Just got to your youtube tracker "little over 6k at time of recording, will take me a little while to get to 7k..." watching this 3 weeks after upload and at 7.79k... 😁 gratz

I come to your page for simple, minimalist style and I go elsewhere for more complex styles. That’s the beauty of you tube.

"I don't think I'm going to be some amazing youtuber."

I really love you simpler and basic way of bullet journaling....I'm a diary type of journaler but this will be great for a notebook to keep in my pocket! Thanks!

Your honesty about thinking of not creating this video got me. Thanks for sharing this. I greatly appreciate your approach to buju. I am just learning about this and your basics approach is exactly what I need to get started. Keep being you!

This is the first time I've ever seen a grid spacing page done that I actually understand! Thank you!

I’m glad you did record this. Your style is perfect. It’s so good to see a guy doing bujo!

First time ever to see a man doing bullet journal on youtube.

honestly, it never clicked for me the bullet journaling thing (I liked it, i just didn't know how it would work for me) until I watched your videos

I am just starting up on the bullet journal method. I'm very thankful for your simple method of doing it. I've tried many times times and failed because I kept thinking it had to be this complex and fancy spreads in order for it to be functional.

I really enjoy that you are a more functional planner. I am not artistic and am happy to see a bullet journal that I can draw inspiration from. You are awesome!

Thank you for recording this. 🙏🏽

Please keep posting these minimalistic bujos!!! I cannot draw and I dont have the time to create those intricate designs that others do!! I LOVE your set ups!!! Thank you for what you do!!!

Great video. I prefer this simpler approach. Thanks for posting.

Honestly, I'm so happy that you went through with putting up a simple 2022 setup. 2021 was a lot (irl and bujo-wise) and I need my 2022 to be more steady which will be heavily reflected in more minimal spreads. So happy to take inspiration from you!

I so happy you are doing a very basic journal. That is 1 of the things that I like. Please do card making to help yourself keep it simple. I really need a basic journal and you are about the only example, therefore leader, in this. i also like the extras like stamping because it helps me be super simple, but with a touch here and there that just make my journal look professional without turning it into an art project or taking up the valuable time that I am trying to save - ironic isn't it? Love this video.

It's hard to find functional planning videos anymore so, yes, comparison monster be damned. Keep doing what you're doing, because I'm here for it!

Video starts with "I cannot believe" My first thought: I cannot believe you made me wait all week for this, the anticipation was killer. So glad that you filmed this and told the comparison monster to go away! This is such a great setup! Your grid space guide is the best I've seen and every page is so well thought out and really lends to working smarter not harder! We need more of that in the world.

So glad you did record this video!!! Thankyou for sharing!

I really love the basic set ups. That’s how I bullet journal and I love seeing other examples of set ups I can actually do. The super artistic ones are beautiful, but not realistic for me so I love these videos!

I'm glad you posted this. I gave up my overly complicated journal mid last year. It was just too much with life. I needed the simplistic inspiration. Thank you.

Thanks for posting this video. I've been looking for minimal bujo ideas and I haven't found anything I feel fits what I'm looking for. I searched men bullet journal and found you. This is exactly what I was looking for. So glad you went ahead and made this video! I'd love to subscribe and help with the 10,000 subscribers. I'm just a drop in the bucket, I hope you make it there soon.

Simple is best… if it works for you.. awesome. I liked hearing how and why it was set up,

youre such a happy smiling being and i love just how much positivity you absolutely radiate

I also want to thank you for slaying the Comparison Monster and sharing your method for beginning a new year. My sister, who is The Planner Queen, introduced me to your videos last year - and I actually journalled for a good three months while I was recovering from an injury. Then, I had a set back and suspended my efforts. Your 2022 video came up in my queue after I watched your 2021 intro to the system for the third time. Today, I scrolled through maybe 20 videos on the topic until yours came up. Was glad to find you because you were my portal into the system and I knew you stressed simplicity. The addition of using templates, stencils, and colors almost derailed my interest, until I grasped that you're a designer and you have included these as optional. I've been using an 80-sheet, wide-ruled composition book -- which worked for me. I do like graph paper and rounding corners. Hey, I Iike color too! So, I just wanted to thank you for taking the time to help some of us get started with an approach we are familiar with. My youngest brother used "phenomenal" when referring to the prospects for 2022. May you have a productive, prosperous, and phenomenal 2022!

Grid spacing on two pages! Greatest idea ever! I’ve created all the confusing lines and numbers on one page in my A5’s but then never refer to them - because they’re confusing! Thanks so much for your practical and easy to follow suggestions.

