Figured out my future log was totally backwards after 6 months

I was putting events for the wrong months in my future log because I thought it was organized chronologically left to right across the spread. Turns out I was reading it like a calendar row instead of column by column. Has anyone else had a lightbulb moment about a basic layout you thought you understood?

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henryr4518d ago

Wait, so you're supposed to read them column by column? I always thought future logs worked like a normal calendar row. But now that I think about it, that explains why I kept mixing up my October and November stuff last year. I was wondering why my planning felt so off. This actually makes way more sense for how time flows in the log. I might have to redo my whole setup now that I get it.

charlieh7417d ago

Yeah this is one of those things that sneaks up on you. I've noticed the same kind of thing happens with calendars at work too. People assume the layout is just like a normal week view but then they end up booking meetings on the wrong days and nobody catches it until someone shows up to an empty room. It's like our brains are so used to reading left to right in rows that we forget some designs go top to bottom. Once you see it though it's hard to unsee and you start noticing it everywhere.

kevinw9418d ago

My friend Sarah did exactly this with her first bullet journal. She spent like 7 months wondering why everything felt off and her deadlines kept getting messed up. One day she was flipping through it and realized she had been reading the columns wrong the whole time. She had all her April appointments in the May section and vice versa. She was so frustrated that she almost quit bullet journaling completely until she figured it out. Now she double checks the column labels every time she starts a new spread.