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192-page bound notebook with elastic closure and 3 ribbon markersMeasures 7.75 x 8.50-InchesBlack with ID badge and pen loop on coverFeatures day and month page headers, bullet template, and information pagesDesignWorks Ink offers an extensive selection of creatively designed, best-quality journals and note cards at an attractive price
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ColorBlack
Height8.5 Inches
Length7.75 Inches
Number of items1
Release dateSeptember 2018
Size6.75" x 8.5"
Weight0.75 Pounds
Width1 Inches
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u/TarnishedTeal ยท 1 pointr/ADHD

I give myself a lot of flexibility. Like, a stupid amount of flexibility. My opening page even says:

> You are not perfect, there are no perfect days. If you use this book as intended, it will become a ratted mess. That is the ideal. Use this book as much as possible, but don't be afraid to mess up, and don't hold yourself to using it daily.

I don't use it to plan much, honestly. I write notes, ideas, I roughly plan my week. But I do have a backup planner with actual dates and stuff in it, just in case I need a bit more structure. The date grid at the top helps though, because I can circle the date that the page was written, and then draw an X on top of days that are mentioned on that page. So if I'm at a Doctor's appointment on the 15th, and my next appointment is on the 3rd, I would circle the 15th and X out the 3rd. It's a small system that I just came up with recently that seems to really help guide me to just dump everything out onto paper.


The best book I've found to use for a bullet journal is Standard Notebook No. 3 OR No. 12, if you're a fan of wire bound books that are a bit smaller. I found both of them at my local ginormous bookstore, but both can be purchased online too.

They have a bullet journal marks template which is kind of neat, but the inside is just a date grid on top, a subject line, and then along the left is checkboxes, and the rest is just lined. My one small issue is that the grid is technically 29x29 which makes it basically unusable for even # week planning. (Like, I can't just have 4 lines per day. It's like 4.14 lines, technically.)

I still use some bullet journal marks, but usually my journal just consists of to-do lists and other lists. It's mostly a list book. A list of dog names, a list of step goals, a list of food that I like to eat. Stuff like that. I fully recognize that I'm never going to be a bullet journal guru, but as Jessica says in her journal video: the best planner is the one you use. So I try to not nail myself down too much in terms of "rules" or "semantics" otherwise I get caught up in doing things "the right way." That's not to say my journal is chaos though. It's not. I still have an index. I still have a somewhat defined order for where things go on what pages. I still have numbers in my lists, etc. I just allow myself more freedom than the original creator intended, I think. I think at best it could be called a bullet-like journal.

By far the worst attempt at bullet journaling I had was the dot grid. I used a lettchurn (however you spell it) dot-grid "bullet journal" for awhile and it was just distracting. I had to constantly be counting dots because my brain couldn't parse the information (dots and spacing) properly. I spent so much goddamn time trying to draw perfectly along the grid that I hated using that notebook and gave up.

I think in order to be successful, you gotta own your ADHD. You gotta stand there and say "yeah, I am gonna fuck up. But I can also fix it, and it's not the end of the world (usually)." The more you own yourself, the more you accept yourself for who and what you are, the better of you'll be. Not just journaling, but everywhere.