The Dotted Journal: Getting Started

The Bullet Journal is one of the few best things to ever happen to me. I struggled for years trying to use normal planners, while also keep a journal/diary, and maybe another notebook for that and another notebook for this. I needed a way to keep everything in one place. No muss. No fuss. And the bullet journal gave that to me.

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I won’t go over what a bullet journal (or bujo) is, or how it works. But I will link you to the creator himself, Ryder Carroll, to give you an overview of what I’m talking about.

To sum up, the bujo has five main parts:

• The index
• The future log
• The monthly log
• The weekly or daily log
• Collections

But that’s not the focus here today.

The focus is how a bujo functions on a day-to-day basis, or in other words, how I use it on a day-to-day basis to keep track of all my thoughts, ideas, and to-do’s.

Grid Guides

I started my current journal in January of 2021, as it was a Christmas gift. For the first time ever, I made a grid guide. I never saw the use of it before, but honestly, I’ve looked back at it more than once. And it’s saved me a lot…