I need to stop wasting my time on other Bujo videos when I can come to the creator. I learn so much in the very short amount of time he presents the content.
Seriously! I just started the book, then went through a few TH-cam worm holes 🕳 and found some overwhelmingly unproductive ppl that are all over the place, but I guess that's their prerogative. Ryder simply hits it on the head.
Great video. My habit when I fall behind has been to write the date range for the days missed and then give perhaps one sentence of explanation for those days. "This weekend was crazy." or "We went backpacking." or "Couldn't keep up lately, but today's a new day." This gives me some closure on that "missed" journaling time so that I can move on without it hanging over my head. :-)
I am actually very grateful that you touched on what happens when life gets in the way. I didn’t think it was heavy at all. Specially in this day and age. I know you try to keep your videos very concise and to the point, so I just wanted to send you a heartfelt “thank you” for leaving that bit in there. It meant to a lot to me 🖤
Thank You. Pinterest has so many 'pretty' bullet journals that I felt stopped before I even began. So thank you for making these videos so straight forward without calligraphic handwriting, and artwork. I am beginning...
I loved the "heavy" section where you said "you can't plan a perfect life". So true and so much wisdom. Love the Bullet Journal concept. I use it and thank you for it. Brilliant. 😊
Aww, thank you so much for the love, Ryder! :) Threading is one of the simplest and most powerful techniques, I love it! Lovely and informative video, as always.
Hey Ryder I am totally happy that I did the research and have been Bullet Journaling since September 2022. I have been journaling since childhood; therapeutically as my parents were both deceased by the time I was ten. I was also a good student and have been learning organizational and productivity systems upon my first assigned project. I was looking for a way to minimize all the note books and find a way to "catalog' or archive the completed ones. It was also important to include, gratitude, daily praise reports and other personal but essential collections through out my days, weeks, months etc. I thank you for sharing your method and though I am not artistic I was so surprised to see some of the more artsy bullet journals looking very similar to mind. For example I always need three or more book marks so I've added a few; alsoI added fold out cards for a key and a statement of intention; and last I also added an extra expandable folder. Thank you so much. I am looking forward to seeing all that comes for this.
Bullet Journaling the first thing that worked for me in 58 years. Thank you!!! Now that I see what the app does, I'm definitely in line for the android version
Thank you, Ryder. You are one of the best of us. Your journaling practice has made you so self-aware that you become so kind and humble. No sign of ADHD in your speech or behavior. You truly have mastered your ADHD and yourself. As if journaling as well has become a form of sacred meditation for you. (I meditate and journal as well. And both habits, although entirely different activities, give me almost the same if not complete the same sense of clarity and calmness other activities never gave me.) Happy Bullet Journaling. I am going to read your book once is arrives (I ordered online.) Keep up the good work.
The bit about the Bullet Journal "meeting you where you are" is why it's the only planning system I've managed to stick with for more than a couple months. I can miss a day, or a week, or a month and pick it up where I left off. I can try out new spreads and set ups, I've been keeping a bullet journal for a year and a half now and that's literally a lifetime record for me using an organizational system.
I love that you created a flexible system for those of us who desperately want to be organized and couldn't make "traditional" methods work. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
I'm just getting started with BuJo. In fact I only ordered your book and the journal yesterday so not even in my little hands yet. I find your videos very helpful. I was resistant to BuJo because planners don't really work for me and being retired I don't need a workday planner. But I see this now as a way to keep my information together. I am overwhelmed with post-its and half filled journals on a variety of subjects. BuJo looks like a great way to keep all my information in one place so I can find it.
Thank you so much Ryder for inventing this system. I love the way you can make it your own. Start and stop when ever you want and still be there waiting for you when you want to start again. Xxx a big thank you for all your work. Xx jen x
after so many trial and error, and frustration of missing out some days in those set templates journal, this idea has basically revolutionize the whole chaos. Thanks to Bujo, thanks to Ryder
Must watch for all #bujoaddicts. I was starting to feel bad that my notes and entries are so scattered... but threading solves the problem! Thanks Ryder!
9:59 - I want to say thanks to those who asking this question, I want to do journal and short diary log but with simple way (sorry to say, I hate planner book), I feel myself fail and pissed when see empty pages. "Life is unpredictable" , damn, I want to take this as my quote! Ryder, thank you for inventing Bullet Journal ! I even buy a cute cover A6 notebook as beginner after I watched your video, How to Bullet Journal
I agree completely with what you said about pre-templated formats. I have lost count of the number of diary's I have bought only to not use them! I think this approach will work so much better for me and how my brain works - I tend to think of so many things that I have to do and never have anywhere to write them down, or I lose them because I have scribbled on bits of paper or sticky notes. So simple. Love it.
NAMING YOUR BULLET JOURNAL Season 24 Episode 12 The SEASON represents your AGE. The EPISODE represents the MONTH. For example: It is May right now and I turn 25 in June. I am 24 years old. I have been 24 for 12 months. BOOM! Season 24 - Episode 12 For some, this might be a little complicated for you... and THAT IS OK! I was just looking for more of a fun creative way to name my journals and then I will usually draw or paint something and paste it on the front and back cover. My life is exciting and eventful, so I try to portray that through my journal. Inside and out.
