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Tried a monthly spread with no lines and it was a disaster
I've been bullet journalling for about 4 years now and I usually do simple horizontal lines for my monthly calendar. Last month I thought I'd get fancy and do a completely blank spread with just dots marking dates. It looked super artistic in the inspo pics but man, I couldn't read anything after day 3. I kept writing events in the wrong spots and had to redo the whole thing twice. Learned that my brain just needs those grid lines to function or everything turns into a mess. Has anyone else tried a layout that looked cool but totally flopped in real life?
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sage_dixon16d ago
And then once you mess up the spacing on day 3, it just snowballs. I tried a similar thing with a minimalist layout last year, just small dots and no lines. By day 5 I had two appointments written on top of each other and a grocery list started in the margin. Had to tape a piece of graph paper over the whole thing just to salvage the month. Some of us just need that visual guardrail, I guess.
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king.andrew16d ago
Tried a hybrid approach that worked pretty well. Drew light pencil lines for the first week to get spacing right, then erased them once the muscle memory kicked in. Still kept a faint dot grid underneath just in case, like a safety net. Takes some extra time upfront but beats taping graph paper over a wrecked calendar. Might be worth trying if you want that clean look without the chaos.
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