this video has been highly requested for a very very very long time

so i in no way am a bullet journal expert

nor do I intend to be

but I am a person that uses a bullet journal and

so I thought maybe this video will be useful to someone

so that is what I'm going to be doing today

I'm going to finally show you my

minimalist very simple bullet journal setup

I'm warning you guys right now

my bullet journal setup is extremely simple

to the point where you guys might be like

nina, that is too simple

and you're right

but this system works for me it has worked for

well actually I used this specific system for like a few months now

but it's been very useful, it's helped me be consistent and

it does the job

you can be more complex with your themes or it can be very simple

whatever it is in my life a bullet journal has been very useful

and so I use it every single day basically

if you are like me and you only have two brain cells

then this is the bullet journal system for you

but without further ado, let's get into the video

so first, I'm going to talk about the materials that I use obviously

because we got to start somewhere

so the most important thing is your bullet journal

this is a dotted hardcover notebook

it is this brand

I've used this one bullet journal for about one and a half to two years

I've used this much and I have this much to go

because this is a dotted notebook the pages have literal dots

I feel like compared to grids and lines

this just allows for more creative freedom

and it's just lighter on the eye basically

because you're going to be drawing a lot on this

this bullet journal also comes with an index in the front

and in the back it has this nice little folder

so you can tuck in stickers and whatever you want

so this is the one that I use

and then onto the stationery that I use

I like to have markers

markers are definitely a great part of bullet journaling

it allows for colors and themes and all that

honestly you could just use Crayola super tips or whatever is available to you

these are just markers that I happened to have

and they are dual tip

so there is a nice chisel tip on top

and then a fine tip on the other side

so I like these

Crayola super tips

there are literally like what 100 something colors?

those are great

find whatever suits you

I have other mild liners that I got

I got a nice set of them

the more variety of the better

i have a nice pastel and then more pastels

and then other pastels and then bright colors

and then alongside markers I also use gel pens

these are 0.38 tips pens from Muji.

I like to have different colored pens for different uses

I just have the standard black blue and red

And then also I like to have a ruler

This is a six inch ruler

and this just helps me get those straight lines

you can do freehand, but I don't trust myself

So these are all the materials that I need for my bullet journal system

Everyone has a different system

But if you don't know where to start this is where I start

so now that I've talked about my materials

I'm going to quickly break down my system.

So I do my bullet journal every month

and I basically get it all done in one day

It takes me about one to two hours to do

first I have my month which takes up two pages

and then right after that I have my habit tracker

I'm gonna mention real quick that some of my bullet journal

was inspired by my friend amanda, amandarachlee on youtube

at first I didn't have a habit tracker or a brain dump or any of that but

she inspired me to add those because they're kind of useful actually

so shout out to amanda for the bullet journal inspo

she is literally a bullet journal queen

but after my months I have one page for a habit tracker

I track about nine to twelve habits

is that a lot?

for me no

and then on the page right next to the habit tracker,

I have a brain dump, which is basically a blank page

I just jot down ideas here

maybe like a grocery list

things I want to buy

songs that I found books i want to read all of that

it just goes in here

and then after my brain dump I go in with my weekly setup

I actually do all of my weekly setups in one sitting

just because it's so simple that I don't have to wait every single week to do it

I used to do that but out of efficiency I just do it all at once

You can definitely take it one by one and just do it every single week

and then after I do the weekly set ups

I reserve two pages for my reflections for the month

So this basically serves as my diary for the month

I only need two pages because I'm not writing something every single day

But if there's just one day where I just want to write down my feelings

I will

sometimes i'm a thoughtful person and I like to write my feelings down

so now that I briefly explained my bullet journal setup

it is finally time to actually do it

So the angle is going to change

I'll see you closer to my bullet journal

all right you guys now it's finally time to get into actual bullet journaling

here are my supplies

we're gonna get into this

for august I usually think of like red or green

but I already did green and I kind of wanted to try this nice coraly red color

so I'm gonna go with this

and then these colors are going to be kind of like the accents

I do like to have multiple colors

and then I also do need my gray mildliner

I like using grey because I like using grey

so my header usually takes up two lines because I want that font to be big

So I'm going to just do two lines there

and then I'm gonna write out august 2019

is that how you spell august

I like to write the marker first then I'm just gonna finish it off

it's a little crooked over there, but that doesn't matter

and then I'm gonna drag it out.

