Went to a bullet journal meetup in Portland and everyone was using the exact same layout

Every single person had that same weekly spread with the habit tracker on the left and I was the only one who brought a completely chaotic spiral notebook with no system at all, so am I doing this wrong or is everyone else just afraid to be messy?

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terryk109d ago

My 2014 bullet journal was nothing but a mess of scribbles and it still worked fine for me.

the_linda9d ago

Oh man, the "mess of scribbles" part really hit home for me. My first bullet journal back in 2016 looked like a toddler got loose with a pen, but honestly the system still worked because it was just about dumping my thoughts and tasks onto paper. What finally helped me was giving myself permission to skip the fancy layouts and just write down whatever I needed, even if it was sideways or crossed out. I found that using a different color pen for each type of entry (blue for tasks, red for deadlines) made the chaos a little easier to read later.