“I used to be a chronic journal buyer always looking for the right system, which usually just led me to feeling overwhelmed and becoming a chronic journal abandoner”. Daisy is also a fan of the smaller size, adding that this is “a massive plus for me - it’s A5, meaning you can slip it into your bag without feeling like you’re lumbering around your life’s work”.įor Chelsey Pippin, Strategist UK contributor, writer and founder of Pip Cards Tarot, using a traveller’s notebook “completely changed my life” - “I’m not joking”, she adds. There are 96 pages to work with here, so this is ideal for those looking for a pocket-size journal which will do the job of a bullet journal, a calendar, and a general notebook. “It’s like what everyone wanted their school/college stationery to look like, as opposed to the grainy exercise books that they actually were”. Made from recycled paper, the aesthetically pleasing notebook also features a ruler down one side of the front page, a detail Daisy loves: “The aesthetic of this journal is unmatched”, she says. So instead of having one book for plans and another for abstract ideas, it’s blended into one”. “There’s a calendar in there, numbered pages, dotted pages. “I love that there are different pages for different things”, Daisy tells the Strategist UK. I’ve been using these notebooks for years now and have collected quite the rainbow collection of colours there are so many pages, and a really nifty pocket at the back of the book to keep stickers, tabs, and anything else for safekeeping”.ĭaisy Jones, journalist and author of All the Things She Said: Everything I Know About Modern Lesbian and Bi Culture, recommends the Papier Tigre A5 Notebook, which mixes calendar pages and bullet-journal-style dotted pages. It’s super minimalistic and gives me enough space to be creative whether that’s designing my own pages with headers, boxes, and doodles, or keeping track of my to-do list in a simple way. “I use the bullet-journal method for both productivity and mindfulness”, she adds, “and this Leuchtturm1917 A5 notebook allows me to do both seamlessly. Jessica Morgan, journalist and deputy editor at The Face, also recommends the classic bullet journal. After spending years “trying to find the right planner to best manage my time and my work”, Jones says, “I’m currently on my fifth, each one adapting to what I need at that time, and I have no intention of stopping”. With nothing except dotted pages inside, the notebook leaves you to design your own bullet-journal layout to suit your needs, which may well change as you get used to the method. Jones recognises that scrolling through pages of other people’s bullet journals - or “incredibly intimidating works of art” - for inspiration may put you off, so she recommends “starting simple” with creator of the method Ryder Carroll’s official guide, alongside the official Leuchtturm1917 notebook. Amy Jones, author of The To-Do List and Other Debacles: Lessons in Life, Love and Losing My Mind, calls bullet journaling “the only thing that’s ever worked for me, because it’s the only thing I could adapt to make it exactly what I needed”. When you hear “productivity journal”, it’s likely that your mind will go to “bullet journaling”, the organisation and planning method that took off on Instagram and Pinterest in the late 2010s. Read on for their pick of the best bullet journals, notebooks, planners, and diaries. There’s a lot out there - so we asked 12 cool people (including an author, a tarot reader, and a fashion designer) to recommend their favourite journals that they use to track, plan, and process. Some may prefer the freedom of a bullet journal’s simple dotted pages, whereas others might like to be prompted to write down their day’s objectives, reflections, and to-do lists. Whether it’s for staying on top of work meetings, social activities, or exercise habits, productivity journals can help to lay out an effective schedule without everything becoming too overwhelming, and many of them also integrate suggestions for better planning, budgeting, achieving life and work goals, and more. Bullet journaling may not be as ubiquitous as in 2016, but for the organised (and the frazzled), planners, diaries, and notebooks with a focus on effectively tracking your goals remain popular.
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