Hello my friends it's nina welcome back
today I am back with a bullet journaling video
It is now september, 3/4 of the year has passed
But I also know it's back to school season for a lot of you
I am no longer in school. I graduated in 2019
It feels like five years ago, but it was only last year and a few months ago
But I still use a bullet journal in my life. I know that a lot of you also use a bullet journal or a planner
Or some kind of technique, system
Or maybe you don't
today I wanted to show you my very very very very
very simple bullet journal setup
It has updated a little bit and it also became even more simple than last time if that's even possible
I am excited to show you my setup for september and I really wanted to focus on a
layout that would work for anyone
even if you just started bullet journaling yesterday
Even if you've done bullet journaling for years
I myself am quite a simple person
Sometimes i'll skip months of bullet journaling. Sometimes I won't even fill it out
even though I spent like two hours working on the setup
But personally taking the time to bullet journal just helps slow down time. It makes me feel better
I like listening to music or watching youtube videos while I set up my bullet journal
It's just a great time
in college I used this quite a lot, probably every single day
because it was a busy time
I had many assignments to keep track of
I had future exams, certain deadlines I had to keep track of
so I really just needed a bullet journal
Planners also work, to-do lists work
a scrap piece of paper also works
But today we are focusing on bullet journaling
a bullet journal really just helps me keep my life together.
So let's get our lives together
together
so i'm going to start with the materials that I use for bullet journaling
So this is the bullet journal that I use it is the leuchtturm 1917 dotted notebook
This is probably one of the more popular brands for bullet journals
paper wise it does ghost a little bit
You can kind of see what you wrote behind it
I just used this brand for a couple years.
I might try out different ones in the future
just gets the job done
and then for markers I use the zebra mildliners, they come in a lot of colors
But this month I focused on a green brown gray blue palette. It's very earthy.
You can of course just go with any colors you like
and then for pens I only use a black and red pen.
I only really needed to write and cross things out
for my black pen I've been trying out the pilot G2 05 pen.
This is a gel rollerball pen
I've heard a lot more about pilot g2 recently
and personally for me, I think pilot g2 pens are more accessible
and widely available.
I was trying to find muji pens online
because I don't have a muji store around me, but I wasn't
able to find one so I did want to try out the g2
It's honestly done a good job, especially for writing
for drawing long lines... It does kind of skip a little bit
Maybe that's the paper or the pen
but for writing this pen has done the job.
I did wonder if I wanted the 0.38 or the 0.5.
honestly with the muji, I have 0.38 pens, but sometimes the tip is a little scratchy
So that's why this time I went with an 0.5, and I think that was a good choice
The tip is obviously a little bit bigger, but it's more comfortable I think for me
It's not as scratchy especially if I want to write bigger
But for my red pen, I still have a muji pen, muji pens also do the job
Those are just the materials that I use
you can also use a ruler, some white out. Whatever else you need
Honestly, I used to use a ruler but I don't have patience anymore
So I just like to freehand everything.
Does it get messy?
Yes, it does.
But honestly the imperfect lines just give it some character
It gives me some freedom.
if I use a ruler and I make one tiny mistake, it's very noticeable
But if all your lines are imperfect, then no one can tell when you make a mistake
because it all looks like a mistake
So those are the main supplies that I use I might throw in some washi tape or some stickers
but honestly most of the time I just go for these pens and markers
but for my setup lately, I just like to go very
uniform very simple, kind of on the minimal side
but without further ado
I am going to now show you the actual setup
So ignoring my very dry skin because of all the hand washing I've been doing during these times
We're starting out with the month setup.
for my header I went with a simple cursive title so that it looks minimal and clean
I used to do bold capital letters
But I feel like the cursive looks more gentle and fitting for me
I use a marker first. Then I go in with a pen
for september I went with a plant motif to signify growth
back when I was in school, august and september always reminded me of a new school year where I live
So it's kind of like a time to grow, it also just goes well with the green
And I like to draw something on this line to mimic washi tape
Next for the actual month i'm making these little six by one boxes for the days of the week
Then i'm making six by six boxes for each day of the month.
There are usually five weeks in a month
so I put in five rows.
if there are six weeks i'll just cut the last few boxes in half to add the last few days
the month setup basically just helps you visualize your month
It'll be there for you whenever you need to add something as the month goes
and on the side with a different color i'm adding sections for goals, future stuff
And extra notes
then i'm just adding these marks to write in the days of the month
I use a gray color for days from the months before and after then just another color for the rest of the days
And that is our simple month
here I am filling it out. I'm just writing in the most important crucial stuff
You can write down future exams, assignments due, other deadlines if you're not in school,
birthdays, events, things like that
Whatever you need to remember
write out little goals if you want
things for the next month, anything really
Next we are moving on to the habit tracker. I used to not use a habit tracker
But I tried it out for a year or so and it's just a nice little thing to have for me
it kind of gives me something to do
most of the time I don't end up filling it that well or I just
Completely forget to fill it out, but that's okay
It's just there for me if I want to see how the month went
and on the other page I made a quick brain dump
Which i'll get into later
here i'm making headers and then I make 7x5 grids to represent the month
I technically track nine things. I track youtube uploads, instagram, tiktok
Vitamins, exercise, walking my dogs, watering my plants, sleeping before midnight, and studying Korean
So i'm not tracking to see if I do everything every single day
but I just like to see what the month looked like
most of the time it looks blank because
I forget to fill it out.
