This way I at least know where I can find something and don't need to remember where I put what: because I know everything is in my notebook first. Most of the time the tasks either stay where they are until I migrate them, are moved to a custom collection or are scheduled in the future log or my digital calendar.

You can put everything in the daily log, as it happens, a log of what you get handed and what you do and whatever else. Then you can use a signifier to indicate which app you’re sending the data to and use that like a migration method.

That's a great question - I don't put most tasks in my calendar until the day or week of, where I start to time block space to do the relevant tasks of the week/day.

@@bulletjournal when you say calendar, I take it you mean digital calendar. Do you put them in as tasks to be completed or include in events for time blocking for completion?

Great question. I personally track my habits (no more than 3) in my Monthly Timeline - I did a video about it called Super Simple Habit Tracker if you'd like to see it! There are many who write their habits in their daily log, too

If you are interested in suggestions: I have recurring tasks as a flip out piece of paper that is stuck to the inside cover. I can flip it out every day and check off five boxes on the daily page without rewriting the tasks every time. :-)

I do both, I’ve incorporated a tracker into my monthly log for things like exersize, etc; but I also jot down in my daily’s so that I can refer to my notes when reflecting at the end of the month and back-filling days I missed.

@@bulletjournal Thank you so much Ryder and folks! I really appreciate the tips!

@@SkihaseHH thank you!! I love the suggestion

The Monthly Timeline used to be a planning calendar in the past - but with how quickly things change and shift, the Monthly Timeline is now used as more of a 'one line a day' function, which helps with the monthly reflection

Then the month log will be more like a diary then a planning tool? You really should change the old "Start here" video. In that the month log was a planner for upcoming events. Confusing for beginners I think...

I started using my monthly log for planning and daily log for what I actually got done. It has worked for me so far :) I modify how I use the different logs (monthly, weekly, daily) according to how they meet my needs as I go :)

I also found that the future log was a little bit duplicative of the monthly log so I like the idea of it as a record of what happened.

I still use paper-based forward planning because my brain doesn't work with digital.

I do. It's also a great opportunity to pause and do things like break down a task. Monthly tasks might be a few tasks rolled into one, and putting it in the weekly or daily is a moment to get more precise about what I'm doing

Hi! Yes! Since April 2020. How many bujos do you use per year?

​@@Abeewearingjeans I don't. I followed the book and logged so much future planning I started missing things for court. Judge busted but didn't sanction me. I stopped after that. I also had so much going on in a day (court hearings plus meetings), it didn't fit on the line on the monthly log. I find I prepare better when I see the month as calendar. Instead, I sorta use the principles in my Hobonichi cousin.

@@Abeewearingjeans BTW what area of law do you practice? I do family court where I multiple hearings a day, and 3-6 month review hearings.

@@gmt5664 I’m an advocate in Portugal. So I work with a lot of different areas, but family I stopped (only finishing the lawsuits that I have now) and I also don’t work with taxes. About your super important question I must say that this has been a journey to find out the best way to manage. So here’s my experience: 1- I don’t use lines at the monthly log. I use an entire spread (two faced pages) to distribute M T W and T F S/S. I use the markings of the bujo ed 2 to split the pages in 3. Weekends I use the same space. This gives you more space for information then a line. 2- I always set up a weekly log, 5 days of the week, a part that I call “time blocking” where I block the time of every appointment, hearing, meeting’s, everything that I know that will happen in a certain time. On the days of the week I write in red every due date. And I have a “actions” part where I write everything that I want to accomplish during the week. Question: what about everything else that doesn’t happen in that month or week? 3- I use the future log. 3 months in advance (for me is enough for the most of the year). Example: I started a new bujo for this quarter, so my future log starts on may, June, July (April I worked directly with the monthly log). Anything that happens after this period? 3 options (I use all of them): a. I put the date of the event at the last page of my bujo of that quarter and migrate it for the next quarter bujo, b. Write the event at my planner (we have one just for lawyers/advocates) and (now) c. Put the event at my notion calendar. To prepare hearings I log a date as a due date in red. Note: for the last 4 years I worked with analog exclusively. Since Notion started the calendar app I started using it for time blocking. It’s easier to change tasks without messing up the bujo to much. But I also do the interstitial journaling, that most of the times helps me fill up my notion calendar 😅 I hope that I could help! If you have any doubts, please feel free to ask. I will help with everything that I can! For some examples of my spreads you can see my IG account @abeewearingjeans. There you can see my evolution over time figuring out what worked for me 😘 I hope that I could help you!

@@gmt5664 side note: I already lost due dates because they were not in my bujo (thank goodness I realized that in time paying the penalty). And I also avoided problems because of my conference calls notes.

Exactly

Love that you can identify why you find that technique useful - the big picture is easier for me too when drawn out

We record in a echo-y environment so we have to do a lot of post-processing to get the audio ready for YT

There are a lot of ways people use this in a variety of jobs that works with their different contexts. The point is simply to step out of the grind and assess how things are going and why

100% agree!

Yes, agree. There has been a mob mentality by those folks and it's sad/draining tbh. They do all that work and then make videos on why Bujo didn't work for them 😒

This has been a real challenge for us. On one hand we love the community and how it's evolved for people's unique contexts and preferences - AND there really is a Method behind the phenomenon! The point is to help people see WHY they're doing what they're doing, which you need reflection for.

Hahaha, I've been called quite a bit of names by these folks as well. Like, they literally stole the name, do something that's completely different and when you call them out they accuse you of "gatekeeping". I don't even do the "real" Bujo method, I just snatch some ideas from here and incorporate them into my own method. I use a week-note planner, that's a pre-printed calendar in notebook form where every left hand page has the weekly calendar and every right hand page is for notes. And while I do take some inspiration from here (and even some from the "art book girls") I'd never call it a BuJo.

I get the impression that it’s a mutually beneficial relationship (algorithm/popularity) so they only get called out by followers, not Ryder or his team. I actually kinda like that “live and let live” approach, but I can’t think of anything else where you could adopt the name of it for free! It’s just that it’s annoying for followers who are trying to find ACTUAL Bujo videos! 😅

OK, trying again. I am confused as to what the monthly log is here - its it a timeline of things done in the past, or is it a scheduled list of actions to do in the future? YOu have the comment at around 4:23 where you say you have the list of actions for the month on the page opposite your timeline, which appears from the screen flash to be one from the past, but you go on to say you have your list for the month, your monthly log, weekly log and daily log in quick succession. Sorry but confused here what you are trying to impart? Thanks

It's difficult for me too but I just pause and watch multiple times.

You can select a speed.