I usually meet and surpass my target of 52 books per year but 2024 was quite challenging (You will understand when you see the last three books on the list). I'm planning to scale down my reading goals for 2025 to 24. My recent endeavor really threw a monkey wrench on my reading routine.

Do any of you keep track of your work mileage in your bujo? How do you do it?

I first fill in the left hand page of mandatory tasks such as appointments and due dates for paperwork or whatever other non negotiable thing I have going on. Then on the right hand side I list tasks that are not part of my weekly routine. Things that need to be done that are not normal weekly housework. It could be a monthly housework task or a task related to a project I have to work on, a form that needs to be filled out or anything at all that needs to be done that doesn't have a regular weekly space already. Then after making the "to do" list, I put small circles on the day I want to accomplish the task and look at the left side of the page to make sure I will have time to do the task on that day. I look at the to do list circles and make sure not too many fall on the same day, or try to group like tasks together like if I have to write several emails, I may list those for the same day. Then when the task is completed I put an x through the circle. If the day gets away from me, I make an arrow and put the circle on a new day that I hopefully have time to do that item. I have a big family, and adhd to boot. So this helps tremendously in remembering things for everyone's sake.

Beginner here. I'm planning my first log book.

I wonder if colouring every other row/column have a "name"?

I sometimes see it in habit trackers but I want some colour inspiration/marker suggestion. I want to search for this "grid-design" specifically. Any ideas what I can search for? 🙏

One of my favorite spreads to start a new journal. Super helpful and highly recommend.

I'm new to bullet journaling and have learned from YouTube tutorials that you can include anything in your bullet journal. However, I'm facing an issue with this concept. I want to incorporate my college notes into my bujo, but I'm unsure how to keep my daily logs and my notes separate.

After a class, I would like to add some notes, but I'm concerned about where to place them. Should I insert them right in the middle of my daily log? I worry that this could clutter my daily logs. If I try to estimate where my daily log would end and then add my college notes from that point, it becomes tricky because my daily logging can vary. Some days it takes only a page, while other days it can take up to three pages.

I would appreciate any help regarding this issue.

After wracking my brains this Christmas, it occurred to me that in my new journal I could have a page to jot down present ideas for people.

Has anyone done this? Did it work? What did your spread look like?

Last year’s notebook (left) was the Leuchtturm1917 Notebook Classic. This year, I opted for the 120G Edition (right).

Made a simple digital bujo for my supernote. Months, calendar days, and overview are linked. It's a slight modification from the one I've been using this year. Not sure how well it'll translate to other devices but thought a couple of you might like

Link herehttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1drqq-mH8dyeDsrfGKT_04L1wg8JCOzUv/view?usp=drivesdk

So last year I made a new kind of future log layout for the first time (last slide) and now for 2025 I did it very similarly, yet I upgraded it (imo). What I found when using the 2024 one was that even though I really like the horizontal layout as I tend to write everything down in lists, it still got kind of messy order-wise when i added new events and the dates and everything got completely out of order. Now, I’ve changed it up by putting things in their own categories, which then naturally makes it more organized. There will of course still be some non-chronological things here and there when they get added after other ones, but still, less so than before. I also added a nice introduction page for 2025, the Year of the Snake.

My Christmas is busy this year and I still have so much to do! But at least my Christmas BUJO spreads should help! What do your Christmas entries look like?

Hey so I bought a spiral journal this time because I felt that if I stick thinks inside and the book becomes bulky I don't want the threads to snap and the pages come off as it does in composition. Now I'm that person that does want colour and aesthetics in my journal but I've never seen spread done on spiral journals. So if anybody does have a spiral journal could you drop pictures of your spread and how you plan the layout and stuff. Also mines a dotted b5 journal. Thnx

Sharing my journal goals because I have grown tired of trying to make my bujo look perfect… I want it to be a place to empty my brain and keep my life in order.

Hope this helps anyone! It helped me just writing it out! ☺️

If anything, what would you add to the original BuJo? I’m getting ready to start a new one and finally found success with the original method. I have reached the point where I’m considering other layouts with a similar level of simplicity.

