Bulleted notebooks work well.

• Getting it right with “bullet journal” First Bullet Journalbullet journalnotebook

• Amazon

• Marie

  • My wife checked out some of the books on Bullet Journal and suggested the ones that she thought were the best for me.
  • Marie, who was I’m not very good at keeping things organized, discovered the Bullet Journal in 2013 and has been using it ever since.

• Developer: Ryder Carroll, Digital Product Designer - I have a learning disability and have made ingenious efforts to improve my own life with (powers of) concentration problems.

• The most important rule - Quickly record ：Rapid Logging - The rules are as simple as possible. - Marie’s experience was as follows: “When I separated the pen colors by genre, it was easy to see when I read back, but I had problems writing because I didn’t have the necessary color pen on hand. [I had to stop color-coding because it was difficult to even carry a pen of each color. - I wrote in “Color of nameplate and fusuma” in The Intellectual Production of Engineers, “I don’t distinguish the colors of fusuma. It looks pretty, but it’s a pain to use multiple colors of labels. The same idea as

  • The phrase “you can make anything but the basic rules to your liking” has taken on a life of its own, causing a trend of posting painstakingly and beautifully finished notebooks on Instagram.
    • Simple things don’t get shared because they don’t look like installations, and only things that require a lot of work get noticed.
    • Going through the hassle is contrary to the principles of Rapid Logging.

• A daily log called “[daily log

  • It is important to note that space is not limited and [apply (makeup) to anything
    • ⇔ Notebooks with pre-defined space for one day and pre-defined contents to be written
  • The “anything” in “anything you want” is the following two words
    • Things to do that day = task.
    • What came to mind that day
  • Write whatever comes to mind that day = “[Write whatever comes to mind.
    • I can write about anything. Benefits of a notebook
    • I just thought of something.
      • Where to write.
      • Do you write in a notebook or a notepad?
      • Where to write in your notebook?
      • How much to write about how much to write about how much to write about how much to write about how much to write about
    • You can write instantly without thinking about things such as
    • To take advantage of this benefit, it is a poor idea to generate “which color pen to write with”.
    • Changed from Notebook for scheduling to [Notebook to record what you want to do and what you have done
    • Accumulating a record of what you’ve done gives you confidence.
    • Know Our Strengths by looking at the record of what you’ve done.
    • Logging” is the main focus.
    • Manual life logging.

Four basic configurations

• Index: Table of Contents
• Futurelog: Six-Month Schedule
• Monthly Log: Monthly Schedule and Tasks
• Daily Log: daily schedule and tasks Details
• index
  • Part that is to increase the freedom of placement of other parts.
  • Leave the first 4 pages or so open.
  • Write what is on what page
• future log
  • Write a six-month schedule on a spread.
  • For example, divide the page into three parts.
• monthly log
  • Write down your schedule and tasks for the month
  • Write at the beginning of the month
• daily log
  • This is the bulk of this notebook.
  • I’ll add to this daily.
  • configuration
    • Title (Today’s date)
    • Bullets and Keys
    • page number

Bullets and Keys

• Make it easy to understand at a glance by devising a symbol (key) to put at the beginning of each bullet point.
• Not a special concept, but something that many people do naturally, and we’ve named it “the key.”
• Early keys used
  • □Task
  • ☑︎Completed Tasks
  • Clearly distinguish between “what just came to mind” and “tasks that really need to be done today”.
    • This allows you to determine at a glance if what you really need to do today has been completed
    • Don’t “task” something to the extent that it occurs to you that you might want to do it.
• Marie’s early keys (excerpts) and Ryder’s proposed key from 2015
  • 
  • Personally, I’m familiar with Marie-style “tasks are check boxes”.
    • I too had differentiated between “task, completed, and cancelled”, but I didn’t put a different symbol on the one I sent the next day.
    • The postponement symbol keeps a record that “this task was not executed and sent to the next day”.

Consider the relationship between [GTD

• Writing down anything that comes to mind” is a concept shared with GTD.

• In GTD, Inbox is a “box for everything”.

  • Empty this Inbox

• In the Barrett Journal, the Daily Log is “a box for everything.”

  • Empty the box at night or the next day.
    • = Looking back
  • Uncompleted tasks will be rewritten in the log for the next day
    • This re-writing effort is positively worth it.
      • It creates opportunities to read and think.
      • Continued use of the same task list over multiple days does not provide this opportunity.
        • What you didn’t do will just stay there forever.
        • Eventually I’ll get sick of looking at it.
  • Tasks that continue to be carried over, that’s what the logs reveal.
  • Is this task really necessary?”
  • If you don’t do it today, you have three options
    • Cancel
    • Divide (e.g., into 5-minute and 10-minute increments)
    • (Marie didn’t write it, but the logic is) schedule it on a specific day.
  • Difference between canceling and erasing
    • Unlogged electronic task management tools make it impossible to “erase” and look back.
    • Cancellation in the Valet Journal will be recorded as “I was going to do it and put it on task, but after putting it off for days, I cancelled it”.
    • Even after you turn it off, you can look back.
      • Maybe things have changed and it’s easier to do.
      • Maybe we can come up with a new way to divide them.
      • The objective you wanted to achieve might be achieved with a different method instead of that method.

• My impression is that it is a notebook technique that can nicely complement the daily practice part of GTD.

  • GTD is heavy on initial collection work.
  • The Bullet Journal is a incremental improvement by writing down all the kids you think of on a given day, clearing them out on that day, and repeating the process.

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