Index, future log, monthly and daily logs, and collections - the bullet journal method made digital and searchable. Free template in Skrib.
The Plan is for fast logging. This is for the longer thoughts. Copy the entry block below for each new day or week, newest at the top.
What happened:
What I worked on, and how it went:
What I noticed:
Tomorrow:
What moved forward:
What stalled, and why:
Words written this month:
Books finished:
Next month, I want to:
Bullet journalling is really two things stacked on top of each other: a system for capturing your life in short lines, and a craft hobby involving dot grids and coloured pens. If you’re here for the second, you want paper and this isn’t for you. If you’re here because rapid logging is the only organisational system that ever stuck and you’ve lost three notebooks, this is that system, digital, searchable, and sitting next to your writing.
The core method, plus collections built for people who write.
• Index: The living contents page, updated as you add - except it’s searchable, which is the one thing paper can’t do.
• Future Log: The next six to twelve months, for things that aren’t this month’s problem yet.
• Monthly Log: The month’s tasks and events on one card.
• Daily Log: Rapid logging for today - short lines, captured fast.
• Signifiers Key: Tasks, events and notes, with completed, migrated and scheduled states.
• Migration Review: The monthly pass where you decide what still matters. The habit that makes the method work.
• Collections: Any list worth keeping - running, editable, never out of pages.
• Word Count Log: Daily and cumulative, across projects.
• Project Log: What you’re working on, what state it’s in, what’s next.
• Idea Bank: The fragments, half-lines and premises you’ll want in eight months.
• Reading Log: What you read, when, and what you took from it.
• Submission Tracker: Where it went, when, and what came back.
• Searchable: Find the note you made in March without turning pages. This is the whole argument for going digital.
• Never Runs Out: No page limit, no new notebook, no losing continuity in January.
• Migration Without Rewriting: Move a task forward by dragging the card, not by copying it out again.
• It Carries Across Years: Everything stays in your Library. Last year’s logs are one search away.
• Beside Your Writing: The word count log lives in the same studio as the manuscript it’s counting.
• Yours Alone: No scraping, no selling, no AI trained on anything you write here.
• Writers tracking word counts, projects, submissions and reading.
• People Who Love the Method, Not the Stationery and want the system without the craft project.
• Anyone Who Has Lost a Notebook and doesn’t want to start over again.
• Students running coursework, deadlines and reading in one place.
• Long-Project People whose work is measured in months and needs a record.
Drop the template on your Board, log what’s actually in your head, and let the index build itself.
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