Plan With Me: 2025 Bullet Journal Setup
As the new year starts, it’s time to share my yearly setup and a Bullet Journal theme that I chose to start my journal with. So, if you’re on the lookout for some inspiration for your yearly Bullet Journal setup, I’ve got you covered!
This setup is all about keeping it simple but still colorful. I also put extra emphasis on my goal-setting and building a vision for the upcoming year. So, if this is also something you’re looking for, you might get some fun ideas from this post.
So grab your journal and your pens, and let’s dive in together in my setup and see if it can inspire you to create something special in your journal.
It’s been a while for me since I did a proper Bullet Journal setup. For the last few years, my journaling has been more about daily notes and lists. There was nothing creative in it, and the pages weren’t even properly organized or structured. So, going back to spending time with my journal and setting up the pages is very exciting.
Yes, even people who have been journaling for a long time need a break sometimes, but in the end, I realized how much I missed it and how much worse my organization skills got, so here I am coming back to it. I’m finally out of my fight-or-flight regime and ready to invest in my well-being, and Bullet Journaling is definitely a very important part of it.
There is no shame in stopping journaling for a while or doing something else. Your life is fluid, so your planning should be as well, and things happen. So, if you’ve ever felt negative because you dropped your Bullet Journaling practice – don’t. You can always come back to it any time.
So, let’s dive into the pages I chose for my return to full-on creating Bullet Journaling. But first, let’s make a little list of the supplies.
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Stationery Used
In the past few years, I moved to a different continent and then to a different city, so I must sadly say that I don’t really have most of my stationery collection. A lot of it was given away to my friends or others who enjoy journaling.
When you need to pack your entire life in two suitcases, you have to make some cuts.
Now I’m finally settling down, I have my stationery organised and I’m learning t o work with less.
So here is what I used for my 2025 Bullet Journal setup:
- Nuuna journal. I know they don’t have the thickest paper, but I realized I really missed the smaller dot grid and slightly bigger pages. Also my last Nuuna journal also lasted me for a year and a half, so I’m pretty excited about that.
- Sakura Pigma Micron and Unipin fineliners. I literally have 5 fineliners in my collection right now, 4 of which are 03 size and one is 003. And that’s what I used. 03 is my favorite size for pretty much everything, and I used 003 for smaller details and things I didn’t want to stand out.
- Zebra Mildliners and Tombow Dual Brush pens. Most of the colors you see are Zebra Mildliners, but I have a few Tombow brush pens in light grey and teal that I also used.
- Tombow Fudenosuke – this is my only black brush pen, and this time, I used it just to color elements that have a lot of black in it.
I definitely wish I had my Helix circle maker or white Sakura Gelly Roll pens, but that is something I have on my to-buy list now.
All these supplies and a ruler is all I used for this setup.
Let’s dive in and look at the pages I created, starting with some yearly spreads.
2025 Bullet Journal Setup
This setup was all about going back to Bullet Journaling in a creative and organized way. But I also tried to listen to myself.
If I created something in pencil that was too much and I felt overwhelmed by – it was absolutely erased. The goal was to be creative but within my current limits. I didn’t want to have any pages sitting there judging me for not finishing them.
After all, the whole idea is to have a functional journey that helps me be creative when I want to and not overwhelming me with all the drawing tasks.
Welcome Page
We’re starting with a welcome page, and this took me a while to create. I felt like I needed to do something spectacular.
After a few days of sitting with it, I realized that what I needed was to do something, anything, just to get started with the journal. So I left all the spectacular ideas behind and just added a few words and, most importantly, a date for when this journal was started.
Always remember that your journal has your rules, so if you want to be lazy like me – go for it!
Master List
This layout was mainly created as a list of my goals and aspirations for 2025. But by the time I got to use pen and markers, I had already changed the way I set goals for the year, so I had to modify the meaning behind this.
Instead, I’ll be using it as a brain dump for some things that I want to do this year, maybe as a bucket list. Mis up social events with travel and business goals. But make it casual, not strict, goals that I definitely want to achieve.
So this is going to be like a wish list and a little inception for my mind, so at the back of it, I can pay more attention to the things that can help me make the year special.
About Me Page
If you know me, you know that I always start a new journey with an about me page. It’s like a way for me to record what version of myself I was when I started this journal.
It’s also a little bit of a review of my past year, but more in a fun, creative way rather than anything goals-oriented.
The About Me, page is one of my favorite layouts to create, and if you want to learn more about it, be sure to check the end of the post for a link to a detailed guide on how to make one and why you might want to include it in your Bullet Journal.
Yearly Review
A yearly review is usually a page I include in a previous journal, but this time, it is a bit different since my previous journal was a total mess and eventually turned into my business notes notebook.
Doing a yearly review is very important; I would say this is a first step when trying to set goals for the upcoming year. So, I decided to add this page to the beginning of this journal instead.
I wanted to share it before pen since it will be full of a lot of personal information. Basically, I divided everything into categories, and for each category, I’d write what went well, what didn’t, and what things I learned and will do differently.
There is also a blank section there for the highlights of the year and the thing that brought me the most joy.
