[ SECRET POST #4422 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4422 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Jimmy Carr]


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[Gerard Butler and Craig Ferguson]


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[Harry Potter]


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[Doctor Who]


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[Stargate Atlantis]


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[Harry Potter]


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Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 27 secrets from Secret Submission Post #633.
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[fscom]

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Transcript by OP

[fscom]

I wish bullet journaling had been a thing about fifteen years ago, when I was at the height of my fannish engagement. Sometims I consider making a fandom-themed spread, but there is no media property I feel enthusiastic enough to actually dedicate that much time to.

[(Anonymous)]

I always think those things look so cool, but I know I'd never have the focus to actually finish one, and it's not the sort of project where I could content myself with a half-finished product :/

[(Anonymous)]

i think instagram worthy art spreads and trackers are kind of orthogonal to the purpose of bullet journaling, which is getting shit done. lots of people run with fugly but useful bullet journals.

[(Anonymous)]

^This.

[holyplumbbob]

Late, but when I attempted bullet journalling mine was on the simple but practical side, which suited me entirely.

[sparrow_lately]

I initially misread this as something about bullet-journaling in character, and gave myself a chuckle imagining certain characters attempting to maintain a bullet journal.

I find them too limiting. If I'm going to journal I'm gonna need to be able to write as much or as little a day, and about precisely what I want or need to, as I'm feeling, and if I find myself daunted by an expectation of organization or neatness or homogeneity, I will balk.

[(Anonymous)]

I had to google wtf this is and just add that to my list of reasons I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

yes it's a bullet pointed list. on a post-it note.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't even know what bullet journaling is supposed to be. I've seen 'examples' all over pinterest and shit but I still don't get it.

Like, some have graphs and drawings and some actually pointform notes?

[(Anonymous)]

well, the original how-to is now behind a newsletter subscription wall, which is worth a side-eye on its own.

it's a note-taking/todo/calendar system where you use different types of bullets to flag different kinds of tasks or information.

in addition, you optionally have indexes, trackers, and calendar lists. a habit tracker might be "words of fiction written" or "times exercised."

the bujo community has sort of split into two camps. the art/crafts camp do art spreads as shown in the secret, bring in scrapbook techniques, and love to show their work to others on social media. minimalists throw down lists in sloppy ink or pencil, scribble in the margins of our indexes and trackers, cross things out with bold strokes, and hope no one has to check our work.

[(Anonymous)]

Lmao it took me way too long to figure out what 'bujo' meant. /longdayatwork

And ah. Yeah the minimalist way makes more sense to me from what I thought bullet journaling was, vs how it seems to look on the web.

[(Anonymous)]

so like... wtf is the point? what makes that any different from how countless people have always kept track of their shit?

[(Anonymous)]

it's not radically different from previous note-taking methods, but it combines some nice innovations like categorizing content with different bullets and indexes. some other systems depend on buying or purchasing calendar pages. and it's less cult-like or invasive than GTD. i was so sick of GTD by the time that fad faded.

[(Anonymous)]

GTD? Grand Theft... Daughter?

[(Anonymous)]

David Allen's Getting Things Done, which was (is) a big cult among productivity/lifehack circles.

[(Anonymous)]

... how is that even remotely productive, though? instead of wasting all of that time and effort making cutesy lists, you could just do the stuff that needs to get done.

[(Anonymous)]

because i walk out of a typical meeting with a dozen different things to do. out of that dozen, three items can be done right away, six need to be done by the end of the week, and three are scheduled for six months in the future. "done right away" usually means "after i do whatever other urgent and immediate things someone needs." so yes, i have a journal of "cutesy" lists (scrawled in pencil) to track all of the things i need to do. (i also document what i did, because journaling helps with retention, and going to the manual every time gets old.)

[(Anonymous)]

adding to the anon above:

bullet journal has a youtube channel where the original break down is available as well as an updated version. it was a good system during the time I was using it but the rest not so much,

the (pay for) app is very limited with reflection quotes mainly being by white men and repeating in a different order every month and the articles or personal stories on it that I've seen have had a lot of 'I was drowning in debt despite earning 6 figures but thanks to bujo I took control of my spending and now onely have one car instead of three!' going on.

while Ive heard some good things about the book from other bulletjournal bloggers I don't even want to know what their new bookclub is gonna be about, better to just check it out from the library if you're interested.

[(Anonymous)]

I use a bullet journal. I'm definitely in the second category - not arty, but minimalist. It helps me keep track of my life. Is it any different than what I did ten years ago? Actually, yes. This is MY journal. I use a blank journal and track what I want to track. I'm not confined to a calendar format, or lists of what other people think I should be tracking. If I need four pages to contain a week's worth of lists, I do it.

[(Anonymous)]

This. It suits me to write when and what I want. I don't even properly index but use colourful tape/post it notes to tag my important pages so I can find them (eg movies list for the year), make a new page each week with day/dates and to do list, and then write all my diary/notes/gratitude journalling as much or little as I want to week to week.

[(Anonymous)]

I've got a foot in both camps; I've got my big fancy planner that I can decorate to my heart's content, but my daily carry bullet journal is pretty bare-bones. I highlight the date so that it's more obvious, and sometimes I've doodled just because I've felt like it, but not on any kind of consistent basis.

[(Anonymous)]

maybe you don't have a fandom but do you have an interest? You could do a bullet journal of butterflies or dragons - or dragon butterflies. It doesn't have to be fandom and if its something like the mermaid or tarot card fad or something unique or catchy you'd still get lots of people interested.

tl;dr: if you want to art - art. Any excuse is a good one.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm glad to see another person who gets inspired by cool art planners on the internet! :D I haven't been putting in as much art as I'd like to, but here and then I still try and that makes me happy.

[(Anonymous)]

I love the nice spreads you see online but I agree OP theres no way Id put that kind of effort into something Im not really into, hopefully youll stumble upon something that inspires you as much as hp did soon!!!