I don’t like my planning pages and my collections and meeting notes to be mixed together. I put my future log in the front. Then a few monthly logs because I like them all together. And then I start my daily logs and an occasional weekly log. So the front of the book goes in chronological order. I also start a new task list after the old page is full. So it can sometimes be in a random place, but I mark it with washi tape so it’s easy to flip to.

However, I flip to the last page and work my way backwards for my collections and meeting notes or anything that’s not a future/monthly/weekly/daily log. When I meet in the middle I start a new bujo.

I also write these entries from the end of the last index page and work my way up. While the planning pages start at the top of the first page of the index.

The other day someone was watching me in our meeting and commented that working from both ends of the book like that was breaking their brain. 🫪

Am I the only one out here doing this?

I am an administrative assistant at a university and I find it best to use a notebook for notes and things. I'm looking at ways to organize it and I'm thinking of using some BuJo ways but would like some suggestions. I have a separate planner that has a calendar with my daily to-dos and a monthly to do list, running "things to buy" list and priorities for the month. This stays on my desk. Really the notebook is for notes from trainings or webinars, department meetings and 1:1 meetings, and notes from committees i'm on. I brain dump seperately so it doesn't clog things up. These notes are just mine, or things I might share from a meeting or training with others.

The notebook is an A5 notebook from Archer & Olive. Any suggestions on ways I can organize this so I can easily find notes if I need to go back. It needs to be not complicated and little maintenence

Lately I've been realizing that even when life is objectively good, my days can still kind of blur together. Work, dinner, chores, scrolling, bed... then somehow it's Friday again.

I've tried bullet journaling on and off, but I'm less interested in tracking habits and more interested in feeling like I actually lived my day.

Has bullet journaling helped anyone with that? If so, what pages, prompts, or routines made the biggest difference? I'm genuinely curious what has worked for other people.

I've used this layout for since 2023 to organize my day and I love it. Gratitude, to-do, and journaling. If the day has appointments, I just replace the journaling in the timeline area with the appointments, and journal around it.

(I'm also super tickled with the secret diary-flap on image 3).

Hi all! I'm new to this kind of journal. I am a visual learner. Could people share image examples of how they have organized their bujo for a graduate program? It could be for any graduate program, but a bonus if it's counseling-related. I have looked through the different threads in r/bujo for examples, but would like to see others. Thanks in advance!

Im working on getting sober currently im in treatment in wanna journal that I can track my mental health my na meetings my sobriety milestones etc not sure how or what to add to my bujo or how to lay it all out

used both seriously for a year. paper's better for heavy stuff slower, more deliberate, you can't delete, no notifications, no blue light. apps are better for actually doing it lower barrier, you journal more, can search old entries and spot patterns.

Hello! I’m currently pregnant, due in August, I’ve finished 2026 bujo because I want to to keep up bullet journaling but know set up takes a lot of time I may not have. I decided to start 2027 because the beginning of my bujos take a lot of time to set up.

My question is what are some kid spread ideas you guys have? Trackers, lists, logs, etc? Give me all the ideas!

Sorry I've posted this upside down

I tend to plan my meals for the following week and sort grocery deliveries while I'm not at home. I found this super easy spread makes it so much easier for me to keep track of what's in the freezer and what needs to be ordered.

I hate waste so I always only order what I know I'll use while cooking/meal prepping. So "oh I'll get a pack of mince in case I feel like Bolognese at some point" is not my style.

The sticky notes are perfect because I can move labels from the freezer to "to buy" and back as much as I want.

Although I already have an improved version ready in next year's planner 😅

Anyway I thought I'd share because when I was searching for ideas, I couldn't find anything. This is actually the first spread I completely thought of myself in 4+ years of BUJO (ish). I think it could be used for the fridge as well but would probably take a much more frequent updating and I have no use for it. But I'm considering doing one for my pantry as well. Keeping track of those tomato tins and canned tuna 🤷🏼‍♀️

I've been doing something akin to BuJo since the beginning of the year, mainly taking from YouTube and blog articles. I'm now reading the official book and decided to go through the Mental Inventory exercise.

