[bujo] this close to setting up a new blog

[kaberett]

title as yet to be determined, but perhaps FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION or ONE GRUMPY GEEK or something of that ilk --

-- because, right, turns out I actually am (six months in) getting on with (my... adapted version of) Ryder Carroll's Bullet Journal® system (can I make the formatting more sarcastic, do we think?) really pretty well, but, good grief, every time I go "hmm this way I'm doing things isn't quite working..." or "I wonder how else I could be using this...?" or whatever, an internet search turns up 9238437 different blog posts all reproducing the same 42 photos lifted from Instagram in slightly different orders, along with copy that breathlessly talks about how Cute or Decorative or Whatever this specific layout is...

... frequently entirely missing how the functions differ if things, you know, look superficially similar.

And, yes, I am very much enjoying using the entire thing to give myself permission to play around with handwriting and tiny art! But I am also willing to argue that that's function disguised as form, and in any case I still kind of want a resource that actually collects ideas organised by function instead of colour or theme or aesthetic theory of scrapbooking, none of which are bad but also none of which are what I want.

Because the solution to this problem is definitely another dedicated blog.

Comments

[ewt]

I don't make any art in mine (okay, rough drafts of music, but that's... not visual art, or not intentionally so), and I also get frustrated about this sort of thing. I think it's great if people want to draw flowers or cassette tapes or whatever else in their bullet journals, but I am interested in how the information is structured and why that works.

I sometimes find that searching for things like "planner printables" will turn up some interesting ways of organising things.

[finch]

I'd definitely read another planner blog, though. XD

[azurelunatic]

Definitely. 🤣

[silveradept]

That sounds like a blog that I would be very glad to come across, were I to take up such a habit.

[hydrangea]

That sounds amazingly fun tbh. I got into BJ by reading your posts on it and I've had a lot of use of it.

[sfred]

Yeah, I am very much about the function rather than the decoration. (I currently use such an adapted version that it's in a page-a-day diary...)

[ludy]

I would read that blog. I've been using my own version inspired by Rachel Wilkerson Miller's How to Bullet Plan (which I do very much recommend, for beginners at least) for the last few years. Lately I've been looking at ways I could tinker with that to better suit changing times - and have run into the same problem as you. I do enjoy looking at the pretty but it's kind of intimidating, as well as not helpful without enough explanation.

[vass]

You're not wrong.