Good tips.
You can get most of the how-tos on their website. But this book puts it in context and brings some important whys. Worth the reading.

this book helped me heal my *very* toxic relationship with bullet journaling (:

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Thought this might be kind of thin on content but came away with a lot of great ideas about organization and motivation. When I finished the book I immediately went back to earlier parts to put a few post-its on concepts I know I'll want to return to in the future.

I'm stopping at 50% complete. I'm a list maker and had a couple people mention bullet journaling to me and suggest I try it. So I was pretty interested. I found so much of this book unnecessary. Just tell me the system. I don't need a lot of fluff or explanation as to why I should use it. I'm interested or I wouldn't be reading. Okay, maybe a little explanation why is okay, but I felt like the author was just trying to come up with enough content to meet a page requirement.

While I found the overall concept helpful and picked up a few ideas, I found the process as a whole cumbersome and completely overwhelming. I don't think it's for me after all. I think I will stick to my own list making organization.

Re-read 2023 / Update

I find myself coming back to this book every time I feel my journal needs an update in order to better fit my current ‘life’ demands and circumstances. These are usually big changes when I ruthlessly decide what works and what doesn’t. I’ve been keeping a Bujo now for nearly 7 years and I still find it ever so useful, from organising my life to taking care of my mental health. Looking through my notebooks, you can see what I’ve liked and therefore used, and what I’ve not. Although I don’t draw, I still fall for the lure of ‘perfection’, hating when I make a mistake (still learning not to care about this, or rather appreciate it, like Kintsukuroi that sees beauty in breaks and imperfections). It is a bit nerve-wracking to finally take the step to get rid of certain pages or transform them quite drastically, but also positive, like a fresh new start.

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“It’s not about how your journal looks; it’s about how it makes you feel and how effective it is.

I’ve always kept notebooks, especially for work, which I would use in conjunction with digital tools, logging every day all I did, writing to-do lists, and planning projects. This proved to be a life saver on many occasions - and also surprisingly a source of enjoyment (the one of writing with a fountain pen on quality paper). When the Bujo trend wave hit me, about one year and a half ago, I was curious to see what it entailed and if it would be something for me. If you’ve seen all the examples floating out there, there are beautifully artistic and also very intimidating, and wouldn’t work for me, particularly in a professional environment. However, I could see how the basics of the system had value, especially the Index - how can something so simple have such a huge effect! - and added them to my arsenal.

Queue Now. Ryder Carroll’s book surprised me a lot! I was expecting information on how it all started and how the method ‘works’. And this is all here, in very clear writing. It is after all a simple idea, easy to put into practice, and for ever adaptable! What I wasn’t expecting was the Why! With the aim of being the most efficient and meaningful one can be, Carroll strips everything away, borrowing concepts from Stoicism, Mindfulness, and Japanese schools of thought, to name a few. It all actually makes a lot of sense, in a very down to earth kind of way. These, of course, you can take or leave. I personally was intrigued, perhaps because I have recently been looking into those philosophies to help me deal with the stresses of every day life.

In all, a very interesting and useful read.