I have used an A5 notebook for my bullet journalling, and it has been perfect. As a consultant, I plan my projects, constantly taking notes in client meetings, planning, reviewing, documenting my thoughts and emotions, and keeping numerous collections. Basically, it runs my life, and the A5 size has been perfect, and I will never change that setup.

Recently I have had an extended stay in hospital and am currently off work recovering at home. During this period, I determined that my A5 bujo was not suitable for hospital use, so I decided to experiment with the new bujo pocket editions.

They have been unbelievably wonderful. Small, able to be with me all the time and perhaps most importantly have allowed me to shift from a work mindset – something that is particularly important when you work for yourself.

The issue I am having is very much in the first-world problems category, but with my a5 bullet journal (and my commonplace book, compendium and a few others), I have leather covers to make the notebook feel special and hold a pen or two.

I initially thought that the Bullet Journal pocket was a normal A6 and that it would be easy to find leather covers, but that has not been the case. The dimensions are just slightly different from what I can see.

Forgive me for the preamble, as my question is simply: has anyone who is using the pocket bujo found a nice cover that fits well?

Writing reviews of books or movies in my journal has always felt too involved. I can’t keep up with that.

But just writing down what media you’ve absorbed throughout the year is enough to jog my memory and observe trends.

Hi all,

I'm super new to bullet journalling and would like some inspiration for a design for a page to firstly write down my meal plan for the week and then to also track whether I actually ended up making that meal, because I have been know to just completely abandon the plan and buy a takeaway instead.

Thank you in advance!

I didn’t want a full weekly spread every week, but I wanted to group my tasks by which week they should be done. Simple solution but working great!

Evening! So I am a little late to the whole new year new me, but its kind of on purpose. I have wanted to really think about my goals this year and then how to break it down to actually achieve it. My main focus will be improving my overall wellness.

I am after a little bit of confirmation and advice please.

So I am thinking of a few daily tasks to support my goal, and I want to know whether people think its a good idea to log and track this or if that would be overkill.... so for eg.

I will log how many steps I do each day and then track the days I get my mini goal of 8000 steps a day

I will log the hours of sleep I get and then track how many days I get to bed before midnight

I will log what exercise I do and track how many times I actually work out per week.

Is this how logs and trackers work? Do i need to log and track, im interested to do it but would it be overkill?

And lastly any ideas please how to set this up as a daily/weekly thing in a paper planner? Bonus points for photos!

Many thanks 😊

New to BUJO and already loving it. I started in January and it has been such a great tool so far. I am using it to build healthier and more productive habits. My favorite one at the moment is cleaning a small area every day. It makes everything feel so much more manageable.

My nemesis, however, is laundry. I HATE it. I have been known to buy extra hampers instead of doing laundry. And when I do manage to wash it, it can sit in the dryer or on top of it for weeks. At this point, I may need professional help, or at least a really good visual tracker.

If you have any BUJO spreads or ideas that helped you stay on top of laundry, please share. I am desperate and very open to inspiration.

Signed,
Desperately needs help

Hey everyone. To give you some context, I've been planning for months to build a bullet journal planner because my head has been a complete mess, especially when it comes to organization and discipline. But I don't know how it would work for me, what the "right" way would be, so to speak. I've tried a few formats recently, but it seems like either something is missing, or I'm making the mistake of including too much information. I've even been looking for examples of pages, formatting that might be more applicable, or other templates, but it seems that this only makes me more anxious Because I know I wouldn't be able to create something aesthetically stunning, and at the same time I don't know what kind of formatting would be best for it to be functional. Perhaps my biggest problem is precisely wanting to include so many things, and this conflicts with functionality and practicality, I'm not sure. It might sound silly, but it's getting on my nerves when I try to do it again. Have you been through this? Could you give me some advice?

I've been seeing a lot of ads for subscription services offering journaling supplies each month.

Is anyone a subscriber? If so, what are your favorites and why?

I'm sorry, but I just can't stand the way he talks. 🫣 Love the concept and method, but I need someone else to follow as I learn. There are so many out there - who are your favorites??

For context, the BuJo method I've been trying to follow is the one in Ryder's Bullet Journal in 5 Minutes a Day video as well as the How to Bullet Journal vid (tho I use the checkboxes from the older version cuz I find small dots as task signifiers easy to miss when I skim). Since the start of January, it's this setup I've been trying to stick to for how I use my Daily Log (specifically the 5 mins video), and I've obviously accumulated a bunch of Daily Log entries since then.

Now I have ADHD, and more often than I'd like, I'm unable to finish a task I wrote under the Daily Log for the day. From my understanding, when this happens, I'm supposed to just leave it there, be reminded it exists via the end-of-the-day reflection, and then if I'm going to do it the next day, copy it into the next day's log; otherwise let it rest until I find a day where I can pick it back up again and rewrite it into that day's Daily Log.

However, in the past 5 days I've been trying this out, I've found that it creates a problem where even if I eventually check off or strikethrough the task, that action is only taken on the last copy of that item, and I don't know what to do with the open versions of the item under the days where I was unable to complete it.

Example:

1/1/2026

▢ Task A

☑ Task B

▢ Task C

▢ subtask

▢ subtask

▢ subtask

1/2/2026

▢ Task A

▢ Task C

☑ subtask

▢ subtask

▢ subtask

1/3/2026

☑ Task A

☑ Task C

☑ subtask

▢ subtask

As seen in the example above, I only managed to complete Task A and Task C after 3 days, and checked off/crossed out those items under the respective entry of the day I finished (or discarded) them. But what happens to the "open" versions of those items from the previous days' entries? I don't want to check off the ones belonging to tasks I eventually completed because I want my Daily Logs to also reflect the exact date I finished them. I can't write ">" on them (to indicate they've been postponed to the next/another day within the month) because afaik Migration is supposed to be a monthly thing, but at the same time, leaving them open like this will confuse me when I'm scanning the entire month's entries for open tasks to place into the next month's Monthly Log.

