Bullet Journaling?

Hi, Katia,

I think I was the person who introduced Haribol to Bullet Journaling. I have never tried to do a paper BuJo, but I use some modified BuJo techniques on my smartphone, and have done so for several years. 

My Android smartphone has a stylus. I use an app called Squid for journaling, which lets you handwrite or draw and also digitally paste images onto each digital page. I make a new multi-page "Note" file in Squid for each new month, with a BuJo-style Index page near the beginning and a BuJo Habit Tracker table near the end. I really depend on the Habit Tracker to help me manage a complicated daily pill regime, but I also use it to help me keep approximate track of my sleep patterns, exercise, and so on.

The daily pages I put into each month's Squid Note are less BuJo-specific. I borrow the BuJo dot-grid background for my list pages, digitally pasted in as an underlying image, to help with neatness. I usually decorate my lists with a combination of digitally pasted art, nature photos, and colorful, homemade intention or affirmation "sticker" images, saying things such as "I CHOOSE TO TAKE ONE STEP."

I can easily copy, delete, rearrange, and color-code some or all of my lists--it's MUCH easier to do this digitally than on paper, though I still tend to spend more time doing it than I'd ideally like. I generally try to have a prioritized to-do list page for each day, but I do skip some days. I have tried organizing the daily lists in various ways, at different times--let me know if you want to know more about that, as there isn't really a clear "winner."

The other regular element of my daily journaling practice is not from BuJo--I think I made it up myself. As a person who struggles with clinical depression, I wanted a visual way to remind myself and feel good about each day's positive accomplishments, without accompanying reminders of things not yet done.

So, for each day, I have a page with a preset, pasted-image background of hanging planters, each labeled with a task/activity category. I draw a simple flower into the appropriate planter for each of the day's accomplishments, and write a note alongside of it, in green, saying what the accomplishment was. Bigger accomplishments get bigger flowers and more leaves. I can see at a glance if a day was more or less productive, and what general aspects of my life I put my energy into.

In addition to pages for Index, Habit Tracker, and daily to-do lists and accomplishments, I add pages to my monthly Squid Note files for notes about things I want to discuss in health appointments, projects I'm working through, useful or interesting info from books/presentations, and so on. I note these kinds of pages in the Index, to help me locate them, later. I don't index individual days' lists or accomplishment pages.

For details of long-term projects, I sometimes keep separate individual Squid Notes files, rather than using having them split across multiple monthly files. 

I hope you find something helpful, here, for your own experiments, whatever they may be!