spread made by me, apps used - goodnotes and procreate. 

I’ve started digital bullet journaling recently. These are from the past month or so that I’ve been trying it out.

I found myself spending a lot of time and money on supplies that I either didn’t use or didn’t want to use in a particular spread, so I moved to OneNote instead. I wasn’t sure if I’d like it, but it’s so easy to add pictures and there are an infinite amount of colors of highlighters, pens, and pencils. I’m actually really enjoying being able to adapt each spread to what I need that week, whether that’s meal planning, journaling, or just listing what movies and songs I’ve been watching and listening to. I can move any text I’ve already written, I can easily copy and paste or erase and re-create elements, I can switch between handwriting and typing. I can also drag and drop anything that doesn’t belong in a section/month so I stay organized. One thing I didn’t like about physical bullet journaling is that if there was something I was working on long term and I didn’t know how much space it would need, I would always end up with too little or too much space in a place that was no longer relevant. I’m planning the week a friend from college is visiting (late June, early July) and I started planning this in April. What I thought was going to be a list of ideas of places to go turned into a whole itinerary and to-do list. In OneNote, I carried the multiple pages across April into May and now into June and they can expand and contract as I need.

It’s just so much easier than paper (though, admittedly it isn’t as satisfying) and I’ve been able to get past the “but what if I mess up this page” block that usually prevents me from creating spreads. And it cuts down on time. I have a lot of free time away from work, but I try to spend that out with my friends or on my other hobbies. I enjoy bullet journaling, but the paper version can take a lot of very painstaking and detailed work that takes up a lot of time, time I would rather spend on friends. These past two weeks I found a spread that really works for me (week 21 and 22), so I literally just copied the whole week 21 page into a new page for week 22, removed my to-dos/events/grocery list, and highlighted the next week on the calendar. It was so easy. (Let me know if you guys want a post on OneNote or digital bullet journaling, I’ve come across a lot of tips and tricks as I’ve been trying this out.)

one of my favorite digital bujo spreads I’ve done so far!! head over to my instagram to check out a give away which includes the digital files I used to make this spread (the washi tape and the to-do list stickers)! my username on insta is the same here, @pridebulletjournal 

2018 Digital Bullet Journal Planner

I decided to make a digital planner that combines traditional methods of planning with bullet journaling! This planner gives you the opportunity to use pre-made templates or completely design your own :-) This paper is sized A4 which means it could be printed if you didn’t want to use it digitally! It also includes 4 packs of digital stickers: icons, weekdays, months and 1-31/years. Pages are hyperlinked for easy navigation! It can be used on any PDF application/editor such as GoodNotes, Notability, etc.

Download link here! :-)

Do you use goodnotes app and wish for prettier and more personal notebook covers? Here’s how you do it!

My notebook covers: 

1. Choose a picture.

First of all you need to find pictures for your covers. I search pinterest for pictures and saves the ones I like…

To save a picture from pinterest you click on the three dots in the left upper corner -> save imaage. (see pictures below) 

2. Get the app

Download the app pic collage, it’s a free app and you can find it on Google play here, in app store here!

3. Make your own notebook cover

- Click on freestyle - Press the plus sign at the bottom - Go to Photos and choose your selected picture - Press the image and select ‘set as background’ - Press the plus sign again - and this time choose ‘add text’ - Write your notebook title and mixture with colors, fonts and outline. - Save the new image

4. Get your new picture as notebook cover in Goodnotes

- Go to Goodnotes app and open the notebook you just made a cover for. - Click on the four squares in the upper left corner and click on change in the upper right corner. - Select your current cover and select ‘trash’

- Then you click on ‘done’.  - While you are overlooking all your pages, press the plus icon in the upper left corner, right above your first page of the notebook.  - Select the first + button that reveals.  - Press import picture and choose the cover you made.

DONE! 

i’ve post some of my favorite spreads from my bullet journal since i received a lot of asks requesting me to post more of my digital bullet journal, i have another post coming soon of more recent spreads

1. Open Culture:  Not a large a selection, but high quality texts. If you just want to skim a book to brush up on a course you took in ninth grade, download one of these. I have yet to be disappointed.

2. Book Boon: Provides free college-level textbooks in a PDF format. Probably the widest range of subjects on the web. The site is also pretty.

3. Flat World Knowledge: The worlds largest publisher of free and open college textbooks. Humanitie texts are particularly difficult to come by, this site has a great selection in all disciplines.

4. Textbook Revolution:  Some of the books are PDF files, others are viewable online as e-books, or some are simply web sites containing course or multimedia content.