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"It's low commitment" binds a fucking book ALRIGHT.

"why do I own four whiteboards?" you were a math major sabrina

" How many planners do you own that are half empty" Well Sabrina, I like to think of my planners as half full. Even though I just filled out the first two pages and the rest is blank.

I think the reason bullet journaling fails for so many is because it was invented as a simple tool by someone with ADHD but was popularized as "here's my sucluent themed page of the month calligraphy, new washi tape, and gel pen colors for May!" Which really is great for a hobby and expressing your creativity, but it overshadows the practices that help and support those who need help and support. The actual organization/memory stuff comes from things like rewriting your to do's.

"I need to be okay with making ugly things." NO seriously this is the reason why I've kept on bullet journaling even though I mess up and skip months and stuff. Being a perfectionist means that you feel like if you can't do something perfectly than it's not worth doing at all. Bullet journaling broke my perfectionist complex and has improved my mental health tremendously.

"I can't find a perfect planner so I took up bookbinding" is pretty much peak ADHD. At least for meeeeee!

I'm calling all my small goals "side quests" now.

I APPRECIATE THIS SO MUCH. Ive been keeping a bullet journal for four years now; its been a nonstop absolute disaster and it works SO WELL for me and my adhd. i use notebooks that cost $7 at michaels and those crappy bic ballpoint pens. Doing daily spreads never worked for me, so i have a spread that covers two weeks, no structure to it, just that my written out to do lists tend to fill up two full pages when i cram them all together and write small, so thats what ive stuck with. And then between those pages, its just a normal journal. Its honestly been so liberating to have my planner be a mess because its MY mess, it makes sense to me, and if a month comes along where i need a bit more structure, i can MAKE a bit more structure but then i can also decide that the structure is DUMB and return posthaste to chaos. So often i'll bring up that i keep a bullet journal and people will balk and say "oh i could never do that, its such a commitment" which like-- yeah if youre making every page look like the sistine freaking chapel, then yes it is a commitment, but if you just let it be a M E S S purposefully make it something you aren't afraid to muck up a bit, it becomes so much more approachable. It takes me maybe a minute to set up my two week page (fortnightly page?), and maybe two minutes to set up a monthly page. It does not have to be a commitment. But it can be SO helpful to have a place where i can just upend my brain, contain the disaster, and move on with my life. NORMALIZE REALISTIC BULLET JOURNALS. I AM SO HERE FOR THIS.

"Why Women's Jeans Don't Have Pockets" would make a great essay idea.

'i need to be ok making ugly things' is such a powerful statement for a goof about bookbinding, nice one sabrina

I do something similar to normal journals. I call it my “Sticker Book”; it’s where I give myself a sticker every time I’m sad, then document what happened to make me sad. I always do it because when I am sad I feel the need to get my feelings out. I would recommend it :)

The problem with bullet journals is that people get so wrapped up in doing such super arty and beautiful spreads. Sometimes I fall out of using it because I don't have the headspace to do it, but I can always go back and I'm learning how to adapt my bullet journal to cover these gaps.

One sidenote, people also stop googling bullet journaling less once they've figured out what works best for them. I'll google around when I set up my new journal in december/january each year and don't really the rest of the year. sure, I fail at the system all the time, but i have used it semi-consistently over the past 5 years.

I feel like a lot of the issue with getting into bullet journaling is that the only people who publish pictures of their bio have really nice fancy ones bc if yours is ugly it doesn't seem worth publishing and then people who are interested only see all of these super fancy elaborate pictures which is overwhelming to get into and then you feel inadequate if yours doesn't look as pretty as all of the ones online and it's this huge downward spiral

"look at failed attempts and see why they weren't working then fix it" is such simple advice but like... holy cow I needed it.

The easiest solution to the fear of having blank spots in the journal is: don't make daily pages ahead of time. Every morning I write the day of the week and month and start my day. The next morning I do the same right after where I left off the day before. Some day's entries are half a page, some a page and a half.

