How to Create a Bullet Journal Plus My Top 10 Tips

I just wanted to give a shout out and thank you! This video caused me to go down a major rabbit hole and really helped me. I was so inspired that I designed and am selling handmade and hand bound bullet journals. 💜💜💜 Plus I design and make stickers to go with them, to help with page layout, plus make it easier, fun and colorful.

Wow. Apparently my “people” are right here in the comments. Oddly, that gives me comfort.

I’m using the bullet journal for my possible bakery

You are very attractive, thanks for the tips also.

Doing very much the same system in OneNote. I have a page per week - with timetables and to do lists, but I like the fact I am not stuck with mistakes or space limitations.
You can drop documents and emails or even images/pages straight in as a link or as a copy...
Just convincing a pen able Tablet will help as I find hand writing better when on the go! Good excuse for a new toy :D

How long did you get into the video before opening the comments?

Been using a digital system called logseq and without ever knowing about this ive practically recreated it lol

Are you still bullet journaling? I'd love to hear what works/worked and don't work for you.

Wow! Loved this!!

Thank you! Your push to keep it simple and not get distracted by decorating and complicated stuff really helped. I set up a simple bullet journal today and feel totally fine that it's a little messy and not perfect! :)

Hi, how's your bujo at this point? Do you still use the system? Im hust about to start mine and i think your videos are a huge help

Thank you!!!!

This is an ADORABLE tutorial! My husband and I both have autism and ADHD. I’ve relied on a planner my whole life, and I have always needed planners. My husband has also always needed planners, but he’s never used them, and still doesn’t! (The chaos h u r t s) None of the planners I have bought, shown him, or designed myself have ever taken for him. This minimalism is perfect for him along with this video. Thank you, young lady!

you are seriously THE most adorable human I have EVER seen! 🤍

Sorry to say due to my bad hand writing i have to use my calendar and a work note about things coming up. and what to do. this helps with me so i get signals that something is due or is coming up. also others help remind me as well which helps.

I just found this vid and wanted to say THANK YOU. I've tried bullet journaling, planners, to-do lists, anything with ticky boxes, you name it, and nothing helps for more than a few days, tops. And while I love the IDEA of bullet journals, being on the artistic side I always tried to do the elaborate spreads and pretty layouts which I love doing... but hate filling out and actually using. If I pre-make a spread then it's just constraining boxes. You're the first person who explained it in a way that makes sense - use an index, create pages as necessary on the fly. It's like a lightbulb went off in my head, and now I've dug out a journal and have an index and one week of actual successful use with four pages of random notes, doodles, and whatever else my brain needed right then between that first weekly page and the next one. It actually works!

Thank you. Can I apply this to work?

"If you spend so much time arranging you tool box that you're afraid to use it, they're not going to do you much good." It's like she knows me.

"Prepare to lose it."

Thank you so much for this. I stick with documents stored on Cloud precisely because unless there's a major Cloud data failure, it's probably gonna never get lost.

Brilliant ✨ Thank you so much for the advice! I'll give it a try and I'm so grateful that I can skip pages with this method as I always feel guilty for wasting paper when forgetting to use my planner.

Did you say, "read it later"?

Hallelujah!!!

For anyone who wants to take this methodology digital, I highly recommend the program Obsidian, where you can create Links via your Index page. Fast, easy, intuitive; for me combining the two methods was ideal. Cheers, and I hope y'all have a great time in your journaling journeys.

I tried doing a bullet journal a few times and got overwhelmed. Love these tips! I'm going to try to pick it back up and see if my life becomes more manageable 😅

Oof, this bullet journal method would never work for me (dw I have my own method down tho)
Edit: talking about the first half of the video here

Wow! Discovered your videos through your ted talk. Helping me learn so much about my brain. I’m a 38 unmedicated engineer and your tips and tricks are so helpful for me! I struggle so much focusing in meetings and just everyday conversations, and of course completing tasks. Hoping to support you more in the future. Stay blessed!

What a great idea! I started watching these videos because my husband had ADD, but honestly tips like these are really helpful for me too! I think this also a really good style of Journaling for right brained creatives like me lol

I'm interested to know whether you stll use the bullet journal system and how your planning strategies might have evolved in the last 6 years. Can we have an update please? @HowtoADHD

Numbering the pages was exciting for someone with OCD

Something that's worked for me is a "go book." Basically I utilize a traditional bujo I update at night. I carry a pocket notebook that can fit alongside my wallet for a "running list" I prepare in the morning from my bujo lists.

This is too complicated for me to process

Very brilliant points ! I love how you look so invested in the video cuz it makes me really motivated to start an adhd-friendly bullet journal !!

Oh my god this is genius 😮

I don't bullet journal,I journal, I prefer note books with lines I also enjoy those adult coloring books. Hmm maybe I should get planer so I set my goals and things that I have to do With add and Autism I don't like doing tasks it's so boring and I have a hard time doing to do's but I know that I must .

I’m back because I lost it and I had just fully integrated it into my life, IT WAS SO USEFUL. I am in mourning at the loss of my first bujo, but after weeks of not having one I’m making a new one.

So helpful! I had to rewind and replay 7 or 8 times... But I eventually got it! Thank you!

My handwriting is so poor I need like a model document, or a Google Sheet version of it or forms/grids I can just fill. It actually looks way scarier than the idea I had of it.

I like this simple approach. I actually AM an artist (watercolor sketching out somewhere), I don't want to get bogged down with feeling this has to be artistic. I want to still have time to go out and sketch (at a park, in the city, at a coffee shop, etc). I also like to share sketches. I'm also ADHD and autistic, can see me getting bogged down if I don't intend not to be.

Omg this is an amazing idea. I’ve always had unorganized note books and can’t find anything this keeps it to where I can find anything in my unorganized notebook!

I find the idea fascinating, would be great to have a tool create order outside my chaotic head. But it also seems like a great tool to procrastinate with. Additionally it sounds something that requires a lot of discipline, consistency and "getting started with something" energy. And these three things are rare and costly.

thank you thank you thank youu

I like to use Frixion pens so instead of messing up the page, I erase what I wrote and rewrite it.

Something that helps with not being afraid to mess up, is you can make something called an ugly page. Pick a random page of the book, (i normally use the last page, but if you put it right in the centre it’s probably more efficient because it’s uglier) and make that page as ugly as possible, so that if you’re ever afraid to mess up, you can remind yourself that nothing in this book can be worse than that page

Ouu i think this is a great idea :)

You don’t have the skill for calligraphy, same 😅

Personally a dot system notebook (like Leuchturm 1917) helps me the most as it’s simple (not so many distracting lines).

Curious to know if you still use a "bujo"?

wow that was amazing great video you explained literally ever question l had and no one ever does that so heap of big thanks

I need to know if anyone ACTUALLY stuck with this long term, say >3 months. I’m seeing a lot of “this is gonna change my life” and absolutely none of “my life is better since I started doing this consistently 1 year ago”

Thanks!