There are so many different places on the internet where you can go to find productivity app reviews. I mean with the hundreds upon hundreds of solutions that are available to us, it can be hard to keep track of what's best for you and what is the latest news when it comes to task apps and other things to help us get more done.
Well, when I am looking for the latest news and reviews when it comes to productivity apps, I only go to one place. That is the channel of Francesco D'Alessio.
Francesco has been reviewing productivity apps for nearly two years now and doing a fantastic job. Not only does he have in-depth tutorials of all of the applications that you see here and many, many more, but he keeps his content really fresh and up-to-date.
When a new release or a major new feature is introduced, Francesco is very quick to share that news with the rest of the world. Well, today I am very excited to have Francesco here on Simpletivity.
Recently, Francesco has been experimenting with the bullet journal, which actually is not a productivity app at all. In fact, it's probably the most traditional format of managing our to-dos and where we need to be.
So, I'm excited to hear about what Francesco found out with his experiment with the bullet journal. So without any further ado, take it away, Francesco.
Hey everyone from Simpletivity, thank you for letting me on this channel to share a few of my bullet journaling thoughts. Now, for those who don't know, bullet journaling is a technique used by a lot of people.
There are some amazing Instagrammers out there, and I'll share a few photos now of those Instagrammers that are sharing some amazing bullet journaling techniques. Some really beautiful illustrations and some really coordinated good uses of bullet journaling.
I was able to experience bullet journaling about three weeks ago. I started using the classic technique by Ryder Carroll, and I tried to really distill a basic experience of that.
I didn't get along brilliantly with it, so what I did is I started out with a bullet journal. I'll go get it.
So we started out with this bullet journal, and it's a great bullet journal. I started out with the pages, and really, the great qualities are fantastic.
The one thing that I experienced was that when I was setting up, I'll show a few things of me setting up, I did set up in the basic way. But I didn't quite get to grips with it because I'm so reliant on using Todoist as my task manager and also my calendar, which is Readle's 5.
I didn't quite enjoy the experience of doing it as much as I do with digital. Now, I did go all-in, and I did obviously put everything I did with tasks onto my bullet journal here.
But I didn't really have the same experience. There are a few things that I didn't enjoy about the bullet journaling.
So number one would be that it was sort of tough to keep up with it. Obviously, you have to scribble out when you've done and re-put it when you've done in my calendar.
Tasks are always changing, so I wasn't having much movability with some of the tasks inside the bullet journal. Number two, if you're someone like me that has really poor handwriting, then this is something that's quite difficult for you.
I had to write in capital letters on most of the content inside this bullet journal. That was tough for me because it made the bullet journal look less cool, like some of those Instagrammers out there.
Number three, a couple of concepts like the future log and things like that were quite hard for me to get my head around. I've been using task management apps and digital formats for quite a few years, so I've sort of been quite consistent with this.
Getting to know a new system was tough to understand, like every system is, but it was sort of a lot different from general productivity setups. The one thing I've learned from my bullet journaling experience is I won't be bullet journaling anymore.
I am now using this book to plan videos, plan content, and plan blogs and things like that, write ideas up. But I will be sort of using this very similar setup on my digital side because I do like the way it’s set up.
So I have transferred a few tips and tricks into my digital experience. But overall, I recommend bullet journaling for anyone that wants a digital-free experience, has an interest in using a notebook around the day, and has fun organizing their events as you go.
Anyway, guys, I hope you enjoyed this video. Please follow me on my channel.
Thank you very much, Scott, for having me on the channel, and I'm looking forward to sharing a few more videos with you here. See you guys very soon.
Please, in the comments, write about whether you are using bullet journaling across your day. See you guys very soon.
Cheers.