I didn't know these Peerless sheets existed. They're AWESOME! Especially for travel, I'm thinking. Just went over to their site and they're running a very generous flexible coupon sale for the holidays, too, with a lovely note that's worth reading. I love small businesses. Thanks for shoving that internal critic down in the box where he belongs so we could see this. I have a favorite little stick figure cartoon meme that goes like this: - A cake artist carries their creation to a table, where there's already another, fancier cake sitting there. The artist laments that their cake isn't as fancy and showy as the one next to it, and the imposter syndrome comparison monster stuff comes in that they're not good enough, their cake isn't good enough, they shouldn't even bother. - Then a fan/customer/regular joe walks up to the table, sees the uber-fancy cake and our artist's pretty cake, and bursts into joy. "Yay!! TWO beautiful cakes!!" And they're bouncing around like it's the best day ever. You gotta beat that internal critic into submission as often as possible and if it helps, try to look at it from a regular joe's perspective. Us normies out here, we just enjoy seeing you do what you do. There's room for everyone. From the Ryder Carroll pen-only cryptic hieroglyphic symbol spreads, to your creative yet minimal spreads, to Elizabeth's art museum quality spreads. We love 'em all and want to see 'em all, because we like watching people do things that they ENJOY doing and seeing what cool things come out of it. Plus it gives us ideas on pages or sections that we might want to include in our own stuff. {{{HUGS}}}

The way you set up your grid spacing is so much easier to understand and I definitely will be using this method, thank you much!

Never feel like you have to be fancy for people to appreciate what you do. We all have different needs from a bullet journal and frankly sometimes I get tired of all the fancy spreads and stickers and washi tape when all I need is something functional. Also, I used to do a full month at a time, but I’ve changed how I do things and only do them weekly now so I can change things up and try new set ups.

So glad I found this video. I'm hearing you on the comparison monster, and I often feel like my bullet journals are incredibly basic compared to everyone else's. Thank you for posting! 😊

EXACTLY!!! I am also a basics kinda gal with a sometimes moments of creativity. so I highly appreciate your simple and basic style.

Another vote for 'glad you posted this' from me - I'm not a creative bullet journalist by any stretch of the imagination and it's nice to see some setups more in the realm of what I can do and what I'd find useful. Even a lot that claim to be minimalist are full of Intense Calligraphy and Intricate Doodles. I love the blue squares 'behind' the headings as a simple way to add some colour. Your video has also made me re-think which pen I'm going to use for my headers too which is a bit of a random take-away but potentially very useful XD

Just starting this week boju. I quickly found ”you”. Like that you explain slowly and that you talk ”slowly”! Many of the ones I have watched talk so fast! I get stressed and stop watching! So keep up the good work! And good luck with get more viewers! 👍🏻😊

The spacing cheat sheet was brilliant. How have I never thought of that before? 🤦‍♀️ Great video. I’m happy that you decided to go ahead and film it.

Your simple styles are exactly what I look for. As a student, I don’t have the time (or really the desire) to draw elaborate designs every month. I need something functional, simple, and eye-catching in the sense that I can quickly access and retain information. Thank you for not listening to the comparison monster ☺️ Hope you enjoy the B5!

THANK YOU! getting ready to set up my first bullet journal and I'm going to use a b5 so this was super helpful!

I'm so glad you decided to share this! 👏🏻

Thank you I love the basic!

your hands are so big that i initially thought that your B5 was an A5 😂😂 thank you for showing your setup! congrats on making it to bujo #8 :)

Please don’t stop sharing minimal journal layouts! I’m just starting in BuJo and I come to you specifically because the layouts are minimal.

I’m glad you posted, I like your style as I’m also minimal.

Mark, always remember that you are an amazing KZfaqr, at least in our community! Keep giving us tips for us to be able to craft our own system. Regards from the Philippines!

I’m so glad you showed your yearly set up for 2022. I’m going to use a B5 journal this year and was dreading doing the grid pages for it but you completely simplify it for all of us and I can’t thank you enough. Happy Holidays and I can’t wait to see what you do for 2022.

It's so refreshing to see a guy doing a bullet journal! Don't apologise for how you're doing your thing, everyone's got a unique groove - comparison does nothing but ill! I've managed to fit nearly three years into one journal, an A5 Leuchtterm 1917 - these are such great value and quality. You're a lovely, entertaining guy - do your thing!

I love this simple and functional

You can make the four columns symmetric by putting two spaces in the middle.

I like how your videos are. I decorate a bit more, but you set up more collections than I do. I can’t do all the fancy stuff that a lot of the bullet journallers do, it’s too much for my brain.

i've never seen boy/man doing bullet journal vids lmao, it is so cool

This was so cool reminder to do what works for me! Thank you 💜

Dude!!!! THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart for showing your grid spacing method/spread... I am usually the biggest idiot in any room, and my simple mind has not been able to TRULY comprehend the grid spacing sheets I've seen in other videos. THANK YOU A MILLION TIMES OVER! Imagine if you hadn't posted this video, this idiot right here would have spent the rest of his life... lost. I hope you continue to post! Cheers to you!

