Just noticed I've filled up 12 notebooks since I started bullet journaling

I mean, I was just cleaning out a closet and stacked them all together. I started back in 2018, just using a basic dotted notebook from the craft store. Seeing that pile, it hit me how much of my life is in there, not just tasks but little notes about my day, places I've gone, stuff like that. The first one is mostly just messy weekly logs and a few half-finished trackers. Now I'm on my 13th book and it's full of collections for books I've read and trips I've taken. It's weird to think a simple habit turned into this physical stack of years. Has anyone else been surprised by how many books they've gone through?

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alice_singh6620d ago

Totally get what you mean about the boring logs teaching you to notice things. Makes me wonder if we need those simple "ate a sandwich" entries to build the habit before we can even see the spider's web, you know? Like the boring stuff is the training wheels for paying attention.

angela68720d ago

Wow, 12 notebooks is a real stack of time. Do you ever flip back through the old ones and notice how your handwriting or the stuff you wrote about changed? I keep mine in a box and sometimes just pulling out a random one from a few years back feels like finding a note from a past version of myself. It's cool that you stuck with it long enough to see that shift from basic logs to full collections. What's the most surprising thing you've found looking back?

nancythomas20d ago

Found my old notes from when I first started trying to keep a journal. I wrote things like "ate a sandwich, it was okay" and "the sky is gray." Thought it was pointless. Then I read one from last year where I'd written three pages about watching a spider build a web outside my kitchen window. Realized the boring logs taught me how to pay attention to the small stuff first. Now I see the value in the dumb sandwich entries.