I've been using a bullet journal for almost two years and have been incorporating diary entries for a while. It has been especially helpful in keeping notes about therapy sessions and exploring what my therapist and I discussed and how I incorporate it into my life. I have a tendency to watch the art journal/bullet journal videos and stress out over how "ugly" my journal is compared to theirs. Whenever that gets in the way I always return to your videos to remind myself that simplicity and organization are also beautiful and keeps out the clutter that adds stress for me. I still watch the art journal videos to appreciate how they create their works of art, but I watch these to remind myself what bullet journaling is really about for me. Thanks, Ryder!

Ryder, your narration is so soothing.

this is hardly the most important thing but he is SO handsome. im not even the least bit interested hes just so good looking and has a very gentle voice its genuinely disarming.

This dude needs to be on the Calm app

I just want to say I really love how Ryder gives his tips and thoughts; straight to the point, down to the essentials. A real inspirational minimalist. Thank you.

I LOVE THIS SO MUCH!! I feel like the journaling aspect of the bujo method often gets lost in all the prettiness and planning. Often people are just making DIY planners. But this is sooo much more!!

I like when Ryder smiles. It feels so genuine in terms of his passion towards Bullet Journaling and the fact that he wants to help people like him. His smiles make me smile, too. Thank you. Also the insightful and poetic word choices at some parts... I love them, too. I really like how in every single video, I can find something new to learn. Especially when it's wisdom, reflection, or a life lesson we can implement. Seems like this channel would me my go-to when I need some... reassurance... or whatever those messy feelings are that causing me to drop, haha.

I have been journaling for more than 50 years...what started as a class project when I was a sophomore in high school has helped me in so many ways to deal with life......and I tell anyone who asks why I still do it....because it has become almost as essential to and for me as breathing,eating,sleeping.......and coping with my redheaded temperment ......

Ryder, are you a mind reader or what? I was literally thinking about this topic for my 2020 BuJo. Thanks for sharing matey.

Okay, this is out of context but, am I the only one who gets asmr from his voice?

He looks like he is going to break out laughing like he thinks this is a joke. That constant smirk. I never met this guy and I don't know him personally but he looks like there's something funny going on.

Very helpful. I had a brain injury that effected my memory and using a journal has helped. My doctors thought I would have suffered from Alzheimer's early in my 20's but I'm still going strong.

I've been using cursive writing to distinguish my diary-type entries from my to-do-type entries. Most of my cursive entries are pretty small, though. I haven't given myself over to those thoughts much in my bullet journal yet. But I will give this a try!

This channel is a gold mine to me. I've started journaling a while ago but over time I felt very unsatisfied when I wrote because I always had the feeling that my journals lack some sort of structure. My journal was very unorganized and the purpose of every page was kind of random. This video was kind of what I was searching for

Thank you so much Ryder. I've struggled with this and wondered if I should just have a separate journal. I'm excited to give this a try.

Here in Germany we have to write a big essay in grade 12 which influences the final grade significantly, it’s called „housework“. I wrote mine in artclasses and chose „bullet journalling after Ryder Carroll- the most efficient way to organize as a student?“ as my topic and got 15 points😍☺️ so thanks a lot Ryder ☺️😂 it was cool that this exercise (normally something that brings every student to the end😅) was something fun👍🏼😊

This is wonderful! I also journal in my bullet journal and will adding the plus sign. Such a simple yet effective tip. Thank you Ryder!

Oh thank you for this. So simple, clean, and accessible ..as ever.

Geez, Ryder! I love how that mass between your ears works! So practical. So elegant. So brilliant. Thank you for sharing⚘

I also journal in my daily log, right under the rapid logging! But I never thought of using signifiers this way. I love the idea of turning the dash into a plus!

I have a regular longterm diary and keep my dream journal in the back, i just flip to the end and turn the book over, so I write towards the first pages. That might be helpful if you have longer entries you want to write about certain topics while keeping your bullet journal section in the front neat and organized. That makes finding important spreads more easily and people could peek in without discovering telling headlines about your personal life :)

I use two columns, thin outer and larger inner. The large inner column gets all the normal bujo stuff, the outer I use to briefly expand upon or flag items for further development (among other things).

Adding a page number to journal entries is definitely a game-changer for me! I also used the plus symbols for journal entries in a much stressful way. I felt like I had to make the journal entry immediately or could only make one for the entire day. This makes a lot more sense because I can step away from the notes I want to expand on/journal about and come back to the ones that are the most distracting /difficult. Thank you again! I've been using this system for 5+ years and it's been incredibly helpful in ways I can't even begin to explain.

