How I Bullet Journal Using the OG BuJo Method
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- Hey everyone! Thanks for being so patient - I'm back with a brand-new video! I've been into #bulletjournalling since February, and I'm excited to share how I've been using Ryder Carroll's original #bujo method. It's been a game-changer for organizing my life, and I can't wait to show you how it's working for me. Let's dive in!
✨ CHAPTERS ✨
0:50 How I started bullet journaling
2:45 BuJo in a Stalogy B6
14:43 BuJo in the Bullet Journal Stealth Edition Notebook (Leuchtturm A5)
22:27 Outro
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The amount of aesthetic or art based bullet journal videos versus functional/low maintenance drives me UP A WALL! Been seriously considering starting my own channel to help build the functional bujo/planner community so I’m so excited to find your videos!
@@katlero28 yes please push those videos out! We need more OG bujo content. And thank you so much for your kind words. I hope you consider setting up a channel and sharing your bujo experience! Will definitely watch and follow you. 😊
These kinds of trad bujo spreads are usually described as minimal of that helps your searching.
@@syddlinden8966 I've tried using the term "minimal", but it still shows drawn up, aesthetic bujos but the difference is that there's less artsy/drawing layouts.
I love a functional bullet journal! So fun seeing what goes on in a planner’s mind… how one plans and pivots/changes layouts, etc. When I start watching a “plan with me” video and the person takes so much time just describing stickers and shops and washi etc, I feel like I want to cry. So glad I found you here!
@@pinayknitter Hello hello! I always see you liking my IG posts...thank you! ❤️❤️ haha I am also annoyed at flip videos where it's like 8mins in the video and it's only just a litany of shop names of all the deco. 🤣 It's also why I don't watch PWM videos. 😅😅😅
This is why I love the OG bujo: there's always room to experiment with layouts and sections without having to abandon the book. I'm happy that was your takeaway as it was also one of my intentions. Thank you so much!!
Like you, I’ve had trouble finding content that shows the official method. Thank you for sharing!
@@Coley31 Thanks for watching! There really should be more content on the OG method. It took me a while to find them. The decorative ones still overpower the OG method, but the ones that are available are extremely helpful!
Thank you for sharing a minimal/functional way of bullet journaling. Contentment is the goal!
@@BlushnBlue I appreciate your comment, and you are so right; contentment is happiness. 😊
Bullet Journal changed my life forever. I have been implementing this method for years.
@@PatyLavir I'm always in awe of people whose lives are changed by this method. It's such a great system!
I watched your video because I wanted to discover what "OG" means. I stayed for the refresher. Loved it. Thank you.
@@mygoldennotebook2191 thanks so much for watching!
Thank you so much for sharing a real-life, no-frills bullet journal!
@@giuliaplans27 thank you for your kind words. ❤️
I loved LOVED this video ❤. The OG bullet journal method should be more known to the general audience.
@@roheryn So true! We need more content to tweak the algorithm. Thanks for being here!
It was really fascinating to see how your practice of bullet journaling changed over time. Great video! Thanks for sharing! New subscriber 😊
Thank you so much! I'm such a fan of your channel. 💖
I’m not a bullet journaler (never managed to keep up with it) but this video is so needed for the BUJO community. Your books are so lived in and you can tell it’s working so well for you ❤
@@Jojournals90 thank you so much, that means a lot to me! May I ask if you are using any planner system? Curious to know if something else works well for you.
@@thestationeryjunkie I’m using the hobonichi cousin as my main book, and a travelers notebook as a companion for extra space. I have videos on my channel of my system if you wanted to peruse. Xx
love love love!!!
I love this!! A much needed video on bujo. There is a big difference between drawing a planner in a dotted notebook and using the bujo method. You highlighted this so well while allowing room for all opinions.
@@MomofCurt Thank you for your thoughtful comment. That was the intention for this video. ❤️
Your videos are really healing~ I love watching your videos and I can watch them for a long time!☺
@@ABCLife693 thanks so much! You made my day! ❤️
this is an awesome version of the OG method
@@makaylar.mr.23 thank you! 😍
I needed this video. I really struggled with bullet journaling in the past because I was also introduced to bujos by TH-cam, and the need to be "aesthetic" and creative on every page created so much contempt with planning and journaling. I've started planning how I'm going to plan (inception!) to make sure I'm more intentional with what works for me.
@@extraneousnaz @extraneousnaz that's great! I've always been an advocate of this method for its intentionnand purpose. When you know your "why", the aesthetics don't really matter. Planning how to approach planning is a great way to put your needs first. ❤️
I'm planning to try the trad method in coming years to fill up notebooks I bought ages ago and use up pens i need to de-stash, and this was a wonderful look at what dailies can be. Thanks for sharing! Your minimal method is also really really aesthetically pleasing and easy to parse on review at end of week or month.
Thank you! I never really considered my bujo as aesthetic, but I am glad you think it is. 🙂
Very helpful! Thanks for sharing
@@Kerisdiary thanks so much!
I absolutely love how you broke down the bujo method. Maybe I just haven’t seen it but could you please make an in depth video of how you utilize and set up your Alastair method?
