In this post, I want to share a list of ideas to help you move beyond basic bullet journaling and put your own individual stamp on your journal. I will start by sharing two of my favourite bullet journal page spreads in more detail, followed by a list of other ideas. Many of the lists I mentioned in this post on lists to make when you need a quick pick-me-up would also make great bullet journal page spreads.
Other posts in the Bullet Journaling 101 series:
Habit trackers
Each month I choose the habits and regular activities I want to focus on for the next 30 days and create a habit tracker for the month. Turning my notebook to landscape, I create a grid with the dates running horizontally and the habits vertically. Using a dotted notebook, this creates a natural grid where each habit intersects each day. Whenever I complete a habit, I shade in the relevant box.
This kind of tracker gives me a useful visual indicator of how I’m doing with each habit. Looking at the month, I can see which habits I’m racking up and which I need a little more attention (ahem, Spanish and meditation…).
Project pages
I use these pages for personal and professional projects and find them especially helpful for projects with many moving parts or a deadline. Like everything else in bullet journaling, they are customisable depending on what will be most useful for you: brainstorming, a visual timeline or chart, lists or check boxes. Here’s are two examples of a personal and professional project page. This year, I’m doing a reading challenge and am using my bullet journal to keep track of books I’d like to read and books I’ve read:
I also use my bullet journal to keep track of work projects, like the Patreon page I set up for Becoming Who You Are:
Here are 47 other ideas for bullet journaling page spreads:
Physical Health
- Fitness goals and milestones
- Exercise tracker
- Water intake
- Healthy eating log
- Habit tracker
Emotional Wellbeing
- Self-care tracker
- Top memories
- Gratitude page
- Mood tracker
- Monthly review
- Morning routine page
Home and Finance
- Budget
- Spending tracker
- Monthly bills and expenses tracker
- Fitness log
- Meal planner
- Shopping list
- Wishlist
- Savings goals
- Friends’ and family’s birthdays
- Cleaning rota/chore list
Productivity
- Waiting for (correspondence, parcels, etc.)
- Project timelines and task lists
- Yearly and monthly goals
- Brain dump pages (writing down everything that’s taking up space in your head)
- Someday/maybe project list
- A handbag/work bag/changing bag packing list
- Planning routine page
Creativity and business
- Monthly and annual business reviews
- Blog post ideas
- Blog post calendar
- Artist date planner
- Writing log
- Project and product ideas
- Project calendar
- Collaboration ideas
For fun
- “To read” and “have read” lists
- “To watch” and “have seen” lists
- “To listen” and “Listening to” lists
- Places to visit list
- Secrets of adulthood page
- Movie/book ratings and reviews
- Travel packing list
Miscellaneous
- Life list
- A year-long calendar
- Book and movie quotes page
- “Reminders to self” page
More bullet journal inspiration
As I’m fairly new to bullet journaling, I want to share some of my favourite inspiration with you. I keep my bullet journal simple but the people below turn it into an art form and share stunningly beautiful designs. Here are a few people who create beautiful pages, unique spreads and share lots of journaling-related ideas:
On Instagram:
- @bulletjournal
- @showmeyourplanner
- @Bonjournal_
Do you have any bullet journaling page spread ideas to add to the list above? Share them in the comments!
