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I was dead set against monthly logs for 2 years straight
I was dead set against monthly logs for 2 years straight. When I first started bullet journaling back in 2017, I thought they were a waste of space. Felt like I was just copying calendar pages I already had on my phone. Then last August I had 3 big plumbing jobs overlap and I forgot to schedule a callback for a water heater install. That week I tried a simple monthly log with just a task list and events column, and it saved my bacon. Has anyone else found a spread they thought was useless turn into a must have?
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leelewis18d ago
Wait, did you try a future log too? Monthly logs clicked for me after I stopped trying to copy a calendar and just used a task list with due dates. I write the month at the top, then a column for appointments and a column for tasks. That's it. No extra fluff. For big projects like yours, I add a third column for job sites with addresses. Makes callback scheduling a no-brainer. If you don't overthink it, monthly logs are pure gold.
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thea_mitchell2018d ago
lindab49, your "no extra fluff" line hit me right in the overthinker's soul. I spent a full year trying to color code my monthly log with different highlighters for work, personal, and "maybe I'll do it" tasks. Turned into a rainbow mess I couldn't read half the time. Now I just do a straight list like you said, and I even stopped bothering with the column headers because I kept misspelling "appointments." My handwriting is basically doctor scrawl anyway, so it all looks the same at a glance.
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