In Wherein I Discover Bullet Journaling

This was a real Wow moment for me. I'm really not sure how I stumbled upon bullet journals - I think I might have been looking for a way to organize my note taking and this just jumped off the screen for me.

For those that don't know, a bullet journal is an analog system that takes advantage of index (really just a table of contents), calendars, future logs, daily logs, collections and trackers. It's brilliantly simple yet you can get as elaborate as you like. Many practitioners use calligraphy and very creative and skillful drawings to augment their journals.

I'm digging it because of the indexing. At any given time, I have four or five journals going. At first, each journal was dedicated to a specific subject. Of course, as time goes on, and one journal is left at home, another in the car, I begin to misappropriate the use of each of the journals. As you might guess, that makes looking for notes I took on a meeting like looking for a needle in the haystack event.

I've used the journal for the better part of a week. A few mistakes have been made and I already see a brilliant hack for special projects or vacations or any topic where I might want a dedicated journal. This involves only the index, calendar and daily logs. I may also include collections because it would be handy to have a page for 'project ideas' and include this in the index.

March will be the first full month for its use and I think any useful errors will be made here.