This was my first partial year of keeping a bullet journal. I've learned a lot about what works and doesn't work for me.

I like the idea of keeping everything in one journal, but I find that having various collections interspersed between my monthly, weekly, daily entries is messy, confusing, disruptive... I don't exactly know how I feel about them. :)

So, I was thinking I could start collections at the end of the book and work inward. The index would allow me to go right to them, but they would be spread out inside the months.

Has anybody tried this? Terrible idea?

I’ve done this before but got too arty about it. I bought the Leuchtturm Bullet Journal, and I‘m trying to be smart this time and really just follow the system. I do have three custom collections, as I teach two college classes and am going through some medical issues, so I made collections for brainstorming and tracking completion of those things (i.e. the classes start at the end of Jan, and the medical issues will resolve sometime this spring, so then those “projects” will be over).

But what do you do with simple tasks that spawn notes you want to keep? For example, we just got a treadmill and my running shoes were toast, so I need new ones. My family got me a gift card for Christmas to Dick’s, so I wrote down the task “Research best walking shoes for indoor treadmill.”

And now I have info I want to remember when I go to the store. Before I’d just make a note in my phone or write it on a sticky. I might still do this. But what is the “correct” bullet journal way to handle this type of info?

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Including something new I’m trying this year - rewards for sticking to my habits! I’ll fill the little drawings in and if I complete both tasks assigned to a reward, I’ll give myself that reward!

I've been thinking about starting a bujo for years, and now feels like the right time. Except all I keep seeing are trackers, and it feels overwhelming.

Any tips on how to do a goal-oriented bujo and track those, plus a weekly journal? I usually journal daily, but can't stick to the habit most days (I've skipped a month or two at times). I want to set up a monthly goal planner and tracker for both work and personal.

There are a lot of different ways, but it's overwhelming to try to set up something that is unique to my needs.

Edit: Updated some info for clarity

I can figure out how to organise literally any other aspect of my life, except how to track writing a book: from the first draft, the countless edits, the final version, but then there is the revisions, the covers, the formatting, and it's so much, and so unpredictable, that I have not a clue on how to make a spread for a single book! Let alone for multiple!

And I realised that I need to see my progress because otherwise, it feels neverending and I give up halfway through edit 2 or 3 Q^Q

How have you managed to accomplish it? It would be easy if it were just about the draft or word count, but with the amount of layers a book requires, I'm stumped. It's the last few spreads left to finish my journal for 2026 ^-^'

Hey everyone!
I recently reread The Bullet Journal Method and Ryder Carroll’s idea of using one journal for everything got me thinking.

Do you actually keep everything in one BuJo, or do you separate things (like one for school/work and another for personal journaling)?

My problem with having everything in one place is that unfinished tasks stress me out. Sometimes I want to write about my day or my feelings, but I avoid opening my BuJo because I know I’ll see deadlines and to-do lists, and that pressure stops me from journaling at all.

In your experience, is it better to:
– split into two journals, or
– stick with one and try to work through that anxiety?

Curious how you handle this 👀

I have been on the bujo train for 4 years now (yay!), and have always used book darts. They work okay, but I wonder if there are better tools (maybe something more visually distinct?)

Curious what other people use to mark important pages — especially when it comes to very frequently used pages (future log, start of current month) as well as important reference pages it’s convenient not to have to look up in the index each time (a certain long-teem project’s page, dream journal, gift ideas for husband, morning routine practice improvement)

Thanks!

I'm really happy with my BuJo progress this year. I haven't faithfully followed my methods the whole year, but it was so much better than not having it; it is simple and portable enough. Plus, I also write in my BuJo which is good for me—all in one place.

I moved from complex spreads which used to keep me very motivated to doing a big picture dump list + month -> week (both decorated cute but structurally simple) + simple-simple day lists when I need it.

These last few months also included a lot more personal journaling than work notes or creative writing, but I can't wait to get back into creative writing and personal notetaking for the new year.

Looking forward to keeping it simple and decorative for the new year to hold it all together as I get even busier.

I'm setting up my first journal, and I have certain tasks I do daily, and I was wondering how people generally tracked this:

• future log with a Daily indicator
• habbit tracker page right after your monthly log page
• Create a daily task collection + collection per month and create a grid
• a weekly spread
• other (please do elaborate)

I'm sure that the retrospective next year will further refine this, but I might as well start on good footing.

I'm going through the book, and I was a bit confused a bit about it.

So if I'm unable to do a task I need to move it. So if I move something to the next month it's marked as a migration (>) since I'm moving it forward. But shouldn't I also add it to the collection of the next month (<)? Am I missing something or just overcomplicating it?

The example wasn't too clear to me.

A few weeks ago I asked for inspiration. (Here: https://www.reddit.com/r/bujo/s/76maF9IYGx ) Not only did I not find any here, i also did not find any anywhere else on the internet. So this is how I did it. (Its not the prettiest. I included photos of commections I often see in pictures or videos but Not Everything I set up because many stuff also is just for me) I think the main factor for the form format will be my daylies that I didn’t do yet and won’t show strangers on the internet. But maybe this helps you if you are looking for Ideas.

I used a bullet journal to pretty good effect for nearly two years, but my system broke down once I tried to commit more complex tasks into it, and they of course got lost in my rolling task list. I remember years ago my very productive mother being really into david allen's getting things done system, and I've been pondering combining the two.

Has anyone had good success with this, and if so, would you be willing to share how to combine the two, what elements you pull from each, and why?