I started bullet journaling in my composition notebooks since the age of thirteen in this very exact way journal entries and tasks, events, appointments, etc. I had no idea it was called bullet journaling.

Sometimes I don’t know what is bothering me, so I write down everything that is still lingering in the back of my head and suddenly it becomes clear. Thank god for journaling!

This is so timely! I got gifted The Artist's Way for my birthday last month and I have been using my Bullet Journal to do my morning pages and task essays. I find it works better for me than short-form journaling. I had almost given up bullet journalling because it was turning into just a to-do list that gave me anxiety. I switched instead to capturing anything remarkable about my day or something new I learnt that day. Now I restrict my task list to just my monthly log and use my daily log to long form my thoughts at that point of time. I then use the calendar on my monthly log page to fill in highlights of the month like you suggested in one of your tutorial videos. So far, this is working great for me. But, I kind of felt like I was cheating with the Bullet Journaling system. It is a relief to know that the system is flexible enough to allow the liberties I have already taken.

Before the preprinted day planner explosion in the late '70s-'80s, people used simple pocket calendars and notebooks with brief narrative statements and bullets in their journals for decades. Civilian and military leaders use brief narratives and bullets in reports which they adopted into their person diary and planning systems. I have no problem crediting Ryder Carrol for his version of the bullet journal but it's a variation of a record-keeping technique that's been in use since man first put pen to paper.

genius.

Yes!! I’ve been journalling in my Daily Logs for a long time, which helps to just brain dump anxious thoughts. This is so important to me, and differentiates both the need for my bu-jo, and what tasks I can manage electronically - both are so important for my every day. Those starting bullet journalling, don’t plan ahead in your bullet journals. You need to keep the next pages empty, for random thoughts and discussions in your head, lists, plans. Some days you may have only your quick form list to write, some days you need to unload anxieties.

You’re so right!! Bullet journal literally is a layout of your mind

The way you add journal entries is similar to how I incorporate extra thoughts/notes to self. Before, I used to keep personal journalings in a separate notebook, but lately I've been enjoying the convenience of keeping everything combined in one book. Thank you for sharing more of your techniques!

Great tip...I am a BUJO beginner...It will help me a lot...that was one thing I had missing starting BUJO...thanks for sharing your experience.

Journaling from your own prompts 👏 great point, especially as we prepare for 2020. I really learn something from your videos. Thank you 😊

I love this video so much. So simple, yet brings out the true essence of journaling and the idea of unpacking the mind.

This is some mind reading. I just asked Helen Colebrook about this last night! My one hesitation is that I like to carry my journal with me everywhere. I get anxious about losing a journal with my personal thoughts or mental health issues inside. It has kept me from taking my journal with me and then later wishing I had it. I may use this method but keep a separate journal for elaborating on those points that need unpacking.

I love bullet journaling and have always combined it with long form journaling and art journaling to bring my dream of ‘one book to rule them all’ to life. Lists, notes, art, doodles and diary all in one place. It’s a mess, sort of organised chaos, and nothing like the pretty things on Instagram. But it’s me. I have never thought to use my notes to inspire my writing as prompts though so will be adding this tool to my bullet journal experience. Thank you Ryder, simple and inspiring as always.

Ryder, thank you for being so accepting of people using your process freely and allowing people to do what they need for them. I’m so excited to start my bullet journal.

I have been doing more or less exactly this but using 'J' instead of '+' as a signifier.

Very effective. Thank you so much for sharing with us. I love the '+' idea.

This is what I’m actually starting journaling for! I wanted a way to actually do my mental health journaling which I bring to therapy with me... but also look at tracking things like my anxiety/depression, sleep, moods, etc, While also looking at different things that trigger my anxiety and learning how to manage them better like housecleaning and the way I talk to myself my inner dialogue… I’ve been wondering how I’m going to tackle the actual daily journaling part, so this is EXACTLY WHAT I NEEDED!!!!! I don’t have a need for traditional bullet journaling because I don’t have a job and I don’t have kids I have to keep track of so I’m strictly going to be doing mental health and I’m really really really really excited about it

this was perfect timing thank u for making this video, this makes my cluttered mind more manageable i love u!!!!!

Been doing this since I started Bullet Journaling in March. And this is the longest I’ve kept up consistent journaling of any kind. ❤️ I also share this and the KZfaq videos with clients as I see it would be a accepted and beneficial.

Love this idea, I've been just writing huge blocks of text as notes, will give this a try.

This short video really helped me in trying to fathom out how, where, why, and when to make notes, bullet points ... there are so many ways and techniques here on YT, this for me, was the perfect foundation in which to start .... much thanks 🙏 Steve UK 🙂

Wow thank you for the idea to add the (+ sign) I usually take notes of my meetings and sometimes I pray on my bujo ✨

Thank you! This really helped me tie in my desire for organization and my need to work through tough situations. I love that this leaves room for both. Don't feel like I need to buy 2 journals now!

