- Hey everyone, it's Amanda.
Welcome back to my channel.
For today's video I'm finally gonna be showing you guys
the process of me moving in to my new bullet journal.
I briefly mentioned in one of my last videos
that I was running out of space
in my current bullet journal, my 2018 one.
This baby has been through a lot.
We've done a lot of good things together,
but there's only a couple pages left.
So, it's pretty much just gonna take me
until the end of August,
and I'm gonna need a new notebook for September.
A lot of you guys in the comments said
you wanted to see this video,
and I did actually think that it might be helpful
for you guys to see the whole journey of me
transitioning into the new notebook,
and what I moved over, and how I did it,
and my whole thought process during the transition.
So, that's what we're gonna be doing today.
Hopefully this helps you out,
maybe some of you guys are running out of space
in your bullet journal soon as well.
So, anyways, I'm sure you guys get the point
so let's get started.
All right, so for me starting a brand new bullet journal
and a notebook was a little bit daunting at first,
and I was kind of overwhelmed.
So, I thought of course the best way for me to condense
all of my thoughts and ideas in my head
would be to put it down into a bullet journal spread.
Actually, just to make sure everyone's on the same page,
I'm gonna be calling the filled up journal the old journal
and then the blank new journal the new journal,
just as a heads up.
So, in the old journal I made a spread
where I could kind of plan out my move
into the next bullet journal.
This isn't my idea by the way,
I'm gonna link a couple videos that I watched
about migrating into a new bullet journal.
I wanted to watch a couple videos
and see what other people did
because last year I actually didn't
have to start a new notebook midway through the year.
I kind of just added a couple pages
on the end of the notebook,
and I was able to use one notebook
throughout the entire year.
But this year it was definitely not possible,
we're already in August and I was filled up.
So, I was like we still have four months left,
might as well start a new notebook.
So, for my page I have a couple different sections.
The first section I have is spreads that I want to keep.
So, these are spreads that I'm going to be transitioning
and copying over into my new journal.
And then I also have a spreads that I want to leave behind.
So, basically stuff that I don't want to bring
into my new journal.
And then I also had some spread ideas,
so stuff that I wanted to add.
And in order to curate this list
I basically just flipped through the old journal,
especially the beginning pages
because those are pretty much the ones
that you're gonna want to be
transferring over into the new journal.
Obviously you're not gonna be transferring
all the monthly pages,
but the beginning yearly stuff,
that's what I was mostly concerned about.
So, I flipped through every single page
and basically wrote down a list of what I wanted to keep
when I was moving, what I wanted to leave,
and then maybe as I was going through it
I was like, you know what?
This spread would be a good thing to have.
So, I put that in the spreads that I wanted to add list.
And it was a nice way for me to have
a little bit of a game plan
so that when I was going into the new journal
I wasn't just completely going into it blind.
I also had a what's working and what's not working section
on the bottom of this spread.
It's very similar to the spreads to keep
and the spreads to leave,
but more of fully-formed ideas of things
that I want to change up in my new journal.
Whether that's the actual spreads
or something during the monthly spreads,
things that I want to take with me into this fresh start.
So, once I had all of my lists and my game plan
that's when I cracked open the brand new journal
and I was ready to get started.
By the way, the new journal that I'm using
is exactly the same as the old one.
I'm very much so a perfectionist,
so I didn't want to switch notebooks midway through a year.
I don't know, I'm just weird like that.
I have weird quirks where I'm like,
it has to be the same every year.
And you'll see that throughout the video as well
because I do also try to keep
a consistent style with the old journal.
I didn't want to make it seem like a brand new
2019 bullet journal setup,
I did want to make sure that there was
some consistency between the two.
So, I had my old journal open in front of me
next to the new journal,
that way I could reference both the list that I made
as well as the older pages.
And I started out of course with the Key
and the front cover page where you have to write your name
and all of that stuff.
But I also wanted to transfer over the quote.
The quote that I had in my old journal
was all about the new year and new chances,
and it was all about 2018.
