Hit 100 pages in my bullet journal yesterday and it caught me off guard

I started my first bullet journal back in January and knew I was using it a lot, but when I counted the pages yesterday I was shocked to see 100. I use a Leuchtturm1917 with 249 numbered pages so I still have plenty of room left. Seeing that number made me realize how much I rely on this thing for tracking my mood, habit streaks, and random notes from meetings at work. The habit tracker alone takes up 2 pages per month and I've got 10 full months in there with daily logs every single day. Has anyone else hit a big page count that surprised them? I'm curious what fills up your journals the fastest.

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felix3854d ago

The habit tracker is what gets me too, but not the pages themselves. What surprised me was how fast the index pages filled up. I started with like 4 pages for the index thinking that would last forever. Hit the last line at month 8 and had to cram new entries in the margins. Now I've got a separate sticky note system just for the index because I refuse to start a new journal until I hit that last numbered page. Its weird the stuff you dont think about until its too late.

parkerb753d agoTop Commenter

Two index pages here and I hit the same wall around month six... ended up using page numbers only for the big stuff and just let the small daily entries live in the margins. Found out the hard way that numbering your pages in pencil first, before writing anything, saves a ton of headache later. It changes how you see the whole journal once you know exactly how much space you're working with from the start.