Beyond Bullets: Creative Journaling Ideas to Customize Your Personal Productivity System

I've been trying to keep a bullet journal for about half a year now, and have been having a lot of trouble being happy with the way my journal looks/actually making myself use it - which is where this book comes in. I like that it's split between the structural parts of creating a bullet journal, and the creative aspect. I've found a lot of the suggested templets to be really useful, and I'm learning to make my journal more creative. I'm also a big fan of the suggestions given regarding paper choice, pens, and stickers. But what I like most about this book is that it brings all these things together into one space. Sure, some of this stuff I could find on the internet - but here it's packaged neatly together, there are plenty of good suggestions, and it was so easy to find an follow. I'd highly recommend this for anyone trying to get into journaling and finding themselves stuck.

Great addition to my Journaling creativity learning instruction. Love this book by Megan. I've admired her Journaling style, which is much like my own. Great book!! Love it!! <3 :)

Very well laid out, detailed yet easy to understand, great ideas! Images were very helpfil. Good for a journal newbie.

I've been keeping a bullet journal for a year and a half now, and have found it incredibly helpful in keeping track of all areas of my life in one place,. I'm much more of a minimalist than a fancy-planner (although I am mad for fountain pens and inks in a zillion colors), so I actually didn't find the creative aspects as useful personally, but I would highly recommend this book for anyone who is interested in making their journal/planner/whatever attractive and creative as well as useful. The author gives extremely concise and easy to follow directions in the creative half, and it was fun to read. What I did find most useful myself was the first half, which deals more with the actual planning pages and set-ups. There are ideas for pretty much every possible type of planner- weekly, monthly, different types of trackers, etc etc. Basically, the book is exactly what it says it is -- creative ideas to customize your own planner, no matter what sort of planner you are using.

The last time it happened, I was getting coffee. I spied a woman intently writing in her journal first thing in the morning. Until I read, “Beyond Bullets” I actually had journal envy whenever I saw someone with their journal or heard someone casually say, “When going back through my journal…” While I knew the act of writing, of noting what I was grateful for, of checking my goals and accomplishments was a worthy endeavor; I couldn’t get to it. My new journals looked too new and I couldn’t bring myself to write in them. Along came “Beyond Bullets,” and the stress was gone. Rather than focusing on a particular type of journal, this book gave me wonderful ideas for journal layouts and creating a routine for journaling. “Beyond Bullets” encouraged me to determine my intention with my organization and this not only motivated me – it took away the stress that I might be journaling “wrong.” Simple things I hadn’t thought of like color coding or selecting writing tools – or even writing from both ends of the journal, turned me into a journal devote.

The pictures of her examples on the kindle edition are thumb nails and will not get larger after trying to select them. Otherwise excellent read.

I have always loved the idea of journalling but have never been able to keep it up consistently. So this was a good find for me, there are great pictures and examples that could definitely enhance anyone's journaling experience. Organizational tools, aesthetically pleasing features lots of really neat ways to personalize your journal. Journalling is great for mental health and I like that this book puts such a creative spin on something most people have at least dabbled in. From lettering to planning I think that this is a great tool for anyone who wants to try out journalling for the first time or people like me who want to be a lot better at it.

This book absolutely inspired me to start a little bullet journal of my own. It's great fun, though Megan Rutell is really right in that if you invest in some higher quality pens (or markers or whatever) you may enjoy your journaling more. The book is awesome and has tons of example photos of creative journaling ideas. I love that Megan Rutell makes a point that you don't have to be an artist to make your journal beautiful. You can use graphite paper to trace images from magazine, or you print images from the internet to trace, and make your journal whatever you suits your fancy. There's something really cool about the pen and paper aspect of journaling that Rutell has really latched onto in this book. I highly recommend it.

Lots of great ideas for the beginner.

Really practical with loads of tips and instructions. Gives examples of lay outs and for embellishments to everyday spreads. Would recommend it to beginner's.

Bem útil e traz novas ideias para os amantes de bullet journal . Recomendo !

... there are a lot of different techniques and formats in this book which surprised and inspired me. 5 Stars. Although on the kindle version the pictures were too small in some cases of detailed e ampules from Journals.

Helpful, nice to read