Bullet Journal Setup: Floral Doodle Bujo for Beginners

1. Intro Bullet Journal: Welcome to this bullet dural class. I'm Catalina, and together we will walk the path of creating a bullet journal. The journal is an analog system to track the path, organize the present, and plan for the future. Right there corals is the creator of the bullet journal system. And in this course we are going to create a botanical side of it. This is an analog system in the digital world, this system works in any notebook of your choice. The bullet journal is accustomed system that helps live a more productive and meaningful life. Organizing your time through scheduling, reminder to the lease, brainstorming into a single notebook to raise your personal and professional goals. This method is the best way to plan, organize, create, reflect, and meditate. As the creator says, updating daily, you learn how to get rid of things that are distracting you and that you care about. The idea of this class is to customer our bullet dura creating a botanical one. We'll make a functional bug creative bullet journal that will encourage you to keep using it. It doesn't matter how you're bullied urine looks like. The important is how makes you feel and how useful is the youth. In this class, you will determine what do you want the bullet journal do for you. Depending on that, you will evaluate what tools that I will bring you here as we're all for your bullet journal. Remember, the bullet journal is customizable so you can start at any moment of this year with different purposes. This class is for everyone that wants to learn about bullet journaling and create a creative side of it. You will need an experienced drawing because we will make simple floral designs. Have bullet journal is good for people who've had a million little to-do list floating around. People who are into goal-setting and how he tracking. People don't like stationery, journaling, scrapbooking, and beautiful pens. People who love planning. Or 12, we more organized. People who would like to keep a journal or diary but are having trouble sticking with the habit. One by one, I will show you all the collections that the bullet journal originally half and make it in a creative way using botanical illustration as my art concept. This course is accessible to everyone, need any artistic ability or experience. It is up to you how many more technical elements or details you want to include. There is no need to wait until the next january. You can establish a general in the beginning, the middle, or the end of the year or anytime in between. What do you need desire to create something unique for yourself that will merge function which creativity? As the comma read method says, it is about the process and not the final look. Now, a stem to start with this amazing journey. 2. Here is what you need: I will show you the materials we will be using during this course to get started with the bullet journal, you need only two things. Our notebook on an oblique pen. The principal element we will be using is another book. You can use a notebook of your preference, like I am showing here, there are many options with different kinds of paper, grids and colors. The most common options for the villagers are plain pepper or dotted paper. My notebooks are usually 80 to 100 grams to avoid bleeding, be sure your notebook is suitable for most of the pens and markers you will use if you're not sure if the material behave well with your bullet journal on the last page of your eye, you can make some tests where you can verify the material goes through or if there is any bleeding. The notebooks usually caught with a bookmark or to use as a guide and elastic closure band to keep you your o'clock when you are not using. And finally has a pocket to haul carts and others smallest staff, I liked it at that grid notebooks because provide the guidance that the blank paper couldn't. Also the dot grid almost disappears into the background. I will reuse in an A5 that is a standard size jar with dotted paper with a flora cover only to complement my art concept. But the dotted paper is not mandatory, so you can use any kind of notebook here. I have already shown you or some other examples to use. And we use a standard HB pencil for my sketches. Try to use our software because it is difficult to raise and a hardware can leave a mark on your paper. Also, I will use a sharpener and a standard eraser. And another important thing, it is a ruler for some designs. Finally, L, we reusing some fine liner span, indifferent nib widths. But it is totally up to you. The material you want to use to personalize your botanical bullet journal. You're going to use colored pencil, phantom pains markers, highlighters or brush and ink. So be creative and use any of these. The most important is to choose the material that suits do the base. It is time to start. We will start with our bullet journal cover. 3. Design the Bujo Cover: We will start this class with our botanical cover. In this lesson, I will show you the design that I created. In my case, this is my bullet journal for the 2022. For this design, I will show you a diameter as the main shape of my design. So here I will write you the measure When's to replicate the design. I will tell you the information for the dotted paper and also in centimeters and inches and their mark, each key point at the end, I will join the dots and create each line. Now when you have your diamond shape ready, you can start drawing some floral doodles. You can draw the same doodles as me, or you can create your own style. If you want to learn how to create floral doodles, you can check my other Skillshare class called floral dural. Everyone can draw. Why you. To think more about the purpose of your bullet journal. The bullet journal method is a toolkit that