The bit at the end about skipping blank pages kinda moved me a bit. Thanks for sharing. And I do agree with the others down in the comments: This is the source, and I learned much more about what bullet journaling is here than at other TH-cam-channels. I guess a second thanks is in order. ;)
Next step up: library card system to keep track of your bullet journal subjects. I like to transfer my “ solid work info” being facts, procedures, agreements, manuals to my knowledge journal and have this as an seperate information bank. Also because I can lend in to my coworkers when I’m on vacation. It takes a little more work to transfer those things into “the red book”. But it’s on it’s way to be an all inclusive manual on how to do my job.
I LOVED THE STORY OF YOU CREATING THIS. AND THEN HELPING PEOPLE, AND DON'T OWNING THE IDEA, BUT LETTING EVERYONE USE THEIR OWN, JUST TO MAKE THEIR AND OUR LIFE BETTER. I'M JUST STARTING TO DO THIS. THANKYOU. ANOTHRE THING, YOU SHOULD BE IN THE VIDEOS FROM TIME TO TIME. YOU ARE CUTE AND YOU LOOK AS A VERY NICE PERSON. IT'S ALSO MAKES IT MORE HUMAN. HOW YOU HELPED THE WORLD AS YOU FOUND SOMETHING GOOD FOR YOU AND WANTED TO SHARE :)
I’m enjoying learning and trying to plan and journal I find a notebook with fixed pages that needs an index, threads, page no’s and that ends when the pages are full a show stopper. I try to create the system in my Filofax with much more flexibility. I think the the bullet journal ideas are useful but the form of the journal is form over function. Great if that’s what you want! Thanks for the videos.
Thank you for this. I'm trying it again. I've been carrying around my big planner. Too much! I'm trying you're way again. It's working so far. Thank you.
As someone who has their whole life shot from the hip, and now trying to organize themselves for future general manager position oh, thank you so much. I put off organizing I myself for so long because I didn't know where to start. I've only watched it 2 videos, and all apprehension is gone. Excitement has replaced it. Thank you so much.
Hello! You came to me via YT as a “recommendation”-who knew someone (and a MAN) had as many journals as me!! *heehee. Thank you so much for your video!!! I’ve always wondered how I was going to organize the chaotic timeline and subjects between them all, and you’ve solved this +decade-old burden for me in less than 10mins!!! I’m SOOO excited about returning to my history to create my Index and Threads!!! 😁 -ja
I am 1 month and 6 days into BuJo and find it to be an amazing tool. I have increased productivity and decreased stress with BuJo. One question (if you are still following comments on this video) . . . in a new Bullet Journal Edition 2 with 206 numbered pages, on what page should you start your first collection to give enough room for the daily logs that are in the front of the journal. I realize it doesn't necessarily matter, but it seems to make sense to have the daily logs in the front of the journal and the collections towards the back. The guides say to turn to your next clean spread to start a collection, but it seems confusing to have a collection start on page 8 when your daily logs are on page 7 and continue to page 9.
Hi Ryder, thanks for creating the Bullet Journal method. It made an enormous difference for me in being better organized, getting more done, and most importantly ... at the end of the year understanding why I was so busy and how many responsibilities got in the way of reaching my goals. That made it possible to then decide how to proceed, and how many things to continue to allow to get in the way, or to set more reachable parts of goals to work toward the goal.I used to feel frustrated and like I was wasting lots of years. Now I have a visual record that enables me to understand that I am tackling things all the time and handling them, so the self judgment voice became a tiny whisper, and the bullet journal awareness made that possible. Thanks. Why don't you add a number to your books now? Just add in a different colored number on the page side near the date?? Happy Holidays! Look at the enormity of the Bullet Journaling community you've created! Elizabeth
10:43 I missed almost two months. When I wanted to come back I start dreading and became anxious about it. There´s no rational reason for it though, just couldn't control it. So I opened my google photos and started kind of a monthly log, but put only the dates I had something to add, just like this was quickly done and I felt better to register a couple of hard times with good things in between.
I’ve loved the bullet journal the moment I learned of it. It’s helped immensely in my time and task management. And even memory (I sometimes refer to it as my external RAM). So, thank you for creating this video series!! I’ve learned something new in each, which makes the journal that much more powerful. Threading is a great idea I will start using. Though, I’m note sure that’ll work between notebooks for me. Like a passwords collection. Knowing what page it’s on in the notebook I left at home doesn’t work, so I find myself flipping the new journal upside down and recreating all the collections in the back. Passwords, company RGB codes, loan payment progress, etc. Though, if you get a chance, I’d love to hear any advice you have on daily time tracking. At work I need to track how long I spend on each activity. Some days I work on one project and others 15. And I may bounce between the same activities, which makes a train of time stamps that I forcibly squish on one line (or two rows on a line). For instance, I’ll begin project 1 [8:00 - 10:00] then project 2 [10:00 - 11:00] on the next line. Then I bounce back to project 1 [11:00 - 12:00]. Project 1 [8:00 - 9:00][11:00 - 12:00][1:00 - 3:00][4:00 - 5:00] etc. By the end of the day my little time stamps from project 1 reach the end of the line and have nowhere to go since project 2 is on the next line. If you have any ideas on a more efficient way to capture that, I would be very grateful. And again, thank you very much for these videos. And if you read all the way through this wordy comment, thank you for that as well 😊
This is one of the best parts of bujo IMO, and I wish more people talked about it. Already starting to get a tiny bit scared of what my index will look like when I'm on bujo 10 and have collections that span across all 10 of them lol but I'm sure I'll figure out a solution to that as well (a collection to index my long-term collections? A bujo specifically for long-term collections? A reference bujo to index all of the things? who knows lol)
It's an exciting and also can be somewhat scary when you think of it in big scale!! Hopefully when you migrate into new notebooks, you are taking the collections that are really important to you, that you actively use. And then, yes, making sure you know if there are notes you need to reference in past notebooks!
