Just realized I was putting my monthly logs in the wrong order for over a year

I was watching this random YouTube video from some bullet journaling channel I never heard of, and the girl was flipping through her setup. She had her future log first, then the monthly, then the daily. I always did monthly first because I thought that made sense. Turns out when you do future log first you can actually track events across months way easier. Felt like such a dummy when it clicked. Anyone else ever discover some basic layout thing they got backwards?

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jenny_carr5210d ago

Wait but think about this - what if the real problem isn't the order but how we even define "future log"? I had a friend who used her future log as basically a yearly calendar spread, but then her monthly was just a big to-do list with no future events carried over. She was complaining about the same issue until we realized she was treating them like separate systems instead of connected layers. The future log catches stuff far out, then you migrate to monthly, then to daily. But if your monthly doesn't have any reference to the future events you wrote down three months ago, the order doesn't matter anyway because you aren't actually using the system right. Did you have a method for actually transferring events or were you just rewriting everything?

wright.rowan10d ago

Read a blog post that made the same point about connecting the layers rather than just listing things.