Coming into my fourth year of bullet journaling, this video is perfect for beginners. I started and stopped 3 times in my first year, because I’d made it too complicated for myself. You just want to be able to pick up your journal every morning to plan your day (brain dump), and to be the place to make notes throughout the day. Biggest mistake I see, is people trying to preplan their journaling spaces. You need it as free-form as possible. Some days you may only write half a page for your day, other days you may write 3 pages (notes from a class/meeting/appointment/event or emotions you may have to get off your chest. You may just want to start a list for an idea that pops into your head). I’d even go so far as to suggest, for those who want to get artistic, start minimally as Matt suggested first, to form that habit first, learn what you’re doing... then start inserting craft. And finally, be prepared for your first BJ to be to be your messiest😂 It’s going to take lots of experimenting (for me, minimising) to get it right for you and your lifestyle. It was my second book, that I’d settled into a system that worked for me. Like anything, you learn by doing.
Sometimes you have to preplan the day: in my case I have fixed hourly appointments every day and for each of them I have to organize an activity (I'm a teacher), then I also have fixed weekly appointments with random appointments intermixed. So I HAVE to have a daily hourly planning and I can't doing it bullet-journal-style, because I HAVE to know WHEN exactly I have to do a certain thing, and to put the appointments in the right order, to know when exactly I have a free time slot, and the weekly spread is not enough for that. In this sense I always wonder if my system can be called "bullet journal", since the daily log is so much more structured than the "real" bullet journal, I call it more like a self-made planner (self-made because I never found a planner with exactly all the characteristics I wanted).
@@RaquelHernandez-ol8tv In the past, I have struggled with seperate journals, that tended to have much cross-over of information, and I ended up only wanting to look in one book for my tasks and appointments for all areas. And yet, my husband, needs to seperate his work needs from his personal tasks - so he prefers seperate notebooks😂. I guess what I’m saying is, it’s a personal decision to make, based on your own circumstances. You could always try one way for fit... and modify if you have to, or not.
I just found you on TH-cam and this is the first video I've watched. I'm curious about bullet journaling and its benefits and as the year starts I have all kinds of ideas in my head to make this a better year! I also have one big goal for the year, so I feel that a minimal approach to bujo is the right start for me. Thank you for guide to starting simply!
You’re very right, many times I’ve tried to start a bullet journal but because mine never looked so Pinterest worthy, I found it difficult to keep up with it. This is a breath of fresh air.
The best advice ever got for starting new things was: start now. There is no reason to waste days, weeks, or, worse, months to start that new habit you want to start building. And if you fail, just try again with no pressure to do it perfecly
@@Mockduck2020 yeah, the start now do it now mindset get derailed when your working and a side quest pops up. Instead of thinking, I can look this up later, your brain is wired to do it now and run headfirst down the rabbit hole until your not sure where you started
Hi Matt. I just wanted to thank you for this, as I struggle heavily with organization and task management. My therapist recommended bullet journaling, and actually recommended you specifically to help start this as part of ADHD treatment. Only on day 6, but it's already had a positive effect with my daily tasks for work and my personal life.
i've been bullet journaling consistently for two years now and this is the advice i wish i had when i was a beginner. when you're first starting out, i feel it's easy to get caught up in the aesthetic possibilities and lose sight of what bujo is all about-keeping your life organised. i love the artistry of this community, but i did feel pressure for my journal to look the same, so my first mostly consists of spreads that i never used because, while beautiful, they didn't help me. focusing on the core aspects of bullet journalling did. i thought about making a practical video to bujo myself, since i've found a lot of resources online are very overwhelming and focus too much on visual appeal, rather than its intended function-but now i don't have to. matt, you've managed to take all my thoughts on journalling and put it into a nice, succinct video. you've done a great job with this one!
Going back inspired. Most videos often scare me because they are so aesthetic or complex. Starting today with my daily log and will go slow to build consistency. Thank you
While I have gone the more artsy route (pandemic time on my hands), I certainly could have benefited from this advice when I first started. Easing into method first is definitely the way to go.
I love your methodology, it kind of mirrors how I got started and the pitfalls I experienced! I started with the yearly, monthly, weekly etc breakdown and it just took too long for how much I ended up using. I went through a couple of weekly and daily layouts until I found the one that I like the best. This has kept me consistent for about 4 months now! Also what really helped was being gentle with myself and not considering forgetting to bujo or not doing it on the Sunday, exactly, as failures and to just roll with the mistakes.
Thanks for the tips. You are correct in that artistic journalling isn't for everyone, and it's a hobby in itself. Keeping the bujo simple for a beginner means one is more likely to stick with it.
I've watched a billion bullet journal videos and tried to start my own journal several times but I could'nt stick to it. Your advise is the best I ever had and now I really feel like I can finally do it. Thank you so much!
This is a perfect guide for new bullet-journallers. It's been so long for me that I don't even remember my first bullet journal, but these tips are always important to refresh from time to time! I try to keep it minimalist as well (to make it more mental-health friendly for me) and my biggest rule is 'you can add more energy to artsy it up if you want, but you can never take back energy doing something you haven't really enjoyed'. It's been super fun and surprisingly introspective finding a really simple, streamlined 'base' set-up for myself over the years, that still allows room for extra stuff if I ever feel like doodling or going nuts with washi tape.
excellent video. Some people are discouraging with all the trappings of more of an art notebook vs bullet journal, making newbies feel like failure right away. A true bullet journal is exactly the way you have been presenting it. Thanks for this video.
