How Im Starting A Bullet Journal

✏️ how i’m starting a bullet journal

as someone who isn’t artistic 🙈

i've wanted to start a bullet journal for so long (i even asked @a-fox-studies for design recs months ago — thank you again for those!!), but i still kept putting it off.

i felt like it was something that would be time- and resource-consuming in an unfulfilling way for me because i would make unaesthetic mistakes that would make spreads unusable for me in the future without regrets, etc., etc.

so here's what i'm doing to finally start the bullet journal of my dreams 😍

step 1: go digital

i did a lot of research so you don't have to and found the best freemium free-form notes app (with customizable pens, a sane eraser and select tool, and that also supports text and images, etc.).

DrawNote by DragonNest has so many features for free and even more cool ones if you want to pay different tiers, but i was able to make the spread above with just the free version, so i'm already very satisfied 😌

step 2: play around with it

i tried out a bunch of different pens and styles and colors to see how they look and get familiar with the apl, i tried loading images, organizing my spreads into folders within the app, etc.

what i really like about the digital format is that i can make mistakes and it's like they never happened and i didn't waste a single overpriced stationery item 😅

step 3: only use it for one thing at a time

i'm only planning to use the October tracker above for my vitamins so far since that's what i need the most motivation to remember to do lately 🙃 and i think it's a small enough goal that i can be consistent with it for this month.

i already have so many other ideas for different spreads i want to do for other things in my life, but i want to make an effort to pace myself so that i can do this sustainably because it seems really fun and i'd hate for it to start feeling like a burdensome chore due to my own carelessness 🥲

💌: hope this helps anyone who also feels they're not artistic or aesthetic, but wants to start a bujo! 💛 let me know if y'all want an update at the end of the month on how it's going~

11 - 12.09.2024

general surgery has started and im feeling tired to the bone. i think i still havent gotten over the mental exhaustion from being around people 24/7 during the almost 2 month duration of the volunteering project. on the brighter note, my volunteering supervisor praised me for "already showing your presence and duty as a doctor" and i will definitely remember that until i die.

it's rainy season, so i tried watching comedy horror movie m3gan when i got back from hospital and read some shirley jackson. give me horror comedy movies or horror books!

🎧 - pineapple slice, baekhyun

📖 - we have always lived in the castle, shirley jackson. merricat my most beloved 💖

october goals 🌰🍁🍂🍠 in my little witch girl era~

⏪ september goals recap

i shortened my list for this month now that i have a better sense of what i can accomplish in a month so i can focus on what i really want to do!

👩‍💻 implement engineering project!

🧠 keep enjoying my courses!

🇨🇳 Chinese handwriting and composition practice!

✒️ finish the first draft of my domodachi project!

🧶 crochet project!

💌: you might be wondering, why is “little witch girl” the theme for this month? well, it's because i'm convinced it's going to take a magic trick to get all of this done by the end of the month that's already started 😅 but also because i like the way it sounds like “little rich girl” i'm low-key manifesting a promotion in this economy ok? 😂

hwaaa it's October, it's scary!!

🎶✨when u get this, list 5 songs u like to listen to, publish. then, send this ask to 10 of your favorite followers (positivity is cool)🎶✨

thank youuu so much for thinking of me though I haven't been around for so long! :"))

i've answered this one before, so, this is part 2. 5 songs I like to listen to recently:

From the Start - Laufey

once in a moon - Sarah Kang

mad - eaJ

The Rainbow Connection - Jim Henson

Maybe - Han of Stray Kids

22/100 days of productivity - 28.08.24

Academic

• 4h studying for school

• 2h studying for Johanniter state competition (first aid)

• 1h studying for driving licence theory test

• 15min Duolingo

Physical

• 20min Cardio

• 10min Yoga

• 30min Pilates

• steps : 4.199

Selfcare

• Skincare

• Nailcare

• Haircare / hair routine