nancy824•4d agoOG Member

Remember when bullet journals were just a blank notebook and a pen?

I was flipping through my first bullet journal from 2017 last night and it was SO bare bones, just dates and scribbled tasks in a basic Leuchtturm. That whole week I was prepping for a local art fair in Austin and my journal was a mess of vendor deadlines and packing lists, but honestly it worked better than my fancy current one. Does anyone else feel like the simpler spreads actually got more done, or is that just nostalgia talking?

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uma_baker884d ago

Bring back my 2015 Moleskine where I just wrote "buy milk" and "don't die" in the same size font and called it a day. Now I have a whole color coded key that might as well be the Da Vinci Code and I still forget to take out the trash. My old journal had zero washi tape and somehow I managed to get through three art fairs and a cross country move without spiraling. Pretty sure my current setup is more about the aesthetic than actually helping me function.

fiona3303d ago

Push back on that, @uma_baker88, because the aesthetic is literally the only thing keeping me on track. I tried the whole minimalist thing in 2015 and my life was a mess, no joke. Those color coded keys and all the washi tape aren't just for looking cute, they're like little brain triggers that force me to actually pay attention. Without the pretty layouts I'd just scribble nothing and lose the paper in a week, same as you probably did with your old Moleskine. The fact that you still forget the trash doesn't mean the system is broken, it means you're using it wrong or you need more stickers, honestly. My setup has so many layers of decoration that it's basically impossible for me to ignore it, and that's exactly why I've been on top of stuff for two years straight.