My coworker Dave laughed at my bullet journal setup until it saved his bacon

So back in February, I was at my desk in the accounting office near the break room, laying out my weekly spread with color coded washi tape and a ruler. My coworker Dave stops by, snorts, and goes, "You really need all that fancy stuff just to remember meetings?" He was all smug about it, said he just uses sticky notes like a normal person. Fast forward to last Tuesday, and Dave's frantic because he double booked himself for a client call and a dentist appointment at the same time. He came over with his head in his hands, and I quietly slid my journal over showing him how I blocked out my day in half hour chunks with little icons for phone calls. He stared at it for a solid minute, then said, "Okay, I'm an idiot. Can you show me how to start?" We spent our lunch break together, and now he's got a cheap spiral notebook with a simple dot grid he made himself. Has anyone else had a coworker make fun of your system only to ask for help later?

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sarah_brown3d ago

Practical advice is start simple like Dave did with that dot grid notebook. Keep your layout to one page per week with just appointments and deadlines until the habit sticks. Overcomplicating it in the beginning is how most people give up after the first month.

rivera.jake3d ago

Yeah exactly, I burned out hard trying to do a whole color coded system and gave up in like two weeks.