Dot Journaling - A Practical Guide: How to Start and Keep the Planner, To-do List, and Diary That’ll Actually Help You Get Your Life Together

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My favorite brands of pen include, amongst others, Pilot, Sakura, Tombow, Staedtler, Faber Castell, and Crayola. In a pre-printed planner, you can easily flip six months ahead and jot down an appointment. With a bullet journal, you don’t have that ability. So how do you plan far ahead without setting up spreads months in advance? The future log is the solution!

The idea of the bullet journal is that once you understand the basic symbols and approach, you can use it to record and organize basically any type of task, thought, or idea — daily, monthly, work, home, personal, school, etc. If you want to learn how to set up a bullet journal, you need to read my comprehensive guide to bullet journal setup. I’ll teach you how to start your first bujo spread in just 5 simple steps.They can also lend a hand when it comes to perspective drawing and mapping out geometric forms like buildings and cityscapes.

Dot grid paper, notebooks, and journals are trendy among people who love to do hand lettering, calligraphy, drawing, and, above all, bullet journaling. Simply put a collection is just a bunch of related ideas grouped together, think of them as like bullet journal inserts, and they can be in any form! If you can get your hands on stencils with simple icons for bullet journaling, even better but any ruler will do!

A regular journal is typically a lined notebook in which you can express your thoughts and feelings in a stream-of-conscious format. A bullet journal, on the other hand, is more of an organizer, from broad goals to your daily routine. Think of a DIY bullet journal as part planner, part to-do list, part regular journal—it’s a little bit of everything. I've been doing a dot j In this blog post, we’ll talk about how dot grids differ from other notebooks and how they are used.

As with many journaling materials, this category is very subjective because it depends again on what you like writing with and how creative you want to get with your planner. Try writing a word in different styles. Use the dot grid to try skinny, tall and wide lettering styles. Think about high high the tops and bottoms of letters fall and use the grid to measure them. For example: create different styled lettering by creating a tall 'f' stem and along 'y' stem. Via @creativelybeth

The RETTACY Dot Grid Notebook has a transparent hardcover to keep it protected. And even though it’s not quite durable enough to use without a tabletop, the clear cover is a nice touch that allows you to create a “custom” cover without writing on the cover itself—perfect for changing things up every once in a while.