The Best Bullet Journal Ideas
Never have to-do lists looked more appealing. We show you the best 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 pursue our goals more effectively. How to do this? Through the sophisticated system you get 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 maybe a ruler!
Bullet Journal for a start
A bullet journal is usually structured as follows:
- Table of contents
- Annual Calendar
- Monthly calendar
- Weekly overview
The Bullet Journal is there for you – so that also means you can customise it to suit your needs! That’s how the first steps in the Bujo are:
- Start at the beginning with the table of contents. This will give you the necessary overview and you will still find everything important in several weeks. Leave enough space for the contents!
- Now create an annual calendar, also called Future Log. You can keep it very simple and, for example, divide the months into two pages and enter the most important fixed dates under each month in keywords. Or you can paint a calendar, enter holidays, work with colored markers, etc.
- Slowly get down to business: Start now with a monthly overview. Leave a lot of space for the individual months so that you can find all your tasks.
- Now you can create a weekly overview. Whether you create each day separately or leave it at the overview is of course up to you.
- Enter your contents bit by bit into the index at the front, so that you always have an overview.
The best Bullet Journal ideas
You design your Bujo according to your needs. We have collected some nice ideas for you, which might be just right for your journal!
Finding content alignment
It is best for everyone to find out for themselves what fits. The best way to do this is to try it out, try it out, try it out. The Bullet Journal can be arranged as you wish. You can give it a certain basic orientation:
- Manage tasks and appointments
- Formulate and pursue goals
- Give focus on topics such as fitness, language learning or creative projects
You don’t have to decide if you don’t want to. The ideas can be inserted and combined according to your needs at any time. Just like the following examples!
Tools for your best Bujo
Tracker
A popular tool among Bullet Journal fans are trackers, in German: Aufspürer or Fährtenfinder. They can be used to establish new habits or alternatively to create an overview.
1. establish habits:
Write down which habit you want to acquire and tick it off each time you have successfully completed it, e.g. drink 1.5 – 2 litres of water a day. Suggestions for such a tracker:
- Meditation
- Go jogging/doing yoga
- Healthy eating
- Keep a gratitude journal
- Affirmations
- Plan your purchases
- Say “I love you”
2. gain an overview for:
- Sleep
- Menstruation
- Countries visited
- Save
Moods
The mood barometer is also a kind of tracker. Here you record how your respective day was. The easiest way to do this is to use different colours. For example green for a good day, grey 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 shown in the picture below, each star stands for one day. Other ideas include balloons, hearts, fairy lights, flowers, and so on!
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 still want to do:
- Recipes
- Series/Films
- Packing lists
- Wish list
- Bucket list
- Page ideas for Bujo
- Books
- DIY projects
Goals
Formulating goals is also a nice part of a Bullet Journal. What are your plans for the coming year? How can you distribute sub-goals over the months and weeks in a meaningful way? Write down what is important to you, divide the path to your goal into smaller sub-goals. You can set deadlines for when you want to achieve something and note this in 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, in each of which you put a goal/subgoal. Now you can cross them off after each success or mark them in colour.
It is also motivating if you treat yourself to a reward for e.g. a completed bingo series. Then make sure that the goals in the boxes can be achieved independently of each other, so that you can complete a series. Or you can set a big goal at the end and the other boxes are steps along the way.
Good news page
Here you write down everything that went well, that you enjoyed or that somehow inspired you in this week or this month! Like the nice reunion with an old friend, the successful sewing project, the great job interview, …
Review
A review at the end of a (bujo) year is popular. Write down your highlights of the past 365 days and prepare them in a design that suits you. If you wish, you can also do the review during the current year for the individual months.
Design tips
No one has to have fallen from the sky as a gifted artist to keep a Bullet Journal. Minimalist and without frills, it serves its purpose just as well. If you want to breathe a little life into it, you’ll find simple doodles here that anyone can paint!
