The design and UX isn't done, Rob and Abbie, okkurrrr! 😌
_winterwriter's review against another edition
2.0
Nothing new or life changing. You can find every bit of this information for free on Pinterest, blogs, and Instagram.
bookishlifeofabbyh's review against another edition
3.0
This helped me get back into bullet journaling and gave good examples on templates and layouts. Helped me feel like I didn’t have to have the perfect journal!
thatsoneforthebooks's review against another edition
3.0
Good for a skim or quick glance for ideas
Lots of practical information, aesthetically lovely, great minimalist layouts, but a little superficial. Lovely to skim through for ideas and inspiration.
Lots of practical information, aesthetically lovely, great minimalist layouts, but a little superficial. Lovely to skim through for ideas and inspiration.
vanessa_issa's review against another edition
4.0
Esse livro nos traz várias ideias de como organizar seu planner. Sempre tive vontade de fazer um, mas confesso que sou dessas que acaba esquecendo de marcar, tendo preguiça e desanimando depois de um tempo. Estou muito acostumada a organizar meus compromissos em agendas virtuais, embora ache que assim num caderno seja muito mais charmoso. Já tinha chegado a planejar um, mas compliquei demais e não marquei nada. Agora, tendo lido essas dicas, fiquei até com vontade de tentar de novo. Quem sabe eu consiga em 2018!
gimchi's review against another edition
2.0
it was fine - nothing you couldn't find on the internet, so it felt a little stale. read via hoopla and the images were stupid tiny.
ablotial's review against another edition
4.0
I used to love journaling of all types -- I have all my diaries from middle school and high school up in a box somewhere, where I mostly talked about boys and hating everyone. In college, I flipped to online journaling with livejournal, where I've had multiple journals and run communities over the years. But as I've gotten older and had to start adulting more, I have less and less time to sit down and write an actual journal entry. This makes me sad, because I do like to go back and read my old journals every now and then, both for the memories (good AND bad) and to see how much I've changed and grown as a person.
Someone suggested "dot journaling" to me, and this book was super cheap on kindle, so I picked it up and read it in an evening. Although this is actually more of a to-do list than a journal -- while I can still flip back through and see the things that I did (or was supposed to do) at any given time, and they do give a kind of picture of a life, they don't include my thoughts and fears and inner monologue.
However, I still liked the concept, especially for work. Dot Journals are fast and easy (or, at least, they can be ... I did temporarily join a reddit community for them and some people spend So. MUCH. TIME. on them to make them beautiful. That kind of defeats the point for me, but whatever makes you happy). So at the beginning of 2019 I tried to use dot journaling exclusively at work to keep track of all the tasks I needed to do. It actually worked really well a lot of the time, but I still found it hard to keep up with. It lasted a few months, and then I'd fall off the train... but every time I got overwhelmed with stuff to do, I'd pull it out and start over. It is really helpful to get me through some of the more stressful periods at work.
Generally though, it's not for me for every day life. I just don't DO enough things outside of work to make it more useful than just having a Google Calendar. And since it's not really a "journal" it's not quite what I want.
What I *really* need is Queepsake for adults.
Someone suggested "dot journaling" to me, and this book was super cheap on kindle, so I picked it up and read it in an evening. Although this is actually more of a to-do list than a journal -- while I can still flip back through and see the things that I did (or was supposed to do) at any given time, and they do give a kind of picture of a life, they don't include my thoughts and fears and inner monologue.
However, I still liked the concept, especially for work. Dot Journals are fast and easy (or, at least, they can be ... I did temporarily join a reddit community for them and some people spend So. MUCH. TIME. on them to make them beautiful. That kind of defeats the point for me, but whatever makes you happy). So at the beginning of 2019 I tried to use dot journaling exclusively at work to keep track of all the tasks I needed to do. It actually worked really well a lot of the time, but I still found it hard to keep up with. It lasted a few months, and then I'd fall off the train... but every time I got overwhelmed with stuff to do, I'd pull it out and start over. It is really helpful to get me through some of the more stressful periods at work.
Generally though, it's not for me for every day life. I just don't DO enough things outside of work to make it more useful than just having a Google Calendar. And since it's not really a "journal" it's not quite what I want.
What I *really* need is Queepsake for adults.
tachyon's review against another edition
3.0
Bullet journaling by another name. However the book is short, cute, and fun so it's not all bad. The author does have some great ideas but her lack of credit to or even brief mention of the originator of bullet journaling Ryder Carroll is slightly disappointing.
bak8382's review
4.0
I thought this was a really practical explanation of how to create a dot journal. My library only has a digital copy of this book, which I read on my phone so the pictures were hard to see. I prefer to read this type of book in physical form as I'd like to refer back to this when I set up my journal. I will probably inter-library loan or purchase this for future reference.
suzannalundale's review against another edition
4.0
Ok, so I guess I'm jumping on the dot journal bandwagon, but I still draw the line at kale-flavored kombucha! Miller is an editor at Buzzfeed, and presents here a very readable, easygoing introduction to the ways and means of the craft, only sometimes straying into smarmy Self-Help Author Voice. She gave me some good ideas for the bones of the thing, and some of the extras she suggested are actually relevant to my requirements. So bring on the washi tape, and let's do this.