My old BuJo from 2019 is basically a different language now

I dug out my first bullet journal from 5 years ago last night, the one I started when I was working out of a tiny apartment in Portland. Back then I had color coded everything, washi tape on every other page, and I tracked things like how many cups of tea I drank. I used to spend an hour every Sunday setting up these elaborate weekly spreads with quotes and doodles. Now my setup is literally a monthly log, a daily log, and a pen that I keep losing. I thought the minimal thing was just lazy people being lazy, but honestly my old spreads were all decoration and zero function. The thing that convinced me to strip it down was missing my own dentist appointment because I was too busy making the week look pretty. Has anyone else gone back and looked at their old journals and just laughed at how extra they were?

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max80815d ago

Finding that old journal is like looking at a completely different person, right? The real shift for me was realizing the pretty spreads were about wanting to feel organized, not actually being organized, and the bare minimum version is way closer to what my brain needs.