Spent 45 minutes doodling a tracker for my water intake before realizing I could just flip to the next blank page

I was so determined to make this super elaborate habit tracker layout and got completely stuck on the color coding and icons, and then it hit me that the whole point of bullet journaling is to keep it quick and functional, so why do I keep overcomplicating the simplest stuff, has anyone else wasted a bunch of time on a spread that ended up being useless?

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drewr151mo ago

lol i spent an hour designing a "perfect" weekly spread with all these fancy trackers and then never even opened that page again. felt like i was doing arts and crafts instead of actually organizing my life.

logan5251mo ago

@drewr15 wait you never even opened it again? lmao that's brutal

max_brown1mo ago

Dude, hard disagree on this one. I actually love the arts and crafts part of it, that's the whole point for me. Sitting down with my pens and washi tape forces me to slow down and think about what I actually need to get done that week, like the act of drawing out the tracker for water drinking makes me remember to drink water. I've been doing it for like two years now and my spreads are a mess but I still use them every day, it's like the ugly ones work better than the pretty ones.