#setup 2019

January has rolled around sooner than expected and I was quick to realise I was well behind on my bujo setup 😂. This year is my 2nd year of doing a Bullet Journal which means I have experimented slightly with some new layouts to try and find something that works better for me.

Again, I am using a Leuchtturm 1917 Journal because I love how many pages it has. Giving me more room to document memories around my daily/monthly spreads.

The first page after the already printed index pages is my key page. I have kept my key the same as last year. It’s simple and concise and worked really well for me last year.

Similar to last year I created a ‘Hello 2019’ page. I chose this loading bar image because I thought it was creative yet not over complicated and didn’t take long to create.

Each year I like to make a few goals to try and stick to through the year. I have used the same layout as last year to display my 8 goals for 2019.

A Future Log in a bullet Journal, I think, is rather important. It keeps all your important dates for the year ahead in one place. I like to make sure that mine includes a birthdays section so I don’t miss anyone throughout the year.

Every year myself and Claire set ourselves a reading goal. The last two years we’ve set the target at 50 and neither of us have managed it for one reason or another. But, the main one being that by the end of the year our motivation for reading almost disappears.

In order to avoid the struggle of choosing books we’ve both decided to select 10 books each that we both have to read within 2019 and the rest of the target can be made up of our own choices. Hopefully this will prevent us from getting into our annual rut. We have also chosen 5 mini challenges to try and achieve.

My next two pages are copies of ones I used last year. They’re both simple and easy to use which is why I’ve chosen to use them again for 2019. On the left we have a bookshelf where I can add all the books I read this year. And the same for the right page which is for new movies I have seen.

This year I decided to simplify my tv tracker. Simple seems to be a reoccurring theme this year. I just want to make this year’s bujo as easy to use as possible. So, my tracker will consist of very simple graphs so I can keep track of series/episodes I have watched.

My monthly setup will be similar to last year, however, I have adapted some elements to be more convenient. Each month will have a colour theme, the same as last year, which I will correlate with my washi tapes and pen choices.

My next two pages are my monthly calendar and my weekly spread. Both have changed in ways to make sure I’m fulfilling every potential that my bullet Journal has to offer.

So, that is my bujo setup for 2019. I’m am really looking forward to journaling my way through this year and always documenting it along the way.

I wish anyone reading this a Happy 2019!

Another year and another bullet journal setup post. I’m mostly using the same stationery as last year: Zebra Mildliners; Muji 0.5 black gel pens; Crayola Supertips and Sharpie Markers.

This year I am using a Leuchtturm 1917 Dotted journal which is slightly bigger and has more pages than the Moleskine. Something that the Leuchtturm has that is different from the Moleskine is that it comes with an index pre-drawn and page numbers.

I’m very glad that I don’t have to draw out the grid for the index. On the first page, I have drawn an opener to the year, I kept it simple and not too ostentatious.

The next thing for me to do was the key. The key includes the same symbols I have used since the very beginning of my bullet journaling experience and is just laid out in a neater more organised way.

The Future Log is the next thing in my bullet journal and for once I haven’t preplanned the colours of each month so it is very minimalist and functional. I think more functional is my theme for this year even if I do enjoy making it look pretty. As it stands, I haven’t got much planned for 2019.

This year I want to be better organised when it comes to money, so I’ve created a grid that can be changed monthly with the help of sticky bookmarks. I’m also absolutely horrible at keeping my receipts organised so putting them in my bullet journal gives me a reason to get rid of them every month.

Next up is my annual reading challenge. 2019′s challenge is a little different than usual as both Millie and myself find our motivation dwindles near the end of the year and we can’t decide what to read next. So this time we have chosen 10 books each and some mini goals with an overall goal of 35 books. I was going to do a large spread on this but decided that it would be best to keep it succinct.

Up next is a simplified period tracker just for tracking when I am on and nothing else (I use an app for everything else). It looks a bit strange but it’s only to see the basics.

I have decided to make myself some goals for this year, just generalised goals nothing too specific but made a page dedicated to it

Another page I feel was better alone rather than buried within a month is my When Did I Last... page. I’m not very good at remembering when I last did things so hopefully, this will allow me to be generally tidier.

The last page before my monthly setup is my cinema page. I didn’t manage to go to the cinema as often as I wanted to last year, but I still managed to go a fair few times. I like to be able to see what and when I went to the cinema.

And now for my monthly setup. For my months I chose a colour and then centre my themes and choice of washi tape around them. January, like always, is pink. My monthly setup includes a front page, a double page spread calendar, a place to write down daily headlines and a weekly spread. Sometimes I add extra pages throughout my month, but not always.

So this is my bullet journal for 2019. I’m hoping this will work out for me as well as the last one and I look forward to being able to add more non-organisational pages.

Hope everyone has a wonderful 2019