Moving to a new journal can be very simple or it can involve quite a lot. If you're the type who wants to review your old journal, possibly migrating info to the new notebook, Megan at Page Flutter has some tips for you. Megan walks though a thorough process with 8 tips to help you gather and organize what you want to transfer from your old journal to the new one. She covers reviewing your old notebook, sorting, making a blueprint, planning adjustments, and more. It's a thorough and well thought out process.  Check it out . Another recommendation I'd make is to look for ways that you could reduce the amount of time and effort needed to set up or maintain your journal. Printables are the easiest way to do that (well, not putting anything in the journal would technically be the easiest way). There are lots of places online to find cool stuff to print, cut, and paste in your journal. There are several free printables available right here on this blog as well . Give...

When setting up a new journal notebook, many people like a year-at-a-glance page with the full calendar. That's one of many excellent ideas for setting up a new notebook. And it's a lot of writing if you set up a calendar manually. But you don't have to. Most of us use some form of a future log. I find myself occasionally referencing a traditional calendar when planning for an event. It would be nice not to have to go outside my bullet journal to do this. I also like the idea of a year-at-a-glance page but I don't want to have to write out all that. To help improve efficiency in your bullet journal, check out these free calendar thumbnails. Download the free calendar printables for the current year. You can use a thumbnail size, medium , or large size. Print, cut, and paste as needed. With these three sizes you can probably use the calendar printouts any way you would normally use a hand written calendar. These thumbnails work great for testing out vari...

So you're getting ready to move to a new notebook. You probably want to make this transition as painless as possible. There are plenty of good ideas for setting up a new journal , but what if you want to keep the old journals? Lots of us do. I just moved into a new bullet journal, the  Universal Journal Slim . As the years go by, there will be many journals on my shelf since I intend to keep the old ones. In keeping things simple, I'd rather not reproduce old collections and other information into my new notebook unless it's really necessary. But if I need to reference an old journal I'd like that to be easy as well. So I'll use another journal to act as a long term catalog for my bullet journal archive. Each time I move into a new notebook, I plan to copy the old index as a new chapter in the catalog. That way if I ever need to go back, I don't have to search each individual notebook. I can simply scan through the chapters of the catalog and find wha...

A little foresight can go a long way in setting up a new bullet journal. This is especially true of features, such as important pages, that you intend to return to frequently. When I set up a new notebook I leave 3 or 4 empty spreads upfront. After the Index and the Future Log, these empty spreads are for important pages I plan to frequently reference. These could be my blogging schedule, a passwords spread, a log for miscellaneous income, a business plan, birthday/anniversary lists, a Christmas list, a reading list, a reusable weekly spread , anything I might look back to regularly. With this approach I might still mark an important page if it comes up later in the journal, using washi tape or something (as shown in this video of 10 Bullet Journal Hacks ). But if I reserve a spot in the front of the notebook I don't have to mark a page. This way I get the advantage of easily finding an important page without having to manually do anything to the notebook itself. ...