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Ultra-Streamlined Style for bullet journal

I might have a little time here and there to do creative designs with my journal. But usually I just need it to help manage the day. What's the fastest way to manage a bullet journal? As with many things in life, it depends. Let me offer an overview of the Universal Journal ultra-streamlined style.


The Universal Journal style intends to help you spend as little time as possible setting up and using your bullet journal. It's counter productive to get burned out on a tool that's supposed to help you avoid burning out. This graphic recaps the basics. Check out some other posts on the topic. Bullet Journal Ultra-StreamlinedEfficient workflowDecluttering your JournalStreamlined Color CodingPrintables
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Easiest collections for bullet journal

Several times I've seen a question about adding collections to the bullet journal. The question usually goes something like this: do you move to the next available page, skip some pages to make a collection at an expected place, or something else?

easiest collections for bullet journal

It's common in my journal to end up with a blank page here and there. As far as I can tell, most people don't want to waste pages in their journal. Even in the 500 page journal I'm currently using I still try to avoid waste. And there's an easy way to deal with these intermittent blank pages.

Since I index the content in my journal it's very convenient to simply record blank pages there. Later these blank pages can be converted into what ever I want. Most of the time they are turned into collections. This way my journal workflow is not interrupted and I still get to use every page. Easy.

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  1. LuLuDecember 28, 2019 at 5:57 PM

    I put a tab labeled 'BLANK' on the 1st blank page. After I use that page, I move the tab to the next blank page...

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    1. Fox Enterprises LimitedJanuary 2, 2020 at 10:24 AM

      Excellent idea! Very efficient and easy to keep up with.

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