Thank you！！Thank you！！Thank you！！Thank you！！Thank you！！Thank you！！Thank you！！Thank you！！Thank you！！Thank you！！Thank you！！Thank you！！Thank you！！Thank you！！Thank you！！ Your bullet Journal is sooooo wonderful. I love it, so much simpler than my old planner.
future historians are gonna be freaking ECSTATIC about bullet journalling! current historians love finding people's diaries and love going through all the seemingly mundane everyday slog, but it's a treasure trove of understanding everyday life in past time periods.
Pick up where you left off... bullet journaling is not about being perfect it's about being human ... figuring out what that means one day at a time. Profoundly simple and meaningful advice to a fellow ADD and a Dyslexic, me, I thank you for this.
You're very welcome. Hmm. When tasks get migrated into the Monthly Log, it means that it's important enough that you will need to do it at some point during the month. I suggest using your Weekly Ritual to review not only the week previous, but also the Monthly Log so you can pull forward tasks that have become relevant to that coming week. Then those get pulled into the day you will dedicate to completing that task. Does that make sense?
I'm still trying to finish my personal development book from last year, but I'm just still writing it in the old notebook. lol. I wish it was easier to just move into the new one for me, but I hate wasting space!
Thank you for this! I'm about to move into my second journal and.... I missed half of September because...life! Btw I find your voice is very soothing.
11:13 I'm going back and forth between daily and weekly logs, depending upon need. That means some weeks I have only one page for 7 days. If it works it works!
I likes the system"Bullet Journal" you created.Although I didn't follow all the rules of bullet journalling I learned,I makes a good use of it ,and indeed gained a lot of ideas,inspirations,creativity from it.Thanks a lot! (plz ignore the grammatical errors >
Suggestion: Warning: more work involved. But it would be great if you could zoom in tighter on shots that involve you writing in your BuJo. It is really hard to see what you are putting down. Maybe an on-screen image of the actual text you are writing. Even on a large monitor, I just cannot read what you write. Thank you so much for these videos and for all this work. I love it and help point others to it whenever I can.
What you call threading is what in software development is called a "Double Linked List". I'm guessing that the developer who suggested it has used at least one old school language. Good application of a computing technique to a paper problem.
Thanks for the explanation on threading!! I get it now. Life does get busy and sometimes the whole week goes by and I don't do a daily. Oh well, I start fresh and move on to the next day. I think this year that I will only do each day as it comes and then I won't have wasted space for a day or two I wasn't able to work on. Less wasted pages that way. Thanks again and Happy New Year 2019!
At 7:13, early journals not having numbers: could you go back using negative numbers? So your first numbered journal is Bujo #1, and the one just before that is Bujo #0, and the one just before #0 is # -1, and then -2 and so on. Like how we number years, 400 BC.
Hi Ryder! First of - thanks for creating and sharing such a passion-driven and ingenious DIY product! I just started off with my Bullet Journal, and hence, also following and comprehending all your videos and blogs. However, so far I could not find an answer to this line of questions: What Mont Blanc pen model are you showing in this video? And besides the obvious differences in terms of craft-ship, material quality and brand reputation that characterize Mont Blanc pens, how does the writing, grab & feel compare to e.g. a simple Farber-Castell PITT artist pen? Thanks a lot in advance for your response and keep up the great work!
A quick questions. This only seems to reference a collection you have written in the past. For example you have a collection on 15, 30, 90. On page 30 you write 30 | 15 and on page 90 you write 90 | 30. But when you are on page 15 and you want to know where the rest of the collection is. Do you then read the index? Or how do you reference a page that is in the "future"?
Hey Ryder, I use the Daily Log to take daily meeting notes for the various projects I’m working on. Do you have a suggested approach for grouping those notes inside the Daily Log? I.e. Titles or just a note bullet with an indented sub note bullet, tasks and events underneath?
There's something about collections which confusing to me still, do we give one whole page to a collection and everyday at night check up we migrate thosectype of daily logs to that page(s) ? Or do we just make a section on daily log for a collection and only add the pages of days we have written something on thise boxes in the index ... Overall as a beginner the matter of collections is complicated to me, also do we only keep track of collections on index and avoid adding pages of daily logs ?
You should read the section of Memory Management and File Management of an operating system book like, Operating System of William Stallings, inside there's some techniques for organaze data and reducing "fragmentation" and optimize the use of "space" in this case of pages. Your solution of using a node structure with pointer is very efficient but in a computer "jump" from pointer to pointer works well because is the computer that jump, an human is slow for do high number of jump, and that will be happen with a large collections. I think that technique could be refine mixing some pre-allocation routine, pre-formatting routine and prevision routine.
I looked after it and here is the link to the montblanc site with the pen Ryder seems to use. www.montblanc.com/en-us/collection/writing-instruments/meisterstueck/108749-meisterstueck-platinum-line-hommage-a-wa-mozart-ballpoint.html
So i am currently teaching students that have adhd and I understand that you have it also. What would your advice be for how to introduce bullet jorunalling for a middle/high schooler. Ie: how can I simplifier or give them basic collection ideas to get them into the idea. It's so difficult keeping kids motivated.