I followed the suggested categories, Doing, Should Be Doing, Want to Be Doing but now I'm struggling with the best way to migrate these and I don't feel like the book has really given me the answer.

My Doing will mostly be migrated to the current Monthly Log or Future Log if I don't actually need to continue with them yet, freeing up some time.

My Should's will also likely end up in the current Monthly Log or Future Log, or crossed off

But my Want's, where do I migrate these too? They don't have fixed deadlines and I don't have time to do them (or certainly not all of them). If I did, I probably wouldn't be starting BuJo 😉 I don't want to just forget about them though, these are important (or at least currently they are) and I want to keep them front and centre to remind me that I need to be moving towards making time for them, or if I realise my Want's have changed, then striking them out.

Where do/did you migrate the Wants of you mental inventories?

I'm going on vacation tomorrow and getting everything together, including getting my little vacation book ready. I wasn't paying full attention because I know the days of the week but...

*CW* weight tracking

I went from a portrait to a landscape for easier visual mapping.

Also, I am doing weight tracking in landscape too, but for 6 months at a time.

I’m a person with Bipolar and OCD. Used to journal (just write about my day) daily for 5 years but left it last year.

Wanting to get back to it. Thinking of bullet journalling but also scared that I’ll leave it after a day or become too entwined in the details or impulsively but all the colourful highlighters (I love them!!!)

Any suggestions?

Struggling to get started with my bujo this year. I’m procrastinating as I want to ensure I have the yearly or other pages (that aren’t monthly spreads) down before writing my monthly spreads and sheets.

Just wondering what pages you put before your monthly spreads!

Thanks ☺️

I know this is a newer tool that Ryder Carroll developed for better reflection.

I would like to be able to *read* about it. Is that anywhere to be found (that is not the paid membership)?

The short videos he makes about it don't quite penetrate my scull, especially about how it weaves in with the rest of the tools and pages.

I started doing bujo at the start of this year, about 4 months ago, but I immediately switched to spiral bound notebooks. The advantage is clear, you can easily fold it over so that the footprint on your desk is a single page, where as with non-spiral notebooks you basically can't do that without the page underneath trying to "push" the notebook up causing it to not lie flat. They often won't even lie flat when opened to two pages normally without an effort being made to flatten out the spine on every spread.

I know spiral bound has a cheap stigma to it but the inability to fold over regular notebooks onto a single page or lie them flat is a total deal breaker for me. Am I crazy? I feel like no one else has this problem.

EDIT: I appreciate all the responses! I def agree with the non-spiral people about how the spiral becomes a "speed bump" that you run into which is annoying. I guess for me the half-sized footprint of being able to fold it back on itself is just so important that it trumps all the other downsides of spirals, because otherwise it becomes this massive space hog on my desk. But totally agree there are good points on both sides!

I do the standard BuJo stuff such as Future Log, Monthly Log, and Daily Log but I also do lots of collections, astrological charting, and journaling as well. My eternal conundrum/frustration is what to do with the planning/collecting elements of my journal once the current journal is full and I have to start a new one. Do I painstakingly recreate my Future Log, Lunar Calendar, and collections into the new journal? I want to have those things handy when I take my new journal out of my home, but I can't wrap my head around having to recreate everything every time I start a new journal. If I do split up my content into 2 journals, what does the main, long-term one contain and what does the smaller, more frequently used one contain? What do folks do??

I decided to track my running a little bit differently this month. I devised my own unrealistic CTA-esque Blue Line, with ✨ generallly ✨. Close mileage to the Milwaukee intermodal station, one mile apart…ish. Native to Milwaukee so that’s wheee this came from, I think I’ll do other lines in subsequent months because the map geek in me is overly excited about this 😆

If anyone is curious I use a stalogy 365 with ruled paper

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I started in November 2025, and this is the start of my third book. I’ve maintained a daily and monthly habit quite consistently, with some modifications along the way. I’m excited to share my current set-up.

