Showerthought: I found my first bullet journal from 2019 in a box.

It was a cheap notebook from a store in Phoenix, and all I had was a black pen. I opened it last week and saw pages of messy, fast notes about work calls and grocery lists. Now my current journal has color codes, a habit tracker, and a page for garden plans. Has anyone else looked back at their old, simple setup and been surprised by how much it changed?

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danielw881mo ago

Yeah, the "messy, fast notes" part really got me. I read this blog post once about how these systems always start as just a tool to get stuff out of your head. Then, without you even noticing, it becomes this whole project of its own. My own notes from a few years back are just scribbled on scrap paper, and now I've got separate notebooks for different things. It's funny how that happens.

hugoc971mo ago

My own note system, @danielw88, went through that exact same change.

alicesingh1mo ago

That part about it becoming a whole project is so true. I started with a tiny notebook for work stuff. Now I have a whole drawer with different ones for recipes, house projects, and even one just for tracking shows I want to watch. It's like the system needs its own system after a while.