Shoutout to the lady at Starbucks who saw me bullet journaling and asked about my habit tracker

She said she'd never thought of tracking her water intake with a simple color graph, and it made me realize how much we overcomplicate these systems. Has anyone else had a random person ask about your journal and end up giving them a mini tutorial?.

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thomas86215d ago

Overcomplicating is kind of the point for some people though. A simple color graph works fine for water tracking but falls apart when you try to use it for more detailed stuff like sleep quality or mood patterns. Different systems serve different needs and that's fine. I'd rather have a system that handles multiple dimensions than strip it down just so a stranger at a coffee shop can understand it in thirty seconds. Bullet journals aren't meant to be universally accessible, they're meant to work for the person using them.

the_amy15d agoMost Upvoted

I have a four-year-old bullet journal on my shelf that started with a simple habit tracker and ended up with a full page of symbols for different headache types I was getting at the time. That kind of layering is what makes this system work for me when nothing else did. Thomas is right that a color graph is fine for one or two things but if you're tracking more than that it just turns into a mess. I think people forget that the whole point of bullet journaling is to build a tool that fits your life not squeeze your life into a pre-made template. My spread for work deadlines looks completely different from my personal one and that's okay because they serve different purposes. Letting other people's opinions limit what you put in your own journal defeats the purpose of having one in the first place.