How to Start a Bullet Journal

On the first pages of the book you can create an Index. The purpose of an Index is to help you quickly find where things are in the book .

There are several different ways to do it and it simply depends on which side things are on.

However, many people skip this, partly because there is no need or because they choose to mark in other ways.

If you do this, however, it will be a rough summary of your life and can be very fun to look back on later.

Future log is about your future. The purpose of this is to have a bird's eye view of what will happen in the future. This is one of the absolute best puzzle pieces in a Bullet Journal.

There you can keep track of future deadlines, fun things, important things. But above all, it's an excellent dumping ground for thoughts bouncing around in your head.

The classic approach is to divide the spread with 2 lines straight across. Add the names of the months in each box and voila, you have a bird's eye view of six months ahead.

An example with a comparison to a regular calendar or reminder on a mobile phone. You don't know the date, but you know it will happen.

Concrete example. You know that your relative is graduating in June. You write Kalle is graduating in the June box. When you then consider booking a trip/event in June? You probably think twice and the likelihood of double-booking is minimized.

In a regular calendar, the month may look completely empty. But in reality, you are usually very busy that particular month with crops or other things.

In other words, you are not date-driven, but here you fill in with lots of things to remember. When you have been doing Bullet Journal for a while, you migrate from book to book, browse through and see. Remembering that "yes, yes" and throwing in little notes about - what is important to you.

The purpose of the monthly log is to keep track of your month and focus on the right things at the right time .

The classic layout is to have dates on the left side, to-do on the right.

You simply transfer the items from the Future Log to the Monthly Log, thereby not only losing the calendar section but also the other items that you entered there. These simply end up in the To-Do section.

On this page you simply enter everything you want to keep track of during that month. You scan the left-hand calendar section and funnel down to pure to-do items if there is something that needs to be done, and everything else in a ping-pong way can be thrown in here.

The second you write things down, the brain calms down and a tired memory can simply start remembering things.

If you google, look on Pinterest and Instagram, you will probably see incredibly beautiful weekly spreads drawn by hand on a production line. In our experience, this is often where many people get lost when it comes to this method.

On the one hand, performance anxiety arises for all the nice things. On the other hand, many people experience this as a pointless method as people seem to sit and draw calendars by hand.

The daily log is a cornerstone of the method. The purpose is to keep track of tasks to be done, meetings and ideas. Everything that requires your attention during the day ends here.

The author simply writes today's date and then uses rapid logging (explained in the next point).

But many Bullet Journal users prefer to make a spread for the week and instead start from that. And these are exactly the ones you'll probably come across everywhere online.

And it's very much about a ritual. Setting aside time and thinking about the week ahead. Thinking and planning and crafting bring peace. And that suddenly planning actually becomes fun? Hurray!!

The important thing to remember is that each individual develops this with Bullet Journal to what suits them. There is no right or wrong, this is a method where you simply have paper and pen and pour everything into one place.

Weekly log can then form the basis for Daily log with rapid logging being the tool itself.

Now we come to the excellence of method. The book will then be filled by:

- Something that you have to do, i.e. you have a task.
- Your experiences, i.e. things you want to remember, events.
- Information you don't want to forget, i.e. notes.

In other words, the book will turn into your external brain! It is filled with everything you need and need. As a result, each book is completely adapted to its own needs and no book is the same.

Do you have heavier to-do's on your list? Convert to your own spreads! For example, Christmas. If it says Plan Christmas on a to-do, it becomes an easy chicken coop. Or cleaning the garage. It will be too big. Each Task must simply be converted into manageable tasks, this is done through own lookups.