my bullet journal setup | simple + minimalist bullet journal ideas :)

these pants don't really match my sweater but that's okay i have a cup of tea we are ready to roll i'm actually going to take off my cushion there we go hello my friends it's nina and welcome to 2020 today is january 1st and guess who's planning their bullet journal the day of the new year instead of prior to the new year so you have time to actually prepare for the new year me but it's better late than never in this video i'm going to be setting up my bullet journal as you can see right here this is actually my first year setting up a bullet journal i started bullet journaling in a random month during a random year i didn't start in january i just started whenever and i didn't even really organize myself but for 2020 i wanted to do things a little bit differently and so i'm going to be starting a brand new journal in the beginning of the year and i'm actually going to make this a little bit more useful for me so sit back, relax, get a cup of tea unless you're actually- wow that's really hot unless you're actually really bullet journaling with me then get your supplies and let's just get started i'm going to be starting a new bullet journal it's the same brand that i'll just put right here for you guys this time i decided to get this nice gray color just to be different from my black bullet journals in the past you have served me well but i will use you for other things so for this video i'm going to be doing my 2020 setup and i'm also going to show you my january setup i already have a bullet journal setup and that was for my monthly setup how long was that in the shot this year it's going to be the same thing except this time i am going to add some special elements for my bullet journal setup i'm going with a grayscale kind of theme as you can also see by my markers i'm literally just going to be using yes i'm literally just using one marker it is this gray mild liner it's a zebra mild liner it's a light gray color these i'll be using for january i'm just going with this sort of light blue kind of theme but for my 2020 setup i'm going with one color because i don't want to confuse my eyes throughout the year i'm going to use different colors different washi tapes and stickers and so for my 2020 setup i want to keep it as simple as possible i'm not really sure if i'm going to use these tapes but maybe i will so now that i've explained myself let's just actually do it together so hello here is my bullet journal these bullet journals have indexes and so i'm just going to write the content pages first page is going to be a key so one key and then i'll just add to that later on but here is the first page as you can see these pages are dotted i'm going to start with my key here is my other bullet journal i'm just going to use it as a reference but basically i'm just going to write key in the center and then with a black pen this is a muji 0.38 tip pen i'm just going to write out key very tiny like that and this is my key page and then under that i'm just going to write my bullets personally for me i like to use square check boxes for tasks this is going to represent my task finished and basically i like to put a red check mark inside the box and that means the task is finished task finished and then for me if i want to cross something out or cancel something i'll literally just do a cross out through the task and then i also like to do heart bullets and this is for something good this can be a discovery i made or something good that happened that day something just positive i guess and then i like to have an exclamation bullet point and this is for something urgent or important and then finally i just have a regular bullet point and this is for a simple note but here is my key it's very simple and then finally i'm just going to do a basic sort of measure grid sort of thing going on here so this specific journal has 26 dots by 38 dots so here we go i think it's sort of straight don't be hard on yourself if the line's not straight so here's our little vertical line and then we're going to make a horizontal line just kind of continuing off of that and that's our horizontal line and then here i'm going to write that horizontally there are 26 dots and then vertically there are 38 dots when i'm making my bullet journal setups i will divide things into fourths or thirds or halves and that is your key page it's literally just there for your reference now i'm going to be doing my 2020 in a year spread we're taking our simple gray color and we're going to write out 2020 so most of my headers are two dots long just to make it a little bit bigger and then we're going to get on with this there are 12 months in a year so we're going to go for a 3x4 sort of grid first i'm going to make the headers of each month we're just going to skip a line and we're going to start right at the edge right here we're going to cross out 7 this is going to be the length of a week then i'm going to skip two dots just for some space and do it again there is going to be a column left over but i think it helps just because i don't want it to be all the way here and cramped here i'm going to write january just one letter per box kind of just makes it look centered i'm literally just writing the first three letters of each month just to make everything even and then i'm going to write down the numbers so for the months i go by sunday to saturday that's basically what we do in america or maybe just in my life i know a lot of people do mondays but for my months i do prefer sundays just because that's what i'm used to but for my weekly spread i will say that i have begun to start my weeks on monday it's definitely much more efficient but i do still stick with a sunday to saturday month it's a little confusing but honestly it works for me so here is sunday, monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday, saturday i'm just going to write down my numbers so we have completed three months now we have nine more to go i'm going to show you the next row so for spacing i'm going to skip two lines and we're going to do the same thing so now i'm going to explain what i do if there are six weeks in a month it's really no big deal all i do is just move down two spaces and then go to the next month so i'm going to set it up so now there is a three line difference but honestly no one notices no big deal i'm going to do the rest of the