10:18 yeah, I was like "😀 wha-?" 'cause I re-started my bullet journal since I did it wrong, and missed a couple of days, and I was like "A-again? Re-start AGAIN?!"
I am definitely interested in the Android app- don't own an "i" anything and don't ever plan to. Well- maybe a Mac at some point for video and photo editing... but not my phone Thanks for sharing how to link between books. This is my first BuJo I'm working in- but I have lots of diaries which some of those have brainstorming for different things... threading is useful on so many levels.
I've come back to your videos to kind of reset my bujo, it's become unproductive for me, I think because I've strayed too far from the original system. I have a question though, what do you do with reoccurring tasks? Especially those that don't need to be done on a specific day, say something that needs to be done on a weekly or monthly basis but doesn't really matter when. I forget about them of they are not put somewhere in advance. :)
Love Bullet Journaling, but I want to minimize and get rid of all the stationary and old notebooks that I have. So my questions is: what to do with the BuJos when you're done? I'm thinking of scanning the pages and save them in Evernote/Dropbox. That way I still have access to the info/data/events if I want to, but don't have 20 notebooks laying around..
What would you recommend for someone that has a very busy/sporadic job like an executive assistant? Are there any other tricks and tips to manage an extremely heavy daily task load? Thank you!
Hi, Ryder, wanted to ask how different is the bullet journal from others that I have seen on the internet? I was considering buying yours but follow a TH-cam that uses calendars to fill in the pages?
I don't Bullet Journal, per se. I work from a home based calendar and hit list; using a pocket notebook of exerpted entries arranged daily (with a weekly overview). This gives me the ability to make changes, take notes, or plan ahead on the go. Then when I get back home, I take time to reconcile my notebook and plan a new day's strategy while relaxing with a hot tea.
Can you address in a video the "journaling" aspect of bullet journaling? I don't really understand how to make journaling (that is not so much planning) more of a part of my bujo. Thank you for all you do.
I need to stop wasting my time on other Bujo videos when I can come to the creator. I learn so much in the very short amount of time he presents the content.
They are all so annoying
Seriously! I just started the book, then went through a few TH-cam worm holes 🕳 and found some overwhelmingly unproductive ppl that are all over the place, but I guess that's their prerogative. Ryder simply hits it on the head.
Great video. My habit when I fall behind has been to write the date range for the days missed and then give perhaps one sentence of explanation for those days. "This weekend was crazy." or "We went backpacking." or "Couldn't keep up lately, but today's a new day." This gives me some closure on that "missed" journaling time so that I can move on without it hanging over my head. :-)
I think that is a great suggestion. Puts you in the time space without details. Thanks.
Lauren Scott that is an awesome idea! Gonna steal that. I can beat myself up over stupid little stuff.. so this is awesome
I love this!
Thanks!! It will make me less likely to beat myself up for "missing" days.
Sometimes I just write 'oops'
Index
0:31 Intro
1:26 Collections
3:47 Collection Example: Itinerary for Trip
4:31 Threading: **MAIN POINT**
5:27 Libraries of Bullet Journals: Using Indexes
8:04 Bullet Journal App
9:58 Missing entries
Feel free to suggest improvements to this Table
This was great, thank you
No need! Thank you!
wonderful, thanks for the timing setlist to the topics on the vid.
I am actually very grateful that you touched on what happens when life gets in the way. I didn’t think it was heavy at all. Specially in this day and age. I know you try to keep your videos very concise and to the point, so I just wanted to send you a heartfelt “thank you” for leaving that bit in there. It meant to a lot to me 🖤
M. KIRIN I second that emotion. 😉👍🏼
And I third it...?
wot a piece of snowflake crap!!! damn!!! i would say strap a pair but i think you'll have to be born again!
Thank You. Pinterest has so many 'pretty' bullet journals that I felt stopped before I even began. So thank you for making these videos so straight forward without calligraphic handwriting, and artwork. I am beginning...
If you skip some days in your Bullet Journal, just write "alien abduction" to cover the lost time.
I don't quite understand why anyone would stress about it!
Very cute Revelation Tim!! LOL :D
I'll try that - Haha!
So doing this. 👽
Watch some future archeologist find your old bullet journal count it as evidence for aliens 😂😂😂
I loved the "heavy" section where you said "you can't plan a perfect life". So true and so much wisdom. Love the Bullet Journal concept. I use it and thank you for it. Brilliant. 😊
Love the simpleness of your explanations, and the humility and humanity of the man who created AND made accessible such a great tool.
Aww, thank you so much for the love, Ryder! :) Threading is one of the simplest and most powerful techniques, I love it! Lovely and informative video, as always.
is it really you?
@@quetshupfa It is! :)
@@TinyRayofSunshine damn!! I love your techniques on BJ and ur website!!! please note I aint gay or anything like that! I'm a pure breed male
@@quetshupfa Thank you!
