1 – The Basics: Bullet Journaling
What is it?
A bullet journal (or BuJo) is a visual tool. Basically, it’s a travel diary, invented by Brooklyn-based digital product designer Ryder Carroll.
You can’t begin sharing layout ideas for bullet journaling without first thing noting the original type of bullet journal. Here is the original video of Ryder Carroll sharing the creative ideas of his own journal entries for the first time.
His list of things outlining the bullet journal layout includes separate sections for an index, and logs for the future, monthly and daily. “Bullet” refers to bullet points in order to list things, such as phone numbers or new places to remember.
The index helps you keep track of the list of pages, and where to find a particular place. The future log, which takes up fewer blank pages than the others, tracks important information for later in your year.
The monthly log functions as an easy way to view a calendar. Then the daily log is the best way to keep track of the minutiae of daily reflections and life. Think of it as a replacement for sticky notes listing events, notes, and tasks.
List Places of The Road Trip
When trip planning, it can be hard to keep all the places you’re visiting straight in your mind. A regular travel itinerary can get long and cumbersome. So a good way to keep organized is to list out all your stops on one handy page.
Bullet journalists can add any topic to their journal so long as they note it in their index to easily find it later. So start out with a blank page, and note the page number to label this next vacation in your index.
Next, write your first travel destination and its arrival date, and draw a box around it. Then draw an arrow to your next stop with its arrival date. Repeat by drawing a box around it, then use an arrow to point to the next place.
Packing
Preparing for a long RV trip often means having so much to remember. You’re bound to forget something.
But with bullet journal travel pages, you can easily include every kind of necessary trip detail, such as what to pack.
So keeping a bullet journal packing list, helps to divide your items into categories. Toiletries, clothes, food, and many others can be headings with the lists below them.
If you still need to do some shopping, it helps to place a box next to each item. This way you can check them off as you go.
Personal Importance
One of the best things about bullet journaling is that it is flexible to your personal tastes.
If you’re a big music fan, keep a page for just songs you discover on your trip. If you collect postcards or stamps, here is a place you can store them.
Love travel quotes? Devote a page to them to keep you inspired if you hit a rough patch on the road.
Get any new ideas for places to go? Keep a page for that too.
Don’t be afraid to let the arts and crafts bug bite. Paste a picture of Old Faithful underneath Yellowstone National Park.
Yes, there are a lot of artists that love to use their skills to craft beautiful pages. But the real beauty of the bullet journal is that there’s no skill required to use it well.
Yes, there are some helpful apps. But the bullet journal also succeeds in keeping everything you need to know in one convenient place. But unlike an app, it has unlimited potential that reliably runs on your needs and imagination.
Credit: Travel Journaling