10:56 "I need to be okay with making ugly things." I NEEDED THIS THANK YOU

Something that will shift your perspective on filling stuff out: it’s not ugly it’s organic/one of a kind. Learn to love organic stuff that’s not perfect and you’ll have an easier time filling out your bullet journal. I thought myself this by looking at flowers and plants and obsessively reminding myself that they are not beautiful because they are perfect and the same. They are beautiful because each of them is exactly NOT that.

I love that you bought supplies to make a journal from a dollar store where they almost always have journals that size for a dollar.

Is anyone else desperate for an update? Sabrina, did your bullet journal actually help you organize your life? Your adoring fans need to know!!!

"I need to be okay with making ugly things" I don't bullet journal anymore but that was the singular best lesson I learned from bullet journaling

I’m hoping for a “part 2” once the month of Feb is up ☺️ I’d love to know how well it worked for you and what kind of modifications you bring to it (if any) 😯

FWIW I've begin testing Midori or "traveller's style" journals lately, where you slip small refill pages/signatures into a softish cover, held in place with elastic bands. I found you can use a sewing machine to go through at least ten pages of paper with no trouble, and that is plenty of sheets for me to use in a month, and it's easier than hand-binding. The theory is that you maybe have one signature just for calendar/daily journalling stuff, one for collections or special interests, and maybe one extra for reference or other long-term uses. You swap signatures out as they are used/filled up but the overall journal continues. I made my cover out of some scrappy patchwork fabric I sewed, and I used fusible interfacing to stick it to some scrapbook cardstock I had, and I added a snap closure which also gives me a place to keep a pen. And I didn't have elastic cord so I cut a t-shirt into 1" strips and stretched it to roll into cord, the way you do with masks, and sewed that onto the spine to be the holders for each signature. I like that the journal is handmade out of stuff I had lying around, it shows off my creativity, and like your idea any section is totally renewable every month or whenever I want a fresh start. I don't know whether this journal will be totally durable long-term, but it was fun to make and if it wears out I can make another in an afternoon just like I made this one.

I'm writing my bullet journal for about four years already and yeah, the most important thing is to customize: 1. I buy the cheapest notebook that still has a nice paper. 2. I print out monthly calendar that I created for myself (with extra space for notes for each day) and stick it to one page, and write notes for that month on another page. 3. I lay out my plan month by month, also doing my budgeting at that time. 4. if I need to go to details: I have a separate notebook for that (you can also reverse the same notebook and start writing from the back cover) where I create daily to do lists. 5. if I didn't complete any particular task in that day (or month) it carries over to next one. 6. I don't over-stress: I do to do list only when I have lots to do, when I didn't do my monthly planning at day one I still have 30 more days to go, my handwriting is legible only to me, anything I complete gets crossed out so my journal is nothing like the cute images you can find on google search. 7. I write about only what interests me and not about what internet told me what would be cool to keep in bullet journal. And that's what works for me :)

I’ve been using a planner for a few years now, but mostly because I get extremely anxious that I’m forgetting something important. I need to write stuff down so I don’t just obsess over all the stuff I still have to do.

Being willing to let go of having a "pretty" planner has been one of the biggest helps for my productivity. I started with monthly planners that I made too and I just recently switched to a rocketbook so now I just erase them when I'm finished and start over.

when i first started bullet journalling, i had three goals in mind: 1. open your journal every day. you don't have to write anything in it, just open it and look at it. 2. your journal is not a job. don't spend time making things or drawing or whatever if it doesn't make you happy or improve your life. and 3. forgive yourself. i know i fell off journalling so many times because I'd miss a day or a week or a month and would punish myself for not being disciplined enough. that mindset was the biggest thing keeping me back - i didn't want to start journalling because I didn't want to fail. but journalling isn't a competition. it's a tool to help you live a better life, whether that be by organising or by reflecting or anything in between. i think by being kinder to ourselves and being reflective, as you said in this video, we can use journalling or other organisational tools to the fullest extent. we spend so much time trying to fit our lives into these rigid ideals of what the organised person should be doing, rather than responding to the needs of our life and asking ourselves what is it that we need. we're not organised because we beat ourselves up for not being organised, and are discouraged from taking the baby steps to build to a more organised life.

