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Stop numbering your monthly logs in roman numerals. Here's why it's messing up your indexing.
I've been bullet journaling for about 4 years now and I kept seeing people do roman numerals for their month spreads. Looked cool so I tried it. January was I, February was II, etc. Then October hit and I wrote X without thinking. Problem is, when I went to flip back to find something from June (which is VI by the way), I spent 10 minutes hunting because my brain doesn't process roman numerals fast when I'm in a hurry. The index was a mess. I had to redo 3 months of entries because I couldn't find anything. Switched back to normal numbers last week and my setup time dropped from 5 minutes to maybe 30 seconds. Has anyone else run into this or am I the only one who got fancy and regretted it?
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ray6488d ago
Did you try using that little key at the front of your notebook where you map out the roman numerals? I did the same thing with roman numerals last year but I went all the way to December and by then I had to keep a cheat sheet taped to the inside cover because I kept mixing up IX and XI when flipping back. My girlfriend asked me why I had a "NFL playbook" in my journal, she thought I was secretly planning a football season. Switched back to regular numbers in April, no regrets.
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iris_stone288d ago
Did you ever try assigning each month a single color in your key? I did that after week three of flipping pages and guessing wrong, and it saved my sanity. Honestly, the NFL playbook comment is the funniest thing I've heard all week, glad you switched to normal numbers.
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