Practical stickers for your bullet journal

Those who have used printouts for your journal know the value in reducing set up time. Since the Universal Journal style strives for an ultra-efficient way of bullet journaling, let's take a closer look at another trick for reducing upkeep time in journaling: stickers.

If you're in the habit of drawing highly creative layouts or attention getters in your journal but want to try something less time consuming, consider using stickers as a substitute. The following are functionally minded stickers (with affiliate links) which I think could serve you well in your bullet journal.

1. Simple Elephant

The Simple Elephant Productivity Planner stickers. These stickers are a premium for functionality. They feature event stickers, flag stickers, call outs, and calendar tabs. Almost 400 stickers in this set.

Get the Simple Elephant Productivity Planner stickers at Amazon.com.

2. Weekly Planning

Next is a black and gold set of Weekly Planning stickers including almost 600. It's a fantastic collection of productivity stickers.

Get the Black and Gold Weekly Planning stickers also at Amazon.com.

3. Educator's Planner

These Creative Teaching Press Lesson Planner Stickers include more than 850 stickers for the bullet journaling educator. A collection of many various, sundry stickers for any number of events and assignments.

teacher educator bullet journal lesson plan stickers

Get your Creative Teaching Press Lesson Planner Stickers from Amazon.com.

4. For the students

Apart from using stickers in your journal, many teaches know very well incentive stickers are a great tool for dealing with children. Check out these Purple Ladybug Novelty Teacher stickers. This collection includes almost 5000 stickers.

Get your Purple Ladybug Novelty Teacher stickers from Amazon.com.

5. Simple Dots

Sometimes a few simple stickers is all you need, especially if you're going for a minimalist journal. This three color set of Color Coding Dot Stickers of black, red, and the white stickers make for perfect custom labels. This is set includes 1500 stickers measuring .75 inches.

Get your simple Color Coding Dot Stickers from Amazon.com.

6. Monthly Calendar Tabs

Need a micro monthly sticker tab for your bullet journal? Try the 15 month Cordliya Calendar Monthly Tab Stickers. This set features February 2018 through April 2019.

Get your Cordliya Calendar Monthly Tab Stickers from Amazon.com.

So if you're looking for ways to reduce the time investment in maintaining or setting up your journal I hope you find some of these sticker sets useful. It would be good to update this post with more options. If you know of a sticker set that would fit well with this list please comment here. And be sure to subscribe!

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