Things that have worked for me: 1. Being okay about it looking like shit -The fact is, you're never going to like everything you create and that's not necessarily a bad thing. The trick is being okay with it and realizing that as you do it more, you're gonna get better at it. 2. Being okay not doing it everyday -I feel like every day doesn't need planning. There are days when you just have to do nothing. Putting too much work on your table all the time, I feel like, is what makes us fail. We have to realize that we can do everything all at once and there needs to be days in between for breaks. -I only ever plan on my bullet journal when I'm busy or when I have a lot of things to do or when I get so overwhelmed I don't know which to do first I do it everyday for however I feel like doing it but when it starts to feel chore-y, I stop doing it I do enjoy habit tracking though. I do this mostly on non-planning days. I just fill out my trackers which I find is satisfying.

I highly recommend looking into Traveler's Journals. It's basically *just* a leather binding with an elastic band and then they also sell paper to slide into it or you can just fold paper to fit. At the end of the month you can just slide the paper out and staple it together and then start with all fresh paper the next month!

You ever watch something and you're like "they've probably got undiagnosed ADHD. Should someone tell them to get that checked out, or?"

"I don't have a printer bc I'm not 50..." Oh man. I feel called out! That made me laugh so hard! That's a subscribe right there. Love your sense of humor and your practical approach to all of this.

"why women's clothing sizes are wack" would be a really good video ngl

Next video: I bought man jeans for the pockets

Sabrina: I'm not organized, so i'm going to procrastinate about not being organized by coordinating and organizing an elaborate video about researching about diaries and making my own organizing diary and filming and editing how i am going to be more organized now. Also Sabrina... in two months: I have done nothing. Read "Atomic Habits" and "Switch - Chip & Dan Heath"

Sabrina. You and I are both 22 year old filipino Canadian nerds and a day ago I decided to bullet journal again and a month ago I got BACK into bookbinding. How in the heLL-

"not gonna show my butt cause you guys are weird sometimes" LMAO only sometimes?? That's an understatement. Great vid

When I started bullet journaling I was doing mostly as a TO-DO list and it wasn't working until I started using it as more of a mood journal and it has helped my mental health a lot

I switched to bullet journaling after having a mini breakdown about how my planner was set up (it was genuinely terrible) and never looked back. It became this perfect mix of organizing my life the way I want, cost effectiveness (I'm about halfway through after about 2 years of using it), and being an artistic outlet. Even though I haven't used it much since I got my degree last year, the best part is that when I actually need to plan things in my life again I can go right back into it. Anyways, time to get back to the limbo of waiting to hear back from my graduate applications lmao

Hilariously enough I did the exact same thing like 3 years ago when I was first exploring bullet journaling. My style now involves thick paper and a lot of art, but my first attempts were in what I called "junk journals" that I made out of regular printer paper folded over and stitched together. It's really great for getting over all your mental hangups about "ruining" nice notebooks [which I definitely struggled with] so you can experiment & figure out what you like.

I’ve been making my own “bullet journals” for 3? Years now, I’m on my fourth journal. What have I learned? 1. Be okay with imperfection and ugly handwriting 2. Let it change so that it is whatever I need it to be at the moment. I keep everything in my one journal: calendars, to do lists, journal entry, writing ideas- that way it’s all in one place. I feel like this video is a great start for struggling organizers!! You pretty much covered any advice I can think of. In the end, I’d you don’t like something about your journal and it’s not helpful to you? ~don’t do it~ good luck everyone!

Sabrina and Amanda ULTIMATE CROSSOVER why are we not all freaking out about this?????

I've made access databases to organize myself, in the end, gave up bcs I couldn't keep databases organized

I've just found this channel and watched two videos featuring you, the one where you read a book in five days and this one! your quote at 12:49 really spoke to me. "Sure, a simple dinner a week from now might just be dinner, but 10 years from now, it could be the anniversary of something bigger than you could have ever imagined. *Our lives are made up of little moments, thoughts, and - to-dos!"* your videos are great and i love all your commentary and personality!! keep it up!