can help you to be more productive and more creative or more organized. This tool is customizable to serve you. A bullet journal or Bourriaud for short, is created based on collisions that are pretty much any kind of related data that will organize your life. The first thing you have to decide is whether you want to use a notebook per year or per semester. For example, some people work varied by releasing a new bourgeois notebook every six months. I prefer one per year. In this class we will think about what purpose you bullet journal will serve. A Boyar can be at to-do list, goal tracker, calendar, diary, and much more. But it doesn't have to be all of these. Before we start, think about how your bullet journal can best serve you. I will releasing different purposes for a bullet journal so you can define yours, said your intention for you bullish your practice. You can use it is for your work, for your studies as a diarrhea so-called tracker for your family organization. Do the site. Maybe the journal work for you, defining you need will allow your village euro practices serve our real purpose for the very beginning, keep in mind that there are no wrong intentions here. Finally, don't worry if your intention change over the time it is. Okay. The bullet journal has the ability to feed your lifestyle. The bore of the belligerent method come from its adaptability to create a toolkit tailored to your circumstances. Remember that the bullet journal, it is not about perfection, it's about purpose. I would like to encourage you to explore your interests. Okay? Now that you have finished with the chimpanzee, you can start drawing the number inside the diamond shape. In my case, I will be using this bullet journal for a complete year. I would write the number 2022. I would reduce seeing a fine line it Oh boy, 52. So draw with my floral doodles in black one by one. I always outline each shape and then fill it. Hi. Okay. Okay. In this class I focusing on the relations that the bullet journal was created. All these collections can be used for different purposes. You can choose a correlation, basically your needs. In our botanical bourgeois, we will create amazing authentic ideas for the following correlations. They mean cover the index, official lock, among the lock, our rapid luck. And as a bonus, we will create truckers that can help you to reach your goals. We're going to keep the fundamental elements of this course very simple. In each lesson, I will explain to you which is the purpose of each collision. So you can decide where is reliable and useful for you or not. 4. Create the Bujo Index: The first page on reserve, the first spread to create the index of your bullet journal. Or as me, I will create on the same side as my cover. On the next page, I will split my page into three different sections. The first one on the left side is for our rural design, where you're going to start drawing a kind of floral dural pattern in vertical direction when the whitespace in the middle is where you can write this section you want to find easily in the future. And the last column is to write the page where the session can be found. A bullet journal index is one of the main pages you keep in your bullet journal. It is just a list of items and the respective pages they index is very important to be able to find information quickly and lossless time. An index is a place for you to recall your spreads and the corresponding page number that you add to your bullet journal notebook so you can easily find them later. You must evaluate if you're bullied urine, it's an index may be if you use a thin notebook, an index might be redundant. Or instead of the index you can use different way to code your basis. For example, use washi tape on the age of the patient, magnetic page markers or taps. Okay. Finally, I let the space to write the index title. You are free to write the title in the way you find beautiful and practical. Ebay you can choose if syrup, the index in the front or the back of the book. They index is i easy and quick way to organize information of your bullet journal so you can find what you are looking for. Here is also handy when you are looking back at all bullet journals to see what you are looking for. For the index to be useful, it is important to number our pages. So at the end of the class we will number our pages. Or maybe you compile one notebook that is already numbered as we create new lists of the basis for our notebook, we must introduce the session and their corresponding basis in the way we can find information most faster doesn't necessarily know. At some point at the end of the class, I will explain to you some examples of how to use your bully. We finished the index will continue with the secession of our bullet journal. 5. Design the Key Reference: I will generally key is a quick reference guide to all the simple symbols that you use to efficiently log information. Instead of writing out every little thing for this design, I will make a vertical line where I will horizontally draw my florals. Do low on the left side on the page, I will draw five different floral doodles a little bit bigger than the others. I will teach you the symbols that I choose. You can make a different symbol. Myelin recommendation is to keep the symbol simple and easy to remember, to make them easy to use every day. You will understand completely this when you go to the rapid login session where you will write your tasks, node or events they relate. This list is usually one of the first patients you make in this journal. So very easy to flip to where you need to remember what mean is symbol. The title of the session, which is at the beginning, I prefer to draw and write everything in my design. Finally, on the red side is where I will let the symbols for my all my symbols, then I