if you've watched pretty much any of my videos you know that in the great
battle between paper and digital planning i am on team digital just because it
looks better for me but that doesn't mean that I can't appreciate a pretty bullet journal I have a pinterest
board full of bullet journals even though I've never really had any intention of actually starting
a bullet journal until now so there's someone I would like you to meet his name is
is moleskin dotted hard cover notebook we met at a bookstore it was raining and I
just saw that dark blue cover and I was in love so before you cause me of
not being loyal to my digital planning system I have my reasons while I'm on this trip
i have things I have to get done, I have to-do's but just no near the amount that I would have
at home and so the way i used to plan is just a little bit much for me right now and I wanted something
simpler also if there's a way for me to spend less time less time
on my phone or computer then i'm all for it and then the last reason is i think filling this out
would be like the best possible souvenir of this trip that I could have I'm not really the type
of person who buys souveniers i like to send postcards to other people and I like to take photos
for memories for myself but i dont really see the point in like buying the random knik knacks and so I think this will be
the perfect way to capture the essence of the trip in a really compact
and personalized way so after i decided yes I'm gonna do a bullet journal I gotso
excited i started watching all these bullet journaling videos that lowkey made me feel a bit bad about myself
because everyone on youtube is so talented and I was like ok I guess I have no artistic talent
so ikept mine pretty simple but i think its still pretty cute if I way so myself
so lets just get into it so like I mentioned already this is a dotted hard cover moleskine notebook
i did want a leuchtturm but unfortunately there are a little bit hard to find her in Madrid and amazon
was not really an option so we went with the Moleskine which is honestly pretty much
the same so i've been using this sharpie pen and then these zebra mild liners which I had to exercise
self control in order to take only 6 colors to bring with me and then recently I've also been using
some colored pencils that my host family had and that's pretty much it so on the very first
page as you can see if i happen to loose this notebook and you happen to find it I might
give you 30$ on the next page yet another reminder that this notebook belongs to me
and then finally we get into the fun bullet journaling pages so the first thing that I have is an index
and i do need to update this a little bit but I kept it pretty simple I just have the page numbers and then what is on
that page hum that's like the definition of an index for the next page I did a little bit
of measuring to make all subsequence threads easier so what I did was I numbered each of the squares
that go across horizontally and then vertically I also made guides through where
half of the page and a third of the page would be so like if I'm doing a half page spread I can just
see here that i need to go 20 squares down and then I'll be exactly half way the next few pages are
just a simple calendar layout going up through February this is obviously supposed to say 2020
but i had already ripped out a couple of pages due to mistakes that i'd made and I payed more than
20$ for this notebook so i was like no more some of this is kind of a mess because
i've waited until i actually bought tickets before I wrote stuff in pen but basically the point of this calendar
is to get an overall view of where I'm going to be and who I'm going to be with
and every point in time and then also keep track of little date events alright so
the point of this bullet journal is just to keep track of my little to-do's through out the week and remember
when i said that this was a very simple bullet journal?
