Fumbling with to-do lists, habit tracking apps, a Kanban board in the kitchen, a google docs spreadsheet for goals and a mood journal I grew tired of not having one single source of truth regarding my life planning.

The Bullet Journal Method filled that hole in my heart.

The cool thing about the concept is that it is not a “one size fits all” approach or a “my way or the highway” thing.

It is flexible and adaptable. For me personally it evolved with every month I’ve used it since the beginning of 2019.

The Method

Ryder Carrol wrote the book “The Bullet Journal Method: Track the Past, Order the Present, Design the Future”

And that’s pretty much it, the title says it all. It’s a nice read but not necessary to start with your own journal.

That distinguishes it from methods like GTD – Getting Things Done where you need the book to understand the overly complicated system.

The Journal – Key Concepts

Bullets

As the name Bullet Journal might suggest there are of course bullets.

A simple dot or “bullet” like ⋅ stands for a task.

⋅ Save the planet

And here comes the biggest difference to normal to do lists.

When you finish a task you don’t cross out the task description but just the bullet. So x means a completed task.

x Save the planet

Why is that useful? Well, it is less visual clutter and you are still able to see all the completed tasks (for future references) See for yourself:

Save the planet

Abstraction Layers

Now comes the fun part.

A typical bullet journal has some abstraction layers e.g.

• Future log
• Yearly log
• Monthly log
• Daily log

Future log

The future log can be best described as a bucket list. everything you want to do / achieve / experience in your life should end up here. You can refer to this as top down planning. These are the most important items.

Future Log
⋅ Cruise in the Caribbean
⋅ Save the planet
⋅ Plant a tree
⋅ Build a house

Yearly log

Let’s say a “Cruise in the Caribbean” is on your bucket list. So when you want to set up your yearly log you have to decide if this year is the year.

If you are able to do it, put it onto the 2022 yearly log.

2022
⋅ Cruise in the Caribbean

Monthly log

The “Cruise in the Caribbean” task is nothing which can be accomplished in one go. it is more like a project. You have to book the cruise, book a flight, apply for a new passport, buy a bigger suitcase, etc.

This work breakdown can be done in the monthly log. Note down whatever comes to your mind.

January 2022
⋅ book the cruise
⋅ book a flight 
⋅ apply for a new passport
⋅ buy a bigger suitcase

Daily log

Until now everything was planning. Now onto the action

January, 10th 2022
⋅ book the cruise

But wait, further breakdown needed. Before you book a cruise you have to look for a cruise first, find something that suits you. so we add a new item to the list.

January, 10th 2022
⋅ look for a cruise
⋅ book the cruise

But before looking for a cruise we should define a budget for the whole trip first.

January, 10th 2022
⋅ define budget
⋅ look for a cruise
⋅ book the cruise

Migration & Scheduling

Phew, so much work breakdown makes us tired and we can only settle on the budget but don’t have time to look for cruises. So, time to migrate

January, 10th 2022
x define budget
> look for a cruise
> book the cruise

Migration to the next day is done via the greater sign “>” The goal is to have a completed daily log at the end, so we migrate look and book to the next day.

January, 11th 2022 
⋅ look for a cruise 
⋅ book the cruise

but pondering on your budget you consider doing your taxes first, because it could increase your budget significantly:

January, 11th 2022 
⋅ look for a cruise 
⋅ book the cruise
⋅ do tax declaration

Doing your taxes might take a while (and is a little project in itself) so you schedule all three tasks to the monthly log. It is done by using the less sign “<”

January, 11th 2022 
< look for a cruise 
< book the cruise
< do tax declaration

January 2022 
⋅ look for a cruise 
⋅ book the cruise 
⋅ book a flight 
⋅ apply for a new passport 
⋅ buy a bigger suitcase
⋅ do tax declaration

As you can see migration and scheduling are an essential part of the Bullet Journal Method.

Other useful markers

o Events
- Information
/ Delegated Task @Someone
⋅ I won't do it

My Bullet Journal

I chose the Leuchtturm1917 BuJo.

It already has an index page, page numbers and three tail bands

Habit Tracker

As a replacement for my coach.me app I’ve created a monthly view in landscape orientation. I helps me tracking my habits like

• Drink more water
• Talk a walk
• Use dental floss
• Reading
• Yoga
• Exercise
• Money

I also put in the songs I’m currently practicing.

Mood Tracker

When you suffer from mood swings you can try out a mood tracker as well.

It will give you a more objective view how you feel over time.

My personal lists

Books to read

I’ve put all unread books on a separate list to keep track of my reading habit as well

Movies to watch

Do you have those “What shall I watch now?” moments?

I have and now every time a friend or colleague mentions a movie I haven’t watched yet I put it on the list. When I have the aforementioned situation I consult this list.

Songs to learn

The same goes for learning songs. Sometimes I hear a nice piece of music on the radio and think to myself: “I’d like to learn that so bad”. So I put it on list.

Repairs

Stuff breaks. Or kids break stuff 🙂 So I collect items I want to repair on a list.

Further Reading

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Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched.

Of course I missed the early bird priced tickets so I had to pay the full 199€. And then there is this little topic called health. Becoming older is no walk in the park. The days before the event I realised that the conecpt of hacking for 24 hours with little to no sleep was not going to apply to me. Dang!

Nevertheless I was excited to go to this event!

Coffee First

Barista Bastian Reif was in charge of supplying all the nerds and nerdettes with his special coffee creations. Yummi!

Keynotes

To start the day Benno gave a short talk why his company started this event. To get the party started they invited three speakers which gave some nice Lightning Talks.

Dr. Andreas Knie -a sociologist from Berlin- talked about innovation processes. Main takeaway: innovation has to break rules, sometimes even laws.

Josef Stoll -former CTO of Deutsche Bahn- told us about his visions of future mobility.

A great talk was delivered by Dr. Markus Junginger from MHP. His main point is that companies who concentrate on increasing their efficiency are celebrating the status quo instead of embracing progress and innovation.

Sessions

Some guidelines first:

At a barcamp it is always very hard to decide which sessions to attend.  I attended these three:

Delivery 4.0

We discussed issues with inner city delivery and optimizing the last mile. An interesting idea is that cities can prohibit parcel services and provide central hubs from where just one service company delivers all inner city customers. A nice thing I didn’t know about are the boxes for parcels from DHL:

https://www.dhl.de/paketkasten

Ranging from 230€ to 560€ it is an interesting alternative to fetching parcel from the post office.

Securing mobility in rural areas

This session dealt with the challenges of mobility in small towns and villages where public transportation cut back their services over the years.

I learned about new technology for  car sharing

http://www.landauto-carsharing.de/

And that sometimes you don’t need technology to solve problems

Mitfahrbank

Autonomous Driving and the impact on land-use planning

The third and last session I attended was about the impact of autonomous driving of infrastructure and workplaces.

For example autonomous driving can be a big competition for public transportation, when the car that drives you you don’t have to own anymore.

Overall Takeaways

One thing I’ve noticed: In comparison to the SWEC16 the percentage of women was much higher at the FMD. Perhaps that’s due to the topic which doesn’t automatically imply talking about software development.

I didn’t know before that the expression Barcamp is the open-to-the-public alternative to Foocamp where FOO stands for “Friends of O’Reilly”. So it comes from the classic computer science foobar terminology.

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Very unintuitive, this does not work:

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Instead of “change” You have to use “input”

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