When I started, I took the pocket notebook that I already kept in my purse, and started daily logging. That worked great! For a couple of years. I'm ready for a bit more now. Maybe the weekly!
Alright, I was a bit late to the BuJo party. So far, apart from the original one, this was the only video which seemed practical, to me. I don't have the talent, or the time to go all artsy. The artsy ones look LOVELY. But I didn't want to learn to draw and suddenly become an artist to start my bullet journal. I really appreciate that you didn't go all ✨aesthetic✨ just for the sake of the video. Not that it's bad, everyone loves aesthetics. This BuJo just feels grounded, real and practical. Sorry for the ramble.
Going from daily to monthly is the best tip for beginners I saw on youtube. Thank you. I'm going to start in December and the plan is to do two weeks only daily then two weeks with weekly planning and start the new year with monthly spreads.
Matt, you said your Dad’s birthday is January 18, but when I googled Jim Carrey it said his birthday is January 17th! Well you do remind me of him but only in the best of ways. Thanks for all of your great videos and ways of making this system of journaling so attainable.
I've been looking for a simple and efficient bullet journal for a long time. I'm a very anxious and moody person, but I always need routine and organization to function. And I put so much pressure on myself to be perfect that I ended up not keeping the bullet journal. And when I found your examples it was what worked best for me and made me really confident. Thanks, Matt.
Great video. Folks need really great core bullet journeying videos like this one. And great insight coming from experience. The big beautiful journaling spreads you see on the internet are not produced by people using the journal for productivity. And they are so distracting you folks trying to use a bullet journal as a tool. Those are folks are people who journal as a hobby. They spring from the world of scrapbooking. I do monthly and daily only. If I still worked in the corporate world, I'd do weekly and bi-weekly as well.
Thank you so much for these suggestions. This is very productivity focused and simple to follow. I have kept a log of daily To do list for last couple years but I want to track my productivity now rather than just going through a long list everyday. Being a working mom with online school, time management is crucial now. Thank you again !
I'm excited to start my first bullet journal. I am reading Ryder Carroll's book and am not the most artistically talented. Definitely appreciate an easy and minimalist approach to this method. Thank you.
Drawing out the layout of the journal is something I find tedious and off putting. But I sometimes enjoy book binding. I have a set of bullet journal page template created and sorted onto a registry spread. One A4 sheet gives me a registry of 8 pages (4 A6 sheets), which means, each A4 sheet contains one week. Am revising the spread to not have the habit trackers and mood trackers and so on separated off onto their own section but integrated into their days, which would mean a double page, or maybe even three/four pages, per day.
Just wanted to tell you I have struggled to make this a habit. So far this week, I feel like I can do this because of the ideas in your video. 😄. Thank you!
I almost started my first journal creating habit tracker on the daily. This separate tracker chart is much better to keep clean and be able to glance back as a whole. Thank you for this vid to just chill out and start, and let the flow create itself.
Thank you, it is so refreshing your perspective for bujo, I have watched tons of videos that was terrible complicated, totally artistic but OMG I'm not an artist I just need something that must be funtional, practic and abel to form consistence. Thank you!! I am going to follow your advices and give it a try to bujo again.
Where was this video when I needed it three years ago? This is the most helpful bullet journal video Iv'e seen! Thank you for the tips! I'm probably going to watch this video again in case I'd forget about the purpose of bullet journaling.
It's been 2 months that I'm bullet journaling, and your tips are perfect. You're talking about everything that I ended up using the most in my bullet journal. When I begun, I wanted to do an almost perfect (and very artistic good looking) bullet journal, and now I realised how messy my journal is for now 😅. But *the more time passes, the more I narrow down what I really need and like*. I didn't took hours to make my new month, and it looks way less beautiful, but I'm still using it, and I will try to make it beautiful again, *slowly* this time. My productivity thanks me so, so much though. Keep it up, bullet journaling is for everyone !
Great insights. Will definitely recommend this vid. I never gave BuJo my attention as the artistic BuJo put me off. Luckily I did give it a second chance and it is definitely a life saver. Thanks for this breakdown ❤️
Thank you so much for this! Thinking it has to be this masterpiece stops me doing it all together so thankyou for opening my eyes to stripping it back x
Some of this goes against the actual Bullet Journal method. I understand, everyone should make it their own, but for those with unorganized minds, this could be too much. I stick with the idea of just getting the thoughts and tasks out on paper quickly. I don’t migrate tasks from day to day. If they aren’t crossed out, they are still open. There is no need to migrate them within the same spread. My advice to someone starting out is to learn Ryder’s method and LATER adapt other methods that work for you.
I just rewatched this video and now I find it very accessible...I am very excited to start with the bullet journal now, but I will definitely start small with the daily logs until I feel confident to move to weekly and monthly goals. Thank you very much for this video!