I made my own planner for this school year. It helped me so damn much. I got to choose what I put into the yearly spread, the monthly spread and the weekly spreads. I got to put those in an order that made sense to me and I added the things I needed to know all the information about a task in one look. I'm honestly proud to say that I have used my planner much more than ever before and I want to use it because if I didn't I would've wasted a lot of time.

*makes “ugly” journal* Still better than anything I’ve ever made And would probably be more useful as well it’s so easy for me to give up on analog systems and my Notion is close to overwhelming my iPad

You just read my mind! I'm in class right now wondering this very thing 😅

This was a surprisingly relatable video! I've also always had trouble with journals because they felt too pretty or too complicated for me to use. I think the reason I always got so frustrated with normal journals is that I'm an artist and a perfectionist (a deadly combo lol). I always felt like my journals needed to be beautiful, creative, and artistic so I could show them off, but I also never felt like my journals were pretty enough. I kept starting and stopping journals so many times that I've basically created a barely used journal graveyard. This fall I tried filling out a tiny journal that was laying around my house (it was probably a stocking stuffer from a Christmas a while back that I just never used). The journal wasn't super pretty and it was really small, so I thought "hey why not?" and tried filling it out. Each day I split up my journal into two sections - journal (emotions and a summary of my day, this took up two of the tiny pages) and plan for tomorrow (a simple checklist of items I needed to do the next day or hoped to do the next day, this was one page). I started with my overall mood that day (one word), then I had a daily question (two lines, and finally, I had my overview of the day which was in bullet point format (this took up about the rest of the two pages). My plan for tomorrow pages were just that, a simple plan for the next day. I quickly became pretty addicted to this journal, because it was small and I didn't feel like I could really mess it up, it was simple and used the same format every day, and it worked as a diary and a daily planner but it didn't require me to look too far into my future so I could live in the moment. I've continued using the same journal format for about five small journals now and I can't imagine my nights without it! If anyone else is looking for a simple format for a journal that has absolutely no pressure to be creative, I'd recommend something like the format I use!

"I made this for February because Ive already given up on January" same

I love that you went into the history of journaling and why people did it in the first place. It makes it seem less trivial

oh my god I LOVE the idea of monthly "side quests", definitely going to be incorporating that into mine in the future. I've been bullet journalling for three years now and what Iove about the system is that you can ALWAYS change it, add to it, and keep it working for you. This is the first time I bought a journal for more than $10 because I always assume I'll forget to fill it out, and now, 3 years into it, I'm finally willing to commit. I love looking at my old bullet journals, particularly the ones I used while travelling- it reminds me of the little memories and difficulties that fade easily.

This is really similar to the only "bullet journal" I've ever had. I didn't bind mine from scratch lol but I bought a small notebook that could fit in my pocket and tailored it to my needs (specifically I started the "notes" section on the back page so I could flip to it easily, why don't more journals do that?) with really bare-bones "art" (I literally just wrote the dates of each week in cursive lol). It was really useful for getting through one of the busiest years of my life! Hope yours is helpful too :)

I use a regular notebook for my daily life, events of what's coming and such. I love the space in cheep, basic notebooks, and the freedom to organize my day the way I want to. :) I use it every single day without fail. I'd probably go crazy without a notebook. Haha

I had a printer through all of college... but then again, multiple college friends called me "grandma"... so I guess that tracks.