will explain why by one. The first symbol is an square that we'll use for all the task. Then the bullets for the to-do list of every day, then draw an operand circle to mark big events. We can include a significant asterisk. This is known as a signify, meaning priority. Use a dash for quick thoughts or notes or the task. You will write annex over the bullet to mark that are now completed. Finally, you will write a line over the symbol and the texts. You want to cancel the task or event. A key can be an elaborate collection of icons or color codes, or it can be as simple as most list of symbols. It's entirely customizable and entirely up to you. It depends on why you use your bullet journal for if you go like this symbol, you can experiment with wherever one's suits you. Only I recommend keeping it simple. Because complexity you see arrows can be doubting and make it less likely that people are stuck with the system for that in this class IDEA's to keep simple to make your bullet journal AT tool for you that you can keep using as a system to organize your life day by day. The idea is that the symbols and icons identify what needs to be done. What currently in progress on what our priority. Now you're happy with your symbol. You can use your black fine liner to finish this page. Now it is time to start with. 6. Create the Future Log: In this lesson, we're going to create a visual look. It is one of the key elements of the system. It is a section in your urine for drafting up all the significant moments of upcoming months. So I'm going to start by counting out the spacing. This is where the dot grid is really handy. Eu Doral, I will start making some guided strokes in pencil so you can make mistakes and make changes or you want to create Danner record is split each base in two sessions after to pace your receiver for the index, we have to reserve tree news spreads for the annual registration because my bullet journal is for the entire year, I will make a space for 12 months is bleed too much on each page. Draw a T-shape all over the page, letting some space on the top where I will draw my floral doodles. Remember that you can start your bullet journal in any moment of the year. While I am drawing, I will explain more about the future luck. As the original, original website explains, the Fisher log is our white to log all important and fun events you have going on in your life. It gives all you future events in one place, anything that the course infusion months such as a bearded holidays, trips, meetings, especially events, anniversaries and more would go in the Fischer lock, the Fisher log is located at the front of the bullet journal. The Bullet Journal of this class is for the entire year. So my future log is going to start in January. I finished in December, but you can start in any moment of the year. Then in this column, I will place the calendar of each month. In this case, I will start with January and February of 2020 to official log allows you to plan for those tasks that are too far away for you to easily bought in your daily, weekly, or monthly task. Keeping official law allows you to keep track of tasks that are easily forgotten because they are so far away. Okay? Two, okay. I will be using a fine line at 0.52. So drawing my floral doodles in black one by one, are you always outline each shape and then fill it. This session is to have an overview of the year at a glance outside of birthdays and holidays, use this spread to track appointments and important events that are planned far in advance. Okay. Okay. Hello. Divide into two sessions and repeat the same steps as before. Okay? Okay. Okay. To avoid damaging the paper spreads for the annual registration, we have finished. We are ready to jump into the goalies. 7. Plan your Annual Goals: Now it is time to set up our goals for the upcoming year. For this session, I'm going to do something similar to the core design we did before. I will create a rectangle shape with the measurements that I am showing on the screen. In this session, you will create a special session for the goals you want to achieve in this moment. The idea is to keep here the most relevant goals that maybe will take months to achieve. The long-term goals, the relevant ones, making new year's resolution are so important to achieve the thing that you want by staying consistent is another mission on its own, which is why Ebola general goal page idea will literally change the way you approach them. When you have finished a rectangle, I will start drawing my flowers all around the shape. Remember to feel free to come up with your own, uh, spread and designs. What I will be sues you waste. By writing down your goals. It allows you to focus on hold yourself accountable for achieving all you want. Now you can, on a separate page, brainstorm ideas and goals that you intend to sit to be sure about those before you write them on the bullet journal. Hi. As you want. I will keep my space. Yes. Hi. Hello. Hello. Okay. Hello. We can continue with the allosteric. 