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Talked to an older lady at a bookshop about her old bullet journal habits
I was browsing stationery last tuesday and this woman in her 70s saw me looking at dotted notebooks. She pulled out this worn moleskine from her purse and showed me how she's used the same one for like 8 years. She said she only logs one thing a day - the weather and who she talked to. Made me realize I've been overcomplicating my layouts with trackers and color codes when really the whole point is just capturing what matters. Has anyone else had a random stranger totally shift how you approach your bujo?
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danielhenderson29d ago
Isn't it wild how a total stranger can just rearrange your whole brain like that? That exact thing happened to me about two years ago - I was at a coffee shop and this guy in his 60s saw my hobonichi and asked if he could peek at it. He laughed and said I was "building a museum instead of a journal" and showed me his little pocket notebook where he just wrote down one good thing that happened each day and what he ate for breakfast. I was doing all these complex habit trackers and future logs and color coded keys, and his system basically told me to calm down. I went home and downsized everything to three lines a day after that conversation. @park.robin really nailed it with that "precious details" line because those simple weather and people notes are probably way more meaningful to look back on than some color coded sleep tracker. I still catch myself overcomplicating things sometimes, but I try to remember that old guy and keep it simple.
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Used to think notebooks had to be full of color coded trackers and future logs to count as bullet journaling. But that lady's system kind of blew my mind. Just one sentence per day about the weather and a person she talked to. Eight years in one notebook. Makes me wonder how much of my past spreads I actually look back on versus how precious those tiny details become over time. Been simplifying my own setup ever since I heard that.
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jessicac2810d ago
The weather + one person per day thing is actually from a Ryoko Sekiguchi book! She wrote about doing it for years and how it changed the way she remembered things. Not saying it has to be from a book to be valid, just wanted to put the credit where it's due because I remember her talking about that exact practice in an interview.
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