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Collectaneia’s 2016 Bullet Journal Masterpost

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Hi!!! Okay so I haven’t been too too active the past week but I promise I will. This is my first masterpost so bare with me here.

What One Needs to Bullet Journal:
1. A notebook/journal of your choice (usually small, I believe some countries use the term A5?)
2. A pen/pencil
3. Additional accessories, eg. pens of different colours, highlighters, sticky notes, etc.

Things I forgot to include in the pictures:

Index/Table of Contents

It’s very self explanatory. The basic form is to just write out the heading ‘Index’ or ‘Table of Contents’. Underneath you will write the titles of the logs and their corresponding page numbers.

Legend

A legend is basically a visual dictionary. It keeps track of the meaning of a certain type of bullet point. For instance, a circle means a standard task, an apple means a pomodoro session, a triangle means a due date or deadline and a square means a minor task.
It also keeps track of how you keep track of your progress. This could be a filled in icon to mean complete, an arrow for migrated (moved to another day), slash for started and a horizontal like for cancelled.
Another key that can be used is a colour code key. Mine is still developing but a general one in trying to stick with is:
Light green-science fair
Purple-game board project
Blue-events (personal/social,of the like)
Red-presentations/test/quizzes
Neon pink-study (sessions/plan)/homework
Pink-peer tutoring
Light blue-school events/stuff
Black-other/info

Yearly Overview/Log

Now this is as simple as it gets. What I do is write down the title (2016 Yearly Log or something of the like) and differentiate it in some form. Personally, I draw banners but you can do whatever works for you best!
For example:
>CAPS
>italics (someone pls italicize this I am a smol mobile user w/o italics)
>colour coding
>highlighters!!!
>sketches are super nice
>etc.
Underneath, I write the name of the month and the letters each day begins with underneath horizontally. I write down the days of the month in their corresponding days. I continue with this format in a horizontal manner until I’m done.
*some people begin colour coding at this point and certain certain dates to remind them of an event taking place at that point in time (this is v good idea but not vital to the layout [iow lazy ppl like me have less work to do 🙄])
I consider myself a minimalist at times so I settled with writing down only be resolutions and goals for the upcoming year. This can be drawn by writing a subheading in colouredish flags. To make myself feel extra organized, I wrote it in to-do list format to create a visual representation of my progress throughout the year.

Monthly Log

A generic format for the monthly log is to draw or print out a small sized calendar and fill it up like one. In the original bullet journal they put down the date and the beginning letter of the day it falls on. I did mine like a calendar for the sheer aesthetic pleasure of it, but the original layout is pretty effective as well.

Weekly Log

Mine is basically a mini calendar. I don’t bother colour coding here due to the fact that it’s main purpose is to know if I’m booked on a day or not and when I can squeeze stuff in. Thus I just use a black pen and a blue highlighter to highlight anything important.
It’s also in bullet format (but I forgot to fill them oh well) which helps multiply the sense of satisfaction when completing a task. In this section, I only put down the more major or really just non-minor occurrences during that day. This doesn’t include do laundry or go to grocery store, but that can change depending on circumstances. Like if you haven’t taken a shower in five days and everywhere is itchy then you should probably write that down (pls friend pls).

Daily Log

I was inspired by @recycledpaperstars daily log because it was so pretty with the leaves and everything. So I did mine similarly but in lowercase because my caps suck. It’s in a todo list format mentioned above in the legend. I included a motivational quote in blue pen (because I wanted a colour theme this month) so I feel not so grumpy all the time.

Well that’s it!!! I hope I did a decent job at this thing and ily all.