Hi Matt - Just subcribed to the podcast...looking forward to it...over the last year you've helped me overcome my BuJo Fomo and actually use my bullet journal to help manage this crazy year!!! I'm starting to be a bit more creative without making it a work of art. THNX!!! Love the channel and you're gutsy decision to make this full-time!! Happy holidays to you and your family from Australia. :)
Matt from Podia!! So cool to see you here talking about bullet journals! I just got one today for my birthday and I’m so excited to start using it! I love what you said about mindfulness and thinking about the type of people we want to be in the world. I couldn’t agree more. I’m going to go check out your podcast right now :-)
I have tried making my own bullet journal for the past 3 years now and each time I just gave up because I couldn't keep up with how everyone else had some amazing journals. I felt like I couldn't keep it simple, or that it "had to look similar to theirs" in order for me to feel like I was doing it right. I can't thank you enough for putting this video out here. I can finally say I have started a journal for 2021, and I can say with pride that I can finish this years journal, as long as I keep it simple and take it day by day :) thank you Matt, you saved my sanity lol
I haven't tried bullet journalling before, but have great blocks of blank pages in my 2020 planner. I have other creative outlets and am looking for a simple way to keep track of my thoughts, goals, ideas and on top of all the daily/weekly/monthly stuff. I might use coloured pens (because I love colour), but I'm not planning for this to be a work of art. Good luck, Ellie!
Thank you for making bullet journalling look so do-able. I'm inspired now to start again. As Ryder Carroll says, you don't need to catch up but to show up.
This is great! I am brand new to bullet journals, though I have kept a handwritten diary type of journal for years, and have tried different planners that just never seem quite right for me. I wanted something where I could track everything in one place. So I'm sold already on the bullet journal because it's so easy to customize to suit me as an individual. But this is a revelation, starting with the Daily Log. Thank you!
Awesome, thank you. Love the simplicity and can really relate to just starting off step by step. This is my first video of yours I've watched as I've only just heard about bullet journaling.
Great information Matt. I only recently was first exposed to bullet journals and your tips are most useful to me. I need something simple, that I can work, and will work for me that won't get me bogged down in a lot of prep only to overwhelm me into quitting quickly. The tips you shared are just the thing I needed to get me started and will allow me to establish the habit of bullet journalling knowing that being faithful with little will enable me to be faithful with more. I really like your approach and it goes well with the track that my life is taking and the other productivity hacks that I am learning. Thank you Matt and I look forward to more of your videos. (this was the first of your videos that I have seen)
I have to remind myself those illustrated journals are literally artists' journals, for artists to do art in. They're like sketchbooks with appointments in them. That's not what I'm doing
Ghehe, , I am sitting in front of my screen following along in my brand new version 2 bullet journal. Chapeau to you, good Sir, for making this bulleted world accessible for newbies like me!
Nice, encouraging guide, Matt. Something I would suggest for people who are pretty sure they want to get into using the 'full' Bullet Journal system and like your approach to get started: Reserving the first 4 pages (two spreads) for the Index will mean it can go in that handy location when you're ready to start using one.
Absolutely unreal video Matt!!!!!! Those tips were so helpful. Definitely going to use the master task list and migrate to daily and also the habit tracker too!!! Can't wait to finally get my hectic life organised, these will help so much and they are so minimalist too which I love. Also, going to check out the podcast too, thanks Matt great work!
Really helpful video. I like how you broke the habit of bullet journaling into actionable steps that build and develop over time. Now is the perfect time to start this habit.
I am in the midst of my second reading of the book of R. Carroll. I am about to start for the 2nd time and your vdo is probably what I needed in order to feel confident about managing to do it without quiting. Baby step, day by day. All of a sudden it seems obvious thanks for your work. Alain (fr)
great vid. I've been a planner for a while but never felt creative enough to bullet journal. I'm still not there (I cannot fathom creating my own layout and I hate my own handwriting lol) but I love to change up my planning style and this video kinda makes it a possibility. Your podcast sounds cool. I'll check it out
this is the best video i found out on yt, you became my inspiratoin to bullet journal in 2021, i started it earlier last year, but i wasnt able to be consistent, i really winder if i owuld have found this video earlier
I love that you don't put down artistic bujos! I personally could never do them and suspect that they may not always represent someone's real, main planner but, ultimately, they're just people having fun.... like some people get real weird in their advocacy for minimalist bujos and it's all so unnecessary.
Thanks for this easy way to begin a bullet journal. I bought and started one two years ago but it came so overwhelming and time consuming I never really got started.
I've been using the BuJo method for 4 years, so I'm not a beginner by any stretch. But you still gave me some new ideas to implement. I've always done the weekly task list, which was always this task dump. I'm going to try the Weekly Objectives page.
I would like to get started on a bullet journal... but I feel a little overwhelmed, and want to start out slow, and use a method that doesn’t take a tremendous amount of time. I really like how you describe getting started!
Thanks for this video! I started bullet journaling last year. I thought I kept things simple, but they weren't simple enough. I found myself dreading setting up the next month and pouring hours into it. It was more work than help, so I stopped. I'll try again starting the way you suggest, and build from there.