8. Design the Annual Tracker: The heavy truck or is a super useful tool to keep track of your routines and goals and help you to achieve them. So here I will create they're not tracker for a specific goal. This example is for drawing. Every day. I will start listing all the numbers from one to k one vertically, these numbers will represent a day of each month. If you check the number needs to be between the two dots inside the grid. The idea is to have a horizontal line of dots in front of each number. Then when you have finished the sterilised in horizontally from one to 12, these numbers represent the month of the year, the same as before. Writing the number in between two dots to create a vertical lines of dots above each number. The idea here is to have an overview of a complete year where each dot represents one day of the year on the right side of the patient start vertically drawing our floral doodles. The goal with these is to keep tracking your progress and achievement. In that way, you can feel a sense of accomplishment. When you have finished drawing, you can start with you find liner redrawing every pencil stroke. Everyone says, and it will refer a reason if you want to achieve or solve, you have to follow up. There is no better place to recall your progress that in a bullet that goes with you everywhere will have different goals and lifestyles. Were US study, work on accompany or URN organized moan or that these ideas are very interesting to try or implement in our lives. So that the data you choose where you want to include. Some ideas may be related to a physical or mental health. Work, studies, housework, your mood, reading, running, or rowing are some ideas for this session. The idea is to choose the Haven't you want to maintain throughout the year. In a later lesson, I will teach you another design so that you can include in your mode by mode with some habitat you want to include or maintained for limited times. I also advise hazing the time to fill your habit tracker daily. It indeed cost of it at the beginning, but you will see how much it is worth to make the most of your day in productive things. Okay? This is to highlight the dots that are part of my scheme. So we that point-by-point. Remember all these class, I will show you how to use destructor. Okay. This is a new tool truckers. Now that we have finished the session, we can continue with the molecule polar. 9. Draw the Cover of the Month: In this lesson, you will create the cover of the month in May. Wu, as I told you, I will start from the first month of the year. So in here, I will create the January cover. In this way, you can be as creative as you want. These what does a half a mil specific design is only at the corrective page, two separate month by month of the bourgeoisie. My design needs to vertical lines. Horizontal way facing the corners of the node. You will soon be ready to draw them right away on baby. The idea here is in the middle of the two lines. I will write vertically the name of the month. In my case, I will write January. This is a way to keep your bullet journal tidy every month they started a new chapter. Hi. Okay. Okay. Okay. Now, you are ready to start. 10. Design the Monthly Calendar: On the left page, I will create our monthly calendar. The monologue is another of the key elements in the bullet journal system. This is amazing and practical way to see your Holman on a simple glance for the design, I will make almost the same as the annual tracker, but I only will write the 31 days of demand. But in this designed, the number needs to go in the middle of each square. The idea is to have a horizontal space to write in front of each number. This calendar is very useful to highlight a common event in the current month. Then on the left side of each number, right, the first letter of the day. This page show as an overview of the entire month ahead. The difference with official log is that this one keeps the focus on more detail it on short-term test coming up for the month. The general idea of the design is created columns with all the days of the month and the first letter of each day of the week. So you can write down in front of each day relevant events or things you don't want to forget. Finally, frightened name of the more urine. Finally to give, to follow him to the space you wish horizontally is drawn. From the left side is small floral doodles. Us almost aim to complete batch. Okay? Okay. Hi. Okay. Finally tokenized. I will draw a line to have a better idea of where to write the event of each day. Hello. Now that you have on the right side of the spread, a lot of them won't. 11. Bujo Monthly Tracker + How to Correct Mistakes: It is time to design the Morley tracker. This issue has the same purpose as the Arnold tracker for this section, the TAs to choose the habitat you want to maintain throughout the month. I will draw this truck and horizontally because the idea is to trap different items in one is Brit. In the design, I will list six goals and things I need to track for January. So start writing the numbers and the first letter of each day of the month in a horizontal way, late in some space on the left side to write down our gums. This is sine is to track multiple roles that I have a specific for this month. Maybe you have something that you don't have as a goal of the year, but you want to achieve in one or multiple months. For example, about exercising, reading, drawing in writing, or some medication that you need to take. This tracker has multiple functions. So in one is pray you can lease and track them. I start by making a list of the habitat they want to track for the month to customize the design to your needs. It is time to start with our base facing down. When you finish a DC. All the basis. Hi. Hi. Now I will write someone wanted to track me, I will make a mistake to show you an option to correct the water running with one. When you make a mistake, you can use the rectangle that I need. It is not a perfect solution, but it shows all the work we have done. Now. We can continue now with the rapid luck. 12. Create the Task List: On the right page we will create, our session is to list all the tasks you should get done in this month. So here we will make our very basic. So you can start with the bottom of the base vertically. So the idea of this session is to list the things you need to do this mode or you don't have an a specific day to do it. It is a reminder. When you have clear at this, you can migrate this task to you rapid login to assign a specific date, then write test leaks as a title. You can list them only with that task list or to-do list. Hi. Yeah. I finished with this. You can continue to spread to make them all the truck. 