When I was a pre-teen, I used to collect stickers, pretty writing paper, pens & pencils, erasers (especially the sweet-smelly ones!) and anything stationery-related.
In my teens, I flirted with keeping a diary – but with two, very nosey younger sisters, that was always going to end in disaster!
As a young adult / twenty-something, I was a Filofax fanatic. I had all the inserts & accessories and my day-to-day life couldn’t run properly without it. This was an era long before the internet and smart-phones with calendars, alarms and alerts were even invented.
Thus, I’m the perfect candidate for keeping a bullet journal (or ‘BuJo’ to the initiated). I realise that I’m a few years behind the times – it was first shared back in 2013 – but better late than never! I’ve been reading up about them and there are lots & lots of inspirational bullet journalers out there. These are a few I’ve found:
- Ryder Carroll (the Bullet Journal inventor)
- bulletjournal.ideas
- january.journal
- Kim • Tiny Ray of Sunshine
- leftyada (a lefty)
- norca_bujo (another lefty)
- sleepy.bujo
The only obstacle is the fact that I’m a left-hander; fellow lefties will know just what I’m on about. Trying to write in notebooks, diaries… even cheque books (remember those?!) etc is a challenge. Trying not to smudge the ink you’ve just written takes a lot of effort! There are, however, special journals for left-handers and ones that open flat.
I think a bullet journal is just the thing to get my life in order in 2019!
For the list-makers, the note-takers, the Post-It pilots, the track-keepers, and the dabbling doodlers. It’s an analogue system for the digital age that will help you track the past, organise the present, and plan for the future
Ryder Carroll, inventor of the Bullet Journal and author of The Bullet Journal Method book
- Left-handed bespoke Bullet Journal: £8.95, Etsy
- The Bullet Journal Notebook: £19.41, Bullet Journal
- Bullet planner – undated – daily, weekly, monthly planner: £19.99, Scribbles That Matter
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