Moving to a Digital Bullet Journal

I moved over to a digital bullet journal back in March of this year and I thought I'd give a little look about why and some of the differences I've noticed.

Moving to Digital

Why Move?

• This is the biggest question and one I was asking myself for a while. Why move from planning with paper and pen to digital?

• The system I had worked well, I had been using it for the last six years at least without any problems. But, my shifts at work were constantly changing and this meant I was constantly crossing out things or using the correction tape and I didn't like how that looked.

• That was one of the main factors that contributed to the move, also the fact I'm on the computer every day for at least five minutes made it easy to work this into my daily schedule. And I have it synced with my phone which means even if I'm not on the computer I can still access my planner.

• Using the physical one was difficult as I couldn't get into a routine since I was up at 3am some days, going to bed at 7pm some days and 10pm others. I had no consistency.

• So, putting these two things together I made the decision to start migrating my things to digital BuJo-ing.

Differences in Digital Planning

• One of the differences is how easy it is to change /adapt things whenever I want to. I don't need to completely restructure or restart things if I want a change.

• I can make pages as simple or complex as I want to still, but it's not at the limit of my art skills anymore.

• Working on Obsidian BuJo-ing is a lot different but I'm finding I really enjoy it like this. I can add images and practice things like CSS and HTML that I'm learning so it all becomes a massive creative exercise.

• It's also a challenge. I found I was getting lazy with my physical bullet journal since I'd have to put in the effort to try and draw something good, but I struggle drawing. I'm not naturally artistic and while I enjoy that creativity, I also struggle with how it looks. Digital journaling makes it much simpler and faster because I can add any image from the internet I want.

• However I am restricted by the apps I'm using. I currently use Obsidian as my BuJo and I can't make a two column page as easily as OneNote, for example, but the benefits I've found from it made it an easy choice to stick with this.

Recommendations

So for Digital BuJos I have some recommendations

1. The BuJo Academy

2. Little Coffee Fox

3. Instagram accounts

   1. Search for "#bujo" or "#bulletjournal" on there!

4. SubReddits

   1. Digital Bullet Journaling

   2. Bullet Journaling

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