I love the "I'm not original, I stole everything". I've never identified with something as hard as that

You know... I may not be a guy but for once it was great to watch a video where the bullet journal didn't look like a scrap book. :) Whenever I watch those other videos I feel like I have to compete but yours was very simple.. and made me rethink how I bullet journal. Your Bullet Journal is very clean and simple looking. :)

"Anything that you look at that you think is cool, I STOLE IT." Hahahaha!

im an artsy girl, but when it comes to work and organsation it has to be minimal and to the point

You are correct, we hardly see any males doing videos on their BuJo methods. Thanks for posting yours. I've been using the BuJo for over a year now and it has really improved my organization and memory.

I'm a girl, but I suck at making things look artsy. So I really really appreciate this video.

Neat to see a more minimalist approach! Whether it's got to do with gender or not, I think journalling is feeling 'instagramization' - where sharing something (possibly very personal!) on the internet means people make that much more effort in the presentation. Stealing that monthly spread where two days (I'm gonna pick the weekend) are on the second page!

I love how few videos there are about bullet journaling from a guy's perspective... Considering the creator of the bullet journal is a guy

Love that sentence! What gets measured, gets managed. It totally sits well with me.

Grateful to see another man's perspective. I plan to introduce it to my high school students and want to make it relevant to my guys, who will not be impressed with all the colour and stickers! I think my high achieving boys will see the advantages. I am trying to figure out how boys would carry it around. Women often keep them in their purses.

Thanks for not yelling, "HEY GUYS!" you are the first one to speak facing the audience and deliver a quality review that is brief but detailed. Again job well done.

this guy is so likable! ive been doing a bullet journal for a year now and this is the charm and excitment i think everyone should have when they start! never seen someone exude passion like this. Ones journal doesn't need to be flamboyant of theatrically visual. the simplicity and functionality sells it. i love this guy, this is someone who makes you happy to listen to. fantastic video!

This was refreshing. Bullet Journals have become works of arts. I can't compete. Not a guy, but don't want a scrap book.

High five to all the Germans that laughed at his pronunciation of 'Leuchtturm' xD

I watched about 5 YT vids by the ladies and it was starting to look like scrapbooking. Glad you're here..

I am not a crafty person so I really appreciated the simplicity and thoughtfulness of your journal. Loved it!

Dude... I know this is an old video but thank you so, so much! I am a woman who has been putting off bullet journaling because I was intimidated by all the cutesy/pretty/super artistic journal examples. The extent of my artistic skills are doodling Sylvester the Cat - very badly. Thank you for showing that simple and clean is a great thing!

This helped me so much!!! I don't have ANY drawing skils, so every time I saw those girls bullet journals full of complex drawings and colourful stuff, I kinda thought that it was an impossible task to do and ended up getting even more confused about how I should do my bullet journal (plus how long they took drawing all those stuff? Who has this time?). Anyway, thank you for showing your amazing and simple to do bullet journal, it made me really inspired!

THANK YOU! when i first heard about the bujo at the beginning of the year, i immediately noticed that about 98% of inspiration found online is coming from a very sugary, cutesy feminine place. being a woman myself, i don't necessarily want everything to have hearts and flowers, and i definitely think there is a huge demographic being underserved, especially since this system is so helpful and life changing. i've been thinking about going public with mine for a while, so it's super awesome to see someone else doing so! YOU GO, DUDE!

Very refreshing to see a simple layout! Thanks for sharing!

Thanks for sharing your video. I like that you did decide to share, because most people who make these videos are females. I also like how you are honest in the fact that you did get ideas from other people, and that most of the things you used were from other people. Keep up the good work.

I'm sooo glad I found this video! The vast majority of bujo tutorials include sections I'll never use. I especially love your Brain Dump section and the associated signifiers.

Okay this interpretation is genius. It’s so visually accessible but basic which is what I most want

"I stole the lettering. I stole the picture. I stole everything. I'm not original." Love it, inspirational :')

Thanks for this! Really love your openness! The income stream split thing is great, as I'm in that same boat. I still think I'm going to keep my calendar in Google Calendar, but migrate everything else out. I like digital reminders!

Wow this may be my favorite BuJo walkthrough... I've tried keeping a bujo before, but I overtime was overwhelmed at how many pretty artsy bujo walkthroughs are out there. Stumbling upon this video, I decided to start bujoing again!

