Bullet Journal system will help organize your notes in a diary

Now dozens of applications for planning purposes. Any.do, Wunderlist, Evernote, and other similar services are almost forced out of our ordinary life diaries.

However, many continue to use paper for planning. For someone habit, and for someone - a principle. But they, and others go at it a long time. Even more it is spent on the search for the right information.

Today we tell about the system of keeping records on paper, which will help clean up the mess in your diary.

Its author - a web designer Ryder Carroll (Ryder Carroll). Even when he was in school, he did not kleilos to conventional recordings. Every time he tried to do, for example, the synopsis of George Washington, instead of the text, obtained pattern in which the first US president with a gun in the hands of a giant bull saddles.

In the end, he decided to create its own system of handwriting note taking. This technique later helped him finish the Institute, as well as to operate successfully as a web designer.

According to Carroll, the ease of the system is its simplicity and flexibility.

"We deliberately use the standard notation, such as marker-lists, checkboxes, page numbering, etc. So you know a lot, have not even begun. "

The system of "quick notes"

Terms that will be useful to its master:

• Index - a Table of Contents. It helps to quickly find the desired item.
• Subject - is the name of the recording. Often the primary and secondary (for example, "Sep / 19").
• Marker-lists - your clever ideas, or rather the "Tasks", "Notes" and "Events."
• Tasks - current affairs, designated checkboxes.
• Notes - ideas, observations, denoted by bold dots.
• Events - upcoming meetings and events, referred to as "empty" circles.
• Note - this is a mark in the margin. Help us to understand the essence of the recording ( "Priority", "explore", "Stimulus", "Other", etc.).
• Number of Pages - a "navigator". Help you quickly find the right entry.
• Monthly calendar - plan for the next month.
• Agenda - plans for the day.
• Moving - is the transfer of outstanding tasks for the next month / day.
• Collection - a thematic lists. Help "fill" monthly calendar and agenda (for example, "The list of books to read», «My wish list», etc.).

The basic rules that will help you master the system:

1. Keep a notebook. Need to buy "Moleskine" - and will fit a notebook in the box.

2. Number the pages.

3. Create a page index - the first page of your notebook. Contents include topics and page numbers.

4. Leave a couple of pages for your collections. Make them.

5. Create a monthly calendar (left page): write the name of the month, letters and numbers indicating the days, in a column. Opposite them enter birthdays and dates of other events that are not exactly change.

6. Make a monthly token-list (right page), that is, tasks and events for the next 30 days. Do not forget to check boxes, and fatty terms "empty" circles. This will help to quickly pick out visually in the text of the right kind of information.

7. Return to the index page and write the page number where the information is.

8. Sketch Agenda (for 1 day or just a few). Do not forget to enter data in the index.

9. Arrange notes to each task or event.

10. At the end of the month to move all the urgent tasks of the new monthly calendar.

Tips for using the system:

• Do not worry, if something is overlooked and not brought in one or another marker list.
• Mark the check boxes made problem; tasks which have lost relevance, cross out.
• Do not forget to fill in the index.
• Group similar or related to each other task. To do this on a clean page, make a list of tasks, and make its title the data in the index.

For those who want to get acquainted with the system of "quick notes" closer and try it for yourself, there is a clear video.

(Bullet Journal)