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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Many people may love the idea of a bullet journal, but feel intimidated by the design element of it all, as the practice does require a certain element of quality penmanship and basic drawing skills. Fortunately, there’s another option that makes bullet journaling more attainable for the masses: a premade journal. My favorite brands of pen include, amongst others, Pilot, Sakura, Tombow, Staedtler, Faber Castell, and Crayola. If minimalism bores you and you crave color, shapes, patterns, art, and lettering, then congratulations! You fall more into my camp, which I call camp maximalism. Don’t get me wrong, I love minimalism in other people’s journals. 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. Embrace it! Beauty for the Drawing Impaired Dot grid paper has just the right amount of print that helps you in keeping things aligned and, at the same time, is not distracting from your creativity and writing. Also, the best part is, if you want to show off your skills in social media, it is effortless to fade the dots, so it looks like you have the perfect penmanship without any help. Rhodia Dot Grip Notebook has an excellent quality of the paper, but the dots are a bit darker when compared to the other journals. So if having darker dots isn’t your concern, then you can happily choose the Rhodia Dot Grip Notebook.

A Weekly Log is an overview of your Tasks and Events for the upcoming week. It allows you to see a visual overview of your weekly schedule — you can think of it as your Week At A Glance.For more intricate art, I would use the Procreate art app to make whatever my heart desired. Then I would export the art as a PNG and bring it into my digital planner. The benefit of this method is that I can create a doodle or nicely lettered header and use it again and again. Ever had it where you fall in love with a song, listen to it on repeat for days, then find yourself tired of the song and sorta hating it? You might be tempted to do that with the bullet journal.

It’s a pretty notebook, to boot, especially since it comes in various colors that range from deep purple to a soft white. No matter what color you choose, the cover is made of the same high-quality, ethically sourced vegan leather. As you go throughout your day, you can mark items as complete. If you don’t complete all of your daily tasks, that’s okay! Review your Daily Log, figure out which incomplete Tasks are worth working on tomorrow, and migrate them to the next day. You can mark incomplete items as “canceled” or “migrated” if you wish. Made from sustainable materials, these dot grid notebooks are fully vegan and have a vegan leather hard cover.Keeping a bullet journal definitely helps me break down my tasks during the day. I don’t know if it’s just me but I remember things better when I write them down on paper so I still prefer to write everything on paper instead of my notes in my phone. I also tend to look at a computer screen aaall day so I try not to rely on my computer or my phone too much for things like planning my days and personal goals.