Hey Ryder I am totally happy that I did the research and have been Bullet Journaling since September 2022. I have been journaling since childhood; therapeutically as my parents were both deceased by the time I was ten. I was also a good student and have been learning organizational and productivity systems upon my first assigned project. I was looking for a way to minimize all the note books and find a way to "catalog' or archive the completed ones. It was also important to include, gratitude, daily praise reports and other personal but essential collections through out my days, weeks, months etc. I thank you for sharing your method and though I am not artistic I was so surprised to see some of the more artsy bullet journals looking very similar to mind. For example I always need three or more book marks so I've added a few; alsoI added fold out cards for a key and a statement of intention; and last I also added an extra expandable folder. Thank you so much. I am looking forward to seeing all that comes for this.
Just got into this and 10:38 is exactly why I never bothered with "organizers" or planners from the office store. This is amazing.
Bullet Journaling the first thing that worked for me in 58 years. Thank you!!! Now that I see what the app does, I'm definitely in line for the android version
Your words regarding the feeling of failure for not "planning my life" have come in perfect timing! Thanks one more time for your videos.
5:14 dat pen flip though. Teach me sensei
Check this out, another channel I watch did a tutorial. He does it with a Apple Pencil but it is the same. th-cam.com/video/TvytweSNkiE/w-d-xo.html
I can do that pen flip..learned in high school and have become a much cooler person since!
Thank you, Ryder. You are one of the best of us. Your journaling practice has made you so self-aware that you become so kind and humble. No sign of ADHD in your speech or behavior. You truly have mastered your ADHD and yourself. As if journaling as well has become a form of sacred meditation for you. (I meditate and journal as well. And both habits, although entirely different activities, give me almost the same if not complete the same sense of clarity and calmness other activities never gave me.) Happy Bullet Journaling. I am going to read your book once is arrives (I ordered online.) Keep up the good work.
The bit about the Bullet Journal "meeting you where you are" is why it's the only planning system I've managed to stick with for more than a couple months. I can miss a day, or a week, or a month and pick it up where I left off. I can try out new spreads and set ups, I've been keeping a bullet journal for a year and a half now and that's literally a lifetime record for me using an organizational system.
you can't just skip over that amazing pen flip at 5:14 like it was nothing.
I love that you created a flexible system for those of us who desperately want to be organized and couldn't make "traditional" methods work. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
I'm just getting started with BuJo. In fact I only ordered your book and the journal yesterday so not even in my little hands yet. I find your videos very helpful. I was resistant to BuJo because planners don't really work for me and being retired I don't need a workday planner. But I see this now as a way to keep my information together. I am overwhelmed with post-its and half filled journals on a variety of subjects. BuJo looks like a great way to keep all my information in one place so I can find it.
You have literally saved my ADHD ass! Me and my career & family thank you incredibly ❤
LOL this is the best testimonial. But truly, thank you for sharing that.
Thank you so much Ryder for inventing this system. I love the way you can make it your own. Start and stop when ever you want and still be there waiting for you when you want to start again. Xxx a big thank you for all your work. Xx jen x
I am watching because I like your voice and mechanical hand movements.
Why am I so obsessed with these things?!
I know right! Me too.
after so many trial and error, and frustration of missing out some days in those set templates journal, this idea has basically revolutionize the whole chaos. Thanks to Bujo, thanks to Ryder
Must watch for all #bujoaddicts. I was starting to feel bad that my notes and entries are so scattered... but threading solves the problem! Thanks Ryder!
9:59 - I want to say thanks to those who asking this question, I want to do journal and short diary log but with simple way (sorry to say, I hate planner book), I feel myself fail and pissed when see empty pages. "Life is unpredictable" , damn, I want to take this as my quote! Ryder, thank you for inventing Bullet Journal ! I even buy a cute cover A6 notebook as beginner after I watched your video, How to Bullet Journal
I set my bullet journal down well over a year ago. The "heavy" section just made me pick it back up. Thank you.
I agree completely with what you said about pre-templated formats. I have lost count of the number of diary's I have bought only to not use them! I think this approach will work so much better for me and how my brain works - I tend to think of so many things that I have to do and never have anywhere to write them down, or I lose them because I have scribbled on bits of paper or sticky notes. So simple. Love it.
NAMING YOUR BULLET JOURNAL
Season 24 Episode 12
The SEASON represents your AGE.
The EPISODE represents the MONTH.
For example:
It is May right now and I turn 25 in June. I am 24 years old. I have been 24 for 12 months. BOOM!
Season 24 - Episode 12
For some, this might be a little complicated for you... and THAT IS OK! I was just looking for more of a fun creative way to name my journals and then I will usually draw or paint something and paste it on the front and back cover. My life is exciting and eventful, so I try to portray that through my journal. Inside and out.
Collin Tobler that is an awesome idea! Thank you for sharing ^^
My Journal is called Alexandra...and I'm whether she might like being converted to a BUJO. Still pondering on this...😅
i thought u want to keep it secret
this is an awesome idea!
thank you for sharing
Very clever!
Thanks for all you've done for those that care about these things....unique and special group of us :). You Are Really Appreciated
Came for the bullet journalling info, stayed for this guy's voice and hands
11:22 *proceeds to add quote to my bullet journal* Thanks for the simple tips!
thank you for watching!
The bit at the end about skipping blank pages kinda moved me a bit. Thanks for sharing. And I do agree with the others down in the comments: This is the source, and I learned much more about what bullet journaling is here than at other TH-cam-channels. I guess a second thanks is in order. ;)
Next step up: library card system to keep track of your bullet journal subjects. I like to transfer my “ solid work info” being facts, procedures, agreements, manuals to my knowledge journal and have this as an seperate information bank. Also because I can lend in to my coworkers when I’m on vacation. It takes a little more work to transfer those things into “the red book”. But it’s on it’s way to be an all inclusive manual on how to do my job.