Random observation (noticed a bit before 7:19) - I notice you use R for Thursday, which is something I'm used to... and yet, you don't do the other piece of that that I'm used to, namely using U for Sunday! This is curious to me, because I'm a fan of disambiguation for things, and having 7 unique letters appeals to me here. Whether or not you care isn't particularly important to me, just... interesting! And in case anyone sees this, wondering about the R and/or the double-S thing, well, here's a suggestion: use both R and U to avoid double-T and double-S. :)
this is very timely for me.. all simplified.. thanks edit: it will be my first time bullet journaling for 2021, and i'm a little overwhelmed with how to set it up to make it as very functional as possible. and i believe your the tips are so far the best to "warm up" before i actually start it for the year.. definitely trying the daily log this week.. today..
@@thetenderheartedjournaler7438 it's been pretty cool tracking your progress on developing habits, which is what my main goal is for now.. then perhaps after a month, I'm gonna add some habits or hobbies to my main tasks or habits to develop.. I'm a spontaneous type but i figured i wanted to set goals, hoping it'll make a better me.. so far it, I'm getting the hang of it. it's great 😊
@@nicelann2606 Sounds awesome! I also really like this approach of adding things slowly and trying things one at a time. The most important thing is that it sticks, right? So happy to hear it's going well!
@@thetenderheartedjournaler7438 true.. master one to two habits at a time...👍👍👍 I'm still trying to keep up with the momentum for some habits.. i guess it still boils down to how persistent you are to keep the habits..😁 how about you?
@@nicelann2606 My bullet journal works a bit differently for me as I struggle with depression and anxiety and am a highly sensitive person. For me I am mostly recording what I am doing. No dailies and no to-do-lists as they overwhelm me. I have been working on my bujo(s) for about 2 years now and found a way it works. right now, who knows when that will change again?
Great video. I am new to bujo but already have clarified what I want to notice and accomplish. I haven't yet figured out the layout and how I want it to look, but it's a useful way of keeping track of life.
The part about only starting with the daily task list for 2 weeks is the best bujo advice I've seen so far on YT. I have ADHD, so I get overwhelmed by tracking tasks extremely fast, which leads to me ditching the entire system at the first hint of a logjam. Logjams are a weekly issue with me. Things come up that change the direction of my day and tasks get put off. I'm just wondering how to handle sub-tasks with a bujo. I need to break tasks down, sometimes into ridiculously small sub-tasks.
Great video. I'm starting my bullet journal here on January 4th - with the one that I won in a drawing you did with Amy Landino. You are my guide. I'm looking forward to the journey!
When I started bullet journaling years ago I kinda started this the other way around. I first started with the monthly spread, then after about five months I started doing weekly spreads and then after about three months of that I moved to the daily spreads. My thought pattern back then was that I didn't want to commit to a think I needed to do weekly/daily. I thought I would feel discouraged if I started with the dailies and then weren't able to keep up with habit. I thought that I could take my time couple times I month planning in my monthly spread and tracking few things on a monthly basis (like nothing daily, more like a list of books I had read during the month and my monthly list of books to read). When I had established a habit of checking in with my BuJo daily I moved to mood trackers and daily habit trackers.
Thanks matt, i m going to try with daily as u said so. Actually i had bought my journal since January 2022, but still i haven't start my bullet journal+ing due to the "planning for how to start it". And now is already April 2022...
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Coming into my fourth year of bullet journaling, this video is perfect for beginners. I started and stopped 3 times in my first year, because I’d made it too complicated for myself. You just want to be able to pick up your journal every morning to plan your day (brain dump), and to be the place to make notes throughout the day.
Biggest mistake I see, is people trying to preplan their journaling spaces. You need it as free-form as possible. Some days you may only write half a page for your day, other days you may write 3 pages (notes from a class/meeting/appointment/event or emotions you may have to get off your chest. You may just want to start a list for an idea that pops into your head).
I’d even go so far as to suggest, for those who want to get artistic, start minimally as Matt suggested first, to form that habit first, learn what you’re doing... then start inserting craft.
And finally, be prepared for your first BJ to be to be your messiest😂 It’s going to take lots of experimenting (for me, minimising) to get it right for you and your lifestyle. It was my second book, that I’d settled into a system that worked for me. Like anything, you learn by doing.
Sometimes you have to preplan the day: in my case I have fixed hourly appointments every day and for each of them I have to organize an activity (I'm a teacher), then I also have fixed weekly appointments with random appointments intermixed. So I HAVE to have a daily hourly planning and I can't doing it bullet-journal-style, because I HAVE to know WHEN exactly I have to do a certain thing, and to put the appointments in the right order, to know when exactly I have a free time slot, and the weekly spread is not enough for that.
In this sense I always wonder if my system can be called "bullet journal", since the daily log is so much more structured than the "real" bullet journal, I call it more like a self-made planner (self-made because I never found a planner with exactly all the characteristics I wanted).
on point..❤
For us who work for an employer, do you recommend one notebook for work and one for home/family related stuff?
@@RaquelHernandez-ol8tv In the past, I have struggled with seperate journals, that tended to have much cross-over of information, and I ended up only wanting to look in one book for my tasks and appointments for all areas. And yet, my husband, needs to seperate his work needs from his personal tasks - so he prefers seperate notebooks😂. I guess what I’m saying is, it’s a personal decision to make, based on your own circumstances. You could always try one way for fit... and modify if you have to, or not.
