2025 Bullet Journal Planning and Talk Through

[@jpsoso8748]

So happy to find this video. After journaling for 1 year, I've developed 12-page monthly spreads for my 160 page A6 notebook. Like you, I prefer to have an entire calendar ear in one notebook. Following your example, I drew thumbnails for all 160 pages. Knowing what my layout will be takes the stress away from starting my 2025 notebook. You've shown me that you can still be creative even when your spread designs are constructed exactly the same. Thanks a million!

[@UnprintedbyJackie]

@@jpsoso8748 I’m so glad you found this helpful! Thank you for sharing ♥️

[@teetalena]

ohh I like that! Simple but still looks really nice!

[@elizabethbriggs492]

I love that you use the bujo for YOU and your needs. It's why I sub. I too like to cram as much as possible into the pages of a B5, so I can *see* everything that way. Re the Dutch doors and upsetting the journal balance, you can glue the offcuts together onto the outer pages, so they are still separated from the moving pages, but keep the edges balanced. I wish I'd discovered that trick a long time ago! 😂 Or you could look into pencil boards (jetpens are the most affordable I've found, but I'm in Aus so the conversion and postage kills me) so you're not losing your page into the grooves of the Dutch doors underneath.

[@UnprintedbyJackie]

@@elizabethbriggs492 That’s a brilliant idea! I hadn’t hear of that before, but that’s definitely a very interesting and creative solution. Thank you for sharing that!

[@tatiana1969xab]

Such a wonderful idea! I want one notebook last me the whole year, now I know how!

[@UnprintedbyJackie]

@@tatiana1969xab I’m glad that you found this helpful! ☺️

[@GGnome11]

That's such a cool idea for planning out each page! I don't think it's too much, we're planners after all and planning for our planners is part of the process 😅 Thanks for sharing!

[@UnprintedbyJackie]

@@GGnome11 Haha that’s so true! I’m glad you agree! 😄

[@mystlady85]

Nice to see another person making use with one journal for the entire year. Though I typically use a composition notebook to write out and plan my spreads and I’ve kept to one overall theme. Thank you for a more concise way of planning. 👍🏾🤟🏾🫶

[@TheWiseOne6775]

This year my journal was chaotic to me. We moved in December of last year, and due to the house needing a lot of repairs most of my stuff is still boxed up. I didn't have the money to replace things that I knew were in boxes so I just took the journal that I did keep out for 2024 and started using it. I have a monthly calendar and I have daily boxes. What's so funny is that some months the pages are full of photos, writing and I fit a day or two per sheet, but other months I have 4 or 5 days per page because nothing was going on or no photos. While it is chaotic and no where near what I used to do I actually like that I left it and just filled in when stuff happened. So in 2025 I plan to just have the monthly calendar, the yearly planner, and then I'm only going to write down in the journal when things actually happen. I'll use more decorations since I now have my washi, pens, etc unpacked, but I do want to have more order to the chaos. I am also going to go back to doing my habit trackers because I want to start walking more and that will force my hand. :) Love your setup, it's nice and clean.

[@UnprintedbyJackie]

@@TheWiseOne6775 That’s great to hear that you’ve been able to maintain a journaling routine during such a busy time! That sounds like a wonderful plan for the new year sticking with what you know works ☺️ and thank you!

[@KathleenSkinner]

I love the look of this system! Question, what if you have so many tasks on a day that they overflow the space assigned? How do you manage that?

[@UnprintedbyJackie]

@@KathleenSkinner Thank you! I typically try to write as small as possible to try and fit everything in. I find that most of the time, the space is more than enough to fit my tasks, but I’ve definitely run into a couple of days this past year where I had a lot more things to write down. In that case, I just tried squeezing everything in haha.

[@lottecornel]

Does anybody know if there is a printable of the 160 page planning-out-page? I would love to plan it out but drawing all those squares would make me lose my sanity hahahahaha