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    Can a Bullet Journal help you keep up with your to-do list?

    The Bullet Journal is a combination of a planner, and diary and to-do list that you create in a blank notebook. Some people go all out, creating elaborate multi-colored designs for their calendars and habit-trackers.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Oct 25, 2018 • 1 min read

    The Bullet Journal is a combination of a planner, and diary and to-do list that you create in a blank notebook. Some people go all out, creating elaborate multi-colored designs for their calendars and habit-trackers. Some people even make careers off it online. Five years ago, Ryder Carroll posted a video to YouTube explaining his Bullet Journal system. Now he has a new book out called “The Bullet Journal Method: Track the Past, Order the Present, Design the Future”

    Author Ryder Carroll. Courtesy of Penguin Random House

    Sample of Bullet Journal pages. Copyright © 2018 by Ryder Carroll.

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