I did a video on how I set up my bujo to a new month. I talked about how I set up the Alastair method in there. I hope that's useful. I appreciate you taking the time to watch the video. I'm planning on doing a flip-through of this bujo because I already finished the notebook. ☺
You had me at "Ayaw ni Tomas ng paulit-ulit" Great video and thanks for sharing!
@@ishabol haha omg you saw! 😅 thanks for watching!
I really enjoyed this video. I am on the minimalist bullet journal side of things. I like writing. Looking forward to next years. This was my first Full Year 2024 of doing the Bujo Method. and I really enjoyed it. Lets say its January(2025) say in 4 Months time (May 2025) an appointment or event-something to do later. Do you add that to the future log, then when you set up (May 2025) you add it from the Future Log into that Monthly Log? Im not 100% sure if thats the correct way or not, but I feel like it is? Either way thank you so much for this video. I really enjoyed it. Saved it again for when I go to set up My 2025 Book. But I am mostly trying to go the Original way- I do have a sleep tracker which I try to stay up with as well as some other mini trackers I piggy back off of. But again Thank you for taking the time to make the video. Best Minimal Basic Bullet Journal approach I've seen.
@@ThinKtakeNotes Thank you so much! ❤️ Regarding your question, you're correct. I will keep the May appointment in the future log, then move it to the monthly log when I set up the month of May. I'm glad this video helped you! I also love the original method as I don't have the time to draw things out. It's also my 1st full year using this method and it has helped declutter my brain. I'm glad to see a fellow OG bullet journaler!
@@thestationeryjunkie Yea i loved it! Looking more into the Alastair method, which I think i kind of used but didn't know it had a name. another Daily system which I like is the ugMonk index system... i use it for like "taking my bujo day" on a index card -- I don't really like my bullet journal leaving the house unless I am going away for a little while. Its pricey so I just made a diy one with some scrap wood, but the Daily Index is what I call it. Its like a task list on the go. I have the Bullet Journal Method book, and i really enjoyed it, I read in February of this year and was Introduced to Bujo last July and started in a Drawing Book collecting dust, now its a Keepsake.
@ThinKtakeNotes Interesting! So do you still keep your bujo at home and have that portable task list with you? I take mine everywhere even if it's an A5 book. It can be a hassle but it's like my security blanket. 😅
@@thestationeryjunkie I just watched your video again LOL. I love the Basic approach. I like writing so im not big on the all the Drawing and Designing. I treat it like a captains log. My book is an A5 and it sits on my wall easel and its the first thing I grab when I get up in the morning and the last thing I touch when i 'shut down' and go to bed. I usually lay out my weeks in advance, but the original Monthly Log with the numbers down the side (i did other 'Designs' which I didn't really use it other than to look at.) I like so much better as I can add tasks/events that are coming up. And going back through it and adding to it. Before I used to have the week/days laid out in advance and I could fill them in, but I would have some days with not a lot going on, and like you the Empty Spots in the book kinda bug me a bit.. I like full pages. So filling it out as the day goes on, or when I get home to use it as a catchall. I don't have as many tasks as you though lol.
So when I am out i don't really like carrying stuff that can't fit into my pocket. So i like to have index cards I can scratch write in them as necessary a lot of times its something from a podcast, or a quote from a book I saw in a store or just something that stuck in my mind. Then when I get home ill transfer what matters into the Bujo. Big believer in writing to declutter the mind. Why I love 'Artists Way: Morning Pages' Free up the clutter to create more space for creativity.
@ThinKtakeNotes I love how you refer to your bujo as the captain's log! Looove. Have you thought about carrying a pocket notebook? Curious how you keep those index cards together..
Can you share where you got the monthly decorative pages in the first journal?
@@csprays264 Those are freebie vellums from Sterling Ink. You can get them by signing up for her newsletter. She shares them every month. 😊
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@@wahinepaddler4 thanks so much! 😍😍
I love the rolling weekly! Although at the moment I don't have enough going on that I need to use it, but for a specific busy year it was essential. The video that helped reconnect with the intention I wanted for my bullet journal was this: th-cam.com/video/mIy5RnDuIGk/w-d-xo.html
@@mishfortunes The rolling weekly is something I cannot do without. It's more for "dumping" the tasks swimming in my head. It's very cathartic to put them all on paper. Thanks for sharing that video! There are so many insights in there! 😍😍
Unfortunately, what you've called the "Index" isn't actually the index, it's the Table of Contents - or Contents - for short. The Index goes at the back of a book with a list of topics / themes / key words and the relevant page numbers where that particular topic can be found withing the book. I think this was an error that was in the original bullet journal and sadly almost everyone seems to have copied it exactly.
@@princelanguages8924 I'm merely following what's written in the official notebook. Most in the bujo community and even Ryder calls it an index. The TOC like in regular books already state the location of the content, but the index, to me, is a WIP list--you build it up over time as you write on the notebook. Anyway, it's what the community calls it. 😅 I didn't invent it. 😅😅😅
I know this comment is a few months old, but I just wanted to mention that the bullet journal index has been named specifically because it functions in the same way an index in a book would, even though its placement is at the front. Similar to a book index, a bullet journal index will list out every instance of a collection within the journal. For instance, if you start a list of books you want to read on page 24, but then run out of space and continue it on page 56, then your bullet journal index would list this as "Reading list - 24, 56". A table of contents on the other hand lists every page/section in the order they're found in a book. Hope that makes sense! 😊