I use a bullet journal. Ever since my sister showed me the concept it has been useful. This year it has become a more integrated part of my life. Perhaps buying a journal designed specifically for bullet journaling has something to do with it. Perhaps its price placed in me a deeper respect and motivated me not to fill it with twattle. (Twattle is my mom's word for garbage literature, things that lack quality and are not worthy of our time. Think Barney the purple dinosaur.)
Now, looking back at my journal, I don't like how it looks. It's full of the ramblings and scribbles I might designate to a cheaper notebook - things I write just to sort my thoughts before they are really presentable. It is also easy to forget which pages were important to me because they look like ramblings and scribbles. So the ideas are not integrated into my life the way I wish they were.
While browsing at Barnes and Noble recently, a title caught my eye. The Bullet Journal Method: Track the Past, Order the Present, Design the Future by Ryder Carroll. "Perhaps," I thought, "if I look into what other people have done with their bullet journals, I will be able to incorporate the technique in a more streamlined way. Maybe my scribbles and rambles can be arranged in such a way that I will recognize which things were important to me and which were not."
Finding the audiobook on Scribd and looking at posts on BulletJournal.com has been helpful for me to see how other people have used this tool, and recognize what I can do to make my Bullet Journal more useful than it has been before.
In the past I have looked at other people's videos about bullet journaling, and I realized that most of them were not so much about the method, but about how to decorate it and make pretty pages. I was disappointed in this because it stands in the face of the simplicity of what bullet journaling was initially meant to be. Yet, the decorating process is also a part of me being able to recognize later which pages were meant to be revisited, and which were simply just for that day.
Listening to Ryder Carroll's book has been helpful to see once again how simple bullet journaling can be, and how sorting through information and saving those things which truly are important to you can help you use your time purposefully and keep sight of your long term goals and purposes.
If you're curious about the bullet journal, check out these two sources:
https://www.youtube.com/user/bulletjournal
https://bulletjournal.com/blogs/bulletjournalist
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