How I Use My Bullet Journal 2020

I have been wanting to write this post for quite a long time but, uh, procrastinating is my frenemy. We go along pretty well but it kills my productivity.

Anyway, as we are about to enter the final quarter of 2020, I finally sat down to write it. I am halfway through setting up my September spread.

Before I get into what's in my 2020 Bullet Journal, I would love to mention how I had the heart to finally get into bullet journaling.

I am not a planner person, but I love tracking a lot. For the year 2015 and 2016, I used to write the highlights of my days in the Gratitude journal only. But in 2017, I started using Doodle Collection's undated planner. Now, I had nothing to plan much, hence I started using it as a tracker.

In the monthly overview spread, I used to write the highlights of the day in a word or two. Then there were some ruled pages for each month in that planner, I used them for daily to-do lists. In 2018, I used another same planner from Doodle Collection, but I added a Year in Pixels to it at the end of the planner and used the rest of it as I did in 2017.

Now, for 2019, I had a Miniso's planner that my brother had bought for me. It was a plain planner with a ring binder, and loose sheets that were in sets of blank, square grid, and ruled pages. I skipped the to-do lists part in 2019. I, instead, used the first few pages to track my year in pixels, books read, movies watched, and online courses I took. I had also added an Instagram followers tracker and habit tracker to each month. So, this planner made me confident enough to buy my first bullet journal for 2020.

I ordered Menorah's Bullet Journal from Amazon and began planning what all to add in it.

Note that I still don't use my bullet journal for planning much. I mostly use it for tracking my days and this year, I planned on going a little extra in it.

For daily to-do lists and other planning, I started using Alicia Souza's 2020 planner which was gifted to me by my publisher.

So, here's a list of the pages/spreads that are in my Bullet Journal this year:

1. Year in Pixels: You may learn more about year in pixels here. It looks so damn pretty once the year is over.
2. 2020 Calendar
3. Yearly Planner: Just an overview of important dates of the year like birthdays and anniversaries.
4. Books to read: I still do not refer to this list when I have to pick a new book to read. I go by my intuition or mood.
5. Reading Tracker: It's a track of the books I have read and includes the Title, name of the author, rating, and the date on which I finished reading a book.
6. Shows/Movies Tracker: I hardly watch any shows or movies (waiting for season 7 of Brooklyn Nine-Nine to come on Netflix though), so I love tracking the ones I watch. I write the title, season, platform on which I streamed it, and the rating.
7. Online Courses Tracker: It's a track of the online classes or courses that I take and includes title of the course, duration of the course I took to finish it, and rating.
8. Travel Log: LOL. Didn't know it would remain eerily vacant this year.
9. Festivals Tracker: Don't know why I even made this. But it turned out fun to write how a festival went in it.
10. Blog Post Tracker: I track the title and date of posting my blog posts on this page. 
11. Editing Log: This one is to track the books I have editing in this year.
12. Journals I am Using: It's more like a list of my Journals I'm Currently Using blog post, so that I remember how many journals are in use.
13. Milestones Achieved: This is for all the small or big milestones achieved, especially the ones that make me step out of my comfort zone, like the last one I mentioned was the first time I went live on Instagram in May.
14. 2020 Goals... well, yeah working on them slowly.

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After leaving a few blank pages, I started my monthly spreads in it. And this is what each monthly spread includes (serial wise):

1. Header Page: includes the name of the month.
2. To do, to read, and overview: To do is a list of monthly goals, to read is the monthly reading goals, and overview is like the summary of the month that I fill on the last day of each month.
3. Monthly View: Over the next 5-6 pages runs the monthly view which includes 30-31 boxes, each for a day of the month, that I use to write daily highlights. I write what special or worth remembering/noting down happened in a day.
4. Reminders: and deadlines for projects I am working on.
5. One Line A Day: I end the day with a random quote or any sentence that comes to me at the time of writing on this page.
6. Habits Tracker: to track my daily habits. You may look for sample habit trackers on Google or Pinterest.
7. Instagram Followers Tracker: I write my Instagram followers' count each night in this one. It keeps me aware of how well my page is growing and if it needs any improvement.
8. Monthly Highlights: This is the write anything special happens in the month.



First two pages of a monthly spread

9. Monthly Specials: a more concise form of highlights. These are the specials that I want to refer to even years and years later.

So, this is what's in my bullet journal. You don't necessarily have to use it the way others or I use it, find what works for you. Don't make all the monthly spreads in advance; keep experimenting each month. When I don't like something in a spread, I don't add it to the next month's spread. And that's what journaling is about–knowing what works best for you, in journaling and in life.

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