@@rebeccaw9656 thanks for sharing your experience.
*5 Bullet Journal Beginner Tips* (1) Start with daily logging (2) Set weekly goals (3) Move to monthly (4) Tracking is fun! (5) Consistency builds confidence - just keep going!
I just found you on TH-cam and this is the first video I've watched. I'm curious about bullet journaling and its benefits and as the year starts I have all kinds of ideas in my head to make this a better year! I also have one big goal for the year, so I feel that a minimal approach to bujo is the right start for me. Thank you for guide to starting simply!
I am a bullet journal beginner.
"I'm not going link to washi tape and binder clips". Made me smile!! Keep it simple!
You’re very right, many times I’ve tried to start a bullet journal but because mine never looked so Pinterest worthy, I found it difficult to keep up with it. This is a breath of fresh air.
The best advice ever got for starting new things was: start now. There is no reason to waste days, weeks, or, worse, months to start that new habit you want to start building. And if you fail, just try again with no pressure to do it perfecly
I used to do that...then the Internet happened.
@@Mockduck2020 yeah, the start now do it now mindset get derailed when your working and a side quest pops up. Instead of thinking, I can look this up later, your brain is wired to do it now and run headfirst down the rabbit hole until your not sure where you started
Hi Matt. I just wanted to thank you for this, as I struggle heavily with organization and task management. My therapist recommended bullet journaling, and actually recommended you specifically to help start this as part of ADHD treatment. Only on day 6, but it's already had a positive effect with my daily tasks for work and my personal life.
Love the 'Consistency is Confidence', I really needed this. Thanks!
i've been bullet journaling consistently for two years now and this is the advice i wish i had when i was a beginner. when you're first starting out, i feel it's easy to get caught up in the aesthetic possibilities and lose sight of what bujo is all about-keeping your life organised. i love the artistry of this community, but i did feel pressure for my journal to look the same, so my first mostly consists of spreads that i never used because, while beautiful, they didn't help me. focusing on the core aspects of bullet journalling did.
i thought about making a practical video to bujo myself, since i've found a lot of resources online are very overwhelming and focus too much on visual appeal, rather than its intended function-but now i don't have to. matt, you've managed to take all my thoughts on journalling and put it into a nice, succinct video. you've done a great job with this one!
Thanks Stephanie! I really appreciate that - great advice from you too!
Going back inspired. Most videos often scare me because they are so aesthetic or complex. Starting today with my daily log and will go slow to build consistency. Thank you
You got this!
While I have gone the more artsy route (pandemic time on my hands), I certainly could have benefited from this advice when I first started. Easing into method first is definitely the way to go.
I love your methodology, it kind of mirrors how I got started and the pitfalls I experienced! I started with the yearly, monthly, weekly etc breakdown and it just took too long for how much I ended up using. I went through a couple of weekly and daily layouts until I found the one that I like the best. This has kept me consistent for about 4 months now! Also what really helped was being gentle with myself and not considering forgetting to bujo or not doing it on the Sunday, exactly, as failures and to just roll with the mistakes.
Thanks for the tips. You are correct in that artistic journalling isn't for everyone, and it's a hobby in itself. Keeping the bujo simple for a beginner means one is more likely to stick with it.
I've watched a billion bullet journal videos and tried to start my own journal several times but I could'nt stick to it. Your advise is the best I ever had and now I really feel like I can finally do it. Thank you so much!
There is beauty in simplicity. 😊
This is a perfect guide for new bullet-journallers. It's been so long for me that I don't even remember my first bullet journal, but these tips are always important to refresh from time to time! I try to keep it minimalist as well (to make it more mental-health friendly for me) and my biggest rule is 'you can add more energy to artsy it up if you want, but you can never take back energy doing something you haven't really enjoyed'. It's been super fun and surprisingly introspective finding a really simple, streamlined 'base' set-up for myself over the years, that still allows room for extra stuff if I ever feel like doodling or going nuts with washi tape.
Great advice Selkie!
You gave me a few ideas for how I can approach my 5th bullet journal a little bit better with the knowledge I now have. Amazing video thank you!
excellent video. Some people are discouraging with all the trappings of more of an art notebook vs bullet journal, making newbies feel like failure right away. A true bullet journal is exactly the way you have been presenting it. Thanks for this video.
When I started, I took the pocket notebook that I already kept in my purse, and started daily logging. That worked great! For a couple of years. I'm ready for a bit more now. Maybe the weekly!
Holy crap. Old school Chronicles of Narnia! I had that same box set as a kid!
Alright, I was a bit late to the BuJo party. So far, apart from the original one, this was the only video which seemed practical, to me. I don't have the talent, or the time to go all artsy. The artsy ones look LOVELY. But I didn't want to learn to draw and suddenly become an artist to start my bullet journal.
I really appreciate that you didn't go all ✨aesthetic✨ just for the sake of the video. Not that it's bad, everyone loves aesthetics. This BuJo just feels grounded, real and practical.
Sorry for the ramble.
Going from daily to monthly is the best tip for beginners I saw on youtube. Thank you.
I'm going to start in December and the plan is to do two weeks only daily then two weeks with weekly planning and start the new year with monthly spreads.
