Beyond Bullets: Creative Journaling Ideas to Customize Your Personal Productivity System Kindle Edition

The last time it happened, I was getting coffee. I spied a woman intently writing in her journal first thing in the morning. Until I read, “Beyond Bullets” I actually had journal envy whenever I saw someone with their journal or heard someone casually say, “When going back through my journal…” While I knew the act of writing, of noting what I was grateful for, of checking my goals and accomplishments was a worthy endeavor; I couldn’t get to it. My new journals looked too new and I couldn’t bring myself to write in them. Along came “Beyond Bullets,” and the stress was gone. Rather than focusing on a particular type of journal, this book gave me wonderful ideas for journal layouts and creating a routine for journaling. “Beyond Bullets” encouraged me to determine my intention with my organization and this not only motivated me – it took away the stress that I might be journaling “wrong.” Simple things I hadn’t thought of like color coding or selecting writing tools – or even writing from both ends of the journal, turned me into a journal devote.

I've been trying to keep a bullet journal for about half a year now, and have been having a lot of trouble being happy with the way my journal looks/actually making myself use it - which is where this book comes in. I like that it's split between the structural parts of creating a bullet journal, and the creative aspect. I've found a lot of the suggested templets to be really useful, and I'm learning to make my journal more creative. I'm also a big fan of the suggestions given regarding paper choice, pens, and stickers. But what I like most about this book is that it brings all these things together into one space. Sure, some of this stuff I could find on the internet - but here it's packaged neatly together, there are plenty of good suggestions, and it was so easy to find an follow. I'd highly recommend this for anyone trying to get into journaling and finding themselves stuck.

This book absolutely inspired me to start a little bullet journal of my own. It's great fun, though Megan Rutell is really right in that if you invest in some higher quality pens (or markers or whatever) you may enjoy your journaling more. The book is awesome and has tons of example photos of creative journaling ideas. I love that Megan Rutell makes a point that you don't have to be an artist to make your journal beautiful. You can use graphite paper to trace images from magazine, or you print images from the internet to trace, and make your journal whatever you suits your fancy. There's something really cool about the pen and paper aspect of journaling that Rutell has really latched onto in this book. I highly recommend it.

I've been keeping a bullet journal for a year and a half now, and have found it incredibly helpful in keeping track of all areas of my life in one place,. I'm much more of a minimalist than a fancy-planner (although I am mad for fountain pens and inks in a zillion colors), so I actually didn't find the creative aspects as useful personally, but I would highly recommend this book for anyone who is interested in making their journal/planner/whatever attractive and creative as well as useful. The author gives extremely concise and easy to follow directions in the creative half, and it was fun to read. What I did find most useful myself was the first half, which deals more with the actual planning pages and set-ups. There are ideas for pretty much every possible type of planner- weekly, monthly, different types of trackers, etc etc. Basically, the book is exactly what it says it is -- creative ideas to customize your own planner, no matter what sort of planner you are using.

I have tried to use a bullet journal several times over the past couple of years and always gave up after a few days. It always seemed to me to be an overly complicated to do list and nothing more. All those fabulous layouts and gushing blogs didn't help. I watched videos, poked around on Pinterest, but I still couldn't make it work. I couldn't figure out what these folks were actually getting done. I always went back to my digital reminder system. But intuitively I knew I was missing some depth and context with my simple (and some not so simple) digital systems. Plus I believe (and science has proven in multiple studies) you retain more when you hand write vs. entering into a digital system.This book puts it all together !!!! She walks you through the whys and hows of keeping a journal, regardless of how you choose to do it. And the light finally went on. I finally get it and am ready to journal/bujo. I even ordered two of these to get me started: BookFactory Ghost Grid Dot Journal.

This is a great book for anyone wanting to start journaling or to organize one you have already started. Journaling is no longer just writing things that have happened in a day. Now people use them as calendars, planners, sketchbooks, health trackiers and a private place to express yourself. I did not know there were so many styles of journaling. Traditional, art, travel, planning and journaling are the styles this author addresses. Supplies needed for journaling are relatively inexpensive. Pen and paper is all you need. There are so many different art supplies that are available today. Many scrapbooking items can be used in making your journal your own design. Let your imagination be ignited with the help of this book. Your journal will be taken to new heights.

This is my second "how to bullet journal book", and I think it was a perfect addition to my BuJo education. I started with the "Dot Journaling - A Practical Guide" book that was a great way to demystify and get started, and this book is helping me take it to the next level, with all kinds of great explanations and illustrations and practical examples. I'm not even all the way through it yet, but am really enjoying digging deeper into getting the most out of the process. Recommend!

This book covers a variety of journal styles and techniques. From the title, I expected a book just on bullet journaling, but all of the ideas could be used in a bullet journal. Art journals are also included.

The best of the bunch from what I can see of available alternatives! It's very comprehensive with plenty of examples for both planning layouts and artistic embellishments. Super pleased with this and can't wait to start my bullet journal.

... there are a lot of different techniques and formats in this book which surprised and inspired me. 5 Stars. Although on the kindle version the pictures were too small in some cases of detailed e ampules from Journals.

It has great information that isn't a repeat of what is already online. The illustrations were also easy to follow. It's is a great resource for the boju community.

Bem útil e traz novas ideias para os amantes de bullet journal . Recomendo !

I'm new to bullet journaling and this came in very handy.