How I use my BuJo & Pros / Cons
Good morning,
If you are like me, you might be wary of actually starting a Bullet Journal even though you’d want to; just because you aren’t sure of what you could do with it.. Well! As I do some little things a bit differently (specially in my weekly spreads), I wanted to generally say what I do in mine so maybe it will give you the extra push and help you seeing what you could do in yours !
How I use it;
~ As I am a “Book” blogger, I have a page where I write down which book I read this year in the beginning of the bullet, as well as a page each month where I write my posting days, with what I wanna post and what’s in my drafts/ideas I get throughout the month so I can take them back at a later date.
~ Since June, I’ve added a “deadlines” page; So I can see when my arc’s or library books are due so I can read them accordingly and hopefully have them ready on time. Could be modifyed for big tests or projects if you are in schools/university.
~ In my habit tracker, I have decided upon having four main categories of things I wanna track; Blogging, reading, my dachshunds and myself. You can add anything else you’d wanna remind yourself to do here.
~ Now my weekly spread is where I do stuff “wierdly”. Instead of planning ahead on my days (hourly or not), what I do is I just write ahead what days I work and etc. but then I go in and “update” that day on what I did.
Anything goes; what I bought that day, how I felt, how work went (and tips for that day), what post(s) I scheduled, I even put myself and the weein’s weight ! Basically anything I’d want to remind myself of for whatever reason; might it be to see how much time a thing I bought lasted me, or to compare if we gain/lost weight since the last time.
My reasons behind that is I just have nothing to plan for.. I’m not in school so no tests or homework for me, and neither does being a barista xD Using it like a little “daily journal” is the thing that works best for me and make sure I do write in it.
~ Also, no worries if you aren’t artistic ! really. I barely have any doodles in mine but on my calender page.. the rest of my pages are pretty plain. Only thing that matters here is using it.
Pros ;
~ With how customize you can make it, you can have all the pages you want; and all in ONE book. No need to have a pre-made planner, and another one added as you don’t have the place for it in the 1st planner.. all is put together in one and you are good to go!
~ Of course, I like my days in my weekly pages and my habit trackers to be full.. so when it’s not, I feel bad about it and it pushes me onto doing it. and I mean, it works! As I am someone who needs to be told what to do, my habit tracker is a really good tools to “remind” me to do some things, in a way.
~ If something isn’t doing your thing, just switch it next month ! Nothing is set and stones and you don’t need to have all the same setting for all of them.
Cons ;
~ It gets addictive. I bring it with me everywhere in the house so I can easily add stuff in it and look at my Habit tracker like 20times a day xD
How do you use/plan to use yours ?
Any pros or cons I missed ?