13. Plan the Bujo Monthly Tracker: It is time to design the Morley tracker. This issue has the same purpose as the Arnold tracker for this session, the DAs to choose to have it or you want to maintain throughout the month. I will draw this truck and horizontally because the idea is to track different items in one is bred in the design. I will list six goals and things I need to track for January. So start writing the numbers and the first letter of each day of the month in a horizontal way, late in some space on the left side to write down our gums. This is sine is to track multiple roles that I have a specific for this month. Maybe you have something that you don't have as a goal of the year, but you want to achieve in one or multiple months. For example, about exercising, reading, drawing in writing, or some medication that you need to take. This tracker has multiple functions. So in one is pray ukuleles and track them. I start by making a list of the habitat they want to track for the month to customize the design to your needs. It is time to start with our base facing down. When you finish a DC. All the basis. Hi. Hi. Now I will write some things, so wanted to track me. I will make a mistake to show you an option to correct the water running with one. When you make a mistake, you can use the rectangle that I need. It is not a perfect solution, but it shows all the work we have done. Now. We can continue now with the rapid luck. 14. Design the Daily Log: We will continue with the rapid login. That is a way to capturing the information as a bullet list. Rapid login is where you will do every day. It doesn't marry how relevant or irrelevant ease everything goes there. The idea is to open your bullet journal and everywhere, right? Things to do the event or take some notes of EJ. In this design, I will split horizontally my page into three sections, is session is for one day. If you need more or less space, you can keep the same design. Simply change the design, making the U-shaped bigger or smaller. I did this for three days because when you are taking note in your Bourriaud, the idea is to keep them super short. The rename idea behind the bullet journal decide you jot down quick note instead of writing log sentence. For that reason, the rapid login for me is the most important and useful session. You can customize it as you wish. The important is that work for you. In this lesson, we will have an overview of the symbols used in the bully generally that is called rapid login. Because of the highly personalized nature of the bullet journal, you can rely on that tracking method that works for you. If you find to do less effective material roots, then you should, by all means incorporate them into your bullet journal. If socialists are demotivating, consider using a Donnelly is to note what you have accomplished. Socialists can be less daunting, provide a sense of achievement. Now, in each U-shape, I will draw some leaves in the vertical lines. Okay. The name of the dish. Okay. Yes. Yes. Okay. Hello. The same on the base on the right side of your boo. To lead to us directly. Finally, we will make an example of how to use all their Mason. 15. How to use the Bullet Journal: Now it is time to learn how to use your bullet journal a day by day. To start number your passion for easy reference the page. Number, each one into corners until there are not Bayes-Nash to be number at all. You can number your face as you will. I will number only the pager will we use in this class? Now that we have number at the phases, you can add the session that you want to find easily in your index. Now we can continue filling the Fisher log with all the relevant event of the year. For example, fear-based anniversary, important days in your studies or work as final exams or presentations. Write down the day and then the event. Finally, hi ladies, days on the calendar on the top. When you have initiate these continuing with the goals of the GRE, if you prefer, you can brainstorm these on a different sheet of paper and write down. The z of this session is not to forget the things we want to shift this year. Now in our AML tracker, you can maybe truck some of the goals that you have retained just now. For example, if you want to run a marathon, create a track for this topic. Or if you want to Jim, worry every day or regularly, create a tracker for these. The solid takes a few seconds of the day. So every day when you open your AML tracker, only need to make a mark on the data you achieve the activity with the symbol dy. You prefer a thing continually your monthly calendar. If you think for all the events from your future log to this calendar, I'm not so more of the unique to remember and you know, exactly the weights. Then for the fastenings, right? It does you need to achieve in this mode, but you don't remember the date to do it. In the Molly tracker. We have already arrived some things you want to track. So I will show you a way to feel each stage. You are free to draw the symbol you prefer. Finally, using the keys session that we did at the beginning, you can start writing your a revision notes in the daily log viewer. Then choose that are short sentence that can be inside the categories we're creating the key section list of the tasks you want to perform today in a defy all the time with a simple bullet. If instead of a simple tasks, we want to live an event, an unimportant task, etc. We can resort to the rest of the symbology that the belligerent method propose. For example, if it is an important task, we can include the significant asterix on the left side. This is known as a signify meanings, priorities. Okay, This is all you need to know to start this incredible yours.