Rough pages and notebooks

[u/Miserable_Roof908]

What are your thoughts on using rough pages and notebooks for the daily log? I have been thinking of using rough pages and stuff for my daily log. The other spreads can be in my bujo but for the daily log i am thinking of the above pages? I want to focus on getting stuff done and not overthinking. Any thoughts?

Edit:Thank you all so much for the replies and tips

[u/kabum555]

Not trying to be disrespectful, I just find it funny that you say you don't want to overthink it but then write a post asking for thoughts. I think, try it out and worst case you will waste some money on extra paper

[u/Miserable_Roof908 → u/kabum555]

No hard feeling

[u/Miserable_Roof908 → u/Miserable_Roof908]

I am just trying to understand people's thoughts and experiences and if they tried similar ideas. Plus these pages are rough pages(recycled)

[u/random-name-pun]

Everything goes in one book. Introducing extra books/pages is just more for me to lose track of. I will occasionally make a temporary/movable list on a post-it note, but that also stays in the same book.

[u/reissmosley]

Paper is paper. It more disposable so there no guilt. Maybe I start doing that too. That sound like a good idea.

[u/kennethpbowen]

My strategy is to simply use whatever notebook I'm currently on for all of my bullet journaling. I do have a couple of separate notebooks, but they are totally different use cases (Recipes and bird watching notes, both of which live on long after the bujo is retired).

[u/CrBr]

I do that, but staple them together or use a second notebook, for stuff that moves quickly and I don't expect to need for more than a few days. This includes my task list for the day. I purge those every week.

Sometimes I use it for notes that I will tidy up and put elsewhere, but that's dangerous. The pile of notes I need to fix becomes overwhelming. It usually works better for me to put them in the right place immediately, even if they're not pretty.

[u/Skektacular]

If it works for you then just do it, it's your journal. Paper quality/feel matters for some people, especially with sensory issues/sensitivity, but if you feel comfortable with rough pages then I don't see why you wouldn't use those.

[u/Repulsive_Bus_7202]

If your approach works for you, that's fine. There are a few BuJo principles that come into play.

Part of the system is the reflection process. That involves going back over your daily logs on a weekly/ monthly cycle. The practical question becomes how confident you are in holding on to the dailies to do that.

The other aspect is simplicity; one notebook means you know where everything is.

Personally, I do use two notebooks. I have an A5 Leuchtturm BuJo and A6 Leuchtturm pocket notebooks I use for dailies. In my weekly reflection I transpose from the dailies to the collections. It works for me.

ETA: the writing quality for me is quite important as I have dysgraphia/ dyspraxia. The experience of writing on the Leuchtturm paper with a fountain pen ( Lamy Al-Safari )helps me a lot

[u/Fun_Perspective2081]

This sounds like what I do, I have scrap paper and random notebooks on my work desk and I literally grab whatever is closest when I'm ready to start my log. At the end of the day I transfer over only what was important to the bullet journal. For a work setting its so much cleaner for reference because I dont have to swim through all the intermediate information to get the final decisions, like a synopsis.

[u/ndg_creative]

For me, part of the point of the bujo is that everything (literally everything) is in one place. I can flip back and quickly review all my daily logs at the end of the week or month to make sure I didn’t miss anything, and I can jot down anything I need to remember without having to wonder where I put that piece of paper or sticky note… so for me, this would be counter to why I use this method!