Future Vision And Goals
There are two more pages that are not here since they are very, very personal, but I wanted to mention them anyway.
First of all is my future vision. Usually, I’d make a vision board, but this time, I decided to do a vision board digitally and put it as a wallpaper on one of my screens so I could see it every day.
What I did in my journal instead was a letter from my future self describing how my 2025 went and what the things I achieved were. I wrote the same letter in 2020, and it actually worked out fantastically, so I’m bringing this practice back.
The second page is my goals. I chose to have goals in 4 different areas of my life, and for each area, I wrote the goal, why I want it, what might be standing in my way of achieving it, and how I plan to overcome it.
Word Of The Year
Another powerful practice to help set you on the right path in the upcoming year is to set a word of the year.
It helps you set the mood for the year and reminds you every day what it is you’re working towards. Usually, I tend to add the words as well as a bit of text on what exactly it means to me.
This year, my word is alignment. I achieved a lot of my life goals in the last few years, and now my purpose is to build on top of this base something that aligns with my true self and values. To finally start building the quality of life I want and jump out of the survival mode.
Future Log
I love future log pages; nothing helps me get a better view of my year than a future log!
Since my Nuuna is a larger-sized journal with a smaller dot grid, in just two pages, I can fit the entire year and have plenty of space to add many things happening.
For now it’s just January so I mostly just have birthdays, but I’m hoping to start filling it out with more fun events and such as the year goes.
I love to go the extra mile with my future log and always add mini calendars and such. But that does take a lot of time.
So if you don’t feel like doing that – just add the month’s name, and you’re good to go. Or you can use something like calendar stamps.
And that’s it for my yearly pages; now let’s have a quick look at a few pages I’ve created for January.
January Bullet Journal Setup
Since January is the first theme of the month, I really wanted to do something special for myself, and since I haven’t been practicing my creative muscles, it took me forever to pick something.
Eventually, I ended up going with a Dungeons and Dragons theme. This roleplaying game is one of my favorite hobbies, and I’m so blessed to have found an amazing group of people to play with.
Since right now, it’s the thing that brings me the most joy, I decided it would be a good idea for the monthly theme. Plus, you can go pretty basic with it, or extra creative, depending on how I feel.
Cover Page
My monthly setup took place on December 31st, so I was really in a hurry to get it done, so I opted to go with a more basic approach.
A D20 dicer is the most commonly used in DnD, and it will be the main character for the entire setup.
I also added fire flames as a joke reference for one of the spells in the game. There will be a few game references here simply because they always make me smile, and this is what I want to do every time I open my journal.
Monthly Log
For the Fort monthly log, I went with my favorite calendar form and left half a page for anything else I might need to add.
My main idea was to create a big to-do list for the month, but I have a feeling that it’s a bit too much space, so I might leave it blank or maybe fill it out with some doodles later.
Ever since 2020 or 2021, I’ve been planning in Archer and Olive journals with the usual sized grid, so switching back to Nuuna is an adjustment, and I keep forgetting how much space each page actually has.
Monthly Trackers
I wanted to go back to tracking things on paper, and this time, I remembered that you could actually fit all the trackers on one page and still have plenty of space left.
After adding a DnD meme at the top, I still had plenty of space for my habit tracker and mood tracker.
And even so, I still had plenty of space left at the bottom, so I added a little section with brainstorming on what I wanted my morning and evening routine to look like.
These are not the final ideas; I’m just brainstorming how I want to do it. Building new routines takes time, and I try to come up with the ones that fit what I want to do but also gently guide me there and not radically change my current routines in just one day because that is surely unsustainable.
For my monthly pages, this is practically it.
Weekly Spreads
Because I can’t do things on time, I’m writing this post the second week of January, which means that I already have two weekly spreads done to share with you.
I don’t pre-plan my weekly spreads for the entire month and prefer to spend Sunday afternoons instead of setting up the new week. Mostly because I never know what mood I’ll be in and what kind of weekly spread I’ll want.
For the first two weeks of January, I went with one-page weekly spreads.
It all started with the first weekly; because it was not the entire week, I felt like one page would be enough, especially since, with the holiday mood, probably not much would be done that week anyway.
It also reminded me how much I can fit on one page in my Nuuna, so I decided to do the same one page weekly for my second week.
I ended up catching a cold, and I’m, writing this blog post while covered in several blankets and with tissues by my side. So I’m not sure how much will be done this week.
Either way, I think it will remind me how much space I need for things and what other things I need in my weekly layout. For now, all I need is daily boxes and a weekly to-do list.
And there you have it. Here is my complete, last-minute 2025 Bullet Journal setup.
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More Resources
Are you looking for more inspiration for page ideas for your Bullet Journal setup? Well, you’re in luck because I have plenty of those on this blog.
Check out these posts next:
- About Me Page In Your Bullet Journal And Why You Need One
- 15 Inspiring Yearly Bullet Journal Pages
- 200+ Bullet Journal Themes For Every Month On The Year
>>> What did you include in your yearly Bullet Journal setup? Share with us in the comments!
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