months and i'll get back to you guys and 12 months later here is our final 2020 full year setup and so i'll just use this as a reference so i'm just not on my phone all the time trying to look at what day it is we are going to move on to our 2020 goals page so i do plan to use this setup throughout the year i'm not just going to come up with a full list of goals right now but i'm just going to add to it as the year goes for this spread i'm going to divide the page in half and have a section for realistic goals and a section for dreams so my realistic goals are obviously for things that i can achieve eventually so first i'm going to divide this page in half as we remember there are 26 dots this way i'm going to go to the 13th dot i'm pretty sure that's the 13th dot i've been bullet journaling enough that i just know where the 13th dot is that's kind of straight and then next i'm going to write my header for realistic and header for dreams now i'm going to write out realistic oh i should have spaced it better you live and you learn realistic dreams and that is pretty much it for the spread it's very clean i might just add a few washi tapes here and there to kind of complete it i'm going to write a realistic goal right here i personally want to stretch more so i think i'm going to write stretch more often i used to be very flexible but obviously i stopped stretching and so i want to incorporate that into my life more and then a dream what's a dream i have do i have dreams? what's a dream? i'm just going to leave some boxes here so i can fill it out later and here we have our 2020 goals page i might just add a few washi tapes here and there and so i just added a few washi tapes to make it a little more exciting and we have completed two of my spreads now i'm going to do my things i did spread i just kind of wanted a log dedicated to things that happened in 2020 i tend to forget things that happened and so i just want to have it visually and physically out for me again simple title and then for this i will show you how i make my logs we're going to make a long horizontal line let's hope that i do this smoothly i'm going to separate my spread into three categories we're going to have a date, thing i did, and a category so i'm going to start here and make a long vertical line this year i'm just doing freehand because we're going to trust ourselves a little bit we're going to go down i literally didn't breathe okay we're going to do the same thing here four dots and here we have our divided columns now simply i'm just going to write the headers we've got dates, thing i did and these things can be accomplishments, events, trips you took anything like that and then here's category and then for category i would write travel, event, any other thing achievements, something like that just to kind of organize it and that is pretty much it again you can decorate it with whatever you want but i honestly like it just plain here i would write the date, the name of the thing that happened and the category of it and then at the end of the year i can see how much happened in my life if i don't end up filling all two pages that's okay too the very fact that you're existing and breathing is all that really matters next page is the finances page i'm not really sure if everyone needs this or if this will be useful to anyone but this is what's useful to me i just kind of want to keep a record of my earnings and all that i'm going to do the same thing again and start with the header and then i'm going to make 12 little boxes for each month this is kind of similar to the year layout that we just did to make everything even the boxes are 7 by 8 so we're going to go down 8 dots and then i'm going to literally make the box with the same marker i'm using the fine tip part of the pen these boxes are just so cute we're going to skip one line and then move on so now i'm going to write the months out basically these boxes are just going to help me total my earnings as you can see here's the total and then here's a dollar sign so things are just going to add up and that'll be my earnings for the month everyone's needs are different so you might not need the spread or you might change it up a little bit but i think it's just useful to have some sort of finances page and here is the spread for my finances this is just kind of cute we are now moving on to my wishlist spread we're making the same sort of grid except for just one page and then we're going to break it down into three categories i'm going to have the item here the price and the category of the item here i'll just write an example of a wishlist item i have i want to get an ergonomic office chair for my back so i'm going to write ergonomic office chair i don't have an idea of what kind of chair i want so i can't write down the price yet but i do know i just want a nice office chair here i'll just write work slash office and here is my wishlist we're going to make our expenses page you guys probably get this by now but i'm just going to make another log again here i'm going to write the expense here is the cost or the price and here is the category these are my expenses pages i left myself two pages i think that would be enough and then personally for me i want a video ideas section as well just having these sort of brain dump pages where you can throw in whatever you want is kind of useful and then just to make this a little fancy kind of like a washi tape i'm going to write all these little play buttons i should have probably made like a space or something because now i have to keep going but i'll see you guys in like a minute there we go so it kind of looks like a washi tape i just put all these play buttons because of youtube now we have freedom to write whatever video ideas we have finally i'm going to just leave space for my reflections i want my 2019 reflections and my 2020 reflections 2019 reflections and then 2020 reflections this just allows me to kind of reflect what i think physically writing out my thoughts is just more effective and meaningful to me so i like to keep reflection pages in everything i do i'm gonna just do simple hearts and here are the reflections pages i'll write out all my thoughts here and leave this for the end of the year now i will briefly go over my monthly layout just because it did change a little bit but overall it is pretty much the same as my last bullet journal video so that's why i'm going to quickly go