Hello Everyone!
Today’s vídeo will be all about my new bullet jornal and Setup for 2018.
Before I say anything else, I need to disclaim that I was heavily inspired by penpapersoul
for my current bullet journal setup.
It was her Instagram account that got me into bullet journaling again, since she combines
complex layouts with a very minimal aesthetic, which I love.
Please go follow her because her account is incredible and she deserves tons of kudos
for her work.
On another note, I have partnered with Amino again to create a Bullet Journal challenge
for 2018 and since that is a great place for users to share your interests I though it
would be the ideal platform.
Amino Apps is a community where passionate user share their experiences, pictures, posts,
challenges and opinions on hundreds of different topics.
As before, I am especially focusing on the Bullet Journal amino app, which is an Amino
group that has tons of challenges and updates from users from the bullet journaling community
and you can even live chat with everyone and share your latest ideas with the Amino chatroom.
To win a special prize, all you have to do is download Amino Apps for free, join the
Bullet Journal Amino community and start submitting pictures of your new layouts and setup for
your 2018 bullet journal.
If you submit your bullet journal pics with the hashtag #Marianastudycorner until the
15th of January you will be entitled to win one Amazon giftcard valued 100 dollars to
buy tons of stationery and supplies to get organized for the new year.
All the information on the challenge will be down in the description box below.
So I’ve found my favorite notebook brand for bullet journaling and that is the Lemome
classic dotted notebook.
This notebook retails for 10 pounds, which is way less than moleskine and leuchtturm
notebooks and besides the wonderful details, like the pen loop, flexible spine and stitched
cover, the paper is actually double the thickness of those other brands.
Because of that the Lemome is the perfect notebook for hand lettering, brush pens and
all the supplies that tend to ghost or transfer to the other side of the page.
The down side is the lack of a table of contents and numbered pages but that is something that
you can easily forget after you start writing on this paper.
For my first spread we have a yearly overview of 2018, very similar to the same format I
adopted in my last bullet journal.
I don’t use yearly spreads that much but it’s good to have in your notebook to know
when specific dates will be happening and just to have a year at a glance layout in
case you need one.
Then we have a very simple table of contents with page numbers and the topics or spreads
I will be using.
I will be filling this up as the year goes so there’s still not much to see here.
After my table of contents I started doing the BohoBerryChallenge which is a 31 day year
end review challenge that focuses on the things you did well in 2017 and how can you prepare
further for the new year.
The image is blurred since the contents are quite personal but you can still have a glimpse
at the kind of layout I used for the challenge and the type of look I am going for.
Then we’ve got my monthly spreads or overviews.
As I’ve done previously, I’ve decided to do my monthlies in a batch since I always
find it useful to keep it all together in the beginning of the journal.
I only have January till March though, since that covers the overall second term for my
Master’s and I think it’s enough to keep organized for the next few weeks.
I’ve chosen to keep the design very minimal and use colored dotted stickers to mark my
classes and seminars, something that I did a lot when I used my Filofax planner, and
tried to avoid filling in the boxes with minimal tasks or other small events, since those aren’t
relevant for a monthly view.
After the monthlies there’s a monthly spread of January.
Instead of a month at a glance format, this spread will be the first thing to come before
I start doing my to-do lists and it focuses on specific to-dos, priorities and projects
for a specific month.
On the left side you have major tasks that need to be completed during the month, a description
of my expectations for the month, my priorities and that month’s wishlist or things I need
to buy.On the right side I have Youtube ideas, projects and blog posts brainstorming.
After that there’s two more pages of BohoBerry challenge, which focuses more on plans for
2018 so I thought it would be a good idea to push those after January.
Finally I have the big novelty for this year’s bullet journal and that will be a weekly spread
before I start my dailies.
I was never a fan of weekly spreads but I didn’t feel focused enough with my daily
to-do lists for this past term so I was trying to come up with a good way to put a week-in
a glance in one page and still be able to have flexibility as to how long my days would
be and how many tasks I had to put in while I was filling the notebook during the month.
For this I decided to go with weekly trackers instead of monthly, which gives me more flexibility
to change habits according to that specific week.
I also have tasks assigned for a certan week, like paying for rent, bills that are due and
youtube related tasks, and then a small “happening this week” section with all major events
and tasks that will happen in those seven days.
The Lemome bullet journal comes with these tabs in the back which I think I will use
to mark the different monthly overview spreads as I fill them in over the year.
For the rest, I will be adopting the same daily to-do list logic as I talked about in
my previous bullet journal video, and that will be pretty much it for my 2018’s planner.
I hope you enjoyed today’s video and I will see you next week, as always.
Bye!