Any bujo wankers still around ?

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I have bought the beautiful notebook.
I have fineliners
I have searched Pinterest.

I have many ideas for things I want to track etc but

I am scared to start.

I am not artistic.
It is the most expensive notebook I have ever bought and I really don't want to spoil it

sack

Yes...it is me

Bujo wankers of mumsnet...unite!!

howling

I do love the book case...but you can see where I couldn't be arsed to draw the actual books over Christmas

The bookcase is my arty bit

I use those staedatler pens....no idea if that spelling is right and it doesnt seem to come through

Starting again this year in a basic notebook whilst I make mistakes, but I happened to notice my local Ryman has the special Bullet Journal version of the Leuchtern (?) notebook for £19.99. I'm finding the BuJo particularly useful now as my faulty BT line is making it difficult to access any of my online planning or diaries... maybe this year the habit will stick.

I haven't plucked up the courage yet to start a bujo as I think I overthink it!

My question is, do you sit and draw in your whole years calendar first? Because we might have stuff booked in for say August already?! And want to log it somewhere?

I totally overthink it. I know I do! How do you decide on your layout??? And what to include and where to put it??

Well yes but the OP is having trouble starting...so she needs to just start.

My point was not to get bogged down in what other people tell you it should be. What works for them might not work for you. Personally I have a "2 pages to a week" diary section at the front and anything else I fill up from the back

What I like is that, unlike a printed diary, you don't waste any pages if you miss a few weeks or months.

happy

No you dont

I do a month in advance and then after January i could pop in my diy list, or my holiday planner or whatever else occurs to me and then i might do February

Your index might look like this

1-2 January
3-4 diy list
5-8 holiday plans
9-10 crap i just thought of but doesnt fit anywhere else

Yeah exactly soup

My scrapbook stuff starts from the back as i need it separate...works for me

I don't use my index. I find that most of my stuff is chronological and easy enough to find and the other bits I want to go back to like my period tracker or book lists I just mark the edge of the page with a bit of washi so I can find them quite quickly.

Happyinheels that's where your future log comes in. Some people just do 6 months, I prefer 12. And towards the end of my 2018 bujo I've had a page at the back for 2019 that I've used to note anything that'll need to be transferred into my 2019 book.

I'm mixing it up this year and instead of my future log over 4 pages (I had 3 months in vertical columns per page) which worked great until both dc were at school and nursery and I had umpteen extra events to keep track. So I'm going to try doing my future log/monthly spreads in one, so a page per month for 12 months at the start to give me more space for writing everything up in advance. Then just do daily/weekly logs after that. Will see how it goes. That's the nice thing with the system though, if you mix it up and don't like it you just change it again.

I'm planning to start one in 2019 but thinking of the best way to do it is holding me back from getting stuck in.

I usually have different diaries/calendars for different things (work/dcs/meal planning etc) which work but are a bit cumbersome.

I was thinking of using a notebook that I already have but looking at the photos I think the pages might be too small, it's a bit smaller then A5.

So is bujo really pretty procrastination? Not a criticism, I love a bit lot of procrastination.

mother

In my case its a to do list

I dont really understand what you mean by procrastination

I know what the word means...just not the context

I don’t think the quality of my Bujo gets me Bujo wanker status, I’ve seen an awful lot of astonishingly wankerish Bujos on facebook and Pinterest. Pretty, but don’t these people have a life to lead?

If you are paralysed by the need for perfection from day one then you have bigger issues than what to put in your bujo. Start a few pages in with something that looks useful for next week and add the other things like habit trackers when you’ve got your hand in.

If you really cant bear it then start on a cheap notebook and move to your beautiful one later on.

For me having stuff written down is the opposite of procrastination, it focuses me on what I need to do, acts as a target and makes she i don't forget stuff. If anything though I can see how perfection paralysis could be a factor

Do you mix up work and personal stuff? I started using the bullets in a A4 work notebook just to try it out based on the last big thread on here. But I font know what to do with personal stuff. Mix it in to same book, have two books. Can’t decide.

It sounds like organisation to me, not procrastination. Although I do have the perfection thing, so the latter is a risk 🤔.

Bujo wanker watching with interest here!

In my experience they are a lot of effort. I organisation needs to be easy for me to use it. I do like to use a paper system there's something about writing things down that makes me feel more organised.

I'm planning on keeping work separate, for me it woudnt work to mix them up but as I understand it there aren't any rules

I'm wanting to start it for the first time but I can't find a nice bullet notebook to use. Can I ask everyone what they include in there's please?x

If you think it is alot of effort then don't do it. t wasn't supposed to be anything more than a paper system. If it is too much effort, then pare it down.

I literally just write what needs doing, when and when it is done. That is it.

Maybe it's the ones I was looking at on Pinterest, Rufus, the lists looked like they took far longer to make/draw/illustratrate than to actually complete

Can you use it as a good diary and if so, how?

I'm full of dull questions today I appreciate that this is a notebook we are talking about