Matt, you said your Dad’s birthday is January 18, but when I googled Jim Carrey it said his birthday is January 17th! Well you do remind me of him but only in the best of ways. Thanks for all of your great videos and ways of making this system of journaling so attainable.
I've been looking for a simple and efficient bullet journal for a long time. I'm a very anxious and moody person, but I always need routine and organization to function. And I put so much pressure on myself to be perfect that I ended up not keeping the bullet journal. And when I found your examples it was what worked best for me and made me really confident. Thanks, Matt.
Great summary. I currently no longer use a weekly because of the "lockdown" here, only monthly and daily. It's great how flexible everything is.
I love how clean and minimal your bullet journal layouts are. It always felt like a chore setting everything up.
Great video. Folks need really great core bullet journeying videos like this one. And great insight coming from experience. The big beautiful journaling spreads you see on the internet are not produced by people using the journal for productivity. And they are so distracting you folks trying to use a bullet journal as a tool. Those are folks are people who journal as a hobby. They spring from the world of scrapbooking.
I do monthly and daily only. If I still worked in the corporate world, I'd do weekly and bi-weekly as well.
Thank you so much for these suggestions. This is very productivity focused and simple to follow. I have kept a log of daily To do list for last couple years but I want to track my productivity now rather than just going through a long list everyday. Being a working mom with online school, time management is crucial now. Thank you again !
Great video man! What an awesome way to introduce the system in a really easy to digest way.
I'm excited to start my first bullet journal. I am reading Ryder Carroll's book and am not the most artistically talented. Definitely appreciate an easy and minimalist approach to this method. Thank you.
Drawing out the layout of the journal is something I find tedious and off putting. But I sometimes enjoy book binding. I have a set of bullet journal page template created and sorted onto a registry spread. One A4 sheet gives me a registry of 8 pages (4 A6 sheets), which means, each A4 sheet contains one week. Am revising the spread to not have the habit trackers and mood trackers and so on separated off onto their own section but integrated into their days, which would mean a double page, or maybe even three/four pages, per day.
Just wanted to tell you I have struggled to make this a habit. So far this week, I feel like I can do this because of the ideas in your video. 😄. Thank you!
I almost started my first journal creating habit tracker on the daily. This separate tracker chart is much better to keep clean and be able to glance back as a whole. Thank you for this vid to just chill out and start, and let the flow create itself.
Thank you, it is so refreshing your perspective for bujo, I have watched tons of videos that was terrible complicated, totally artistic but OMG I'm not an artist I just need something that must be funtional, practic and abel to form consistence. Thank you!! I am going to follow your advices and give it a try to bujo again.
Glad it was helpful! New video coming out tomorrow too!
Thanks for this advice- just what I needed to set my first bullet journal up!
This is the video that helped put the pieces together for me. The key was my carrying over multiple tasks to multiple days. Thank you!
Where was this video when I needed it three years ago? This is the most helpful bullet journal video Iv'e seen! Thank you for the tips! I'm probably going to watch this video again in case I'd forget about the purpose of bullet journaling.
This is great. I'm going to go back to basics for December to be ready for the new year
It's been 2 months that I'm bullet journaling, and your tips are perfect. You're talking about everything that I ended up using the most in my bullet journal.
When I begun, I wanted to do an almost perfect (and very artistic good looking) bullet journal, and now I realised how messy my journal is for now 😅. But *the more time passes, the more I narrow down what I really need and like*.
I didn't took hours to make my new month, and it looks way less beautiful, but I'm still using it, and I will try to make it beautiful again, *slowly* this time. My productivity thanks me so, so much though. Keep it up, bullet journaling is for everyone !
Great insights. Will definitely recommend this vid. I never gave BuJo my attention as the artistic BuJo put me off. Luckily I did give it a second chance and it is definitely a life saver. Thanks for this breakdown ❤️
Thank you so much for this! Thinking it has to be this masterpiece stops me doing it all together so thankyou for opening my eyes to stripping it back x
Some of this goes against the actual Bullet Journal method. I understand, everyone should make it their own, but for those with unorganized minds, this could be too much. I stick with the idea of just getting the thoughts and tasks out on paper quickly. I don’t migrate tasks from day to day. If they aren’t crossed out, they are still open. There is no need to migrate them within the same spread. My advice to someone starting out is to learn Ryder’s method and LATER adapt other methods that work for you.
Ryder's method does migrate tasks from day-to-day
Yeah. I don't like migrating. I will check daily and by the end of week maybe migrate to next week but I am not about to migrate tasks every day.
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Having to migrate a task more than once was a source of shame that put a stop to my first bullet journals. Trying this
This is such an easy to follow, easy to understand beginner tutorial. Huge thanks to you Matt!
This is amazing content! Thank you. I just bought a bullet Jornal! ❤️
Never settle ❤️
I just rewatched this video and now I find it very accessible...I am very excited to start with the bullet journal now, but I will definitely start small with the daily logs until I feel confident to move to weekly and monthly goals. Thank you very much for this video!
