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Talked my buddy out of using washi tape for his habit tracker...
He was set on decorating every page but after he told me it made him not want to flip the page, I realized I do the same thing with my monthly spread... Anyone else skip sections because the layout feels too precious to mess up?
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ivanross12d ago
Wait, are we really overthinking this whole perfection thing? I mean, I get not wanting to mess up a nice layout but isn't the whole point of a bullet journal that it's supposed to be functional and used? Idk, maybe it's just me but I feel like saving sticker sheets and avoiding pages kinda defeats the purpose of tracking habits in the first place. If you're too scared to use the page then what's the point of having it? I'd rather have a messy, half-decorated tracker that actually gets used than a pristine notebook full of empty potential.
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Wait, so it's not just me who has a drawer full of sticker sheets I'm "saving" for the perfect moment that never comes? I honestly feel like my bullet journal has more blank pages than used ones because I keep waiting until I'm worthy of the fancy layout I planned. The scratch notebook idea is genius though - I have a whole graveyard of half-started spreads in random notebooks that never made it past week two. Maybe I should just accept that my "creative" trackers end up abandoned and stick to boring black ink like a normal person.
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nancy81712d ago
My first sticker book from 2019 is still half empty because I refused to mess up the "perfect" layout. I started keeping a separate scratch notebook where I test out layouts first, sometimes for weeks, before I commit to anything in my main tracker. For habit trackers specifically, I use a simple dot grid page with just the dates and habits listed, no decorations at all. I keep a separate page for doodles and washi tape samples so I get that creative itch scratched without ruining my functional spreads. Your buddy might like trying a rolling weekly instead of a monthly - less pressure to get it right all at once.
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