I used to put everything into one journal, daily thoughts, grocery lists, to-dos, then one day I was like digging through 5 old journals trying to find a song I wrote and it hit me..... different journals for everything. So now I carry around a stack of like 4 different journals, all for different things, and honestly.... I'm still a disorganized mess

I suggest reading Ryder Carroll's book on the Bullet Journal Method because he really explains why that system works for him. He developed it to be a catch-all book to keep up with an adhd mind. I recommend it to anyone who's bounced off bullet journaling because they're not good at the aesthetic part that gets featured on instagram and youtube. (Saying as someone who's been following Amanda Rach Lee for years. Her stuff is lovely and it's to the benefit of the system that she can do such pretty stuff with it and have it work the same as I can do a much more pared down version and have it work.) It's been super useful for me, also as someone with adhd. The past several years I bought a dot-grid notebook and used one book a year. This year I was going to do the same with a notebook I had kickstarted (with fountain pen friendly paper because I don't do pretty layouts but I use a pretty pen) still hasn't arrived thanks to the current unpleasantness. I ended up buying a page-a-day planner with the paper I wanted and I've been using the bullet journal notations within it. I combine that with a google calendar for work (because my boss needs access to my calendar to see I've got stuff scheduled) and using scheduled daily reminders on my phone for every day scheduled stuff like taking meds. I've also got a catch-all doodles notebook on my desk at all times. If I end up with any extraneous notes in there I will put the page number of the notes into my planner. It's not ideal, but I very rarely actually have to look back on brainstorming notes more than a few days after they're written.

I think you've got a good idea here. I was the same way: I liked the idea of the bullet journal because the layout of a daily planner never sat well with me. Either too much space or too little. I mark the month in my journal, but I mostly use an online calendar too and just write in the days as they happen without pre-allocating space to them. Some days take two pages, others take two lines. If I want to draw or graph something, I'll fill a page that way. It's very liberating and the first time in my life I've completely filled a notebook. I use the Leuchtturm ones because I like the size, the pages that come already numbered, and the marking being little dots rather than lines or grids.I also enjoy videos of the really elaborate and pretty ones, but mine is just like 95% text. I've made peace with that. Good luck, I hope you'll find a form that works for you!

During lockdown (1- haha living in the UK...) I picked up the bullet journal I began when I was like 12 and began filling it out on a day-to-day basis (because no plans!), with just todos. Literally wrote the day of the week under the last thing, and bullet-pointed my plans. The next month, I added a habit tracker for accountability. When I went back to school (briefly), I drew in a mini calendar for the month so I could put in events. Each day I added what I needed: a little diary entry, a box for homework, a list... My bullet journal was finished within months. So I invested in a new, fancy one, and have filled it out the same way. No, it isn't really bullet journaling, but it works for me. In your words, Sabrina, I have become ok at making ugly things (*cough* when I forgot my exercise book for an economics lesson *cough*)

that’s the prettiest homemade journal I’ve ever seen in my life

The most efficient journal I’ve had ever was the one in which I only wrote in pen and pencil and cared little for the aesthetic (I was VERY busy) the cutest ones I’ve dropped in July at BEST

i’ve found combining planners with the sort of principles of bullet journaling to be the best for how my mind works. because i like the physical calendar with dates, but i’m also 100% fine using empty space for my own purposes. for example: if i’m not doing something over a stretch of days, i can use those calendar blocks for notes, $ saved, or groceries i need.

Moral of the "Sabrina is creating notebook": If you want something good, do it yourself.

I was literally watching this video while binding my own crappy sketchbook so I don't have the pressure of ruining a fancy sketchbook, and that you did the same thing!

"i don't want to buy a thirty dollar planner only to ingore the guidelines" Hobonichi users left the chat

Who was the wierd one that made sabrina scared to turn around d on camera, smh I'm disappointed in y'all.

I dig the new collaborative direction your channel has taken.

Since you want to try the no-frills version of bulletjournal (I'm trying it myself), I recommend the original video of how to use bulletjournal. Another great video is Matt Ragland's 2021 Beginner-Friendly Bullet Journal Setup. The best suggestion of all is to take ONE week at a time. Experiment ONE week at a time to find what works for you, THEN you can start filling layouts in advance. Also... when I decided to make my own journal I simply got graph paper, folded in half and "binded" it with an elastic (despite the fact I actually know how to professionally bookbind in 4 different sewing ways +variations because sketchbooks) lol So, I'm impressed you decided to saddle stitch for your first journal.

