Bullet Journal Organisation: Weekly Spreads
I’m back with my Bullet Journal mini-series! In case you missed the first instalment you can catch up here about my monthly spreads, but a quick summary is I love my bullet journal and I love planning but I’m just not that great at implementing that planning.
Note: Please excuse the very important tasks on my to-do list above like catch a char on Animal Crossing and watch RuPaul’s Drag Race. I’ve been putting extra things on my to-do lists recently to make my isolation weekends seem more productive and make me feel less meh about life. Totally recommend, but now on with the show!
Weekly Spreads
I’ve had an on and off relationship with weekly spreads. When I was at university I loved them because they tracked all my university work, but then I graduated and started work. I have another notebook at work specifically for my giant pile of work to-do lists so for the first couple of years of full-time work I didn’t really use weekly spreads at all. But at the beginning of 2019, I got my arse into gear and started planning and working on my side projects properly and this meant the reintroduction of weekly spreads!
The first layout
My weekly planner design has changed a lot over the years, I’ve tried out a lot of styles and layouts but around this time last year, I found my groove. I tend to use a mixture of three layouts however my usual go-to layout is the one I use 90% of the time.
As stated above I use a different notebook for my full-time job so this bujo is just for side projects, because of this I don’t really need a whole spread per week. Having a side calendar for events or holidays and a big weekly to-do list personally works the best for me on a standard week. Most of my side project work happens on the weekend but on evenings I feel productive after work I’ll get stuck into some tasks. Doing this means it’s easier to have one big to-do list for the week instead of setting specific tasks for each day as I don’t know when I’ll feel like working on things.
At the moment, with this worldwide pandemic happening, I don’t have a whole lot of events going on that I need to remember. Some weeks during isolation I didn’t even bother drawing the wee side calendar, I just had the weekly to-do list with more space.
The other layout
The only time I sway from my standard weekly layout is when I have a lot planned. When a side project has a thing to be planned out and launched, or I have a week off from work and have way more time to work on side projects. This is when I move to my day by day weekly plan as shown in the photo at the top of this post. Depending on how much time I have free or how many tasks I need to get done by the launch day I can tailor this to either one page or a whole spread.
Or sometimes, just sometimes, I mix it up for the hell of it. No rhyme or reason, no special event or plans. Just sometimes I need a change, and that’s my biggest tip for bullet journalling ever…
You do you, ignore all the trends and the fancy Instagram posts, just do what works for you and if you’re not feeling it that week change it up!
The next posts in this series are meant to be about trackers and my bujo stationery essentials, but let me know if you have any burning questions or something else bullet journal related you want to see!
- Sophie
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