I LOVED THE STORY OF YOU CREATING THIS. AND THEN HELPING PEOPLE, AND DON'T OWNING THE IDEA, BUT LETTING EVERYONE USE THEIR OWN, JUST TO MAKE THEIR AND OUR LIFE BETTER. I'M JUST STARTING TO DO THIS. THANKYOU. ANOTHRE THING, YOU SHOULD BE IN THE VIDEOS FROM TIME TO TIME. YOU ARE CUTE AND YOU LOOK AS A VERY NICE PERSON. IT'S ALSO MAKES IT MORE HUMAN. HOW YOU HELPED THE WORLD AS YOU FOUND SOMETHING GOOD FOR YOU AND WANTED TO SHARE :)
I’m enjoying learning and trying to plan and journal I find a notebook with fixed pages that needs an index, threads, page no’s and that ends when the pages are full a show stopper. I try to create the system in my Filofax with much more flexibility. I think the the bullet journal ideas are useful but the form of the journal is form over function. Great if that’s what you want! Thanks for the videos.
Thank you for this. I'm trying it again. I've been carrying around my big planner. Too much! I'm trying you're way again. It's working so far. Thank you.
As someone who has their whole life shot from the hip, and now trying to organize themselves for future general manager position oh, thank you so much. I put off organizing I myself for so long because I didn't know where to start. I've only watched it 2 videos, and all apprehension is gone. Excitement has replaced it. Thank you so much.
Hello! You came to me via YT as a “recommendation”-who knew someone (and a MAN) had as many journals as me!! *heehee. Thank you so much for your video!!! I’ve always wondered how I was going to organize the chaotic timeline and subjects between them all, and you’ve solved this +decade-old burden for me in less than 10mins!!! I’m SOOO excited about returning to my history to create my Index and Threads!!! 😁 -ja
I am 1 month and 6 days into BuJo and find it to be an amazing tool. I have increased productivity and decreased stress with BuJo. One question (if you are still following comments on this video) . . . in a new Bullet Journal Edition 2 with 206 numbered pages, on what page should you start your first collection to give enough room for the daily logs that are in the front of the journal. I realize it doesn't necessarily matter, but it seems to make sense to have the daily logs in the front of the journal and the collections towards the back. The guides say to turn to your next clean spread to start a collection, but it seems confusing to have a collection start on page 8 when your daily logs are on page 7 and continue to page 9.
Hi Ryder, thanks for creating the Bullet Journal method. It made an enormous difference for me in being better organized, getting more done, and most importantly ... at the end of the year understanding why I was so busy and how many responsibilities got in the way of reaching my goals. That made it possible to then decide how to proceed, and how many things to continue to allow to get in the way, or to set more reachable parts of goals to work toward the goal.I used to feel frustrated and like I was wasting lots of years. Now I have a visual record that enables me to understand that I am tackling things all the time and handling them, so the self judgment voice became a tiny whisper, and the bullet journal awareness made that possible. Thanks.
Why don't you add a number to your books now? Just add in a different colored number on the page side near the date??
Happy Holidays! Look at the enormity of the Bullet Journaling community you've created!
Elizabeth
10:43 I missed almost two months. When I wanted to come back I start dreading and became anxious about it. There´s no rational reason for it though, just couldn't control it. So I opened my google photos and started kind of a monthly log, but put only the dates I had something to add, just like this was quickly done and I felt better to register a couple of hard times with good things in between.
I love this suggestion. Sometimes the phantom of the days we missed looms so large - using your Google Photos was a great way to get around it
I am back to bullet journaling again. Really enjoying it. Thanks for the work you have put into all of this.
A real-life linked list for all the programmers and engineers out there!
This is how I described it in my notes while watching. :)
a doubly-linked list :-) (sorry, I’m just now discovering “bujo”)
I’ve loved the bullet journal the moment I learned of it. It’s helped immensely in my time and task management. And even memory (I sometimes refer to it as my external RAM). So, thank you for creating this video series!! I’ve learned something new in each, which makes the journal that much more powerful. Threading is a great idea I will start using. Though, I’m note sure that’ll work between notebooks for me. Like a passwords collection. Knowing what page it’s on in the notebook I left at home doesn’t work, so I find myself flipping the new journal upside down and recreating all the collections in the back. Passwords, company RGB codes, loan payment progress, etc.
Though, if you get a chance, I’d love to hear any advice you have on daily time tracking. At work I need to track how long I spend on each activity. Some days I work on one project and others 15. And I may bounce between the same activities, which makes a train of time stamps that I forcibly squish on one line (or two rows on a line).
For instance, I’ll begin project 1 [8:00 - 10:00] then project 2 [10:00 - 11:00] on the next line. Then I bounce back to project 1 [11:00 - 12:00].
Project 1 [8:00 - 9:00][11:00 - 12:00][1:00 - 3:00][4:00 - 5:00] etc.
By the end of the day my little time stamps from project 1 reach the end of the line and have nowhere to go since project 2 is on the next line.