i was not kidding do this is the first weekly spread that I attempted I just did headers
for each day of the week a little habit tracker and then a graph to track the number of steps that I've
walked i've been using this standard system of like bullet journaling so for tasks
i just have a dot events are a circle, completed tasks have a X over them
and then tasks that i moved to a different day have a little a little arrow thing
i'm just gonna skip ahead to this week so that you can see a different kind of weekly spread so this is December and I put
ever so slightly a little bit more effort in this one and then I actually really really like this
weekly spread so i just used two colored pencils I would first do a layout where I filled in the whole thing
than just part of it part of it and then I would keep adding layers until I got this nice gradient
I am really excited about christmas so that's why I kind of did like a red and green
christmas theme but otherwise the basic layout is the same so I have a header for each day, habit tracker,
steps tracker and then i also added a sleep tracker along the other side alright so those are the basic
monthly and weekly layouts so this would be a really boring video if that was all that I have
so now i'm gonna show you some of the other spreads that I've done and since this is like a travel bullet journal most of
them serve some travel planning purpose so in this workaway that I've been doing the really nice thing
is that i have a really clear schedule at the start and I knew exactly when I had free time
so i just did a column for each day and then I filled in with the sharpie the times that I was supposed to
be doing something the times that i wasn't free then moving on Madrid
oh let me center this so a lot of Madrid museums and like cultural centers have specific times
of the week where you don't need to pay to enter but I just made a handy dandy list of that
on the next page are my bed time and morning routines when I'm at home I just have them memorized
and i dont need to refer to anything to member what I need to do but since my routinea are a little bit
different now that i'm traveling i just wanted to write them down it's also a really nice way to just like ground
myself though i'm not at home i can feel like I'm at home because this is basically
what i do at home and so repeating this routines kind of helps me get through the homesickness a little bit
then i've got this spread which i need to update but it's basically a one sentence a
day description of what i did each day I started this bullet journal about a week after I actually started
travelling so there should be like another 7 days here but I didn't really feel like filling
that in this page i forgot to update but this is for the family newsletter
that i've been doing so obviously i have a weekly bliss bean newsletter which you should subscribe to
by the way using the link in the description but I also have like a travel newsletter that I like to send
every two weeks to my friends and family just to kind of update them on what I've been doing with more
personal details than what i would be comfortable sharing on my blog so this is where i've been reminding myself that
i need to send these and then taking notes on what I might wanna talk about in them so I havent't
been doing the greatest job at keeping up with Instagram or just my blog in general while I've been traveling but
this is a social media calendar that I've been trying to follow hum
yeah it's jsut hard to keep up with Instagram while you're traveling anyways this is a little
spread of ideas for instagram captions or just stuff to share on my stories
this is one of the less aesthetic pages this was created at a time where I was really stressed out what I
would do in december and january because I basically had no plans so here I was just brainstorming
ideas and then here i was trying to actually put them on like a visual calendar
luckily i pretty much have the rest of the trip planned out now so no more stress
this is another kind of messy page I try to keep this bullet journal not to formal so like I do have
a really neat and organized spread like this but obviously travel is not always like that
sometimes it's like this and i just want to include all of that because I wanna be able to look back
at the neat and organized parts of it but also the messy parts of it but yeah these are the
pages where I was trying to figure out how I could get to Germany in the cheapest way possible
this was quite a headache because i was looking up different accommodations for planes and buses and different
dates different cities to fly into luckily that is also figured out
now okay so now we're back in December where I had that one weekly spread the next page is
is my finalized plan for going to Germany I learned my lesson and I filled this one
out after i bought my tickets I still made a little mistake and I accidentally wrote Munich instead of
Münster which worried my uncle very much I'm going to Germany to visit my uncle
he was like are you sure you are coming to the right city because Munich is kind of far away from us but luckily
that was just a mistake that i made on this page I did buy the right ticket next few pages are some travel
planning pages so when i started this trip I was kind of plan less
without plans but as it's been going along I've realized that I do like to have stuff sort of idea
of what i want to do in each city and so I made this list after having already spent almost 3
weeks in spain but i have a few weeks left so I think this list will still come in handy
in guiding me in my food aventures and then the next page is somethings
that i want to do i also included things I had already done just because I wanted to
have like a record of the sites that I've seen in Madrid and then I also mixed
in a few new things because i still have about two weeks left here in Madrid and so
i want to make the most out of that time that I have left and then the last thing I have after germany I'm going to
portugal with a friend and we have some really loose plans in place but I just wanted to start
getting some of the details sorted out so for example we want to visit the algarve region of portugal
but i had no idea what is actually down there and so I did a little bit of research
on the big cities that are down there and kind of the categories of each one
i put them on a map so that I can visualize it I also strive looking at transportation
because we're going to be visit a couple of cities that are pretty spaced out so I
started looking at bus options and that's it so as you can see
i'm at 40 pages right now and I still have a lot of pages left in this bullet journal so
i'm trying to just fill it up so bullet journaling so far has been really fun
i still think that digital planning works better in my regular life but since my life is pretty
different right now i need a different system so ya if you have any ideas of other trackers
that i could use to plan my travel that would be great because I have a lot of pages that I
still need to fill up somehow and other than that if you have any questions about workaway
or just travel in general i wanna make like a q&a video about things have been
going so far so ya please give this video a like if you enjoyed it and subscribe to my channel
same thing as always and i will see you next week bye