To-do lists have never looked more appealing. We show you the most beautiful bullet journal ideas for beginners and bujo pros!
A Bullet Journal (Bujo) makes our everyday life easier and helps us to keep an eye on our tasks and better pursue our goals. How it works? The sophisticated system gives you the perfect structure in your to-do lists. To start a bullet journal, all you need is a notebook (with page numbers), a pen and possibly a ruler!
Bullet Journal for starters
A bullet journal is usually structured as follows:
- Table of contents
- annual calendar
- monthly calendar
- Week overview
The Bullet Journal is there for you – so that also means that you adapt it to your needs! Here are the first steps in Bujo:
- Start at the beginning with the table of contents. This gives you the necessary overview and you will find everything important again in several weeks. Leave enough space for the content!
- Now create an annual calendar, also called Future Log. You can keep this very simple and, for example, spread the months over two pages and enter the most important fixed dates in keywords under each month. Or you draw a calendar, enter holidays, work with colored markers, etc.
- It’s slowly getting down to business: start with a monthly overview. Leave plenty of space for each month so you can get all your tasks under.
- Now you can create a weekly overview. Whether you create each day individually or leave it at the overview is of course up to you.
- Gradually enter your content in the index at the front so that you always have an overview.
The best bullet journal ideas
You design your bujo to fit your needs. We have collected great ideas for you that might be just the right thing for your journal!
Find content orientation
It is best for everyone to find out for themselves what suits them. This is preferably done by trying, trying, trying. The Bullet Journal can be aligned as desired. You can give it a certain basic orientation:
- Manage tasks and appointments
- Formulate and pursue goals
- Give a topic focus, such as fitness, language learning or creative projects
Aaaber: You don’t have to decide if you don’t want to. The ideas can be added and combined at any time according to your needs. Just like the following examples!
Tools for your best bujo
tracker
A popular tool among bullet journal fans are trackers. This can be used to establish new habits or alternatively create an overview.
1. Establish habits:
Write down which habit you would like to develop and check it off each time you successfully complete it, e.g. B. Drink 1.5 – 2 liters of water a day. Suggestions for such a tracker:
- meditation
- Go jogging/do yoga
- Eating healthy
- Write a gratitude journal
- affirmations
- plan purchases
- saying “I love you”.
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2. Gain an overview for example for:
- Sleep
- Menstruation
- countries travelled
- Save
moods
The mood barometer is also a kind of tracker. Here you record how your respective day was. This method works easiest if you use different colors for it. For example, green for a good day, gray for a mediocre day, and black for a bad day. How the design of your mood tracker looks in the end is up to your imagination! As in the picture below, each star represents a day. Other ideas are, for example, balloons, hearts, fairy lights, flowers, and and and!
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lists
A list does not have to be a to-do list with a deadline, but acts as a kind of storage. There you enter everything you want to do:
- recipes
- Series/Movies
- packing lists
- wish list
- Bucket list
- Side ideas for the bujo
- Books
- DIY projects
Goals
Setting goals is also a nice part of a bullet journal. What are your plans for the coming year? How can you sensibly distribute sub-goals over the months and weeks? Write down what is important to you, divide the way to your goal into smaller sub-goals. You can set yourself deadlines by when you want to have achieved something and also note this in your calendar pages. A bingo site (see next point) is also helpful. You go, girl!
bingo
A bingo sheet in the bullet journal is the perfect overview of your goals. You create a page with boxes, each with a goal/partial goal. Now you can cross them off or mark them in color after each success.
It is also motivating if you treat yourself to a reward for completing a bingo row, for example. Then make sure that the goals in the boxes can also be achieved independently of one another so that you can complete a row. Or you set a big goal at the end and the other boxes are steps on the way there.
Good news page
Here you write down everything what went well, what just made you so happy or inspired you in some way this week or this month! Like the nice reunion with an old friend, the successful sewing project, the great job interview, …
review
A look back is popular at the end of a (bujo) year. Write down your highlights of the past 365 days and prepare them in a design that appeals to you. If you want, you can also do the review for the individual months during the current year.
Design tips
Nobody needs to be a gifted artist to keep a bullet journal. Minimalist and without frills, it also fulfills its purpose. If you want to breathe life into the whole thing, you will find simple ideas for drawing doodles here.
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You can find more exciting ideas for DIY here. Have you ever tried scrapbooking? With it you can make every photo album a real highlight. And with embossing, cards – and also your scrapbook or bullet journal – become really chic! Did you know that you can make a great DIY notebook out of scrap paper? Here’s a guide to Junk Journaling.