Dot Journaling - A Practical Guide: How to Start and Keep the Planner, To-do List, and Diary That’ll Actually Help You Get Your Life Together

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This is where the Paper Mate Inkjoy pens come in handy because they have a new technology that allows ink to dry 3 times faster, preventing smudges. Not only will a dotted ruling keep your lettering perfectly horizontal on the page, it also helps you to keep even spacing between letters and words, and to make sure your letter forms (‘e’s, ‘a’s, the tails of your ‘y’ and so on) are consistent and beautifully even. Many people are partial to spiral-bound notebooks since they easily lay flat and can be folded to reveal only a single page.

But I just can’t stop myself from making all kinds of bright spreads — and if you feel the same way, then that is marvelous. One of the strengths of the bullet journal is the fact that it becomes a time capsule without any extra effort. If a task is due in months, draw a left arrow next to it and add that task to the corresponding month in the future log.

So, if you are not interested in using a bullet journal as a creative outlet and keeping things minimal on point with the rapid logging, then perhaps you can skip reading this section altogether.

I so want to use water colors in my Leuchtturm1917, but after a bad bleed thru when I stamped something, I’ve been hesitant. Your pen tips will glide across the smooth pages without much bleedthrough to the other side of the page.I really am grateful for the talk of additional journals, and since I recently bought some of dot and some other planners, that the pages move, I’m thrilled. But I did keep them together in one journal for a long time, and that is a perfectly valid way of going about it! To be able to follow the original bullet journal method you really don’t need morethan a single pen you enjoy writing with.

If anyone gives you a hard time because your journal doesn’t fit their narrow parameters, shrug it off. You can also use the dots to create tables for columns of figures, ideal for doing business expenses or planning your savings for a holiday or vacation.Use the dots to form the basis of a bar chart, so you can fill in squares to represent your spending each month, or your progress through a book you’re reading. Use a highlighter to create line dividers, columns, rows, and other structural elements on your pages. having discovered that i likely have ADHD, or most of the ingredients, it seems like a BuJo will help me out a lot. There are a million fun ways to set up weeklies and experimenting with different layouts is a blast! There have been several times when I was hesitant to try something new, only to find that I loved the change and kept it long-term.