My bullet journal used to be a mess of scribbled to-do lists until I saw a spread my friend made in Austin last month that used a simple color code for work, home, and personal tasks.

Now I just use a blue pen for pest control calls, a green one for home stuff, and a red one for my own appointments, which has cut my morning planning from 20 minutes down to about 5, so what's a simple system that actually worked for you guys?

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pat3602mo ago

Saw a thing online about using just one notebook but different colored sticky flags for each type of task. You put a flag on the edge of the page for anything urgent, a different color for stuff you can do later. Lets you keep all your notes in one place but flip right to what you need. My brain can't handle more than three categories or I give up. The key is keeping it stupid simple so you actually stick with it.

barbararamirez3d ago

God I feel this so hard, @pat360. I've tried those fancy bullet journal layouts with like a million symbols and my brain just nopes out after day two. I ended up doing something similar with just red and blue sticky notes on my fridge - red for bills or stuff that'll get me in trouble if I forget, blue for everything else I should do but won't die if I put off. Stupid simple is the only way it sticks for me too, three categories max or I'll just stop looking at the thing altogether. That flag idea on notebook edges is pretty smart though, keeps it from turning into a pile of loose papers.

oscarwright2mo ago

Color coding is such a game changer. My own planner was chaos until I started using different colored highlighters for different parts of my day. It makes everything so much faster to scan through.