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Starting a bullet journal - a tutorial

Tips for anyone who’d like to start a bullet journal but doesn’t know how/where to begin :)

05.03.17

Free ‘Week at a Glance’ Planner Printables

I made myself some simple little weekly planners but I thought you guys might enjoy them too. They’re cute but still simplistic and feature sections for each day of the week, weekly goals, habit tracking, a quote of the week, deadlines, and any extra notes you may need to jot down. They’re available in 8 beautiful colours to suit your personal taste!

Download

View the pdf files by colour: 

Rose / Pink / Orange / Lemon / Lime / Mint / Icy Blue / Lilac

Or, view the whole folder here. 

Quick disclaimer: These printables are for personal use only, but may be edited for your own personal use. Please do not redistribute them without permission. 

I’ve said this to my non-techie friends countless times. It’s no secret that being able to code makes you a better job applicant, and a better entrepreneur. Hell, one techie taught a homeless man to code and now that man is making his first mobile application.

Learning to code elevates your professional life, and makes you more knowledgeable about the massive changes taking place in the technology sector that are poised to have an immense influence on human life.

(note: yes I realize that 3/5 of those links were Google projects)

But most folks are intimidated by coding. And it does seem intimidating at first. But peel away the obscurity and the difficulty, and you start to learn that coding, at least at its basic level, is a very manageable, learnable skill.

There are a lot of resources out there to teach you. I’ve found a couple to be particularly successful. Here’s my list of resources for learning to code, sorted by difficulty:

Novice

Never written a line of code before? No worries. Just visit one of these fine resources and follow their high-level tutorials. You won’t get into the nitty-gritty, but don’t worry about it for now:

Dash - by General Assembly

CodeAcademy

w3 Tutorials (start at HTML on the left sidebar and work your way down)

Intermediate

Now that you’ve gone through a handful of basic tutorials, it’s time to learn the fundamentals of actual, real-life coding problems. I’ve found these resources to be solid:

Khan Academy

CodeAcademy - Ruby, Python, PHP

Difficult

If you’re here, you’re capable of building things. You know the primitives. You know the logic control statements. You’re ready to start making real stuff take shape. Here are some different types of resources to turn you from someone who knows how to code, into a full-fledged programmer.

Programming problems

Sometimes, the challenges in programming aren’t how to make a language do a task, but just how to do the task in general. Like how to find an item in a very large, sorted list, without checking each element. Here are some resources for those types of problems

Talentbuddy

TopCoder

Web Applications

If you learned Python, Django is an amazing platform for creating quick-and-easy web applications. I’d highly suggest the tutorial - it’s one of the best I’ve ever used, and you have a web app up and running in less than an hour.

Django Tutorial

I’ve never used Rails, but it’s a very popular and powerful framework for creating web applications using Ruby. I’d suggest going through their guide to start getting down-and-dirty with Rails development.

Rails Guide

If you know PHP, there’s an ocean of good stuff out there for you to learn how to make a full-fledged web application. Frameworks do a lot of work for you, and provide quick and easy guides to get up and running. I’d suggest the following:

Cake PHP Book

Symfony 2 - Get Started

Yii PHP - The Comprehensive Guide

Conclusion

If there’s one point I wanted to get across, it’s that it is easier than ever to learn to code. There are resources on every corner of the internet for potential programmers, and the benefits of learning even just the basics are monumental.

If you know of any additional, great resources that aren’t listed here, please feel free to tweet them to me @boomeyer.

Another one, for my badly drawn doodles, I love to make this series, it’s so fun.

hello guys 🌻 so, i just finished my A-levels *cheers* and basically i have not the slightest idea what to do with my free time but i’m determined to stay productive, hence this is the reason for this masterpost. hope you all enjoy it too!! 

(updated: June 2017)

stuff to do after exams

GET THAT SLEEP YOU MISSED OUT ON FOR AGES, your body and mind will thank you

treat yourself!!!

get into a bath and chill

play your fave songs

get back to watching that series you stopped watching before exams or start a new one asap

meet up with your friends and do something fun [and try to avoid talking about exams as much as you can]

get back to doing that hobby you loved doing

plan a trip [even if it’s just in your own country, have fun and act like a tourist!]

organise a sleepover with your friends + play some board games

check out local events, there is bound to be something you like

GO TO THE BEACH AYYY

download some new apps yay!!!

do new things! [read new books (+ some more), watch new tv shows, find a new hobby, do anything really, the time is all yours!]

