11 Ways to Fill Your Notebooks 💭

Are you obsessed with collecting notebooks like I am? Here are 11 ideas for filling your notebooks & journals to document your life and express your creativity.

// 11 Ways to Fill Your Notebooks

1. Stream of Consciousness Writing
2. Bedside Journal: brain dump before bed
3. Monthly Highlights
4. Gratitude / Joy / Success Journal
5. Current Me v. Future Me
6. Doodles & Sketches
7. Poetry / Songwriting
8. Travel Journal
9. Notes from Learning
10. Planning & Scheming
11. Free form journal (to make a mess in)

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Filmed & Edited by Aileen Xu

// M A I L B O X

Aileen Xu
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Brea, CA 92822

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// A B O U T

I’m Aileen, a lifestyle blogger sharing knowledge and inspiration on creating your dream life.

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[simrinkullar]

Who else has a collection of notebooks, but is too scared to write in it and mess it up 😂

[libraryofthelabyrinth]

Youre so organized! I literally just dump everything in one book 😂

[BibiRamos]

I love how your journals are simple, just a pen and without all those fancy writing and over decorated journals I usually see online and demotivate me because I feel like I 'll never have a journal that beautiful. I mean, your journals look just like mine (and all of us, mortals) and I love that :)

[ASMRconKiki]

I thought I was the only one who had endless journals for different topics! I always feel so guilty when I get a new one... but I'm addicted to journals!

[joyrowancasey]

1. Stream of consciousness - morning pages
2. Bedside journal - braindump before bed
3. Monthly highlights
4. Gratitude, Joy, and Success journal
5. Current me Vs future me
6. Doodles and sketches
7. Poetry, songwriting, chord progressions, melodies
8. Travel journal
9. Note taking for online classes and tutorials
10. Planning and scheming
11. Free form art

[EveKoivulan]

If I had this many notebooks, I would need one more just to keep track which is which :D

[kaitlynsky]

lmao if i did stream of consciousness journalling it'd just be profanity after profanity

[novakate]

I always had tons of notebooks but never ended using up all of them! Maybe I'll start journaling- I hear it's really helpful

[justineleconte]

Such a pretty, useful and inspiring video - thank you! I have 4 different journals: travel memories (+ shoe boxes full of tickets, city maps and flyers from everywhere I have been), to do's and operative stuff, creative journal, learning journal.

[mangoawayjk]

I have this problem where I keep buying pretty notebooks because I promise myself that I'm actually gonna use it but I end up not using it because it's too pretty! >.< I really love the idea of the gratitude, joy, and success journal though, so I'm gonna start doing that

[laluna]

i admire the way you write spontaneously, and the layouts are kept simple and effortless, so you could really focus on the flow of thoughts instead. on most days, my journal is a mess of thoughts, art, to-do's, vents, and plans 😂 maybe i should separate them as well. thanks 💕

[AvaElizabeth]

This was such a unique video idea! I need to organize my journals and scrap notes better! 😆

[ladlelee]

1.) stream of consciousness (0:14)
- every morning you just write what goes in your head; don’t filter it
2.) bedside journal (0:33)
- brain dump emotions, ideas, etc before you go to bed
3.) monthly highlights (0:47)
- a recap of each month; people that i saw, places i went
4.) gratitude/joy/success journal (1:01)
- at least once a week; small victories, etc
5.) current me vs future (1:16)
- on one side you draw yourself as you are now, your traits, things like that; on the other side you draw an idealized version of yourself, who you want to be
6.) doodles & sketches (1:35)
- self explanatory
7.) poetry & songwriting (1:46)
- chord progressions, ideas i got from melodies
8.) travel journal (2:06)
- you can keep things like receipts you got when you went to another country, all the cities u’ve visited when you went to that country
9.) notes for learning
- when you take online tutorials
10.) planning & scheming (2:52)
- mind maps, any creative projects you have
11.) free form journal (3:35)
- random free forming art, throw up on the page, do anything

[rockayafawaz]

Who else when they start writing in a notebook they use some nice handwriting but at the end it’s a total hot mess

[fatimah]

Writing "How to fill notebooks" in a notebook.

[therealgowon]

OMG YES MORE ORGANIZED PEOPLE I CAN FOLLOW YES FEED ME




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[Kat]

The aesthetic of you and muchelleb 's videos give me life!!

[emamyzun]

I'm thinking of putting all these ideas in one notebook😂

[itsMirandaGarcia]

Your videos are so inspirational and beautiful! I absolutely love your journal ideas!

[kajalspandey]

I have a evening journaling for gratitude/appreciation, my regular journal for all my thoughts, emotions, q&a, and conscious stream of writing and then I have my bullet journal for all my ideas, to-do lists, memories, goals, affirmations. Love how you are so organized!