through it and for january i wanted to go with this color we're going to write january nice and big takes up two rows and then right under we're going to make that line it's okay if it's not perfect oh my god that's really wavy i'm going to fix it just a little bit i don't know if that made that better that's fine it's chill in fact to make it even i'm going to just go over this again there we go no one can tell the difference i'll just do snowflakes, we're still in winter now here comes the tedious part which is making the month this time i'm not going to use a ruler just because i don't really have the patience for it anymore we're going to skip two dots and start right here the title of the days are going to be one row long so the days themselves are six by six so here we have four weekdays and then three more here it's going to make seven and there we have it folks we have a four by five grid we're going to do a three by five grid here there it is i don't really know what happened here it is kind of naked right now so we're going to add some more color so january starts on wednesday i'm going to start on wednesday as well because these dates are from december it's going to be a gray color and then on wednesday we're going to start with blue january also ends on friday so i'm going to color this gray for february then over here we have our little goal section and then our feature section and that is pretty much it i'm going to fill these out and there we have our completed month moving on i'm going to make my habit tracker this is pretty much the same thing as last time too but i just ran this time if you remember my last video i used a ruler and that took way too long i'll also just start on my brain dump as well this is where i just have the freedom to throw out ideas and discoveries anything i want, just little notes here and there then for the habit trackers i have nine habits that i track these are also similar to the month layouts that we've done before so i'm going to just make a line of seven right there skip two, move on to the next move on to the next so we're going to make a five by seven box and we're free handing this time because this is honestly so simple and then here is the habit tracker all finished and i actually did finish the brain dump because this is supposed to be blank i am going to cross out the days that are not in january and just like my last spread i'm going to put a slash through it so the habits i track are youtube, instagram, exercise, vitamins, iron, walking my dogs, watering my plant, skincare, and korean i'm going to try to learn more korean this year actually in fact i'm going to write that in my goals i'm going to study korean more often i don't want to pressure myself by writing study korean every day i'm just going to write more often in 2020 we're also going to be easier on ourselves for the sake of our health now i will show you my weekly spread so my weekly layout is basically the only thing that really changed instead of going with my horizontal layout that i did before i'm going to go for more of a quadrants kind of style so basically for this quadrant style i'm just going to divide the page i drew a line here and a line halfway same thing for here and then right down the middle with the fine tip i'm going to make a line this is going to divide my page into four another four days here it's just more vertical space this way it's not so cramped because there are seven days in a week i had this leftover box i'm going to separate it into two and then this is going to be our notes and then this is going to be our future and like i said before now i'm going to start with monday instead of sunday because my week basically ends on sunday since i upload on sundays having sunday here just didn't really make sense for me so we're going to start with monday finally we're going to write notes and then future so future is for stuff that happens next week or weeks after that or months after that doesn't really matter then i'm going to skip a few pages these are going to be my future weekly layouts here is the final part of the month and it's going to be our january reflections i like to have two pages where it just really functions as a diary i kind of just write in this throughout the month it doesn't really mean i have to write every single day it's just whenever i have a mood where i want to be emotional or sentimental and write out my feelings i have two pages for that and then just for the heck of it i'll write the first log and then after that this is basically my thought for today but after that if it's like the third or the 15th i'll just write right under it so i can save room it's just plenty of space for my thoughts and that is it for my reflection section this is basically my diary and then here are the final results of our 2020 setup this is the first page here is our key page for our reference and then we have our clean 2020 in a year our 2020 goals things i did finances my wishlist my expenses page my video ideas 2019 reflections 2020 reflections and then we're moving on to our monthly setup this is basically the same for every month if i want to decorate i have the freedom this is our month then we have our habit tracker our brain dump and then here's our first weekly setup it is a tiny bit different but it's much more effective then some more pages for weekly layouts in the future and then finally here is our january reflections and then this will be february and that my friends is pretty much it for this bullet journal video my tea is now room temperature this was my first official bullet journal setup i always just go right in not taking the time to make spreads for things that are important in my life i just wanted this to be something that i could look back at five years from now and be like wow that's what i did in 2020 so that is it for my 2020 setup hopefully this is useful to you in 2021 or 2022 or 2023 or 2024 2025 i also did show you my updated monthly setup as well i hope that this helps to organize your 2020 a little bit it's extremely simple extremely simple some of you guys are probably looking at this video like nina that is so simple and that is okay this is just what's useful to me but yeah let's just bring it in happy new year let's have a healthy safe and kind year i will see you in my next video thank you for watching and i will see you next time goodbye my friends why are there so many sounds