But obviously since we're midway through the year
I don't know if that's as applicable for the new journal.
So, I decided on a quote that says
trust the magic of new beginnings
because I feel like this journal
is kind of a new beginning.
It's like a little bit of a fresh start.
And once I had that page I also wanted to keep
my 2018 at a glance.
So, in the old journal
obviously that one was from January to December,
but in this one I don't really need the older months
so I started it in August
and then I went to September of 2019.
And that way I can have a place for me to see
any dates way, way far in advance,
and it's a good landing page for the very beginning
of the bullet journal.
As I mentioned earlier and as you can probably tell,
the style is very similar to the old journal.
I did switch up a couple different
fonts and lettering styles, but again,
wanted to make it kind of consistent with the old journal.
So, the next page in my old journal was my Index.
But as I was flipping through and making my list
of what was working and what was not working,
it was immediately clear to me when I opened up to my Index
that I was really not using my Index all that much.
I know you're supposed to but I never really filled it in,
and in the old journal I had two full pages for it
and pretty much 1 1/2 of those pages was completely empty.
So, I knew I didn't need a full two pages for the Index,
especially because this journal was going to be
for four months only.
So, I decided to change it up and only do one page,
and I think that should be plenty enough for me.
And I don't know why I don't really use
my Index all that much.
I am a little bit weird in that I can kind of remember
the order of my bullet journal just because when I write
something down I have memory of it.
So, my Index is in my head (laughs).
Doing changes like these is kind of why
it's important to make a plan and a list beforehand
because you're not gonna be going page by page
verbatim as the old journal,
so it could be handy to outline all the pages
so you know what order they're gonna go in,
how many pages you want to leave for each specific spread,
and that way you can kind of map it out beforehand.
So, because I knew I was gonna be changing my Index
into a single page I knew I was gonna have
a empty page next to it,
and I thought that a good spread to add next to it
was this grid spacing guide.
I don't know if it's like this for anyone else,
but no matter how much I bullet journal,
I've been bullet journaling for almost two years now,
I still can't remember the number of dots
from vertical and horizontal.
So, every time I make a spread I have to recount
and redivide it up, especially for weekly spreads
when I have to divide it into a half or thirds,
so this little guide is going
to help me out and I can kind of just look at it
and see that oh, okay, half of a page is 13 dot spaces,
and half of a page vertical wise is about 18 or 19.
And I also drew lines for guides so that I could see,
let's say I wanted to split it up into four
you can kind of see that.
And yeah, I think this spread is actually gonna be
quite useful and quite handy, and I'm real excited for it.
In my old journal the next spreads were my future logs
and my monthly overviews,
and as you can see I kind of squeezed six months vertically
into a double-page spread.
But obviously in my new journal
I didn't need to fit as many months,
so I decided to opt for a larger layout.
The months have larger calendars and it's horizontal,
so the events and appointments
are gonna go next to the calendar
rather than below it.
I really liked the way it turned out.
It gives me a little bit more visual space,
but it still kinda matches the style of the old journal.
One of the spreads that I decided to take out and change
quite a lot from my old journal was the 2018 Goals page
as well as the Memories page.
For the 2018 Goals page I think it was more
of a beginning of the year thing for me to set
New Year's resolutions and set my goals
for the beginning of the year,
but I don't think I need to do goals
for the last four months of the year.
Especially because I've started
to incorporate that into my monthly spreads
and doing monthly goal pages.
So, I completely took that one out.
And in terms of the Memories pages,
you'll see what I did with that later.
Next up is something that I did want
to transfer over was my YouTube video ideas list.
Obviously there is a running list of videos
that I want to make,
and I wanted to transfer some of those ideas
over into my new journal.
And basically I went in later on and transferred
over the ideas that I hadn't made already.
In my old journal next to it I had
my YouTube growth tracker,
and this was meant to be an overall landmark tracker.
But it was really hard for me to keep up with it
and to remember to go back into it
whenever I hit a landmark.
Especially because I do have
little mini monthly growth trackers
in every single monthly spread,
so I didn't think this was necessary
so I completely took that out in my new journal.
