What is Bullet Journaling?

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Brian and Drew have been asked, "Bullet Journaling - what IS it?" and did their best to give a basic overview and point out some good resources and starting points, in case you're ALSO curious!

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0:00 The Question
1:00 What is it, how does it work?
2:26 How it began
3:41 The Bullet Journal Method book
4:40 The official Bullet Journal

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Bravo Brian !!! Excellent explanation. I highly recommend that anyone interested in bullet journaling go to the links that Brian mentioned to see the originator (Ryder Carroll's) original system of Bullet Journaling. It is very very no art work. if you are interested in how other people have taken Mr. Carroll's original concept and turned it into a very complex art then.... google Bullet Journal and you will see 100s... if not 1000s... of very intricate, embellished ways that people do super fancy bullet journaling. Which is fine, but it is not the way that it was originally Good job explaining it Brian !!!

SusanMJB

I just recently bought a bullet journal.
I have always been into writing in journals. Writing stories down on electronics devices wasn’t my thing. Seven years ago I was diagnosed with cancer …17 surgeries later, I decided I really need to write things down in more detail. I would write using my mom’s old 1948 Schaeffer fountain pen.
Then I went down the rabbit hole, Pen after pen, journal after journal… I’m looking forward to learning how to use my bullet journal, there is not a day that goes by I don’t write a letter or in my journals.

tce

Bravo Brian on an excellent summary of the BuJo practice! (I’ve been a BuJo-ist for about 3 years now.) Side note, the 2nd edition of Ryder’s bullet journal Leuchtturm notebook is way more fountain pen friendly than the first. The 120 GSM paper is a joy!

reneseking

Bullet journaling is what got me into fountain pens - my first order was from Goulet with Pilot Metro F and Diamine Grey (both still favorites) - then the ink colors... ohh..

nrstooge

I think the word Brian was looking for is 'endsheet'. I suspect 'inside front cover' would have worked just as well.

manuseyman

The term you’re looking for Brian is “end papers”. ☺️ we all knew what you meant though. I like that you made sure to mention those of us who don’t create these gorgeous bullet journals.

Amyduckie

Bullet Journal=>
A way to turn any notebook into a planner. It gives you a key/ legend that let's use have a free-form planner.
You can make it as complex, or as minimal as you would like.

Personally, I am too lazy to make a customized planner, and would rather use one where the formatting has already been done for me.

However, the cool part of the bullet journal concept, you can still implement the legend in a traditional planner.

[The benefit of a bullet journal is you can use ANY notebook, so you have virtually no limits on paper quality; unlike a traditional planner where you are at the mercy of whatever the manufacturer uses. Franklin Planner paper ≠ Rhodia paper 😭]

masonr

@5:20 - Is the word "fly leaf"? Or maybe "end paper"?
I've been bullet journalling since May 2014. Mine is more like the minimalist style that Ryder Carroll invented, not artwork & drawings like some folks do. I also found that I didn't use the lists/data sections so I just have my monthly calendar and daily schedules/task lists. It works for me. For the big picture long-term calendar, I just buy one of those $1-2 staple-bound calendars at the discount store, tear off the covers, and tape it in the front of my BuJo: why spend my time drawing calendars? BTW, you could try using the Bullet Journal method with any blank book that has a dozen or more usable pages: just start at the beginning of next month and see how it goes for you. If you like it, then buy a dedicated journal to use. :-)

kimlindseyOH

This episode has been brought to you by the word "endpaper"! And the number 84!

florencefortyseven

Hi Brian and Drew, I started my stationery journey with a planner (Erin Condren and Happy Planner both aren't FP friendly). Then I re-discovered fountain pens, and then I fell down the rabbit hole, and well, here I am. Now I use a bullet journal, the none pretty type :)
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misswoodhouse

The first time I tried bullet journaling it lasted about 2 weeks.

The second time, I gave myself permission to have the ugliest bullet journal in the world. That was in 2016, and I've been using the system ever since.

I go back and forth between extra and basic: if it feels overwhelming, I go back to just the basic spreads. A few months later, when I start feeling the urge to do some creative stuff, I'll go all-out. Lots of color and fancy fonts and maybe some drawing. It's flexible enough to suit the fact that I have different needs at different times.

katendress

QUESTION for pencast 🙂 Am I the only crazy one who thinks that filling cartridges with a Goulet syringe is much easier than using converters? Granted, I only have 3 brands of modern pens - Pilot, Platinum and Lamy.... including Custom 74 (2), Platinum 3776, Pilot E95s for writing and then various other pens for sketching - Explorer, Kakuno, Platinum Carbon, Metropolitan, Safari, so... only having 3 brands makes it easy to have proprietary cartridges for those brands. Once I use up the ink in the cartridge (or empty it out without using it... LOL) then I refill the empty cartridges from my bottles of ink with the Goulet syringe. Easy peasy. I never use converters Just sayin". And I learned the trick from a video that Brian made many years ago. Thanks Brian. But am I the only one who does this consistently? I realize that if you have dozens of brands of pens, it would be more difficult with all of the cartridge types that you would have to own... but...

SusanMJB

Thank you for this definition, Brian. Bullet Journaling is a productivity methodology, outlined in the book you mentioned. A lot of people are creating very colorful and artistically beautiful scrapbooks, containing lists of favorite movies, etc and are calling them "bullet journals". Technically they are not. Personally, I don't care, as I don't do either method, but I appreciate the clarification.

JACathcart

I think what you are calling the front page is a key reference page

ejavenger

I tried using this system but it felt too complex, too many rules and terms, so I became fatigued by it. Filling in the journal became a task in itself, something I had to plan for and populate. This meant any spontaneity was killed off before I even picked up a pen. Respect and admiration for anyone who does enjoy the system. If it gets a pen into your hand then all power to you. It just didn't work for me.

One thing I didn't understand with bullet journaling is why it's preferable to use a dot grid rather than lined. For text entry at least, lined paper makes more sense to me and feels more convenient.

bikkies