But making this spread is calming to me. Just look at all these lines
It's kind of satisfying
So now we are back to the brain dump
to help me enjoy bullet journaling and not feel like i'm running out of space
I like to leave myself blank pages for me to write down whatever I want
At the bottom of this page i'm adding a cute little drawing
just to make the page come together
again I start with marker then I use pen
it kind of has like a watercolor effect going on
now you can use the brain dump to literally dump out all your thoughts and ideas
from your brain
so simple and neat
and here I am using my habit tracker
Obviously september hasn't happened yet,
but usually I upload on sundays, except this time because I upload uploaded on a monday
but I'm just demonstrating how I fill this out
I use a different color marker
and I just make a little dot
and for the brain dump, just throw in whatever you want
Maybe you want to plan a quick grocery list
or for me I usually like to plan out video ideas
Especially if they randomly come to mind
or heck even use this page to just doodle
you're free to do whatever you want
And speaking of blank pages i'm leaving two more pages for my reflections
Which is kind of like a diary
I usually added this at the end of the month setup
But this time I just added it here
This is where I get to write proper thoughts and just a reflection of a certain day
Sometimes I just want to write my feelings out
So this is an appropriate space for that.
Literally I might just write two to three sentences about the day
It doesn't have to be a whole paragraph. So that's why I only saved two pages
You can leave more if you want, but I don't write in my reflections every single day
It's more like I just have days where I want to write about my day
It's a nice thing to have especially if you had a stressful day
And you just want to let things out
or if you had a good day, you can write something nice for yourself, too
It's all up to you.
I just like seeing these thoughts weeks and months later
And finally, we have the week setup
I like to test out different setups for the week depending on
how busy or not busy I am
I adapted the style for these busier times when you could be having lots of assignments
or lots of tasks you need to write down.
We're going with this quadrant style
I've done this in some of my recent videos because I like all this vertical space
to list out tasks and things
i'm simply writing out the days starting with monday and then I am writing the hours of 7am
all the way to midnight and this is my little schedule
here you can actually plan out the times of your tasks, your classes, other things
I think it'll be helpful to have a place to write a bullet point list of things
And then on the side you can actually time those things out
Also, this is when I realized I got the numbers wrong because I usually go from 12 p.m. To 1 p.m
I mean this still works, but the rest of my schedules had 1pm
So i'm just going to fix that
an important thing to remember is that we all make mistakes
Especially when we're creating. Not everything goes perfectly and that's okay
Try not to be hard on yourself when you make a mistake
You'll eventually find a way around it
Just as you have for all these years that you lived
and now we're just filling out the rest of the week
And I also made another mistake except this mistake got a little weirder.
I couldn't figure out what went wrong
But then I realized so i'm just fixing it again.
But yes the week does go past two pages
This just allows for a lot of room and freedom to write things down
cross things out, change mistakes in your schedule, etc etc
For the schedule i'm making these brackets to indicate the time
And inside i'm writing what is going on during that time
You can write down your zoom calls, your breaks,
appointments, things like that
and you get to visually see it all
I like the use of different colors as well
And of course, you can jot down stuff for the future
and extra notes you have through the week
But that is pretty much it for the month setup
Here is a look at the clean setup before I showed you how I fill it out
But I love how simple and clean it is
Everyone's style is different
but I just wanted to show what I do in case someone needs some inspiration
all you have to do now is add weeks as they go by
and then it'll be the next month.
Goodbye from voiceover nina, back to you, nina
and that is the end of my bullet journal setup
It is very simple, but it's the way that I like it
I also tried to focus on a layout that anyone can do
yet it would also be helpful to you as well
I personally hope that bullet journaling is a fun time for you, not a stressful time
I know that people can be overwhelmed by your bullet journal.
i was like that when I was in high school
I tried keeping up with my bullet journal, but I made it way too complicated for myself
So, of course I wouldn't keep up with it
but i've been using a bullet journal for many years now
It has helped a lot
It doesn't just help organization wise
But it also helps to calm me down
slow down time, and just give me something nice to do
I really do enjoy bullet journaling. It's a creative time for me
It takes me 30 minutes to an hour
maybe two hours if i'm adding some stuff, and during that time
You're really just creating something nice for yourself.
So bullet journaling or planners
or some kind of schedule really does help keep me together
I also hope that it helps you
that you enjoy it
that it's a good time for you as well
No method is right or wrong
do whatever you like, add more things to it
do something differently, take stuff out, put stuff in, it's really up to you
This is just what I do.
If anyone else finds this useful, that's great
But I hope you enjoyed our time together bullet journaling
I also do hope that you're hanging in there
and taking care of yourself
taking care of your health, staying hydrated, remember to rest
Do something nice for yourself
take breaks, do stuff that makes you happy, things like that
I hope you enjoy your school year
and if you're not in school, I hope you enjoy whatever it is you're doing
you're doing great
I believe in you
this day will pass and we will find ourselves in another one
but that is it for me
Thank you for watching and I will see you in my next video! Goodbye my friends :)