If you have any ideas on a more efficient way to capture that, I would be very grateful. And again, thank you very much for these videos. And if you read all the way through this wordy comment, thank you for that as well 😊
This is one of the best parts of bujo IMO, and I wish more people talked about it. Already starting to get a tiny bit scared of what my index will look like when I'm on bujo 10 and have collections that span across all 10 of them lol but I'm sure I'll figure out a solution to that as well (a collection to index my long-term collections? A bujo specifically for long-term collections? A reference bujo to index all of the things? who knows lol)
It's an exciting and also can be somewhat scary when you think of it in big scale!! Hopefully when you migrate into new notebooks, you are taking the collections that are really important to you, that you actively use. And then, yes, making sure you know if there are notes you need to reference in past notebooks!
5:13 cool pen flip!!
Thank you！！Thank you！！Thank you！！Thank you！！Thank you！！Thank you！！Thank you！！Thank you！！Thank you！！Thank you！！Thank you！！Thank you！！Thank you！！Thank you！！Thank you！！ Your bullet Journal is sooooo wonderful. I love it, so much simpler than my old planner.
I would love to see a flip through of the collection you have/your favorite collections!
future historians are gonna be freaking ECSTATIC about bullet journalling! current historians love finding people's diaries and love going through all the seemingly mundane everyday slog, but it's a treasure trove of understanding everyday life in past time periods.
Pick up where you left off... bullet journaling is not about being perfect it's about being human ... figuring out what that means one day at a time. Profoundly simple and meaningful advice to a fellow ADD and a Dyslexic, me, I thank you for this.
Thank you for these videos! I have a question. If you don't rewrite the monthly tasks into a daily log, how do you schedule them so you'll do them?
You're very welcome. Hmm. When tasks get migrated into the Monthly Log, it means that it's important enough that you will need to do it at some point during the month. I suggest using your Weekly Ritual to review not only the week previous, but also the Monthly Log so you can pull forward tasks that have become relevant to that coming week. Then those get pulled into the day you will dedicate to completing that task. Does that make sense?
I am implementing journaling with index and threading in several medical labs where we work as providers. They have liked it.
Hi Ryder, thanks for the video. Just wondering, which pen you are using in this video?
Thank you for this! I've been struggling with my bullet journaling because life does get in the way, and your last tip is a game changer!
Kim@TinyRayOfSunshine, this was clearly for you! Congrats 👍🏼😊
I'm still trying to finish my personal development book from last year, but I'm just still writing it in the old notebook. lol. I wish it was easier to just move into the new one for me, but I hate wasting space!
Thank you for this! I'm about to move into my second journal and.... I missed half of September because...life! Btw I find your voice is very soothing.
11:13 I'm going back and forth between daily and weekly logs, depending upon need. That means some weeks I have only one page for 7 days. If it works it works!
I likes the system"Bullet Journal" you created.Although I didn't follow all the rules of bullet journalling I learned,I makes a good use of it ,and indeed gained a lot of ideas,inspirations,creativity from it.Thanks a lot!
(plz ignore the grammatical errors >
THANK YOU for this video!! I finally understood threading properly haha! You can tell it's my 1st BuJo 🙏🏻
After watching the first few vids, the books makes more sense. Great book, thanks for writing it.
Brilliant. Thank you! This was a weak spot in my note taking!
Suggestion: Warning: more work involved. But it would be great if you could zoom in tighter on shots that involve you writing in your BuJo. It is really hard to see what you are putting down. Maybe an on-screen image of the actual text you are writing. Even on a large monitor, I just cannot read what you write. Thank you so much for these videos and for all this work. I love it and help point others to it whenever I can.
What you call threading is what in software development is called a "Double Linked List". I'm guessing that the developer who suggested it has used at least one old school language. Good application of a computing technique to a paper problem.
This index is so powerful for a SpEd teacher’s anecdotal notes captured in one place!
Very inspiring to see your collection!! Thank you!!!
Thanks for the explanation on threading!! I get it now. Life does get busy and sometimes the whole week goes by and I don't do a daily. Oh well, I start fresh and move on to the next day. I think this year that I will only do each day as it comes and then I won't have wasted space for a day or two I wasn't able to work on. Less wasted pages that way. Thanks again and Happy New Year 2019!
It is not about perfection and that is why it is engaging! :)
5:15 You just sold me the pen. =)
It's so funny, because he got me too. I paused the video in this exact moment to search for a pen for my new bullet journal =D
I noticed too. www.montblanc.com/en-us/ballpoint-pens_cod34480784411808558.html
At 7:13, early journals not having numbers: could you go back using negative numbers? So your first numbered journal is Bujo #1, and the one just before that is Bujo #0, and the one just before #0 is # -1, and then -2 and so on. Like how we number years, 400 BC.
that's a creative way to solve the problem! I think you could give it a shot!
Hi Ryder! First of - thanks for creating and sharing such a passion-driven and ingenious DIY product! I just started off with my Bullet Journal, and hence, also following and comprehending all your videos and blogs. However, so far I could not find an answer to this line of questions: What Mont Blanc pen model are you showing in this video? And besides the obvious differences in terms of craft-ship, material quality and brand reputation that characterize Mont Blanc pens, how does the writing, grab & feel compare to e.g. a simple Farber-Castell PITT artist pen? Thanks a lot in advance for your response and keep up the great work!
I’d love to know how you use the three ribbons sometime! Thanks for this awesome, easy system!
