It was just over a year ago
when Bullet Journals were all the rage. I wonder how many folks who jumped on
that bandwagon have since fallen off.
A bullet journal is a concise
way of keeping track of your plans and activities. It is not a wordy discussion
of your daily life. In its simplest form
it consists of a To Do list
accompanied by a Done list. I won’t
try to explain it here but here are some descriptive sites: bulletjournal.com
and this post on BuzzFeed.
For some, it becomes a
project in itself with expensive notebooks, fancy paper, and embellishments on
every page. You can spend a ton of money
creating one. Do a Google search on bullet
journal and you’ll find images of extravagant notebooks, a how-to video, and
lots of other relevant sites. You can
read very complex methods including daily log, monthly log, future log, and an
index. You can follow every aspect of
your life.
Mine is much simpler, and its
simplicity is what makes it work for me. My bullet journal is solely for
genealogy – my personal projects and my job as Education Committee Chair for
Indian River Genealogy Society irgs.org My total investment was for a vinyl 3-ring
binder, paper to fill it, and a pack of tabbed dividers. It doesn’t need to be
elegant, it just needs to be useful. I’ve whittled the recommended features
down to 3 items.
Projects is a prioritized list of things I’d like to
accomplish, both short and long term.
Future Log is a list of projects for the near future – one
sheet.
Monthly Log includes a calendar for the month, things I need /
want to do this month, and a daily log of what I’ve done. One or two lines at most.
If you haven’t tried this
method of keeping track, I suggest that you give it try.
Whether you make yours very
complex
Or simple as mine, it can be
a very useful tool
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