Shoutout to the tiny numbered list I ignored for 2 years until my keys went missing

Uma Thompson · 2026-09-16T23:55:05.769151+00:00

I started my first bullet journal back in 2019 and I went all in on the fancy weekly spreads. If you flipped through it there were little doodles, washi tape, the whole thing, but the actual daily log had maybe four lines a day because I was spending all my time drawing the boxes first. Last month I was running late for my shift at the restaurant and dug through six pages of old weeklies while my keys sat somewhere under a pile of receipts, and that was the moment it clicked. The fast little brain dump list I used to keep in a cheap grocery notebook was the only part of the system that ever did anything for me. I still have that first journal on the shelf, page after page of pretty layouts with maybe 11 real tasks written across the whole month. I went back and read a Reddit comment from 2020 where someone said the setup should take two minutes and you should close the book and get on with your day. So for the folks who have been at this a while, do you keep one book for everything or split the planning and the messy notes into two?

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