and the reason i stopped.
The Official LEUCHTTURM1917® Bullet Journal is the reason I love bullet journaling. It has amazing and thoughtful features in it, like measuring templates, multiple bookmarks, numbered pages, excellent quality. I loved bullet journaling my days and nights, making spreads in this. But my only problem….it spoiled me forever against most other bullet journal notebooks, or from using any other notebooks for that matter. The features are just so great, I would rather not bullet journal at all rather than not be able to use the A5 sized notebook.
My big problem is that I didn’t want to carry it everywhere with me. It isn’t overly large, but it’s still the size of an ipad mini. I also found, that while the flexibility of bullet journaling gives you an unmatched freedom to record your life, it’s that very unstructuredness that makes me frustrated using it as a daily or weekly planner. I don’t want to redraw my weekly spreads every week.
Maybe it’s just me being a brat. I tried to also love the Passport Sized Pocket Bullet journal, but while it has nice features like numbered pages, slightly larger a6 size from fieldnotes. It’s non-standardness makes you unable to use products designed for fieldnotes notebooks like covers and other accessories. This has the benefits of portability and numbered pages, but is missing the things i love about the regular sized bullet journal like ribbon bookmarks.
I’ve personally switched to the Hobonichi Techo Mega, which is a thin weekly journal with additional pages in the back. Life is limited, I don’t want to waste it redrawing calendar spreads every week. Call me strange, call me eccentric, but these are my thoughts on the Bullet journal.