So, guess what? I changed my bullet journal layout again. Don’t get me wrong, the old layout was great, but when I got my new Day Designer and started using that planner as well, I needed a slightly different layout that allowed me to really use the bullet journal to fill in the cracks that my Day Designer doesn’t quite cover. I got a lot of the layout ideas from Pinterest, and have tried to adapt them to what I’m looking for.
Fall Semester Pages
First up are some semester layout pages. I made one that’s got the basic outline of my weekly schedule on it (which isn’t actually complete yet, as I’m still waiting on the times for a few of my extracurriculars). This is nice as a quick overview of how my time is being spent during the week and it’s a slightly-cuter-than-usual way to record my weekly schedule.
I also made a timeline of all my semester due dates. Normally I have way more assignments during the semester, but since a lot of my classes are capstone/senior-level classes, they’re more focused on tests and final projects than on smaller assignments. It’s still a nice way to get a bird’s eye view of the semester.
This one is so completely unrelated to school, but I decided to make a page in my bullet journal to track TV shows I’m watching. I’m so painfully task-oriented that I hate doing things that don’t allow me to check something off of a to-do list, so this is my way of getting around that. Now I get to color in a box every time I watch an episode, which puts my Type A heart at ease.
New Weekly Layout
I got rid of the monthly layout, and I actually now have two weekly layouts instead. The first one is a tracker and overall to-do list. Here, I keep track of water consumption, coffee, sleep, and steps, and then I have a nice little box for doodles. It’s an odd thing to put in a planner, but it’s actually a really fun way to capture my mood for the day. On the right-hand page, I keep my to-do’s sorted out by the general task area they belong to, whether it be blog, internship, job, school, or “personal” (which is really just a catch-all category).
The second weekly layout is a timeline that allows me to assign specific tasks and appointments to certain blocks of time during the day. I also put my habit tracker on this page – I have fewer habits there than I used to on some of my older spreads, but I decided to pare down my list of habits to those that I really want to focus on – although I may add more as the semester goes on. I’m including pictures of what a finished week and a fresh week look like – it’s so crazy to see how different they look!
I think that’s it for this update… currently taking bets on whether or not I’ll change the layout again and have to provide yet another update before the end of 2017.
xo, Taylor
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