Hi Matt - Just subcribed to the podcast...looking forward to it...over the last year you've helped me overcome my BuJo Fomo and actually use my bullet journal to help manage this crazy year!!! I'm starting to be a bit more creative without making it a work of art. THNX!!! Love the channel and you're gutsy decision to make this full-time!! Happy holidays to you and your family from Australia. :)
So excited about the Podcast!! Glad you’ve been able to turn this year into something positive Matt. it’s inspiring :)
Matt from Podia!! So cool to see you here talking about bullet journals! I just got one today for my birthday and I’m so excited to start using it! I love what you said about mindfulness and thinking about the type of people we want to be in the world. I couldn’t agree more. I’m going to go check out your podcast right now :-)
I have tried making my own bullet journal for the past 3 years now and each time I just gave up because I couldn't keep up with how everyone else had some amazing journals. I felt like I couldn't keep it simple, or that it "had to look similar to theirs" in order for me to feel like I was doing it right. I can't thank you enough for putting this video out here. I can finally say I have started a journal for 2021, and I can say with pride that I can finish this years journal, as long as I keep it simple and take it day by day :) thank you Matt, you saved my sanity lol
I haven't tried bullet journalling before, but have great blocks of blank pages in my 2020 planner. I have other creative outlets and am looking for a simple way to keep track of my thoughts, goals, ideas and on top of all the daily/weekly/monthly stuff. I might use coloured pens (because I love colour), but I'm not planning for this to be a work of art. Good luck, Ellie!
Thank you for making bullet journalling look so do-able. I'm inspired now to start again. As Ryder Carroll says, you don't need to catch up but to show up.
This is great! I am brand new to bullet journals, though I have kept a handwritten diary type of journal for years, and have tried different planners that just never seem quite right for me. I wanted something where I could track everything in one place. So I'm sold already on the bullet journal because it's so easy to customize to suit me as an individual. But this is a revelation, starting with the Daily Log. Thank you!
Awesome, thank you. Love the simplicity and can really relate to just starting off step by step. This is my first video of yours I've watched as I've only just heard about bullet journaling.
Great information Matt. I only recently was first exposed to bullet journals and your tips are most useful to me. I need something simple, that I can work, and will work for me that won't get me bogged down in a lot of prep only to overwhelm me into quitting quickly. The tips you shared are just the thing I needed to get me started and will allow me to establish the habit of bullet journalling knowing that being faithful with little will enable me to be faithful with more. I really like your approach and it goes well with the track that my life is taking and the other productivity hacks that I am learning. Thank you Matt and I look forward to more of your videos. (this was the first of your videos that I have seen)
I've Been almost 6 years since I started bullet journalling. The basic layout is always the best!
I have to remind myself those illustrated journals are literally artists' journals, for artists to do art in. They're like sketchbooks with appointments in them. That's not what I'm doing
Ghehe, , I am sitting in front of my screen following along in my brand new version 2 bullet journal. Chapeau to you, good Sir, for making this bulleted world accessible for newbies like me!
Nice, encouraging guide, Matt. Something I would suggest for people who are pretty sure they want to get into using the 'full' Bullet Journal system and like your approach to get started: Reserving the first 4 pages (two spreads) for the Index will mean it can go in that handy location when you're ready to start using one.
I shared video with some friends considering bullet journaling and I subscribed to the podcast. Thanks for sharing!
Absolutely unreal video Matt!!!!!! Those tips were so helpful. Definitely going to use the master task list and migrate to daily and also the habit tracker too!!! Can't wait to finally get my hectic life organised, these will help so much and they are so minimalist too which I love. Also, going to check out the podcast too, thanks Matt great work!
Another video wherein I watch and marvel to myself that you have that cool box set of the Narnia Chronicles.
Really helpful video. I like how you broke the habit of bullet journaling into actionable steps that build and develop over time. Now is the perfect time to start this habit.
Thank you so much. You made it sound so simple
I am in the midst of my second reading of the book of R. Carroll. I am about to start for the 2nd time and your vdo is probably what I needed in order to feel confident about managing to do it without quiting. Baby step, day by day. All of a sudden it seems obvious thanks for your work. Alain (fr)
great vid. I've been a planner for a while but never felt creative enough to bullet journal. I'm still not there (I cannot fathom creating my own layout and I hate my own handwriting lol) but I love to change up my planning style and this video kinda makes it a possibility. Your podcast sounds cool. I'll check it out
this is the best video i found out on yt, you became my inspiratoin to bullet journal in 2021, i started it earlier last year, but i wasnt able to be consistent, i really winder if i owuld have found this video earlier
Best BUJO and life advice (Especially after this year) 🤔 take it day by day. 😏👍🏾👏🏾 And...start simple.
Your simple and logical take on bullet journaling has really helped me put into action what it is intended for. Thank u for sharing!
I love that you don't put down artistic bujos! I personally could never do them and suspect that they may not always represent someone's real, main planner but, ultimately, they're just people having fun.... like some people get real weird in their advocacy for minimalist bujos and it's all so unnecessary.
Thanks for this easy way to begin a bullet journal. I bought and started one two years ago but it came so overwhelming and time consuming I never really got started.
What a lovely, encouraging video!
Thank you for the reminder sometimes you just gotta Keep it simple
After having seen quite a few of these 'how to bullet-journal videos, I finally found the one I was looking for. Subscribed!
I've been using the BuJo method for 4 years, so I'm not a beginner by any stretch. But you still gave me some new ideas to implement. I've always done the weekly task list, which was always this task dump. I'm going to try the Weekly Objectives page.
