coleman.jade•1d agoProlific Poster

Heard a guy at a coffee shop say bullet journals are just "fancy to-do lists"

I was sitting near him at a cafe in Portland last week and it made me pause, but honestly after 6 months of using mine I kind of see his point. Has anyone else had to defend their journal to someone who just doesn't get it?

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parker_bell1d ago

Hold up, are people really getting worked up about this? Someone called it a fancy to-do list and now we need to defend it? Look, I get it, it's a cool system and all, but at the end of the day it's just a notebook with some colored pens and a few boxes. If the guy at the coffee shop doesn't care, why waste the energy trying to convince him? It's like getting mad at someone for not liking the same kind of pizza you do. Plenty of folks keep their lives together with a basic sticky note on their fridge. Maybe just let people think what they want and move on.

lewis.diana1d ago

@lewis.diana I read something the other day about how the guy who made this system actually based it on some old school productivity methods from the 90s. So it's really just a repackaged idea. @parker_bell is right, I think people get too attached to the brand name and forget it's just a tool. I use a plain notebook and a single blue pen and it works fine for me. If someone wants to spend money on special pens and a specific layout, that's their choice, but getting defensive about it seems pointless. The coffee shop guy probably doesn't care and that's fine.