Hey everybody! Today’s post is a long-awaited Bullet Journal update. Since I started Bullet Journaling earlier this year, I’ve come to learn what I do and what I don’t like about the whole idea.
Here are some previous posts from my Leuchtturm1917 BuJo:
- http://www.theskillfuldaughter.com/bullet-journal/march-pwmc-week-2/
- http://www.theskillfuldaughter.com/bullet-journal/march-pwmc-week-1/
- http://www.theskillfuldaughter.com/personal-development/february-bullet-journal-wrap/
- http://www.theskillfuldaughter.com/personal-development/one-weekend-bullet-journal/
- http://www.theskillfuldaughter.com/personal-development/bonus-friday-post-my-new-bullet-journal/
- My #PWMC page
Here’s what I loved about it:
- The color! I love the color of this notebook! I think it’s really beautiful and elegant.
- The paper in the Leuchtturm1917. The paper just feels nice. I enjoyed writing on it.
- Having everything in one place. Instead of having a planner and various lists in my head or on my phone, everything was in one place and easy to find thanks to the index in the front.
- The freedom to try out new things. I enjoy trying out new layouts and whatnot whenever the idea struck.
- Making it my own. I enjoyed not having a set layout to follow and really liked the flexibility of the system.
Here’s what I didn’t like:
- If I made a mistake, it was in the notebook forever…unless I used white-out (ugly) or tore a page out (ugly).
- Unable to add printed pages without glueing or taping them in. Sometimes I don’t want to draw the same layout by hand or draw a zillion lines with a ruler and pen. I can whip something up on my computer much faster. I can also use printable pages I find online instead of recreating them with pens and a ruler.
- There was no rhyme nor reason to the order of pages, and that drove me a bit crazy as I filled up the notebook.
Here’s what I learned about myself:
- I like having my pages grouped by type. If I come up with a new collection or tracker mid-year, I don’t want to put it in the middle of daily pages. I want it with the rest of my trackers or collections.
- I want to print my own pages sometimes.
- I don’t want to be confined to just one type of paper when it comes to lined, dotted, or grid. I want flexibility.
With that in mind, I looked at a few different notebooks and decided to move to a discbound notebook system. It has the flexibility of a binder but without the “school” look yet the feel of a spiral-bound notebook with the ability to move pages around.
Enter Office Depot’s TUL system. I probably would have gotten an ARC from Staples, but the nearest stores are 1-2 hours away…even though my city has half a million people in it and those cities are around or under 100,000. Go figure.
I enjoyed the size of the A5 Leuchtturm1917, so I figured I’d get the junior size in the TUL since it’s about the same. I got some extra grid pages, larger discs, and some tabs and headed home with my new planner.
Since that initial purchase, I’ve purchased some extra paper and a Levenger Circa punch so I can make my own pages. You’ll get to see an example of that below with my yearly calendar.
Here’s some pics of my new TUL discbound BuJo:
Simple calendar page. I enjoy seeing my month at a glance.
Trying out my new Tombow brush pens for my month names.
Printed off a yearly calendar and started filling in symbols for important dates: blue gifts for birthdays, hearts for Valentine’s day/anniversary, some holiday-specific images, and gray headstones for the anniversaries of my parents’ deaths. That last one is sad, but it’s something that I’ll always put in my calendar.
Added a yearly mood tracker so I can see how things have gone all year. I’ll add new moods as they happen.
Since I’ve decided to be a life-long ketoer, I’m tracking how well I do in that department.
I don’t drink enough water, so I’m adding a tracker for that so I can get more H2O in daily.
And the best part:
TABS! Organize ALL the things!
Initial thoughts:
- Flexibility is awesome
- Printing my own pages is great
- OMG TABS
Do any of you use a discbound system? What do you think about it? I think I’m a convert!
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ravi detroja says
nice