"Expensive $30 planners" *laugh cries in hobonichi products*

Hi! Actually you have a detatchable blue thingy on your box cutter that you can slide off of it and remove the blades this way! It is MUCH safer and you do not need to ruin towels for it)

This actually really encourages me to pick back up bullet journaling and it really brings me to an answer. i think i gave up on my last attempt because I actually couldn't figure out a way to understand my own life and the drive behind it. Doing bullet journal kinda force me into a format or something, that at the time, I did not have enough mental energy to figure out and hence I gave up. And if any of you are also like that in the comment session, it's always okay if you stopped, maybe you just need more time and place to figure out what your life actually is surrounded by and then find the format of journal that fit you

I started bullet journalling last year and I love it. I had to get over the need to get it to look pretty and that I would have to have the one perfect structure. After that, it was extremely helpful because I could adapt it to my changing needs and in 2020 they changed a lot. I don't stress out if I haven't used it in a couple weeks. I just pick it up again. Maybe do a short brain dump of the things that happenend in the meantime - maybe not. I first heard of bullet journalling on the YT channel PickUpLimes. She usually does recipes and food related stuff but at the start of 2020 showed her bullet journal layout and I loved the miniminalist setup and gave it a try. Best decision I made last year. ;-)

I started bullet journaling half way through 2020 and I’m still going strong! My top three biggest recommendations are: 1. Start simple! When I began I promised myself that I’d start with the basics (i.e. yearly, monthly, weekly and daily to do lists). That’s it! I then found that throughout the process of filling my journal out each day/ week I naturally started adding new components. For example I started tracking how many books I read each month and non-essential things I wanted to buy (which has been really handy for those times when someone asks you what you want for your birthday and you forget everything you’ve ever wanted). Starting simple is best because there’s less pressure and it reduces the guilt of not filling out unnecessary components which could lead you to giving up. 2. Use the rolling weekly system! There a videos on youtube explaining this system but it basically stops you from having to write out incomplete daily tasks again and again and again. I use it for when I have certain tasks that I need/ want to get done in a week but don’t have a specific day that it needs to be done on. So instead of moving it and rewriting it each day, as I continued to fail to do it, I would write it in my ‘weekly’ section and then cross it off whenever I got it done that week. That way you’re only writing it once at best, or weekly at worst if you don’t manage to get it done a specific week. (For context tasks which I need to complete on a specific day gets written into my daily section- tasks with no real ‘due’ date get written in my rolling weekly section) 3. My final piece of advice is just to mess it up as soon as you can. Make a mistake, get it over and done with, and just move on. Cause the more time you spend worrying about it being perfect the less useful it’s going to be. For example, things that I did to help myself move on was not allowing myself to use a ruler because I knew that if I started then I would never be able to not have perfectly straight lines and that just wasn’t practical! You just have to accept that it’s not going to be perfect all the time. Overall it is Imperative that you go into bullet journaling with the understanding that it is a tool, not a decoration. That’s not to say that it can’t look nice but it needs to be functional and effective before anything else! Good luck everyone!

whoopsie is this my excuse to get into bookbinding 👀

Love this whole video it really captures so many of my thoughts about journaling/planners/etc. But also when Amanda came on I Out Loud gasped lol love this crossover event!!!

"relatively low cost of entry" yeah, i'd say so. to get started with bullet journaling all you need is a pen or pencil and a 0.99cent notebook from walmart. That's what? $1.50? And if you already have a half empty notebook and basic writing utensil laying around, you don't need to spend anything to get started. Dot grid notebooks are nice once you get the habit established, but they are by NO means a necessity. :)

9:24 "not gonna show my butt cause you guys are weird sometimes" laughed recognized the implications of a culture that hyper sexualizes and objectifies women cried

I'm wondering if you've checked out HowToADHD (another youtube channel) - Jessica made a great video about bullet journals, and even if you don't have adhd, I (a person who does have it) resonate with a lot of the experiences you described here, and I've found Jessica's videos crazy helpful

I was decidedly wrong about the Twitter emoji thread.

