To-do lists have never looked more appealing. We show you the most beautiful bullet journal ideas for beginners and bujo professionals!
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 to get you started
A bullet journal is usually structured as follows:
- contents
- Annual calendar
- Monthly calendar
- Weekly overview
The Bullet Journal is there for you – that also means that you can adapt it to your needs! Here are the first steps in the Bujo:
- Start at the beginning with the table of contents. This gives you the necessary overview and you will still find everything important in several weeks. Leave enough space for the content!
- Now create an annual calendar, also called the Future Log. You can keep this very simple and, for example, divide the months over two pages and enter the most important fixed dates in key words under each month. Or you can paint a calendar, enter holidays, work with colored markings, etc.
- It's getting down to business: start with a monthly overview. Leave plenty of space for the individual months so that you can get all your tasks done.
- Now you can create a weekly overview. It is of course up to you whether you create each day individually or leave it at the overview.
- Gradually add your content to the index at the front so that you always have an overview.
The best bullet journal ideas
You design your bujo in a way that suits your needs. We have collected nice ideas for you that may be just right for your journal!
Find content orientation
It is best for everyone to find out for themselves what fits. This is preferably done by trying, trying, trying. The Bullet Journal can be organized as you wish. You can give it a certain basic orientation:
- Manage tasks and appointments
- Formulate and pursue goals
- Focus on topics such as fitness, language learning or creative projects
Aaaber: You don't have to choose if you don't want to. The ideas can be inserted 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, in German: trackers or trackers. This allows you to establish new habits or alternatively create an overview.
1. Establish habits:
Write down which habit you want to acquire and check it off every time you have successfully completed it, e.g. B. Drink 1.5-2 liters of water a day. Suggestions for such a tracker:
- meditation
- Jogging / doing yoga
- Eating healthy
- Write a gratitude diary
- Affirmations
- Plan purchases
- Say "I love you"
2. Gain an overview for example for:
- sleep
- Menstruation
- Traveled countries
- Save up
Speaking of saving! Do you already know the 3-day rule ?!
Moods
The mood barometer is also a kind of tracker. Here you record how your day was. The easiest way to do this is to use different colors. For example green for a good day, gray for a mediocre 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 one day. Other ideas include balloons, hearts, fairy lights, flowers, and and and!
Lists
A list does not have to be a to-do list with a deadline, but acts as a kind of memory. There you enter everything you want to do:
- Recipes
- Series / films
- Packing lists
- Wish list
- Bucket list
- Page ideas for the bujo
- Books
- DIY projects
aims
Formulating goals is also a nice part of a bullet journal. What are you planning to do next year? How can you sensibly distribute sub-goals over the months and weeks? Write down what is important to you and divide the path to your goal into smaller sub-goals. You can set deadlines until when you want to have achieved what and also note this on your calendar pages. A bingo page (see next point) is also helpful. You go girl!
bingo
A bingo sheet in the Bullet Journal is the perfect overview for your goals. You design a page with boxes, each with a goal / sub-goal. Now after each success you can cross them out or mark them in color.
It is also motivating if you treat yourself to a reward for a complete 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 series. 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 everything down what went well, just gave you joy or somehow inspired you 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 look back for the individual months during the current year.
Design tips
As a gifted artist, no one has to have fallen from the sky to keep a Bullet Journal. Minimalist and without frills, it also fulfills its purpose. If you want to breathe a little life into the whole, you will find simple doodles here that everyone can paint!
You can find more exciting ideas for DIY here. Have you ever tried scrapbooking? You can use it to make every photo album a real highlight. And with embossing cards – and also your scrapbook or bullet journal – become really chic!
In the BRIGITTE community you can exchange ideas with others about DIY projects.
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