Bullet Journal, from America the dot diary
This time it doesn't come from Japan, but from New York City! The BuJo®, as its inventor likes to call it in an abbreviated way, the nicely supernerd Ryder Carroll who of the Bullet Journal made it his reason for living.
This way of investing time in organizing your days, in planning expenses, jobs and appointments and in managing things to do is not only a pastime for desperate housewives, but it becomes a real mindfulness job that you do on yourself .
Apparently perfect for those who are obsessed with order, in reality the bullet journal is dedicated above all to those people who, just so ordered, were not born and who suddenly want to make a change, having to face commitments that are not only their own, but all of their the family.
Here is a video that illustrates well, in Ryder's own words, the dynamics of the diary or dotted diary.
Why the Bullet Journal agenda is useful
Between Kakebo, Excel files, post-it programs, the desire to know how to invest one's time is spent, what one spends, what one earns, perhaps and above all when there is less and less time.
"Bullet" in English means both the "bullet" and the "point of a list". In common the two terms certainly have speed .
Here, the final purpose of the bullet journal, substantially of the dotted or "dotted" agenda, is to speed up and systematize doing things, to make every daily action faster and more effective, to program the programmable in order to optimize the times, avoid waste of papers or scatters of sheets that lead us to set aside the non-priorities.
But the bullet journal is not just a simple agenda, it is also a diary, in which month by month the strings of what has been done and what remains to be done are drawn, reworking the new month only at the conclusion of the one just passed : here is the meaning of the useful .
If you are in a moment of your life where you find it necessary, indeed essential, to do the above, here is the bullet journal that can help you.
"Ingredients" for the bullet journal
Just a few steps and few things to know. Here's what you need:
> U n ' agenda with blank pages and dotted grid, if possible with the already numbered pages, or a simple notebook; if you want to simplify your life further and save time, you will find the Leuchtturm1917 or the dotted Moleskine useful;
> some bookmarks ;
> erasable pens, colored pens and pens, colored pencils, highlighters, eraser, sharpener!
Procedure to carry out the bullet journal
Leaving aside English terms and abstruse lists - whose glossary, however, you can find on the Bulletjournal.it page -, simplifying everything, the division of this agenda into dots is as follows:
> Front page : name and phone number, essential in case of loss!
> Index : here on each page will correspond the corresponding topic: legend, calendar, future logs, lists etc ..
> Legend : this is the most fun part because you can customize it. The classic bullet journal legend includes dots, circles, ticks, arrows, crosses, asterisks and dashes for things to do, done, started or postponed and canceled; however there are many ways to customize the bullet journal legend, space to the imagination!
> Annual calendar : two pages dedicated to a glance of the year; we should print and paste the small calendars of the days of the month, with the Sundays marked in red, but it can also be done by hand
> Future log : here we write the most important commitments and reminders for the future. These are indicative things, they take two months on a single page, so as to speed things up. Six total pages, so then things will be better delineated in the following pages
> Monthly calendar : here in fact, every month its page. On each page the list of days and enter things to do for each day. The advice is to use an erasable pen, just to avoid messes
> Weekly calendar : the classic week-by-week view of the agenda that gives an overview of things to do. A couple of pages per week will suffice, dividing by Monday or Wednesday into one and the remaining four days into the other
Only at the end of the month is the new "monthly log" created, or the diary of the following month, with a focus on the matter - that's where the various symbols are needed! - the things that are still to be done or those already done.
At any time you can enter the "collections", or the extra lists to be included at the end to arrive at a specific goal. There are those who at the end of the bullet journal also insert an economic page, especially dedicated to expenses / earnings.
Curiosity : there is also an Italian fb group dedicated to the Bullet Journal
