Found a weird way to index my daily tasks using page numbers

I kept losing track of where I put things in my bullet journal, flipping back and forth all the time for collections. So I tried numbering every page in the bottom corner as I went, even the random notes. Then when I made the index, I actually wrote down the page numbers for stuff like "meal plan" and "grocery list." It sounds so simple but it took me like 4 months to even think of doing it. Has anyone else found that just adding numbers to your index makes a huge difference or is it just me?

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tessa_roberts128d ago

My friend Emily was telling me about this exact thing the other day. She started numbering pages in her journal and said it changed everything because she could finally find her workout log from two months ago without tearing through the whole book. She said the biggest win was stuffing random doodles and quotes in there and just noting the page in her index afterward. Now she refuses to start a new notebook without numbering the first ten pages ahead of time.

stone.evan28d ago

Numbering every page just sounds like extra work for minimal payoff. I've been using the same dotted notebook for six months without a single page number and I can find my workout logs faster than you can flip to page 47. If your index is organized right, you don't need numbers because you already know the general area where things live. Doodles and random notes don't need to be in an index at all, that's what flipping through is for. And numbering ten pages ahead of time? That's just planning for chaos you haven't even created yet.