Bullet Journal Page Ideas For Work
You already know that there are Bullet Journal page ideas to organize pretty much any area of your life, including your work.
In this post, you’ll learn how to set up and use your Bullet Journal for work. Plus, I’ll give you several Bullet Journal page ideas for work, so you can build yourself the best tool to help you with any work things.
Recommending Bullet Journal for work can be a bit tricky since we all have very different jobs with different needs.
So take these recommendations and ideas as a starting point, and you can use these to move your creativity and make pages that work exactly for your life and your work.
I know if you give it a try, it can make a huge impact on your work days and productivity.
So let’s dive in!
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Can I Use Bullet Journal For Work
This is the first thing you’d ask, and the answer is, of course, you can!
And there are so many benefits of actually creating Bullet Journal page ideas for work:
- Get organized and increase your efficiency. You never want to get overwhelmed or distracted and mess up at work because you’re not organized. A Bullet Journal can help you with that.
- Remember ALL the things. Forgetting some tasks and responsibilities is not something you can afford at work. But keeping it all in your head can be way too overwhelming. Your Bullet Journal will be your second brain to keep all that information.
- Everything is documented. Your Bullet Journal can be a fun way to keep everything in one place and document everything. This can come with a lot of advantages for your work.
Should You Create A Separate Bullet Journal For Work
The next question I see people ask is if you should use your usual Bullet Journal for work or create a new one.
And this really depends on you and how you use your Bullet Journal.
As somebody who owns my own business and work from home – I kind of mix things up and mostly use just one journal. Owning your own business means that you’re probably always working, so I don’t feel like I need a lot of division.
But I feel like if I worked in a corporate job, I’d want to have things divided so that on the weekend, I could forget all about my work and just deal with personal things.
Also, it might be distracting to have your personal planning at work. You don’t want to open your journal to take meeting notes and end up thinking through how you’ll schedule your weekend around your kid’s basketball game.
Ultimately, I’d recommend trying both and seeing what works best for you. Just make sure you have the pages that help you and that you use them.
How To Start A Bullet Journal For Work
If you decide to start a separate journal, you set it up exactly like your usual journal, with pretty much the same pages.
The trick here is just to customize them to be work-related. Here is how you do it.
Key And Index
These are some of the basic pages, and they play pretty much the same role for your work Bullet Journal.
Just add some special work-related symbols, like a symbol for a meeting or a deadline.
You’ll definitely need to have a Bullet Journal index to make sure that you have an easy way to find any possible information inside your journal.
Future Log
The Bullet Journal future log is perfect for planning your future and for your work; you can use it to add any deadlines, future meeting plans, professional conferences, and such.
It’s also really useful if you travel for work a lot – you can add all the information here.
Monthly Log
Bullet Journal monthly log is a perfect place to create an overview of your month.
For your work Bullet Journal try adding deadlines, monthly goals, team meetings, and some more work-related events and tasks.
Weekly / Daily Log
Bullet Journal weekly log (or daily Bullet Journal spread) is the place to plan your day-to-day things.
It’s pretty much the same as you’d use in your personal Bullet Journal; you just fill it out with more work-related things and probably fewer other elements, like trackers or daily doodles and such.
And just like that, you have a complete Bullet Journal setup, but with more work-related content. To learn more, you can check my Beginner’s Guide To Set Up Your Bullet Journal. Many pages are the same; you just have to switch focus to your work-related things.
Of course there are some more specific pages, so let’s look into that.
Bullet Journal Page Ideas For Work
Let's get specific! Here are some exact pages you can use for work.
Some of these might be pages generally for productivity, but of course, you do need to make sure you're being organized and productive when it comes to your work.
Starting strong with a brain dump. This is an amazing tool to feel less overwhelmed, and it can be pretty useful, especially if your work is full of stress.
This is a great way to start working on your projects - offload everything in your brain dump and then start planning how you're going to complete it all.
Click "read more" to learn more about using a brain dump.
It can be a very important page if you use a page like this one to make sure you stay on track with your work schedule, especially if you work random hours.
Color coding is definitely one of the best ways to organize it. Colors are a visual way to organize information, and it's the best way for your brain to sort it out.
Well, this is more like something to add to your existing weekly spread rather than a separate page idea.
Planning your time at work hour by hour is very useful, so you get a better idea of how long it takes you to do things and how you actually spend your time at work. Maybe you'll see that some things can be delegated, so you free up time for more important responsibilities.
I had to add a generic name to this spread because it actually has so much information in it.
Meetings, tasks, and general notes. I also really like the fact that there is this area with the project's progress bar. I'm always up for some visual representation of things.
This is another way to stay productive with your Bullet Journal. It basically helps you to work on tasks in a more concentrated way, without any distractions. So eventually, you complete your projects faster and with better quality.
In two words, this is how it works: you do one pomodoro (25 min intervals) of concentrated work, then take 5 min off. After several pomodoro you can take a longer break, like 15 minutes.
This tracker will help you evaluate how much work you did and how productive was your work day.
This is a fantastic way to organize your projects. Use little sticky notes to see how your projects are moving along.
It's a great way to visually represent how far along you are with your projects and what else you need to create.
Regarding project management, I recommend you check the guest post from Mark (@menwhobullet). He uses his journal for work so he's a pro when it comes to work Bullet Journal page recommendations.
Click "read more" to see some other pages and ways he recommends using your journal for project management.
Next time you set up for your month, try adding this page.
It's a way to organize all your projects for the month and see an overview of all the work ahead of you.
A mind map is a great way to brainstorm ideas and plan out projects. It can also be a fun visual representation of duties for everyone on your team.
Be sure to click "read more" to learn more about this technique and how it can help you, both in work and in your personal life.
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Are you planning to add these to your everyday Bullet Journal or start a whole new journal just for work?
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