I first heard about the bullet journal in 2020, when I went through this productivity hype. After using Brendon Burchard's High Performance Planner, which I found awesome at first but then very restrictive in terms of flexibility in my days, I tried The Bullet Journal.
The Bullet Journal is a method of personal organization designed by Ryder Caroll. The only 2 things you need to get started is any regular notebook and a pen. In his book, The Bullet Journal Method, Ryder explains how to stay organized throughout the day, the week, the month, with simple steps.
The Bullet Journal is convenient, simple, flexible and cheap. All it takes to follow it is pen and paper and commitment. I used The Bullet Journal method to organize my days for an entire semester and I'd say it's definitely something I'll be going back to. The only reason I stopped using it was because my days became too complicated and organizing them became overwhelming.
With The Bullet Journal, you have the freedom to design your own journal. Practically, you can make it as artistic as you wish, or as plain as you wish. Just a quick search on the use of The Bullet Journal from various YouTube channels will give you a sense of how flexible it is. With other journals that are usually pre-filled to guide you towards organizing your day, sometimes there are sections you might not want to write on. Things like tracking meals, or listing 3 things that made you smile, or in what ways the weather affected your choice of clothing that day; these may not be for everyone. And this is where The Bullet Journal comes in. You get to create your own personalized version of a journal that fits your needs exactly.
There are a few rules to follow, though, like the use of bullets, circles, asterisks. But these are just general rules to separate the tasks from the meetings or whatever. Ryder will never know if you used hearts for dates, a syringe for doctor appointments, or a martini glass for happy hour. You do you.
The general idea behind this is that you create a list of things that must be done in a month, a week and in a day, and you do them. It doesn't matter if you do them in the morning or in the evening, they must be done and that's all.
What I find amazing is that he's created a system for tasks that haven't been completed and should be either scheduled for the next day or rethought entirely and be deleted from the journal. There are many things I find fascinating about The Bullet Journal, and if it's something you're thinking about pursuing, then fear no more. I highly recommend it. And now that I've recommended it, you have to do it. Because I say so.
Cheers!
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