Peace of Mind Organizing

The spreads that start my Bullet Journals

5 February 2025

This is the second of a short series of posts about my Bullet Journaling practice. Here’s the first, My go-to Bullet Journal supplies. It’s a pretty in-depth look at the supplies that support my Bullet Journaling habit.

I just started a new Bullet Journal two days ago because I filled up the last one. I’m in the process of creating the spreads that I use at the beginning of each journal. After a couple of evenings’ efforts, I’m almost finished. These are the spreads I always start a journal with:

• Index
• Futurelog: Four pages of the next 12 months of the year, where I jot upcoming deadlines and trips
• My word of the year
• My goals for the current year
• Peace of Mind Organizing’s rates
• Peace of Mind Spending’s rates
• Blog post ideas (for all three blogs)
• A checklist grid for my end of the week routine (There’s a photo of it in this blog post.)
• TV shows to watch (it’s so hard to remember them all!)
• The habits and highlights tracker for the current month

The index is an essential component of my Bullet Journal. The journal I buy, the Scribbles That Matter B5 Dotted Journal Pro comes with four pre-printed pages for an index. It allows me to easily find notable spreads or notes from conversations I think I want to be able to easily access. I’ve found that it can be hard to keep the index updated on the fly, so I’ve created a habit of updating it as part of my end-of-the-week routine.

The Futurelog is a handy place to jot down date-driven things that would clutter up my calendar, like the date a subscription renews so I can decide whether to cancel it. I include the current and the upcoming 11 months, with three months per page. I play around with the format, but this is the one I’m currently using. (I used the same format in the last journal.)

The habits and highlights tracker is a great way for me to keep track of the habits I’m trying to create. It’s very motivating and keeps the habits top of mind. I also use it to jot down highlights, which can be helpful when I’m trying to easily find out when something happened. Here’s a photo of the current one. I’ve been using this format since the beginning, but you can see an earlier iteration of both the habits and highlights tracker and the Futurelog in this 2022 blog post, My love for my Bullet Journal.

These spreads keep on track and make it easy to find the things I reference frequently. I hope you enjoyed this peek into the front of my Bullet Journal. Next time, I’ll post about the spreads I repeat throughout the journal.

Tagged with: 2025 bujo series, bullet journal, productivity, task management

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