Going off of that I also took
out my Instagram growth tracker.
Similar to the YouTube tracker I didn't really find
that I was going to it every time I hit a landmark,
and it was really hard for me to remember
to keep track of that.
I also didn't really think it was that healthy
to be constantly counting your followers.
It's always good to celebrate landmarks and everything,
but having this constant method of tracking
would kinda be forcing yourself to always pay attention
to the numbers which isn't important obviously.
So, instead, in the new journal what I decided to add
was my Instagram Doodles idea page.
I always do little doodles
on my Instagram for important events.
I did one for the Royal Wedding, and the Met Gala,
and all of that,
so I thought it would be a good idea for me to have
a little brainstorm page where I can put my ideas
of Instagram doodles that I want to create eventually.
A spread that was definitely one I love
and that I for sure wanted to transfer
over into my new journal was the I Want to Watch page.
So, it was my list of movies and TV shows
that I wanted to check out during the year.
So, I transferred that over into the new journal,
but I did change it to a Stuff to Check Out page.
And I divided it into movies, TV shows, podcasts, and books
because I found that I was missing a place for me to put
a list of the podcasts I wanted
to listen to and the books that I want to read,
especially because I'm such a big podcast person.
So, now I'm gonna have this little area
to jot down stuff whenever people give me suggestions.
I'm super excited to transfer everything over.
This is probably one of my favorite pages
in my old bullet journal
because I've checked off a lot of stuff
and I have a lot of stuff that I'm really excited to get to.
So, the next page is something that I didn't
actually have in my old journal and I added it,
it's a Recipes to Make page.
So, I love cooking even though I hardly ever do it,
but whenever I do get a chance to do it
I always like to try something new.
Whenever I'm scrolling through Pinterest
I always see these beautiful meals
that look so yummy and delicious,
and I'm always like, ah, I should make that.
And I obviously always throw it into a Pinterest board,
but I tend to forget about it.
So, I wanted to have a place
where I can write down the recipes
that I want to make eventually.
So, this is the last spread
that I transferred over from my beginning monthly pages,
and it's kind of a revamped 2018 Memories page.
So, in my old bullet journal I had a spread
that was My Year in Polaroids spread,
and it was my absolute favorite thing ever.
I loved doing it every single month.
It kinda forced me to use my Polaroid camera more,
and I also love the idea of just having a visual overview
of what has happened in these past couple of months.
It's kinda like a photo album.
So, I knew I definitely wanted
to transfer that over into the new journal,
but obviously I only have four months left
so I didn't need a full double-page spread.
So, I have September, October, November, and December.
I can't wait to fill those up with new Polaroid memories.
Since I didn't have to make
the Polaroid spread a double page
I had this empty page next to it,
which I thought would be the perfect place
to transfer over the Places I've Been spread
from my 2018 Memories spread in the old journal.
It was kind of just a running list of places
that I traveled to and went to this year.
I actually changed it up and did more of a chart style.
So, I have a destination, the dates that I traveled,
and then I wanted to leave space
for a favorite memory from that trip.
So, that whenever I finish a trip
I'll just write down my favorite memory,
and then at the end of the year
I could look back to it and see all of the places
that I've been to and remember all of the fun things
that I did at those specific places.
So, I'm real excited for this Memories page.
I feel like it's a good way
to kind of end off these beginning pages
and start a new month.
Right after this September is probably going to happen,
unless I think of something else I want to add.
All right guys, so that's it for this video.
We are officially transitioned and transferred
into the new journal.
I can't wait to make some new spreads in this guy,
it's like a fresh start.
I hope you enjoyed this.
I know it wasn't anything crazy because the spreads
were pretty similar to my old journal,
but I thought it might be helpful for you guys
to hear my thought process
when I was moving everything over anyways.
If you guys are craving anymore bullet journal inspiration
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all of that jazz.
You guys know the deal.
But yeah, I'm gonna wrap it up now.
So, keep doodling everyone and I will talk to you
in the next video.
Bye guys.
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