The novelty of creating spreads and doing the set-up has definitely worn off, but I still appreciate having a customised system ready to go throughout the month. I think I’ve found the right balance. That said, I like that I have the flexibility to change things every few months.

Goals

I currently have six goals, each with its own spread. Each page captures what I want to achieve and how I’m going to do it. I previously started with a Level 10 Life approach, but 10 categories felt like too much and there was a lot of overlap. On the right-hand side, I have a box for each month where I write notes and reflections on how I went. I like being able to see all my goal progress in one place.

Monthly

I don’t love drawing the little boxes, but I do love the customisation and seeing everything in calendar form rather than vertically. It helps me visualise the week.

An important note: I use Google Calendar to manage work. This calendar is more about mapping out events, exercise, rest, and chores. I also have a fridge calendar for household coordination. I don’t mind rewriting things — it actually helps me better understand and structure my time.

In the bottom left, I plan my goals and focus for the month, along with any key tasks I need to complete.

A second note: I use Todoist daily for both work and home. I don’t carry my BuJo, so I jot things down there. As part of my daily and monthly planning, I always have my phone with me to check Google Calendar and Todoist, and then copy things into my BuJo as needed. I use a GTD method in Todoist (Capture, Clarify, Plan, Do). I also rely heavily on sticky notes, both at work and at home. As someone who struggles with focus, has significant time-blindness, and finds it hard to stick to a plan, sticky notes and reminder alarms are essential to my day-to-day functioning.

In the bottom right is my monthly reflection. It’s a simple format, but it feels complete once I’ve filled in each box. I’ve been using these prompts (Highlights, Challenges, Achievements, Takeaways) for about three months now.

Dailies

I journal daily before bed, starting with reflecting on the day that has passed, then jotting down a plan for the next day. Weekday entries are usually short, but on weekends I often write a longer list of chores and work through it. I also sometimes time-block my weekends, as I tend to lose track of time easily. I do a little free form reflection on Sunday nights and try to reset myself for the week.

I hope this inspires you!

One year, and my second A5 notebook is full. I have actually bought _two_ new notebooks, one Midori MD A6 that I thought I'd use when traveling), and Rhodia Goalbook A5 as Bujo.

Now that I think about it, I came up an idea to use two in daily life (so replacing "travel-Midori" with "Bujo-Midori". I'm sure I have not thought of something, so please help. Here is my idea.

• A5 to be at home & in my work backpack.
  • Monthlies, collections, reflections.
  • Something to save and to read later, e.g. in ten years
• A6 to be "on-the-go-everywhere" notebook
  • More like traditional bullet journal's daily log
  • Important stuff to be moved (refined) to the A5
  • Collections that are needed always (e.g. "restaurants to try", or "book recommendations" when going to library)
  • Something that could potentially be trashed when full, because all that matters was safe in A5.

Like the title says I have been doing Bujo on and off since I first read the book...which I think was an advance copy. I have since done the audio as well. I thought id be able to get a refresher by flipping through the book again and watching some of Ryders videos but it seems that there have been some modifications to the system and terminology since then. For example new signifiers (double dash) and the "Timeline".

Hoping there is a doc/vid/post that explains these subtle changes so that I can properly incorporate them into my practice.

EDIT: I should’ve made clear that I totally understand, and generally apply the “make it work for you” approach. But the way my brain works best is when that freestyling comes AFTER knowing I am rooted in all the concepts/updates. I.e “Oh , I see what he’s was going for here, actually that won’t work for me but this will” .

I wish I'd thought of this sooner, but it just kind of started by accident with my trying to hold onto small pieces of paper from a doctor's office. It has since morphed into me stapling myself a folder, as well as holding onto multi-page printouts of reference guides etc. 🤣 Really though it has been fantastic, and (imo) goes well with the spirit of the Ryder method where I basically see bujo-ing as almost like scrapbooking your mind :)