Recently caught onto Bujo, and I do like the idea.
Although I mainly use Capacities and Notion (Click-Up for side gig with my team) and Office365 for my day job).

Anyone in here use the bullet method with online note takers?

I havent figured out how I could use symbols, in Capacities I have a daily note always open. I can timestamp and make a note very easily, but when I try to use '>' its a toggle, bullets are fine of course, but other symbols and the app is always trying to do some sort of formatting.

Does anyone else set up their planner in quarters? I have to pages where I added a little calendar showing three months at a glance on the left side and then on the right side are my goals and milestones per month and four habits I want to concentrate on during those three months. The next two pages are for the habits for three months and then I start layouting the monthly spreads. Has anyone a similar System and what other spreads do you incorporate?

I’m looking for my 2025 planner/bujo and coming up short. I was wondering if maybe someone here has a suggestion!

The past few years, I’ve used a simple dot grid notebook for all my planning. I love the flexibility of the empty pages! My schedule changed this past year, though, and I don’t have the time I used to to set it up each month. This year, I’m looking for a simply monthly planner - has two pages of a full spread calendar each month - with maybe 8 or so dot grid pages between each month. That’s it. And I can’t find one anywhere!!

Do you all know if such a unicorn exists? If someone could point me in that direction, I’d be so grateful! Spiral bound and 120 gsm paper also important bonuses.

Thank you in advance! And if you have any other suggestions for a more streamlined monthly bujo set up, I’m open to those, too!

How do you manage things like "I go to the gym every Monday" with the calendex method? 1. Do you write your recurring task in one place in the bujo and write the same page number multiple times in the calendex? 2. Do you write a list for the task with the days and then write the page numbers multiple times in the calendex? 3. Do you have something like a future log and put the tasks on the future log and then write the page number of the future log in the calendex? Or something else?

I was diagnosed with ADD this year and was advised to start journaling, I began by digital journaling, but soon miserably failed due to being distracted by the screen... Soon I found videos about BUJO which caught my attention, especially how simple, and engaging it was. I went ahead and bought a Planner Notebook (Which is named Agenda in some regions) So I could spare writing down daily dates, but soon realised that it defeats the purpose of BUJO. Unfortunately, I cannot return the Agenda. So I'm stuck between multiple choices.

1- disregard the written dates and treat it like a notebook.

2- follow the dates stated in the agenda.

3- Buy a clear notebook.

Trying to get set up a yearly tracker for next year.

Not sure what all I want on here and how to mark them all. I want to be able to have some overlap of categories. Appointments/events I'm thinking will be colours and symptoms/similar will be symbols. I may have to designate each square into four sections idk yet.

Suggestions welcome for anything to track or how to track.

Hi I’m still pretty new to this (started in mid-Nov). Thought I could get some good advice here on my question please.

So far I’ve been working on my bujo consistently. But then I had a very low mood day yesterday (actually including the 2 days prior), and it felt almost like I created an empty gap/ lost my track of journaling.

I guess my question is: for those who have similar mood swings or mental struggles from time to time, how do you “stay in the loop”? What are some advice to “recover” from those days?

TIA!

Edit: my notes are still quite oriented on to-dos and task planning, with some notes on past events. Perhaps i need to change this.

Looking for recommendations for a dotted, hardback notebook, sized A5

The one that I currently use is 120gsm but I have major issues with ghosting. I mostly used colour pencils throughout and an issue that I had was that when writing in further pages, the colour would transfer; so I'm looking to move onto coloured pens. But given that I've had ghosting issues with just a biro pen and bleed through on the minimal pens I have been using, I'm looking for a upgrade moving forward

So I am getting to the end of my first BuJo, conveniently just in time for new year. Some things I am bringing forward from my old journal, the Future Log, ‘Someday’ and ‘suggestions’ sections for example, and the ‘key’ is finally going to be accurate (yay!).

What have people found useful in theirs? Should i have a section on annual goals/new year’s resolutions? Should I copy across things I refer to like addresses?

Any ideas / ideas for layouts welcome. I normally have a weekly spread instead of monthly and/or daily ones if that makes a difference.