To get started with your journal, follow these steps, and watch Carroll’s video for a bit of extra guidance.
1. Identify and number your pages.
All of your pages should be numbered to make items easier to find. Number every page of your journal in the bottom left hand corner. Then title each page—the easiest thing to do is start with the first day of the month, and move on from there. One “cycle” of a bullet journal lasts two months. Note: Don’t start on the first page of the journal. Leave a few pages blank (more on that later).
2. Create your key.
When you create a list on the page, don’t write it as a to-do list. That’s where “rapid logging” comes in—every item will fall into Tasks, Events, or Notes. For example, if you were writing a list for what you needed to do tomorrow, you would write down everything in short, descriptive sentences—from “Finish PowerPoint presentation” to “Anna’s birthday dinner.” Then, label each with an icon so you can differentiate between tasks (finish presentation), events (birthday dinner), and notes (delivery arrives tomorrow).
3. Identify your “Task Key.”
Because tasks are actionable items, Carroll wants to make sure users are able to differentiate between a complete and incomplete task. This is where it gets a little tricky: In a bullet journal, tasks are complete, migrated, or scheduled. If it’s complete, you can cross it off your list! If it’s scheduled, you will have to complete it on the planned day. If it’s “migrated,” it may mean that you didn’t get to it. At the end of the month, when you review your previous journaling, the incomplete tasks are migrated to the following month, with the idea that you’ll complete them then. That’s why it takes two months to complete a bullet journal “cycle.”
4. Write your index.
Remember the blank pages at the beginning of the journal? Those become your index. As you number your bullet journal and fill things out, you may find that you have 31 pages for the month of August, then three pages of doodles, two pages of birthday plans, and then 30 more pages for September. In the index, you create a “table of contents” of sorts. Just write the “Topic Name,” and then its corresponding page numbers. Now you can easily access that information instead of thumbing through the entire journal.
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