so it's just one long header. let's not mess up

there we go

and then with my black pen, I'm just gonna write August

I kind of like to add these hearts to make it look like tiny washi tape

you can also use a symbol for August but

I like hearts

now I'm just going to write out august

And there we go, I'm just going to make it a little fancier

kind of looks like a nice little watercolor effect

that's why I like these markers

now we're going to move on to the tedious part, but it's relaxing for me, which is the lines

So I'm hoping my explanation for lines isn't too complicated

basically the days take up one line

each day's box is 1 2 3 4 5 6 so 6 rows by 6 columns

And then I add 1 2 3 4 5 weeks

because there are typically five weeks in a month

I'm just gonna check real quick. How many days are in August

yes, it's August 6. yes i'm doing this late

is that a problem? no

so fortunately there are five weeks in the month

sometimes a month will have six by accident

but for this month we have five so that's what we're going to do

I'm just gonna have my phone kind of here

So right after my header, we're going to skip a row and then go on

basically one two three the third line you'll see right here

I'm just gonna mark it with a dot

and then I'm going to the last dot over here

we're not going to cross over that's going to look messy

we're not adding anything here

we're going to kind of just separate it

the row for the days is only one row

and then after that one two

three four five six

Five six, yes, and then you'll have four rows on the bottom

and then one two, three four five six

perfect and it ends right here

so this is going to make Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday

I start my weeks with Sunday some people start with Monday

And then that is Thursday Friday Saturday.

so we have our month laid out

So here we go. No pressure

also, if you do know how to free hand go for that

but I do not trust myself

and I want my lines to be nice and straight

we're going to go for it

yes

there we go

I really should not have had coffee my hands are shaking

nice

we're going to do the same thing over here

be careful not to go all the way

because this is only three days

so it's going to end right here

we're going to have this blank space for our goals and future

And then one final line

kind of makes me nervous that nothing's gone wrong yet

yes

messed up a little bit but it doesn't matter

and now we have our calendar

it's seven by five

now back to our markers

we're going to fill two boxes with a color

just like that right in the center

and now I'm going to add a line here and then a line here

and this is going to be our goals and future section

and then on the bottom here with gray

I'm just going to add another little section

here I just like to put in my youtube

and then for the days I'm going to go in with my markers again

and then make little marks for the days

and on this first corner box I'm going to use gray

then there's a little space for the date

this is going to be where the number is

so I like using gray because these days are not part of August

so I'm not going to use a coral-red

and now we're going on with red to do the rest of the numbers

There we go

It is literally the most simple thing

but here it is

now that it has dried a decent amount

We are going to write the days

so from July we have the 28th and then the 29th

and now we start with the first

now I have this little blank space here

and that is where I add a little key or a legend

one is for friends and family

one is for YouTube one is for event/important

so for this month, I'm not going to use these colors

I'm going to use what was available here

so I'm going to use these three colors

I think they are cute

and can you like stay in there, please?

yes

so this is my little key for the month

and you could add more colors for different things you need, but personally

I only need these three to track

but as you can see if it's a birthday i underline it with that color

I am going to kcon on this day

and then this day and this day I'm coming back

and I think for this I'm just going to kind of do it like this

yes

what else did I have going on in August?

I can't really think of it up on top of my head

but this is what my month looks like

It's very simple

but it gets the job done

next we are moving on to the habit tracker

now this part is extremely tedious

now because I did my July setup so late

I didn't fill anything out