Caught myself spending 20 minutes on a weekly spread last Tuesday and realized I'd completely missed the point of bullet journaling.

I switched from those fancy art-heavy layouts to just the original Ryder Carroll method after that, keeping it to a simple rapid log and daily migration, and now my journal actually helps me get stuff done instead of being a time sink has anyone else gone back to basics like that?

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miaprice2d ago

so I started bullet journaling to get out of this cycle of buying all these fancy stickers and washi tape. spent a whole weekend making a mood tracker with like 50 different colors and never looked at it again. now my whole setup is just a black pen and a pocket notebook, and if it doesn't fit in my back pocket I won't use it. my biggest win was realizing that if I can't do my daily log in under three minutes, I'm doing it wrong.

carr.luna2d agoMost Upvoted

Love how you figured out that more stuff just gets in the way of actually doing it.

kai_ramirez382d ago

Yeah I read something about this called the "two list rule" or whatever. Basically you write down everything you wanna do and then you take the second list of everything you won't do. Helps you actually focus instead of just buying more crap to organize the crap you're not doing. I tried the whole fancy journal thing once too. Wound up just doodling in the margins during meetings. Three minutes or less is the real test right there.