spend time with your family and friends

exercise maybe idk??? find a new workout you like + try to stick to it

meditate

try finding a job [check my job tag for tips + resources]

try out new restaurants, coffeeshops and whatever tickles your fancy

volunteer at some place you find interesting!

help out around the house

visit relatives you didn’t have the chance to visit during exams/the scholastic year

cute june quote!!

academics + learning

start a bullet journal?

buy some books and read them!

plan, plan, plan!!

learn a new language

learn how to cook + make fun snacks [experiment with food, it’s so much fun to discover new, delicious things]

learn photography [or a new hobby in general tbh]

find an online course on something you don’t have to study for school

watch some documentaries

check your school syllabuses for books you should read before starting the next school year

prepare for uni

take some summer classes

review some of your notes from time to time if they’re useful for the next school year

where to get motivation

motivation masterpost

motivation tag

my study instagram

study inspiration

how to study in summer

staying on track during the summer

+ my masterposts

notes, studying, and self-study resources

self-study resources

supplies

igcse resources

literature masterpost

organisation

aesthetically pleasing notes

annotating

studying a foreign language

really great apps

math

college + uni

motivation

biology

space!!!!

chemistry

physics

summary writing

the discursive/argumentative essay

the narrative essay + the descriptive essay

the ultimate english masterpost!!

stress relief

what i’ve learnt throughout my years of being a student

how to stay productive during holidays

bullet journals

melodic studying

philosophy

stay sated whilst you’re motivated

shakespeare

+ more

hope this helped you guys, enjoy your summer!!

- helena xx

ace that exam.

when u cramming for a huge test but u know u gotta slay it - requested by alboms + baskerveilles 

holy shit the bullet journal is great i’m so glad you asked, okay, it’s a planner, essentially, and a lot of people use it primarily instead of productivity apps but i think it’s going to entirely replace them for me. the photoset above is my own bullet journal and the important pages so far imo. i started out in an old journal just to play around w what i like and my style, and then i moved to this one for the start of the month.

this is the official site, and it gives you a good outline but i’ve seen that almost everyone i found using a bullet journal customizes it to their own needs. you set up an index page, and then each month you write down the days for an “overview” and events that have concrete dates, and then your goals for that month, all the things you want to get done. and after that, you write down each day and the things that come to you - they don’t have to be things that you need to get done that day but if you remember that you need to go to the store or call someone, you write it down under the current day. a lot of people include notes or combine it with the use of a personal journal, so they’ll write down what they did or how they felt, or i’ve seen a lot of people in school will use it with their notes and assignments. each event or appointment or task has an icon beside it to categorize it so you can tell at a glance if it’s school, or work, or personal. i’ve seen people color code things here as well but i think that color coding gets out of hand really fast if you do more than three or four colors.

planning ahead beyond the current month is something that’s not really included in the original bullet journal video on the site, so i drew in after the index two calendars - one with boxes, for jotting down birthdays and holidays and events beyond the current month, and then one on the back of that page is an “at a glance” for the dates and marking days off.

it was really hard for me to find an app that was flexible enough to suit me but also, i kept putting things in my calendar and never looking at it again, or jotting down lists in the notes app and then just having sparse notes for like, two years back. and every daily or weekly planner i found online or in stores was terribly designed and super overpriced?? like, extortion level prices. bankrupting prices. i like that i’m not wasting paper if i don’t do much in a day and i’m not running out of space if i’m really busy one day, and it fits me perfectly because it’s my design and my key and my journal. and in the same book i can keep my grocery list, movies, shows to watch, any list instead of just writing it down on a sticky note and leaving it on my desk or wall and never looking at it again.

and the best use, for me, is when i’m feeling more anxious or having a low day, i can feel more organized and accomplished - i can put down things like…cooked dinner, or cleaned up, or took a shower, and it’s a show that i did something. and i’m not forever saying “i’ll remember” or “i know, i’ve got it” and then forgetting to do anything yk.

these are the best links i’ve found so far that go over the journal, how to use it, how to do your own, or just things you can steal to make your planner more organized.

this is hands down #1 the best video about bullet journals i’ve found, it’s simple, easy, not overly complicated or time-consuming, and it’s what i’ve ‘stolen’ the most from tbh

this one is great too, good intro and no nonsense, a little long but really useful

ambivity’s favorite pages

also great and useful for an intro to what exactly it is

stemstudy‘s example of their journal

tutorial graph on how to get started studdiction

studdiction‘s own example of their journal/layout