Hey Mark. I can’t thank you enough for talking about the comparison monster rearing it’s ugly head; it felt so deeply relatable. I filmed my first plan with me half way through and then scrapped it, because I honestly felt like it just wasn’t good enough, or worthy enough to share in comparison to others. It’s hard to show up on a social media platform and share something as personal as the inner workings of your journal; but your thoughts here have given me the courage to own who I am and own my style. So thank you so very much!

I'm glad you decided to record this, it is a simple and pretty setup and much more useful than many artistic setups I have seen. You know what I love most about this? That compared to a lot of other Bujo content creators your hands make the B5 look like an A5, I had to skip back and one point to make sure I did not misunderstand and it really is a B5 :) Thanks for talking us through the grid spacing, I have 3 university degrees and work on my PhD but my brain does not compute grid spacing without someone drawing it out for me step by step.

If I could Draw I would be watching a different video I appreciate your style and content don't ever stop being you!!!

First time watching your video. And you probably get this a lot. But I love your table!

Lot's of love from lndia ❤🇮🇳

Thank you for Sharin _ hate the monster !

Nice clean setup. This inspires my 2022 setup!

Oh my God, I CRAVE more simple and minimal styles. I'm not here for art class which is what many bujo people are giving.

Writing later: 1) I’m glad you overcame the comparison syndrome and made this video! Very interesting and helpful. 2) Congrats on hitting your goal of 10k subscribers, and glad to become one of them.

Thank you for your video :) enjoyed how simple it was

Hi, just found you. It is Aug. something.. I like how you do your notebook. I am not a guy but my name is danny! I am trying to get in to doing a bullet journal and got overwhelmed with the art part. This kind of journal was made for people with ADHD and it looks like it works for many people. Thanks danny

I think basic set up is more important than the pretty stuff, after all its based on Ryder Carrolls original, which is super basic! Never compare, always make it what “Works” for you! Thanks for being honest with us about your own “monster.” Just subbed and look forward to more from you!

Cool video Mark! Reminded me of going back to basics. Cheers from Guatemala City!

You be you, because you are just fine as you are. I am also moving into an A&O B5 for 2022. I plan for this book to actually cover my entire year in a single volume. And I'm going to be so minimalist this year that all I'm doing each month is a new single color and change the format of my titles. On occasion I might do some embellishment, but really only a tiny bit. I hope 2022 is a good year for you.

Very glad you decided to record this video!!! lol

i have to say just so you know that i'm in the same club as many here.. no matter how many fancy setups i watch, i mostly never do that kinda thing in my journal, except a little bit for monthly or yearly setups and color coding for important info/headers and trackers. i feel like too much decor takes up my writing space and i take A LOT of notes haha! so i'm glad that you put this out for people like me who feel like their journal performance isn't over the top but is definitely functional... :p Comparison is the killer of Creativity (and productivity)

Thank you for the video :) I also compare my bullet journal to others

I'm so glad you went ahead with this video! I just started using a bullet journal in September. I love it and want to continue, but I've been feeling super intimidated about setting up for the new year. I've been feeling like I have to know exactly what I want to include for the whole year before I start. You've reassured me it's ok to start with something basic and build it up as I go along. Thank you!

thank you for taking time to explain your grid spacing guide. i’ve watched so many videos on the grid spacing guide but i’ve always been confused and never was really able to get the hang of it. but i definitely feel more confident about it and feel like i understand it way better now. this will definitely save me time in my journal from now on!!

B6 is my perfect size ;))

Love your setup. Super glad you did not listen to the monster and filmed this. I enjoy watching more artistic spreads but I'm not going to make them. Your spreads are simple which is more my style (at least it is easier to make something similar) :) Your journal looks awesome!

Have you seen Ryder Carrol's setups? Beautifully simple.

We need more simple user friendly inspiration! I go back and forth between simple and elaborate with designs and embellishments so it's good to see both.

I like how you design your set up. New subscribers here!😊

No artistic skills here, I just want to see how it works and your videos are perfect.

How long did you stay with the B5? I'm trying to look through your videos to find out how that worked for you but I don't see an update. I love how you use it for work as well, that is so helpful. Thank you for your content!

I think I write a lot, I mean a lot, I started with BuJO last month and this month I'm again starting with a new BuJO, Am I doing something wrong?

I need a basic formula to follow this is my second year to try bullet journaling I am going to try my hardest to not fall off

at 6k at time of filming? at 8.07k at time of my viewing (subbed to help out, love the content!)

1 sub comes from Turkey 🤩

I might be really late since I just discovered you, but I wish more men in my life will admit that they need a journal to be organized, and I keep telling them to bujo but I get immediately shut down because they think it's too girly to do so since the only thing they know are those monstrous bujo KZfaqrs and their spreads, they don't even bujo yet they are trying to compare themselves to them...most of my early bujo's were abandoned just because of this.

thanks for the vid. if i used any of those platforms i would follow you. at the very least i will sub here.

..... my hands are the size of the A5... why are your hands so much bigger..... how small is the actual a5????

Im here to ruin your KZfaq subscriber tracker.

people are trying to gender bullet journaling now 😭