How to Start a Bullet Journal

If you've even glanced at Instagram or Pinterest over the past year, you've probably peeped the new grammable craze sweeping social media: Bullet Journals.

What is Bullet Journaling?

Before we get started, it's important to first define bullet journaling.

Bullet Journaling is a super fun journaling system created by Ryder Carroll that will seriously transform the way you organize your life. Unlike your regular agenda, a bullet journal doesn't have any of the pre-laid-out boxes and sections you're used to. It's just a regular journal (with a dot grid) that you customize in whatever way works best for you.

Here are the basic steps to setting up your own bullet journal!

Make an Index

The index, which takes up the first few pages of your journal, is where you'll keep track of the page numbers of all the things that go in your bullet journal, from you daily to-do lists to your Homecoming meeting notes.

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Key

The key details the signifiers you'll use to differentiate everything you're writing in your journal, like a bullet point for a task, a circle for an event, and a dash for a note.

Future Log

The future log is where you can look at the next six months of your life at a glance. In this section, you're not tracking anything you want to do in the immediate future, but rather the things you want to get done at some point down the road.

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Monthly

The monthly is a bird's-eye-view of your current month. In this spread, you write down all the things that you have planned this month along with the tasks and goals you want to get done throughout the month. This spread will serve as a reference throughout the month so that you can stay organized daily.

Daily

The daily log is where you track your day-to-day tasks as you go.

Collections

Collections are where you can have the most fun in your bullet journal — because you don't always want to just write down all your tasks and goals. Sometimes you just want to track the movies and books you want to get through this year or track your mood throughout the year!

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