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feuervogel) wrote2020-10-20 08:19 pm
feuervogel) wrote2020-10-20 08:19 pm
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Day 20: How do I BuJo?
I've been the queen of to-do lists basically my whole life. When I was in school, I had a little planner with all my stuff in it: clubs, church, choir practice, homework due dates, test dates. When things were busy, I would break it down into chunks, like "English paper - draft" and that kind of thing.
The planner I got for this year would have been fine, if this year weren't a fucking dumpster fire and all my plans were table-flipped. It has a lot of tools for long-term goal setting and breaking things down into steps.
But, I have to say, I found the "handwritten to-do list in a spiral notebook once a week" generally rather effective, especially in combination with looking at my GCal to keep track of dates. So I want to try something more free-form, and a million people have talked about their bullet journals, so why not try that? Plus I have all these fountain pens now and a variety of inks, so I should use them!
For one thing, I have approximately negative artistic talent, and everyone I've seen using them has these pretty drawings on their weekly planner pages and whatever. Plus, it seems like a waste of time to me to spend hours drawing my weekly/monthly planner pages. No judgment, whatever floats your boat, but it's clearly not for me.
But I did a cursory google this evening as a break from the annotation gigs, and, even though a lot of people spend a lot of time on the art and design aspect, the OG concept guy doesn't. Apparently, the guiding principle of BuJo is "whatever works for you."
I'd like something 'nicer' than the spiral notebook I used for 3 years in grad school to keep track of my entire life, but it doesn't have to be ~fancy~. I'm probably going to pencil out a design for what they call "spreads," but I'm thinking it's going to be basically the month, monthly goals, a week by week with individual pages for each day that I only add day by day, so I can do more in-depth journaling if I want to. I might put in an activity tracker and motivate myself with stickers. I should make a key/code or something, because those seem useful.
I have a hardbound journal coming from RedBubble, 2 actually: I planned already to use one of them for my 2021 book log and have more than just a list of titles. The other one can be the first ... 3 months? of 2021. I think the RB journals are 120ish pages.
I might try a modified version next month for NaNoWriMo to keep me on track for that and for work I'm getting paid for.
But I'm not doing any designing tonight. Tonight I'm reading more Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, because adventures for the t(w)een set are fun when you don't want to think too much.
The planner I got for this year would have been fine, if this year weren't a fucking dumpster fire and all my plans were table-flipped. It has a lot of tools for long-term goal setting and breaking things down into steps.
But, I have to say, I found the "handwritten to-do list in a spiral notebook once a week" generally rather effective, especially in combination with looking at my GCal to keep track of dates. So I want to try something more free-form, and a million people have talked about their bullet journals, so why not try that? Plus I have all these fountain pens now and a variety of inks, so I should use them!
For one thing, I have approximately negative artistic talent, and everyone I've seen using them has these pretty drawings on their weekly planner pages and whatever. Plus, it seems like a waste of time to me to spend hours drawing my weekly/monthly planner pages. No judgment, whatever floats your boat, but it's clearly not for me.
But I did a cursory google this evening as a break from the annotation gigs, and, even though a lot of people spend a lot of time on the art and design aspect, the OG concept guy doesn't. Apparently, the guiding principle of BuJo is "whatever works for you."
I'd like something 'nicer' than the spiral notebook I used for 3 years in grad school to keep track of my entire life, but it doesn't have to be ~fancy~. I'm probably going to pencil out a design for what they call "spreads," but I'm thinking it's going to be basically the month, monthly goals, a week by week with individual pages for each day that I only add day by day, so I can do more in-depth journaling if I want to. I might put in an activity tracker and motivate myself with stickers. I should make a key/code or something, because those seem useful.
I have a hardbound journal coming from RedBubble, 2 actually: I planned already to use one of them for my 2021 book log and have more than just a list of titles. The other one can be the first ... 3 months? of 2021. I think the RB journals are 120ish pages.
I might try a modified version next month for NaNoWriMo to keep me on track for that and for work I'm getting paid for.
But I'm not doing any designing tonight. Tonight I'm reading more Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, because adventures for the t(w)een set are fun when you don't want to think too much.