A Simple Way to Plan Your Week

In the final excerpt from the Bullet Journal Course we explain how to use the weekly log.

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[scoogsy]

So much of what Bujo does seems steeped in complex system theory. Which is fantastic. I get a certain scrum vibe from it. I’ve been doing Bujo now for three years, and going from strength to strength. It has had an enduring impact on me. Wonderful Ryder (also, bought the fancy Bujo journal from you guys 😊)

[smaaahen]

I can’t believe I’m discovering this weekly log explanation just now, this is everything that I needed to know for now, that’s reassuring me thank you !!!

[Dreblueskies]

Love this so much!! so simple. I love that the Bujo method as it was intended isn't meant to be fancy or cumbersome. You are awesome Ryder!

[Parkitloveit]

This is perfect! It’s exactly what I’ve been looking for as I nearly never can complete all my weekly to-do’s.

[pohyokelo]

The system improved a lot. I started doing the revised system before it came out. It is very helpful.

[susanking]

Another practical tip which includes reflection and action. Love it and will try it for sure. Thanks so much! You were one of the things I was grateful for today. 😉😉

[silvijap]

This is Gold! Was weekly in the book? I don't think it was in the book. Rewatching and taking notes.

[yquintana]

Oh my goodness, this is something I’m excited to try out

[zhai]

BuJo book and community really saved me. 😍 I don't think I'd be able to gain so much insights and make the right decisions with all that mess happened in the past few months without the method. :)

I'm a very wordy person so I use up much more pages for each day and even put a bunch of doodles. But that's amazing about the flexibility of the BuJo.

My personal addition was to use tape to make tabs for collections I flip to often and monthly logs. Even with the index, it's just nice to flip to these pages quickly.

[RoseErifnosi]

Ooooo I love this, this is what I've been missing!!

[jadenlightnight]

this was really short but surprizingly helpful.

[sinosabesnotemetas]

Thank you for this suggestion but doesn't work completely for me. It's ok with the past week's resume but not for upcoming week tasklist. I prefer to migrate tasks to the monthly task list already created: having to look for tasks into many places could be confusing for me.

[Rizkimash]

Hi Ryder, i have a question regarding weekly log: Do we need to migrate any tasks list that in the monthly log but the deadline it self on the week that we do weekly reflections?

[JCarderera]

Recently started bullet journaling, anda the Last few days I was wondering how to do these

[apriljohnson]

I think this was immensely helpful. Got one question: How does the weekly log work if you roll over from one month to the next in the middle of it?

[estherlum]

0:54 Hi Ryder, thank you for making this video and for inspiring my journaling process! I started making this spread last week and it's wonderful. I just have a couple of questions for you about them because I'm quite confused.😕
1. On the weekly reflections page, do you typically rapid log the notes as the days go by in the week or do you just write a reflection only at the end of the week? 2. If your daily logs for the week go for as many pages as it takes, how do you manage to consistently make the weekly reflections page the page on the left and the weekly tasks list the page on the right? In other words, if your last daily log/used page falls on the left page, do you write the weekly reflections on the right page or you leave the right page blank and skip straight to the next left page available? Thank you again and keep inspiring us! 🍀

[samuele.marcora]

I have been waiting for months for this video.

[missicanbeanything]

question: if i'm understanding this right, if you use monthly, weekly and daily logs would this mean that some tasks would be rewritten multiple times as you move it from month -> week -> day? and does this count as part of a migration?

[DavidStosik]

Hello Ryder! Love the BuJo method, been trying to be consistent with it for a few years now (though I first learned about it way longer ago 😅).
Thanks for this video on the weekly log, this looks very useful, so I started trying to implement it last week, and I'm already hitting a snag: how do you handle a month transition when it does not happen on the same day as your week transition? (Almost always, basically – 11 out of 12 months this year.)

- For me, weeks start on Monday (just saying, as I understand some people start their week on Sunday).
- I have my weekly spread for weeks 12 and 13 ("03.20~26 (w12)" on the left side and "03.27~04.02 (w13)" on the right side). Reflection on the left, tasks on the right.
- Tomorrow's April 1st (Saturday). So tonight or tomorrow morning, I'm planning to do my monthly reflection and migration: create the April spread, migrate March pending tasks (some go to April, some to the future log, and the rest trash), and also bring future log tasks to April.

What feels weird is that I have two non-daily places where to pick tasks from: the weekly spread that I started last Monday and the monthly spread that I'll create tonight.
Though we're only talking about two weekend days, it could be more, and my impression is that I have broken the system a bit: usually, there is one place to look at one place when starting my day, but during this transition phase, there are two? How do you deal with this yourself?

[Andrew-dgqm]

How do you migrate the weekly Tasklist if at all?

I recall the book says you don’t always use a weekly log, only when you’re very busy or overwhelmed