Bullet Journal Series - Day 3: Daily Block, Lists, and Important Notes

How exciting! You are almost able to begin a Bullet Journal of your own! After today's post, you can go ahead and get started.

So, we've covered the cover (haha), reference page, page numbering (ever so briefly, yesterday), index, and monthly spread.

Today will be about the daily blocks, lists, and important notes.

This is what your daily blocks will look like once you've finished your monthly spread. There are some people that set up a whole page for each day because they organize it similar to a Filofax, as there are people who just take it as it comes. I'm in the latter group. I like to leave space for the unknown. I believe allowing your page to fill up as it may, without a structure, is the beauty of the Bullet Journal. I like to but the day of the week followed by the date for redundancy. I have a terrible memory, so this helps.

Daily Block

This is my block for today, thus far. Since I took this picture, I have already added 3 tasks and one explore. I have one "incomplete/started" task that was carried over from yesterday at the top, and I have an upcoming event (which just means it doesn't fall under this month) at the bottom of my block. These are all symbols that were introduced in the first post of this series. And, as with anything bullet journal related, you can customize the daily block to your liking.

Lists & Important Notes

Here is an example of a list. I did this because I had stream of tags for my first post and I needed to make sure that #mine was in the first 5 tags so that the post would show up in the page for Mine on my Tumblr (only the first five tags are read for pages), and there was no way I could memorize all those tags, so I wrote them down.

After you write in your list, you have to place it in the index, so that you can easily find it anytime afterward.The page number for this list is 50.

I also have an important note on the top of this page in my Bullet Journal.

I, also, need to document this in the index...

And there they are. I highlighted them for you all to see them. You would put the name of the note or the list followed by the page number you can find it on. It is absolutely okay for the list or note to be found on two different pages. Just make sure to put the page numbers in the index.

Tomorrow, I will be posting up resources for Bullet Journaling, including the video of the original creator, Ryder Carroll.

Happy Journaling!