#bujoformat

[hawtchocolate]

I've been leaning into the roaring twenties aesthetic and varying the headers on my dailies. It's fun to have a little structured doodle time/space each day

[hawtchocolate]

In my future log, each month’s list usually looks pretty short until that month is a few days away, because I only make a monthly spread the on the last day of the previous month, or sometimes the first day of the new month! But when I migrate notebooks, that effect is even more extreme. I switched out of this notebook at the end of December, so my January future log list is way longer than usual!

[hawtchocolate]

This last bujo kinda...fell apart a little earlier than I planned. I went on vacation before New Years, and I’m always bad at keeping up with my bujo when I don’t have a regular routine or todos. Then I went to visit family, so the problem persisted. So instead of barely squeezing everything in, I had a couple spare pages at the end to scribble some ideas for how to organize the next volume of my bullet journal. Spoiler alert, not much is changing!

[hawtchocolate]

The first spread of my fresh new notebook is, as usual, my index! I have kept most elements of my usual index--you can see my finished index from Volume 5 below. I did change a few details though:

I used washi tape to divide my lefthand page into two columns because I’m not sure yet whether I’ll need two columns for my index.

I moved my dailies index to the right so I have a natural third column for my collections index just in case, and can add in my Key whenever and however low down on that page that I want, when I figure out how much index room I’ll need.

And I remembered to end different months on my dailies index wherever they actually end, including February, which is 29 days this year!

[hawtchocolate]

How do I mark up the mini-cals in my future log, you ask? I only put Jewish holidays on the mini calendar itself, and use half-boxes to remind myself which sunset actually starts each holiday. And I put an X through each fast day so I don’t get excited thinking it’s a fun holiday and then check below and realize I can’t eat

[hawtchocolate]

This is the next evolution of my birthdays tracker! I had to expand it into a two page spread because I was tracking too many birthdays (and anniversaries) to fit on one page anymore! That meant taking the “gift ideas” spread I usually had on the opposite page and squishing it underneath, with four columns to write down ideas. I like it overall, what do you think?

[hawtchocolate]

planning to visit family next week and seeing everyone takes so much planning and scheduling! I used my clear sticky notes to make appointments that I could move around.

[hawtchocolate]

My back pocket

*I forget where I saw this idea, but it’s definitely not my original idea!*

I try not to buy a lot of new supplies, but I still have enough that re-swatching everything whenever I switch notebooks quickly stops being fun. When I reordered the same notebook for my third volume that I had already been using in my second, I used the last few empty pages of my second volume to swatch each collection of pens and markers I have, cut them out, and store them in the back pocket of Volume Three.

It’s been so convenient! I don’t have to re-swatch, plus I can pull out whichever cutout(s) I need at any given moment and hold them right up to the page I’m working on. I can even align them to each other to see how colors from different sets might look together, or whether they match.

Side note:

I also keep some sticky notes on the pocket (black, which I write on with white gel pen, and clear, which look super cool laid over some other bit of text or color), and on the occasions when I cut a part of a page off (say, for a dutch door spread), I stick it in the back pocket in case I need to use a piece to cover up a fairly large and annoying mistake later.