Thank you for such a great tip on incorporating journaling in with rapid logging. It helps keep everything where I need it to be.

I'm thinking of doing this for 2021. I used to separate my journal and bujo/planner. But I find it hard to bring along different notebooks. and realized that I most of the time end up using my bujo/planner as "journal". :D most bujo posted aren't in this style so I'm very happy I finally saw this one :) thank you!

I love long-form journaling in my bullet journal! This video has helped me with organizing it into place, though with the symbol ideas and page number ideas. Thanks for sharing.

I think this is my favorite thing you've put out this far! Thank you! Also, I'd love to see your new Daily Log - looks like you've made some changes that I may want to incorporate.

amazing. the idea of turning the - into a + is so clever. thanks for this, ryder!

I love your energy in those videos. You really touch me deep and every time I watch you I feel EVERYTHING is possible. and then reality comes and it's not working the way I planned. Thank you for your time! Greetings from Poland.

Brilliant! Thank you for the suggestion for the "+".

As someone who tends to be really verbose when it comes to writing, this is really helpful!

OMG i was planing to start journaling but I wasn’t sure how to begin thank you so much that was so helpful to make up my mind 🙏

Hey! I encountered bujo for the first time about a month ago. I had struggled with journaling, but now after listening to "the bullet journal method" audio book and got my first leuchtturm bullet journal, I have to say, this is genius. Bujo will for sure be a part of my life for the coming years and hopefully for the rest of my life. I love how you make everything so minimal and simple. It is so calming, yet satisfying. I just want to thank you Carroll. I really appreciate your work and those videos are amazing.

Wow! this woks a lot for me! I've been adding journaling to my bujo the past few months! I'm adding this to my workshop in Santiago too! Thanks Ryder!

I've been surfing through Pinterest for like 3-4 years for tips on how to Bullet Journal and journal. But your way is just a discovery for me, and a really good one. Thanks.

I love this idea! I also like how clean the pages look with simple M.D.W format, though I use R for Thursday and U for Sunday so that if I turn to a random day, I can distinguish Tues/Thurs or Sat/Sun. :-) When I was in college, that's how the schedules were lettered. If it was a Tuesday/Thursday class, they had it abbreviated as T/R.

THANK YOU! I want to incorporate journaling in my 2020 bujo and this is such a simple way to do it.

I'm preparing to enter a new journal in January and had just this morning decided to keep my journal in a separate book (as I'm doing now), now I'll reevaluate that. Thank you for the insight.

Wow, this is powerful. Thank you so much for sharing. I've been basically keeping a dairy and a bujo, and I just never thought about combining them, even though I didn't like having two separate books. I have BPD (which really should be renamed to emotion dysregulation disorder), and I'm learning to be mindful to be more aware of my own emotions (instead of just being eaten alive by them) which makes long-form journaling to work through emotions is a very important tool for me. Using the - and + thing sounds like pure genius, I can't wait to give it a try. This might end up being a vital tool in my recovery and maintenance post-treatment, so again just thnk you so much for sharing this tip.

Wow, Ryder! Thanks so much for this video and the examples! This was timely.

Will definitely try this! thank you! 💖

Yes, it's like you were reading my mind, too! Horizontal lines are for journaling! Get the thoughts out, and move on, or return to it later with greater clarity. And more joy!

Ryder, with someone who also dances merrily with ADD (I don't consider it suffering), I recently discovered why I never stuck with the 'pretty layout' versions of BuJo'ing. It was too time-consuming, and IT WAS WRONG! I have watched your videos before, but for some reason, watching it today, the whole thing just clicked for me, like a key in a lock. I have also started moving some of my long-form journaling back to handwriting. (I leave my bitch sessions and complaints for the digital journals). This video was the bow 🎀 on the box 🎁, the cherry🍒 on top🍨, the pot at the rainbow's 🌈 end! It combines the true method of bullet journaling with long form. It's the best of both worlds, and now the whole process makes sense. By the way, I love how mindful you are about speaking slowly, articulately, and calmly. I know having ADD/ADHD, this is a skill that must be learned and mastered intentionally. I struggle with this, and you are an inspiration that I, too, can learn to speak so masterfully.

As always you present a light in my life.This particular video provided more insight into how to not only use personal journaling. It also opened my mind to how to think about my issues by writing it down. Recording it. Then putting it together with the ‘weekly review’. omg this has opened up a whole new deep practice. Many blessings have manifested because of learning The Bullet Journal Method. I am so grateful to you.

