This is what my weekly spread looks like in my BuJo, it's taken me a while to find exactly what works for me but I finally found it. Obviously I censored some stuff because privacy is still a thing that exists despite what the internet may lead you to believe.
Saturday is my big cleaning day and I have something coming up so I figured I'd get my home as clean as I can before that happens.
new year's planning...also oops cuz i just realized i made a typo (no way would i survive a one-month long course in organic chem...thank god they don't exist 😅)
honestly so not ready to go back to school, i just wanna finish all the programming courses i started and read all the journal articles i want to (they're a large contributor to the many browser tabs i have open 😭). it's not because i don't like what i'll be learning about - the journal articles i'm reading are on life sciences topics after all. i dread the rigidity and unforgivingness of the semester and lonely feelings that come with it. i feel so much more free and like i have a choice in how i spend my days when i'm not in school.
study stats (50/10): 🍅🍅🍅🍅(? i stopped counting after 3h)
Set up a minimalist week in my Hobonichi Weeks Mega with me! 🥰
I had a little chat with a friend this morning about how self care is SO important. Especially when you’re so focused on productivity and checking off your achievement to do lists that you forget to stop, breathe, and do things for yourself. For me, seeing little reminders in my planner like, “play video games” or “spend time with God” or “drink water, dummy” helps remind me all week that my priorities should be less about “churn out things to make other people happy” and more about “I’m a person who deserves happiness too”. 🙏
I’ve spent the last couple weeks focused on journaling, house maintenance, and playing a *lot* of video games! 😂 I beat Last of Us 1 Remastered on PS4, beat Pokémon Legends Arceus (and am now playing the after game), bought Last of Us 2 and am working through it, have been enjoying some new Steam games, and just spending a lot of time in my Bible and with God who is my strength and my shield. ✝️ If it means I’m not posting much to my social media, so be it! Because I’m having fun, and I’m happy!
But don’t worry. Lots of new content coming soon. I have boxes and boxes full of cool stuff to show you, am replenished with ideas on cool new stationery content to dish out, and am just overall excited to dive back in. … When I feel like it. Lol.
Hope you all have a wonderful Monday, and a blessed week ahead! Don’t forget to work self care into your week this week. Put your oxygen mask on first, y’know? 💖
I wrote a very long rant about the expectations most BuJo videos, tutorials and blogs set. Then I decided to share the basic setup instead, in hopes that those who need a starting point without fancy additions will find it. Here ya go:
Setup order
Home & Key
Index
Future Log
Monthly Log
Daily Log
1. Home & Key
The "This book belongs to" page and the key. Setup once per book.
Here's the classic key:
2. Index
Setup once / twice per book.
Take 2 pages, write index on top. That's it. You can add a vertical line in the middle of the page to save some space, but not even that is necessary.
As you go on journalling, planning and making lists, You'll write down pages & their content here so you can find what you're looking for easier in the future.
3. Future Log
Setup once per year.
This is where you put events, deadlines, appointments and the likes so you dont have to flip through multiple months to find what you're looking for.
For the whole year take 4 pages. Ideally 2x2. Title them "Future Log". Draw 2 lines on each to mark thirds. Put the names of the month in each third. That's it.
Fill it in by writing down "day: Event".
4. Monthly Log
The month as bird's-eye view. Take 2 pages. Left will be your calendar. Write the month at the top and then down the left 1-30 (or 28 or 31, depending on the month). Now check your phone or pc or another calendar to see on which day of the week this specific month starts. Put the initials of the weekdays next to the dates. That's it.
If you like to have the weeks during the month jumping out, add a horizontal line at each end/start of a week. Fill in events, due dates, tasks you want to do on a specific day.
The right page is for stuff you want to do this month, but don't want to schedule right now. Also intentions and a month's end summary have their place here if you want them.
5. Daily Log
Here's your day-to-day. Write down today's date and weekday if you like. Format it however you like. e.g. "Monday, January 16, 2023" or "M16" or "Monday 16" or "01/16". Doesn't matter. Put whatever you enjoy.
That's it. The daily setup. beneath that you can now write down your tasks, thoughts, events in any order and mixture you like. However it comes to mind, put it here (with it's assigned key).
Bonus: Weekly Log
If you'd like to have an on the nose weekly block to see throughout your day-to-day, you can put that here as well. No need to assign it a whole page in advance.
Simplest way is basically copy & pasting that bit from you calendar in the Monthly Log. Day numbers and initials then your event / scheduled stuff next to it.
Today is the last day of the first week at my third bullet journal (and my new system!), I should do a reflexion about these days and make some choices, but honestly, I'm SO tired, I just wanna go to bed and watch TV show until my eyes can't stay open anymore.
decided to add some color asides from blue to my bujo so that i (hopefully) don't feel so stressed when i look at it bc of these flower/leaves/vague heart things
learning:
finish mol bio from last week ✅
finish psyc from last week ✅
review for mol bio quiz ✅
quiz ✅
finish biochem section 5/5 ✅ (woohoo, done with carbohydrates and now onto lipids...)
review for mol bio midterm ✅ (i'm almost done reviewing the first week of material but since i basically only have 2 more days to review, i have to cram a LOT more in tmr - the goal is to have half or less of M2 left to review on wednesday... 🤞😣)
even tho i didn't get enough sleep, today was more productive than it would've been otherwise bc i left my phone in another room. this is a note to self to keep doing that. not the not sleeping thing but the phone thing.
self-care:
physio exercises ✅
journal ✅
aaand now all i wanna do is sleep and have this day be over already... also, it's 63 days until christmas! i can last 63 days! ...right?!? 😃🥺😬😮💨😤
My Hobonichi A6 Techo saves my life every morning. I am extremely scatterbrained and easily distracted, and the ONLY way I can focus is by bullet journaling in my Techo. I’m a homemaker, and my A6 helps me keep track of everyday tasks that would otherwise slip my mind among my stack of constantly evolving to-dos. I don’t have the time in my day to perfectly decorate pages with washi and stickers or design intricate works of artwork for every spread, so a minimalist bujo approach is my go-to every day. Plus, the act of checking off tasks I’ve completed is really rewarding! I’m looking forward to trying out a Hobonichi Weeks Mega for 2023 and seeing if my approach translates well into the vertical weekly format. Do you keep a bullet journal? What planner are you using? Are you sticking with your current setup for 2023?