Elizabeth Hasseries hi. I put one on my index, another one in my future log and the last one on the day I’m leaving. 🥰
A quick questions. This only seems to reference a collection you have written in the past. For example you have a collection on 15, 30, 90. On page 30 you write 30 | 15 and on page 90 you write 90 | 30. But when you are on page 15 and you want to know where the rest of the collection is. Do you then read the index? Or how do you reference a page that is in the "future"?
That subtle Lord of the Rings reference... ;)
A collection to bind them all 3:08 glad I'm not the only one paying attention to the important parts ;-)
Yeah. I laughed. Hard. 😂 I love LotR man. I read the books like 3 times and im now watching the films.
Love your talking hands :)
Hey Ryder, I use the Daily Log to take daily meeting notes for the various projects I’m working on. Do you have a suggested approach for grouping those notes inside the Daily Log? I.e. Titles or just a note bullet with an indented sub note bullet, tasks and events underneath?
This is great content! Do you organize your notes for classes in your bujo or a different notebook that is organized in a similar fashion?
maybe we'll have to talk about this in another video 🤔
There's something about collections which confusing to me still, do we give one whole page to a collection and everyday at night check up we migrate thosectype of daily logs to that page(s) ? Or do we just make a section on daily log for a collection and only add the pages of days we have written something on thise boxes in the index ... Overall as a beginner the matter of collections is complicated to me, also do we only keep track of collections on index and avoid adding pages of daily logs ?
5:14 Spins his pen like a BuJo Ninja.
Great idea. Thank you
You should read the section of Memory Management and File Management of an operating system book like, Operating System of William Stallings, inside there's some techniques for organaze data and reducing "fragmentation" and optimize the use of "space" in this case of pages. Your solution of using a node structure with pointer is very efficient but in a computer "jump" from pointer to pointer works well because is the computer that jump, an human is slow for do high number of jump, and that will be happen with a large collections. I think that technique could be refine mixing some pre-allocation routine, pre-formatting routine and prevision routine.
So incredibly useful! Thank you.
Terrific once again. What pen are you writing with?
Curious about it too
Looks like a mont blanc to me, but I'm not sure
Laura Grube it is a Montblanc indeed but I couldn’t identify the series
Khalil Santarém yeah. I couldn't either.
I looked after it and here is the link to the montblanc site with the pen Ryder seems to use. www.montblanc.com/en-us/collection/writing-instruments/meisterstueck/108749-meisterstueck-platinum-line-hommage-a-wa-mozart-ballpoint.html
So i am currently teaching students that have adhd and I understand that you have it also. What would your advice be for how to introduce bullet jorunalling for a middle/high schooler. Ie: how can I simplifier or give them basic collection ideas to get them into the idea. It's so difficult keeping kids motivated.
Love that pen! what kind is it?
Looks like a Mont Blanc
Related Works: check out the index in the second volume of "Mastering the Art of French Cooking." It comprises the index from both volumes!
What is the best *pen for long-term journalling? Criteria - handles good - no bleeding - smooth write - not so cheap but not a Montblanc?
Just downloaded the app! It’s awesome
10:18 yeah, I was like "😀 wha-?" 'cause I re-started my bullet journal since I did it wrong, and missed a couple of days, and I was like "A-again? Re-start AGAIN?!"
Gracias a este señor, estoy aprendiendo más inglés que nunca (?
Thank you. Perfect explanation as usual.
I am definitely interested in the Android app- don't own an "i" anything and don't ever plan to. Well- maybe a Mac at some point for video and photo editing... but not my phone
Thanks for sharing how to link between books. This is my first BuJo I'm working in- but I have lots of diaries which some of those have brainstorming for different things... threading is useful on so many levels.
I've come back to your videos to kind of reset my bujo, it's become unproductive for me, I think because I've strayed too far from the original system. I have a question though, what do you do with reoccurring tasks? Especially those that don't need to be done on a specific day, say something that needs to be done on a weekly or monthly basis but doesn't really matter when. I forget about them of they are not put somewhere in advance. :)
Chadras Coples Tickler file? I've not heard of that before 😂😂
emma williams a lot of people create "tracker grids" where you list the recurring tasks on the vertical axis, and the dates on the horizontal axis.
emma williams www.tinyrayofsunshine.com/blog/recurring-tasks
Thanks x
💡 Now I now where you store your pen !
Love Bullet Journaling, but I want to minimize and get rid of all the stationary and old notebooks that I have. So my questions is: what to do with the BuJos when you're done? I'm thinking of scanning the pages and save them in Evernote/Dropbox. That way I still have access to the info/data/events if I want to, but don't have 20 notebooks laying around..
Opal River Thank you. I hear you. I have so many notebooks laying around, it's ridiculous. I'm sure it would feel very freeing for me
What would you recommend for someone that has a very busy/sporadic job like an executive assistant? Are there any other tricks and tips to manage an extremely heavy daily task load? Thank you!
Hi, Ryder, wanted to ask how different is the bullet journal from others that I have seen on the internet? I was considering buying yours but follow a TH-cam that uses calendars to fill in the pages?
I don't Bullet Journal, per se. I work from a home based calendar and hit list; using a pocket notebook of exerpted entries arranged daily (with a weekly overview). This gives me the ability to make changes, take notes, or plan ahead on the go. Then when I get back home, I take time to reconcile my notebook and plan a new day's strategy while relaxing with a hot tea.
Can you address in a video the "journaling" aspect of bullet journaling? I don't really understand how to make journaling (that is not so much planning) more of a part of my bujo. Thank you for all you do.