I started bullet journaling in march fell away but plan to start anew in the new year. I want to finish your book, I kept lending it out to people who needed your system and never finished it myself. what I'm thinking is keeping 3 journals: Daily Log (basic standard bullet jounal), faith journal (to keep track of bible reading, sermon notes, prayer requests, etc), and a Reflections book (a more standard long form journal/diary).

This is really helpful. I was thinking about the same thing for a long time and thank you for introducing the "official" way of doing journaling in the bullet journal. :)

I’m a newbie to Bujo, but have journaled since I was 15. (67 now) Thank you for all the good information and permission to make it work for me💕🙏

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You, sir, are a genius! This is exactly what I was looking for to help articulate my thoughts and integrate them with all of the tasks I need to do. Subscribed!

I absolutely love this method and will definitely include it in my future bullet journals.

I love this. This is my favorite to bullet journal. I have problems keeping it neat, though. But I will keep working on it.

This is one reason why I hesitate to try another kind of weeklies. I just go day-by-day because if I make a spread will I ran out of space? I'm journaling what's going on during my day instead of jot noting - that's on my monthly spread. If, like you said, I miss a day or two, especially when I'm gone for the weekend, I won't feel bad. When I'm gone during the weekend it's because my DH and I teach personal emergency preparedness across Canada so we travel. My journaling would be boring: teaching 9-5, 22 present, potluck for lunch. I love your small video because it catches small problems we might have. TFS Nicole

He has such a calm soothing voice!

This was really helpful. I've been struggling to combine the two forms of journaling into something that doesn't look messy. Since I do more regular journaling than bujo, my journal usually ends up a mess of walls of text with tasks (I don't take bullet notes, I go straight to expanding my thoughts as like to write things down as they're still fresh in my memory) thrown in between and it becomes harder for me to keep track of them.

Thanks for continuing to add meaningful content on this channel! Can't wait to keep bujo-ing in 2020 👍🏼

Fantastic great video! this is like a great refresher course to my bullet journaling I love it!

Thankkk youuu soo muchhh Ryder! I was looking for this!

I'm glad I found this because I have been trying to figure out how to do this myself in my journal. When you said use a plus symbol it kinda blew my mind because it's so simple but I would have never thought of it.

So helpful I love the plus idea and putting the page number next to it - of course! Def prefer the looking at the camera format to the looking at hands format

It's been awhile since I've been by. So glad you're still making videos. Like your voice, your original OG bullet journal method is so calming and unobtrusive. Keep making videos, you'd be surprised at how complicated things get with all the bujo noise out here.

Thank you so much for this! I feel like I should have been able to figure this out on my own -- nevertheless, so thankful for this short, yet concise video! Your bullet Journals are a life saver!

Very helpful indeed. I've been working through the rapid journaling -- a skill I have yet to master -- and journaling is something that I've done before but always in a separate journal. At least now I can incorporate it into one journal, which I always have with me. Thanks.

Amazing! Love it!

This is SO good! I'm so sad that your original idea gets lost in all these super creative bujos on yt. I get lost in it as well, but generally I love to journal and I have been journaling since I was about 12 years old and this video was a real light bulb for me. Thanks so much

Awesome! This is exactly how I use my bullet journal for years.

Brilliant tip! Thank you

This is cool about the bullet journal system. It is a free canvas for us to fill in. Surprisingly I started this technique, 3 months ago. I am struggling to cope with my mental health and I thought about incorporating it in my bujo. Instead of writing my feelings and thoughts as a note, i write the time I am writing and start the narrative. Thanks for introducing the bujo system. It helps a lot!

I've kept a fiary since I could write, its helped so much when I was little and even now some days it is a vital asset.

Thank you for sharing this ! 😊

What a great timing! I was thinking on how to do both bujo and journaling without having two separate notebooks

I loved it and subscribed to your channel. It's very helpful. Thank you so much for your great work!

I love this idea. Thank you.

This is a great help! I've been struggling with finding a format or way on how I can incorporate my daily journalling with my BuJo. Keeping a separate notebook is a hassle, I tend to forget about it and not journal at all, and it frustrates me. I want to incorporate this method in my 2020 BuJo life. Thanks!

Great idea! Can’t wait to start!

I've been missing these tutorials. Thank you Ryder

I love your calming voice!!

2 main take aways for me • I have been immediately putting a page number next to a + even though often times I don’t feel like writing the longform journal part in the moment. I just know that I need to expand on the thought at some point. Now I realize I can come back and find the pluses and then do the longform entry • I never thought of doing the long form below on the daily log, good idea