So how's my BuJo shaped up this month?
This month took me a couple of days to get started because it didn't have the sense to start at the weekend. I ended up pencilling in the standard month stuff and then spent about a week inking over the top of it. Thankfully April ends on a weekend, so I'll be able to devote my time to getting everything drawn and inked in one go.
As usual, I began April with a review of March:
I've been exchanging washi tape with some of my pen pals and one
of the tapes matched the pastel colours I've been using for my March theme, so I
thought it would be a nice way to pretty up review page. This notebook doesn't
really need much in the way of jazzing up since the pages are coloured and have
little pictures on the corners, but I'm almost at the end of the gridded section
(and I'm thinking of moving on to the beautiful anthracite Leuchtturm book I
picked up in Wales rather than using the unlined pink section that's next in
this notebook).
I tried something slightly different for my month overview this
month:
I was struggling with having enough space for everything on a
single line; sometimes it would look a little jumbled where I would write
something in for the end of the day, then I'd get an appointment or something
would come up for earlier in the day which made it confusing.
I'd seen something similar to this layout on Boho Berry, except I organised mine into morning, afternoon and work. It's
fairly self-explanatory; work is where I make notes about my start/finish times
and holiday hours. I left space down the side for notes which I've not really
used. I'm not sure if I'll leave the notes section here or swap it out for
something else.
This month I've switched out some of the stuff from from April
Habit Tracker to create two different trackers:
I still have my standard habit tracker where I'm tracking the
'need to do' things, but I now also have a self-care tracker as well, which is
for the 'want to do' things.
These are for the things that don't need to be done, but
which are fun to do. It's sort of for those moments where I've checked off the
laundry, or gotten back from walking Tara, or just had a busy day at work and
want to reward myself with something I enjoy. The problem with those things is
that they don't always count towards any of my monthly goals or targets so it
feels a little like you're wasting time, when you're not; doing things just for
you which you enjoy is important too. So I've made a little tracker to stay on
top of that too.
This month I decided not to bother with a whole food tracker,
instead I've done a snack tracker:
I still want to do something a little bit different with this,
because I like tracking my food and meals, but I don't like this list format.
I'm actually playing around with the idea of doing some sort of weekly overview
in the future, with a page per week and including that information on the weekly
view (so I can see it week by week, rather than on a monthly basis). But it's
something I'll carry on playing around with in the future. As I keep saying,
that's the beauty of the Bullet Journal system. I'll just keep messaging with it
until I get a system I like.
I'm still just doing dailies where I track my fluid intake, list
my to-dos and write a little review at the end of the day. I don't have much in
the way of Collections this month. I'm still using my TV Series tracker to stay
on top of which episode of House we're up to. I've also got a special list of
things to do before my Mum and stepdad visit next month, and my latest
'collection' spread is a tracker for our FET.
I based this on the Calendex idea for keeping track of details,
such as appointments and events. I originally tried laying it out in the style
of a habit tracker but I needed it to run over more than one month, so in the
end I modified the Calendex format. Each day has six boxes for me to record
medication, appointments and other information. The facing page has a little key
to make sense of the colours and letters, as well as additional details (like
times of appointments).
My one other change this month was to move all of my pen pal
details out of my Bullet Journal and into a whole new folder, I'll go into that
on another post.
Do you Bullet Journal? What's working for you this month?
This looks good! And lots of good luck with the second round, hopefully phone networks and everything are on your side this time! Wish we'd both be counting down days (!) now, but hopefully next year for you then :)
ReplyDeleteThank you. Had a bit of a set back at our last appointment but hopefully I'll be right behind you in the next month or so. You don't have long to go now. :-)
DeleteI don't bullet journal but glad to see you're having fun with it.
ReplyDeleteThank you. I am, it's a nice little creative outlet for me and it keeps me organised as well. :-)
DeleteOh my gosh - you are so organised - I'm dead impressed that you've stayed with this system all year ... everytime I see you posting something about your BuJo I immediately head to my To Do list and try and get something else done, so thank you for (sort of) organising me too :) Have a great weekend.
ReplyDeleteThank you. It's made a huge difference to what I get done (now I know when I'm not doing something because I'm procrastinating, and sometimes can break things down into smaller chunks when I'm not doing them because they're unmanageable).
DeleteGlad that it's helping you out with your To Do list too, perhaps I should post about my BuJo a little more often. ;-)