I loved how simple your journal is, I mean the whole idea a bullet journal is to be able to keep track of things in an organized way without having to spend much time writing everything down, I am going to tell my husband about this I am sure he is going to love it too.

I love the uncluttered functional approach. Thank you for this! Most videos I've seen are very artsy and involved. My mind gets distracted enough, so I don't want too many distractions in my bullet journal when I'm trying to focus and get things done. Nice helpful to-the-point video!

Man it is so great to find anther dude who is in to this type of stuff. Now I have never done a bullet Journal. As I have no idea what a bullet journal is or what it's for. Even though I have watched many KZfaq videos on this subject it just dose not compute to me. I just have started just plain journaling. As I some what know how to do that much. I have to ask how in the world do You rite that small. I wish I could rite small like that. But my ritting is big and always has been. I have tried to rite small but it all ways go back to big. Great video by the way.

Hey Matthew! Thanks for the video! Glad to see a simpler, not girlish layout. BTW, Leuchtturm is German and pronounced L-OI-SH-T-T-OO-R-M ;)

I'm appreciating the courage to share openly. I found many parts of your approach more useful that some of the other techniques I was considering. I'm also appreciating your effort to share about a different style/approach than what you had seen that was very art focused, for an approach that makes more sense to you. Thank you!

the first one to actually show the entire content. I watched a bunch of these walkthrough videos and it has been either overly done scrap book sheets or they cover most parts that i can't get any idea of how to design. thank you for simply showing it without trying to hide parts in the name of privacy.

"Anything you see that looks cool... I stole it!" #winning Great setup for your BuJo. I can't do all the decorative stuff that girls typically do in a bullet journal. I just can't. Thanks for sharing your version.

Little help with the word Leuchtturm: L - obvious EU - as in the English "Oi!" CH - as h in huge T - obvious U - as o in do RM - quite obvious as well Thanks for this video! :)

I am not a dude, and I'm just now looking into bullet journaling, but I wanted to say that I appreciated your video. I love the gratitude log idea, and your simple approach.

I love the simplicity. I am sooooo busy with work, a post graduate diploma and being a mum to two teenagers that I don't have time for the beauty of the bullet journal pages. I was feeling like I should draw them. Seeing yours in great. I've got an A5 Filofax with a day per page diary that I use. I need it to work for me and that is the beauty of the system. I need to make future logs/monthly though because I have been avoiding them. I need to see the month at a glance and even 6 months so those will be added to mine. Thanks for sharing. It's great that you plan to get together with your wife and share all the things you are grateful for - thanks :D

Thanks for sharing. Other than Ryder's original bullet journal video, I haven't seen another male making a video using a BuJo. I think it is so sweet to bullet journal together with your wife! I'm glad to see you see the benefits of using one. Wishing you all of God's blessings on your new blogging venture!

Thank you for being a guy who actually posts about BuJo! Been doing these for over a year and I have a hard time figuring out things for me to try. Thanks for mentioning that. Edit: please send me a link to your blog. I'm a college student at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary 👍🏼

The clearest example of this I've ever seen. I've been wanting to get into bullet journalling for a while but this is the only beginner tutorial I've seen that isn't completely overwhelming but still really nice to look at. Thanks!

Thank you for this! A lot of of people are quick to judge and call bullet journaling something that wastes your time rather than what helps you get things done in an efficient way. I personally am someone who takes the time in the weekend to make my BuJo colorful and artsy, just because it makes me feel happy inside. While I sometimes rely on digital reminders, my appreciation for doing things the analog way will never die. Your video is awesome in demonstrating the fact that a bullet journal is what you make of it. Love your style of minimalism and clarity. The 'brain dump' is definitely a spread I'd love to try out in the coming month. Thanks for the inspiration! :)

"I stole the lettering, I stole the picture, I stole everything" 😂😂😂

“Good artists borrow, Great artists steal.”

I agree with Anannsul. I will def refer back to your Bujo when I start my Bujo. I got so sidetracked with all of the Bujo's that look so professional and scrapbooky. Thanks to your Bujo, I gained my motivation and confidence back. Thankyou.

A female coach was teaching me to bullet journal. She kept talking about coffee with friends and a night out in the movies. I mostly wanted it for income goals and taking on projects. But still learned how to bullet journal regardless.

