Journaling for planning, tracking and keeping an overview
Bullet Journaling, or BuJo for short, has been a creative trend for years that’s hard to miss. In addition to the classic Bullet Journal, countless sub-variants have emerged, allowing everyone to find their own way to use a Bullet Journal. That's exactly what we love about journaling. It’s as individual as you are, and you can easily adapt it to your needs and time.
Learn more about the basics, such as which pens are particularly suitable, or browse through our numerous free templates and inspiration for your own journal.
What is a Bullet Journal?
A Bullet Journal is a self-designed calendar diary with thematically structured entries – the bullets. You can create entries in categories of your own choosing. To-do lists, sketches or short diary entries – everything can be entered into a bullet journal. It gives you an overview of what’s going on and allows you to organise yourself the way you want.
I use my bullet journal as both a planning tool and classic calendar and also as a tool for recording activities in the same way as I would in a classic diary.
Anne Broszies, Bullet-Journal-Expert
In the digital era, a bullet journal is a conscious way of slowing down and being mindful. For many people, bullet journaling has become a beloved creative activity.
Who invented Bullet Journals?
The inventor of the Bullet Journal is Ryder Carroll, a designer of digital products from New York. When he was a child, he was diagnosed with learning difficulties. He therefore looked for alternative ways to remain focused and productive. And so he developed the principle of bullet journaling. Ryder believes that keeping a bullet journal can help people live more focused and target-oriented lives and not be constantly distracted.
With bullet journals, Ryder Carroll has obviously hit a nerve and the Internet today is full of ideas on the best or most beautiful way to design a Bujo.
Making a Bullet Journal look attractive
- A Bujo can be 100% customised.
- It is independent of time and place and always works wherever you are, even without cable or network.
- A Bujo helps you to work in a focused way, unlike a mobile phone that can distract when it displays new messages or posts.
- With a Bujo you can practise a little creativity every day and improve your skills. When you enter something, you practise techniques like handlettering oder sketchnoting every day. You work with colours and different pencils and experience the wonderful feeling of being creative while doing so.
The materials you need for your Bullet Journal
The basis for your bullet journal is a notebook. You can pretty much use any notebook. However, subtly dotted notebooks can be divided up in a particularly versatile way. Choose the size that suits you best. Would you like to write in the notebook on the go? Then get a DIN A5 notebook that you can easily put in any bag. Or is the notebook destined to stay at home? Then you can opt for one that’s a little bigger.
Open the notebook up. Do you like the paper? How does it feel when you turn the pages and do you like the rustle of the pages when you turn them? If it feels good when you hold it, it’s the right one for you.
But don’t worry, you can’t do anything wrong here – and if it’s your first bullet journal, you’ll be gathering experience all the time, right from the start.
Water-based pens are well suited for bullet journaling because they do not penetrate most types of paper. They lie on the paper rather than being absorbed and bleeding through. They are therefore ideal for working in notebooks where both sides of the page will be used.
Pens that are particularly suitable are felt-tip pens such as the TwinTones, ballpoint pens such as the practical four-colour ballpoint pen Reporter 4, ABT Dual Brush Pens and highlighters such as the MONO edge. Correction rollers are suitable for simple, fast corrections because the dry correction tape can be written on immediately. If you also want to glue, something into your Bujo, then a glue stick or a glue tape is ideal because they won’t make the paper on the individual pages warp.
Bullet Journaling Sets
Wouldn’t you prefer to buy a full set instead of having to purchase all the materials separately? Take a look at our two complete sets, which include the notebook and pens:
The Creative Journaling Kit was compiled by Sarah (@mylittlejournalblog) and is the perfect introduction to bullet journaling. Alongside a notebook with dot grid, it also contains various pens for writing and designing your bujo.
Our Eat-Create-Set, on the other hand, is perfect for anyone who wants to consciously focus on better eating habits. You can record recipes in your journal or track your eating habits. The free Mepal lunchbox is ideal for taking the tried recipes to the office, university, or school.
Free Bullet Journal Templates
An empty book with blank pages overwhelms you, and you have no idea where to start? Then check out our free Bullet Journal templates. If you're short on time, you can simply print them out and paste them in, or use them as inspiration for a unique design.
We offer templates for monthly and weekly overviews, various trackers and layouts, as well as inspiration for monthly cover pages. Every month, a new design is added, so you can keep up with your Bullet Journal together with the Tombow Community.
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Brush Pen & Fineliner
Creative Journaling Kit Bright
Includes a notebook, 4 ABT Dual Brush Pens, a Fudenosuke Brush Pen, the MONO edge highlighter, and the MONO graph mechanical pencil.
€23.90
€39.90
Webshop products
Eat & Create Set
Reorganise your day with the Eat & Create set: With Mepal Lunch Box & Bullet Journal for free - for your creative break
€29.90
Pencils
IROJITEN set of 30
Color pencils made of high-quality wood and finished with elegant varnish. Available in three sorted cardboard boxes, each containing 30 unique colours.
Available in various colours
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€60.00
Pencils
IROJITEN single color
Elegant colored pencil with wax-based lead. Available in 100 different colors.
Available in various colours
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€2.00
Pencils
Ki-Monogatari Eco color pencil
The environmentally friendly color pencils of the Ki-Monogatari series
Packaging size selectable
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€19.90
Pencils
Ki-Monogatari recycled pencil
The eco-friendly pencils of the Ki-Monogatari series
Hardness selectable
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€13.00
Eraser
Limited Edition MONO graph + MONO eraser pastel
Limited set of MONO graph and MONO eraser in 6 special pastel colors
Available in various colours
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€9.10
Pencils
MONO 100 set of 12
Top quality pencil with superb varnish finish, available in 17 degrees of hardness. Offers unusual contrast due to extra dark, high density graphite lead.
Hardness selectable
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€31.20
Pencils
MONO 100 set of 12
Top quality pencil with superb varnish finish, available in 17 degrees of hardness. Offers unusual contrast due to extra dark, high density graphite lead.
€30.00
Correction Tape
MONO air4
The first correction roller with advanced "Air Technology" that makes correcting more comfortable and easier than ever.
Packaging size selectable
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€5.00
(€0.31 / 1 m)
Correction Tape
MONO CCE4
Extra small and handy with central roller, suitable for left-and right-handed users.
Available in various colours
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€2.80
(€0.47 / 1 m)