I would like to get started on a bullet journal... but I feel a little overwhelmed, and want to start out slow, and use a method that doesn’t take a tremendous amount of time. I really like how you describe getting started!
The notion version of the bullet journal is the best one for me, I saw it on one of your videos and have been using it ever since
Good content. Sweet Narnia softcover ! 👍🏻👊🏻
I think master task list will click its awesome, I'll try to do. 😇👍🏻
Thank you Matt! great video
Great video. Been watching so many videos preparing to start trying a bullet journal and was getting totally overwhelmed. Thanks for this.
The best introduction to BoJo 4 beginners
Thks so much
Thanks for this video! I started bullet journaling last year. I thought I kept things simple, but they weren't simple enough. I found myself dreading setting up the next month and pouring hours into it. It was more work than help, so I stopped. I'll try again starting the way you suggest, and build from there.
Random observation (noticed a bit before 7:19) - I notice you use R for Thursday, which is something I'm used to... and yet, you don't do the other piece of that that I'm used to, namely using U for Sunday! This is curious to me, because I'm a fan of disambiguation for things, and having 7 unique letters appeals to me here. Whether or not you care isn't particularly important to me, just... interesting! And in case anyone sees this, wondering about the R and/or the double-S thing, well, here's a suggestion: use both R and U to avoid double-T and double-S. :)
R for Thursday, A for Saturday also works. Thanks for the reminder
@@denisewenke8323 Oh, interesting! Indeed it would. I've not seen that before, but fair!
this is very timely for me.. all simplified.. thanks
edit: it will be my first time bullet journaling for 2021, and i'm a little overwhelmed with how to set it up to make it as very functional as possible. and i believe your the tips are so far the best to "warm up" before i actually start it for the year.. definitely trying the daily log this week.. today..
yessss, it's been two weeks, how is it going?
@@thetenderheartedjournaler7438 it's been pretty cool tracking your progress on developing habits, which is what my main goal is for now.. then perhaps after a month, I'm gonna add some habits or hobbies to my main tasks or habits to develop.. I'm a spontaneous type but i figured i wanted to set goals, hoping it'll make a better me.. so far it, I'm getting the hang of it. it's great 😊
@@nicelann2606 Sounds awesome! I also really like this approach of adding things slowly and trying things one at a time. The most important thing is that it sticks, right? So happy to hear it's going well!
@@thetenderheartedjournaler7438 true.. master one to two habits at a time...👍👍👍 I'm still trying to keep up with the momentum for some habits.. i guess it still boils down to how persistent you are to keep the habits..😁 how about you?
@@nicelann2606 My bullet journal works a bit differently for me as I struggle with depression and anxiety and am a highly sensitive person. For me I am mostly recording what I am doing. No dailies and no to-do-lists as they overwhelm me. I have been working on my bujo(s) for about 2 years now and found a way it works. right now, who knows when that will change again?
Great video. I am new to bujo but already have clarified what I want to notice and accomplish. I haven't yet figured out the layout and how I want it to look, but it's a useful way of keeping track of life.
The part about only starting with the daily task list for 2 weeks is the best bujo advice I've seen so far on YT. I have ADHD, so I get overwhelmed by tracking tasks extremely fast, which leads to me ditching the entire system at the first hint of a logjam. Logjams are a weekly issue with me. Things come up that change the direction of my day and tasks get put off. I'm just wondering how to handle sub-tasks with a bujo. I need to break tasks down, sometimes into ridiculously small sub-tasks.
Whoo! Happy Birthday Matt's dad! My dad's birthday is January 18th as well! :)
Cool!
Great share, Matt. Just discovered your channel. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Great video. I'm starting my bullet journal here on January 4th - with the one that I won in a drawing you did with Amy Landino. You are my guide. I'm looking forward to the journey!
First time I’ve watched one of your videos. I appreciate videos like this on the basics, and I like all the encouragement you offer. Subscribed!
Thanks for keeping it simple. :)
This is the best video for beginners....this is the way that i am gonna start .... thanks
I haven’t even started yet and I’m already overwhelmed
Great video Matt!
Great video. I wish I would've watched this before I spent a little over an a hour watching all the weekly layout videos 😅
Thank you for the help I've been struggling now that I've found how I can start my first Journaling is great 😊😊😁
When I started bullet journaling years ago I kinda started this the other way around. I first started with the monthly spread, then after about five months I started doing weekly spreads and then after about three months of that I moved to the daily spreads. My thought pattern back then was that I didn't want to commit to a think I needed to do weekly/daily. I thought I would feel discouraged if I started with the dailies and then weren't able to keep up with habit. I thought that I could take my time couple times I month planning in my monthly spread and tracking few things on a monthly basis (like nothing daily, more like a list of books I had read during the month and my monthly list of books to read). When I had established a habit of checking in with my BuJo daily I moved to mood trackers and daily habit trackers.
Thanks matt, i m going to try with daily as u said so. Actually i had bought my journal since January 2022, but still i haven't start my bullet journal+ing due to the "planning for how to start it". And now is already April 2022...
Really great info, I am going to try this approach, like that habit tracker
Quick prayers and God's answer to them are helpful also