"no! I stole it." 😂😂

Really appreciate your perspective. I hope that doing this with your wife is a blessing to you both. One suggestion: provide links to the things that inspired you - the images you used, the ideas for layouts. It can help others find things that inspire them, and it gives a little throw-back to the folks who helped you out. :)

As a woman who's a committed, lifelong Tom-boy, I really appreciated your perspective on this! I doubt have the desire for frilly or colorful stuff in my journal, so it's encouraging to me to see how cool it looks without all the colors and doodles that I don't think I'll ever do.

Loved your “borrowed” system. Have gone through a zillion videos but going to steal from you. Nice, down to earth and functional. Thank you.

Loved your sincerity throughout the entire video!

"Leuchturm... I don't think anyone knows how to say that." Except. Yknow. Germans.

It makes me so happy that there are guys out there like you who bullet journal too! I always see girls who bullet journal but never really guys. You're awesome!

I'm starting college next semester in the fall and wanted to stay organized using the bullet journal system, but all the examples I have seen made it seem I needed to invest a lot of time into it. but I'm grateful I came across your video. it really helped me see the possibilities I can have with it, while doing minimal work, and still be organized.

I'm a bit more minimalist myself, and that was super useful. Thank you!

I need this so badly in my life. I am honestly so disorganized. How I ever manage to upload any videos on my channel is beyond me. Great work, I heard about this idea a while ago but of the videos I've seen I like your layout the best

I appreciate seeing everyone's take on the Bullet Journal system - some take it farther than others with decorations. But, it's great to see one that's not too heavily decorated. I just started one myself (almost done with week one) and I don't plan on putting too many colorful bells and whistles to it and focus on clean functionality. Thanks for sharing! Would love to see your progress and how your Bullet Journal evolves. Kind of inspires me to make a video about it too. It gets intimidating seeing all the super decked out ones.

1:17 I’ve never actually seen a guy bullet journaling on KZfaq now that you mention it. Plenty of minimalist journals, but no dudes. Def subbing

I really like this straight-forward style

Thanks for that insight ! Despite being a woman, I am in absolutely no mind to spend hours designing a journal that would soon become a drawing book instead of an organiser. Clear, simple, to the point : I'm going to steal your bujo !

you do not know how many bullet journal videos, posts, blogs, pictures, pins i looked at and felt like my bullet journal needs to be perfect. im quite artsy (im good at copying lol) and i get so much pressure for no reason. i needed this tbh

Even though I'm a girl with artistic tendencies, I prefer this bullet journal over all of the others. Lower maintenance and less cluttered. I love it! Thanks for sharing! 💙💙💙

I love your set up. I'm excited to be doing a bullet journal. I tried planners last year, but wanted to wait to the new year to start my bullet journal :)

Could you possibly make more bullet journal videos? Also possibly make a beginners video please.

I used to see many bullet journal book before .I thougt Bullet Book had to be colorful and beautiful but when I saw this video I recognized that Bullet book should be detail about dream,target,purpose .... push me much more motivated and handle my issue at present.I think your BJ it's so great and tks for sharing it with us !

Thanks for sharing!! Shading the time bar is a great idea so you’ll know how much time you’ll actually have to do other tasks ☺️☺️

First man I've come across. Good for you! 😊

LMAO - yours is way more decorated than mine!

This is very practical and direct. No need of making it pretty and doodly. I love it!

I gotta be honest, I've watched many of these videos and yours is by far the best I have seen. You got to the point and have everything someone might need. Bravo!

Love it (from a woman's perspective)! You're probably the second dude I've seen do a walkthrough. Like you, I'm not into too much fluff. If I do, I use very minimal. I like it simple and functional. Haha! Yup! No one can pronounce that notebook! Will you be adding any collection/list pages in your Bujo? I also appreciate that this is not a "plan with me," which I think is a bit boring to watch :-D I look forward to seeing more walkthroughs! Thanks!

As a german it kinda made me crack up, when I heard him pronounce Leuchtturm. But then I remembered how bad my accent is, when I speak english....

Your journal seems minimalist but simply artistic. I've seen many bullet journals out there and those are just too complicated or too simple. Thanks for giving me some ideas for my bullet journal :)

It is refreshing to see a plain ol' bullet journal. Like, I plan to make mine simple, maybe add a splash of color here and there as decoration, but put most of the emphasis on journaling.

“Not to get into generalizations” *immediately gets into generalizations*

I'm a little confused as to what goes in the monthly log and the daily log. It seems redundant to me. Can you clarify how they're different?