I've had this problem since I was like 7. I've tried writing a diary, I tried notion, obsidian, bullet journaling. But every time I tried something I'd do it for maybe a week before I'd get overwhelmed by my own system or just forgetting. Recently tho my mum gave me a little book, it could fit in my pocket so I had it with me everywhere. And I just started writing in it. My plans, my feelings, funny quotes, ideas. Everything i thought twice about, I wrote in my little note book. It works amazingly. I don't forget it as I find myself looking back at earlier pages and I don't get overwhelmed by having to follow a system since I don't have one. My life also feels a lot more meaningful now. I love thinking about a future me reading this book, remembering things I otherwise would've forgotten.

writing down tasks (even if I'm the one wanting to do them) becomes an imposition, so my brain is not going to function and will skip everything that is written on my journal, going towards forgetting about the journal itself. so I just write down appointments. at the end of the day/week I recall the things I've done and happened and resume them. that way I get a little sense of accomplishment without forcing myself to do the things I enjoy risking to make them a burden. I do what I do, when I feel like doing it in the fist place. it's all about being gentle and finding the best way to cope with life. we are all different and need comprehension and a lot more love, and the only ones knowing how to do all that is none other than ourselves.

I’m holding onto my happy planner, full of weird pages, nicely decorated pages in the center and all my to do’s spilled on the end of the month where I put special pages just for that. I can’t bullet journal, I need squares

another thing! sometimes the planning systems you use will need to evolve as you change! pre-COVID, sticky notes worked really well for me for planning out my days, but now--in an environment with ample distraction--i am only productive when i set time blocks where i work on certain projects and i need to jump from subject to subject in order to stay interested

as someone who does bookbinding on the semi-regular, ms sabrina's first book attempt was rather good! for something like a bullet journal that you would use pretty frequently, a sturdier binding method with multiple signatures would probably work better, but it looks like it held up pretty well :DD

i love the fact that you incentivate us to think and adapt things for ourselves

This was so good! The ‘butt pocket’ size notebook needs to be added to the sizing chart for notebooks! Wondering if you could share what pen you used to write in your notebook. Oh yeah…SKUNK!😊

9:43 that scream reminds me of that 'Shakira impression when the water is too hot' vine

I love how you mess it up and not afraid to show it. That's so inspiring for me!

I like what you said at the end. Yeah when I look back to my journals I’m appreciating those little moments that had made the person I am today cool

If you don't want to buy a notebook for journaling and don't want to make your own, consider using a draft notebook, for example a notebook you had in class and which has enough unused pages (or a phonebook you bought to create your own dictionnary but never used). I did it for about 18 months and it really gave me the space to try and explore

i love how this video came out just as we're doing book binding in my classes. feels oddly suited. same when you did a lot with typography, and i had typography courses lmao

I’ve binged your videos lately and I find them so interesting and your voice is so soothing!

the quality of this is so amazing wow

I AM the friend who does crafts instead of therapy.

I'm so happy watching this. Two weeks ago I got the cheapest notebooks on the market and covered them with lovely adhesive paper. Let's see how it goes ...

I just started Bullet Journaling this year. I am late to the party, lol. But so far it's helping me! The goal has just been to use it to help me remember stuff, not to be a thing that has to look perfect or be setup perfectly. I just have to enjoy it. Going easy on myself is what makes me the most productive as it turns out.

Your animations are absolutely amazing. I can only imagine how much work goes into these.

Woooaaahh. This surprised me-I'm using the same system! Even the same craft paper cover. I buy Field Notes brand graphed pocket notebooks and use one for each month, one spread for each weekday. I carry it around in a pocket every day with a Fisher space pen and it works great! Super flexible. Also, great job at bookbinding!

"I need to be okay with making ugly things." Dude, all of us! Can that be a tshirt or poster or something? I need that daily reminder.

omg !! this video is amazing from her energy to the editing and script .. LOVE IT

So, I just recently discovered your channel (literally yesterday) and I have watched like 5 of your videos in a row. You're like one of my brain cells, the one that's constantly telling me to question everything that's unreasonable around me, but A LOT smarter! You are amazing, girl. I love your content, keep it up!