Bullet Journal’s idea is to simplify your life not complicate it. There are ways to get into the bullet journaling without adding another complex task to your day. Simple, beginner-friendly ideas will ease you into the practice and make it enjoyable.
Morning Pages are a practice of writing three pages of whatever comes to your mind as soon as you wake up. Created by Julia Cameron, the morning pages suppose to offload all the mental clutter in your mind that accumulated there while you slept. Morning Pages help you fight your creative blocks and get your juices flowing.
Bullet Journaling comes from bullet points that are used as a part of this journaling system. Designed for a quick note-taking, the system uses the bullet symbols to outline every item in your daily list. Various bullets are used to symbolize and give added meaning to the bulleted list.
You often find that junk journals come in a size of 5”x 8” and that is because they are created using a standard notebook. However, this size is not a standard across all junk journals, since junk journals are also often made from scratch and can be any size the maker chooses.
Mixed Media Art Journaling is a type of art journaling that uses various types of art supplies in the same artwork to create artistic expressions of a journaler. Mixed media art journals can have daily entries that combine water color, washi tape, glitter, chalk, drawings made with fine tip markers and calligraphy written with a fountain pen.
Traditionally the Travelers Notebook cover is made out of real leather which give the journal a very grounded, old-world traveler feel. The leather ages as the journal is used and the more it is used, the more of a character the cover takes on.
The Key is a set of symbols and signifiers that the Bullet Journal system uses to denote and mark up the tasks, events, notes, appointments and anything else that needs to be identified with ease. These shortcodes serve as bullets in the list of items and hence the system is called a Bullet Journal.
Ideal diary should be sized to accommodate your writing needs, the size of your handwriting and your journaling habits.
All you need for a Bullet Journal is a notebook and a writing instrument. Traditional Bullet Journal is a dot grid notebook and the suggested writing instrument is a pen.
Traveler’s Journal Midori is customizable, modular journaling system for those who want to journal about their travels and adventures. At its basic, it consists of a leather cover that is threaded with two or more rubber bands that can hold a variety of inserts that can be swapped to fit journaler’s personal needs.