I fully support this! Nothing more attractive than an artistic man who also journals! Your wife is so blessed to have you! Keep teaching the men, Matthew!

It was great to see a straight-forward, clean and simple approach to bullet journaling.

One thing that really always bugged me about the over-prettifying of bullet journals is that spreads cease to actually be functional. I saw a "mind map" future log where all of the events were just thrown somewhere on the page and there was a line leading to the month they belonged to. How is that useful for anyone? Also the wasted space. I think the washi dividers on dailies are really cute, but that's wasting like 10 lines on a page that could actually be used. I love the aesthetics, but my approach is more to create and use a functional spread, then decorate the extra space, margins, and embellish the room I left for my titles.

cool to see a males way to make a bullet journal thanke you

Dude This is the Bullet Journal on Steroids, I wanted to incorporate my financial tracking, and a way to track doing some daily must do things that I should be doing, but I forget to. I'm extremely happy that I ran into this. I love the habit tracker and the gratitude log. After I got engaged I started recording daily when I would think of a reason I love my fiance, or I would note something that she did that I loved about her. Your guide is excellent and inspired me and shown me a way to keep everything in one journal. Good luck with the blog.

Super helpful! Thank you :) I'm making a Bullet Journal for myself and my boyfriend and I was trying to sort of figure out how to keep it simple and realistic but at the same time obviously challenging enough to keep him organized and motivated. This was perfect!! Really helped me weed out what just isn't necessary.

Bible everyday! Amen, brother!

I’m watching this from the future.

i love the artsy things and i have my own preference on bullet journaling styles. i personally don’t like the simple and to the point style bc it doesn’t make it fun for me. but i see why people do, especially really busy ones. but i loved your personality and seeing a guys perspective, considering that’s who created this in the first place.

Your habit tracker is great. People make them needlessly complicated yours is simple and gets it done and it still looks visually pleasing on the page! Top notch, dude!

Artsy comments were hilarious lol. what? Don't wanna borrow my Hello Kitty washi tape? Seriously the bujo was invented by a guy.

"Leuchtturm". Pronounce it "Loikt-Turm". Greets from Germany!

Matthew, wonderful tutorial here; very clean (uncluttered), efficient trackers, and absolutely LOVE the Blog Tracker and Gratitude Journal. I particularly like that you have created a "whole system approach" through integrating business goals and gratitude into the "task" value is the time availability bar above each day. This allows realistic "to do" lists in planning out the week and month. Excellent work here, thank you so much for the obvious time put into sharing.

This was super nice! As a girl, I like the more colorful spreads but, personally, I use a spread similar to yours. It's very practical and easy to use and the neutral colors look neater to me. Also, pointing out that mostly girls showed off their journals was smart. I hadn't noticed but it's so refreshing to see from the other side sometimes. Thank you very much for this video!

It is pronounced "loishttoorm" :D

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I thought bullet journals were really complex so I didn't even bothered to try it, but after watching this video I realized that it'll be helpful to organize my life and that i don't need many colors, drawings and stuff. So thank you! I'll completely use this video as a kind of inspiration for my new and first bullet journal! :D

This was so helpful! I started a bullet journal with artsy embellishments like most of the videos I saw, but I felt more stressed out than ever trying to keep up with it! I've recently gone more minimal and really feel like the system is much more beneficial for me this way. My daily spread is very similar to yours, but I need to incorporate your "brain dump" pages. Thanks for posting!

It's great that you're doing what works for you and not letting "the norm" stop you. The fact that women's journals tend to be more decorated is a product of the larger gender conditioning but that's a long story. I for one am not a guy and yet my planner is clean and streamlined. Much plainer than yours in fact. So I don't think genders should be put into boxes and categories, because we are all a mix of either one. Our physical gender does not decide what we are as a whole.

all my journals are brain dump!

Matthew - I watched your video two years ago and decided to incorporate this method in my work environment.

Thank you Matthew, I work in a lab and don't need all the hearts and stars, therefore this very simple log is efficient for me. Of course there are things that I would absoluterly change to my needs, but the explanation was all I needed to try and costumize mine. Cheers!

Leuchtturm is german: pronounced; loy-h-t-tour-m -> the "h"-sound like in "humor"

Whaaaaaaaattttttttt!

Finally one that is sustainable to maintain! Thank you so much.

As a gal who has a non-decorated, purely functional bullet journal (though I can appreciate the artistry that many put into theirs), I love videos like this. Thanks!