I arrived slightly late, out of breath and frazzled in the heat, to find him sitting in the museum’s entryway calmly reading a novel. He had been on book tour on and off since October, first in the U.S., then in Europe, and finally in Asia. One hot day in July, I met Carroll at the Morgan Library & Museum, in Manhattan. “That’s what the Bullet Journal is for me.” “It’s helpful to have one source of truth,” he said. He no longer uses multiple notebooks (and he no longer needs other jobs). Carroll released a book, last October, called “ The Bullet Journal Method,” which is now a best-seller. It promises to help you achieve your goals and declutter your mind.
It has taken off on the Internet as a kind of mindfulness-meets-productivity trend that equates organized journaling with an ordered interior life. A few years later, Bullet Journaling has grown into a global community, with subsets of every variation: BuJo for students, BuJo for mothers, BuJo for veterans, #menwhobullet. Each day, you practice “rapid logging.” Each month, you review everything you wrote down and move only what is meaningful to the next monthly spread, in a spine-straightening process called migration.Ĭarroll’s video was picked up by productivity blogs and soon went viral. There are trackers for anything you feel compelled to track: sleep, workouts, mood, alcohol. (The method takes its name from the bullet point, as well as the word’s suggestion of speed.) There are collections of related material, like languages you’ve failed to learn or miles you haven’t run. There are symbols for notes, events, and tasks, and additional symbols to indicate when a task has been completed, scheduled, moved to another section, or deemed irrelevant. There’s a daily log, a monthly log, and something called a future log. Participants identify as Bullet Journalists. Like CrossFit, Paleo, and other hyper-efficient communities, Bullet Journaling-or BuJo, as it is known online-has developed its own vocabulary. From there, you can list tasks, write diary entries, and build out a minimalist calendar. Basically, you take a journal, number the pages, and create an index so you can find everything. The result was a set of organizational instructions: Marie Kondo for the notebook. He hoped, he said, to “mitigate a lot of the heartache I had to go through to figure this out on my own.” One week, in 2013, he built a Web site and shot a video explaining his method. “I was, like, well, I use my notebook in a pretty unique way,” he said.
He noticed that many of his co-workers kept journals, too, though they did so irregularly. “That’s when the Bullet Journal really started coming together,” he said. In the years after college, Carroll took night courses in Web design and worked for media companies, mostly in New York. “But when you go to the window you realize there might be something wrong, you think about it, you get the context. “When there’s a barking dog outside, you can’t hear anything else,” he told me recently, by way of analogy. He started writing down his thoughts in short bursts throughout the day and found that it calmed him, allowing him to see past his anxieties to their root causes. As a teen-ager, he was given a diagnosis of attention-deficit disorder, and he began to develop small journaling tricks to get through his classes in college, at Skidmore, he carried around six notebooks to keep track of everything. Born in Vienna to American teachers, he was a squirmy, distracted child, constantly behind and anxious in school. Ryder Carroll, the thirty-nine-year-old digital designer who invented the Bullet Journal, used to be a multiple-notebook person. Her intentions are good, her approach delinquent. The multiple-notebook person lives in a kind of organizational purgatory. She has no idea where her bank details are.
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She has an app full of cryptic asides (“Rice bowls,” “Bat room”). She has scribbled a list of movies to watch on a sticky note that she will never find again. The multiple-notebook person maintains a wall calendar, a desk calendar, and two calendar apps. Most of us are multiple-notebook people, living our lives haphazardly, writing things down as we go: a notebook for the office, another for groceries and appointments, one for dreams and doodles, one for furtive rants. Photograph by Natalie Emersonĭevotees of the Bullet Journal, a cultish notebook-organization system tagged in more than eight million posts on Instagram, will tell you that there are two kinds of notebook people: those who keep multiple notebooks and those who keep just one.
Bullet journaling has taken off as a kind of mindfulness-meets-productivity trend that equates organized journaling with an ordered interior life.
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