After I launched the bullet journal, people have brought up other intricate systems for managing information that had similarities and were very complementary. I had been exposed to a lot of different types of methods that did not work for me, leaving me frustrated. It was eye-opening to see how adaptable it could be for other people with different experiences and life-mothers and doctors and seeing their unique ingenuity.ĭid you incorporate concepts from GTD into this system? I really loved to see what people did with the framework. In that process of making it a formal system, I had to find ways to talk about it and share information and tactics that many people could understand. That was the real inspiration for sharing it with everyone else.
I showed them different methods that I was using and they thought it was helpful. Whether they are a designer or programmer, they always have a notebook. The big revelation was when I introduced the system to colleagues. Essentially, over the last two years, I formalized the system and realized it could provide value to others. I really enjoyed the tactile experience of writing in a notebook. When I started professionally working in the digital space and thinking about user experience on a very different level, I took this digital mindset and adapted it for an analog context.
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Bullet journal was a series of methods I used to keep myself organized. One massive thing was to actually formalize this into a system. What success have you seen in using your system? Improvements and gains? People can take the modules I designed and evolve them, or design their own and plug them into an existing framework. The idea of the bullet journal is to provide you with some guidelines. It can be as useful for people in the creative field as it can be for knowledge workers. Ideally, what I am trying to do with the bullet journal, is figure out just enough of a framework to allow people to build on it for whatever they need. Spend time with things that are important and be mindful of how you spend your time.ĭoes the system work for knowledge workers or for creative visual thinkers? How does it set somebody up for success? If a task isn’t worth the time to rewrite it, it’s probably not important.
Takeaway: You can reduce the amount of things you have to do by transferring things by hand. Migration – transferring over only the most relevant pieces from one week or month to the next.
Monthly log – a calendar and monthly task list.Ĥ. There is a page at the beginning where you add the titles for all your entries so you can very quickly refer to them later.ģ. Modules – allow you to organize the notes you are taking in different ways. Rapid logging – a system of taking notes very quickly using page numbers, titles, and different bullet icons to distinguish steps you have taken with tasks.Ģ. Here is a breakdown of the bullet journal framework:ġ. It allows you to keep track of what’s happened to you and allows you to organize what is currently going on and plan for the future. My solutions came from solving my own challenges.Įssentially, the bullet journal is a framework for capturing your ideas. Solving this problem was an iterative process, and each step was intended to address my own problems. I would later try to revisit what I captured, but couldn’t find anything. I had short bursts of very intense focus, so I had to figure out a way to capture things very quickly. Notes started as either a blank page with no template or as a super rigid template which I didn’t understand or enjoy. It’s something that I’ve been challenged with for most of my schooling. I had a learning disability that did not allow me to focus very well. Something flexible enough to deal with different types of content. I slowly developed the system over time to capture notes in a way that my mind worked. Before that, it was just bunch of iterations on ways for me to keep many different types of personal notes. The bullet journal definitely was not much of a system until the last couple years. How did you build the bullet journal and what problems did it solve?