Project Planning, Scheduling, and Bullet Journal

Planners/Bullet Journal

I have read several articles or posts recently talking about how Bullet Journals are ineffective and take too much time and do not result in productivity. The complaint that a lot of people have is that a Bullet Journal requires you to make fancy layouts that need to be constantly redrawn, which takes a lot of time and is more artsy than productive.

A lot of people do put a lot of time into fancy artwork, templates, special markers, tabs, stickies, stickers, pockets, washi tape, covers, and constantly trying out the latest layouts on Pinterest… but that’s not what Bullet Journals are about. If that’s what turns your crank, that’s fine. Visual aesthetics and taking the time to craft something special is important and fulfilling to some people. But it isn’t what makes most people more productive.

Bullet Journal Principles

The idea behind Bullet Journals is that you can take any blank notebook (typically a Moleskin style perfect bound notebook, but any notebook at all) and you can jump right in and make task lists and other required plans and records in quick bullet form. Numbering the pages and keeping a Table of Contents in the front few pages helps you to quickly find what you need. Bullets can be turned into symbols to indicate…