Finally got back into bullet journaling after years away

I used to keep a super detailed bullet journal back in 2016. Every day had a full spread with trackers for water, sleep, mood, the whole deal. But somewhere around 2019 I just stopped doing it. It felt like too much work keeping up with all those boxes. Last month I started again but way simpler. Now I just do a daily log with 3 tasks max and a small note section. No fancy trackers or color coding. My old journal had 12 different pens and now I just use one black Pilot G2. Funny how I went from wanting it perfect to just needing it to work. Has anyone else found that doing less makes them stick with it longer?

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derek_dixon781mo ago

Weren't you worried at first that scaling back would make the journaling feel less meaningful or something...

wade7671mo ago

Wait, you're telling me you actually thought it might feel LESS meaningful?! Haha man that's wild to me. I was doing 10 pages a day for like 3 years straight and it just turned into noise, ya know? Like I was writing just to write. Now I do maybe 3-4 sentences most days and honestly it's way more real. Last week I just wrote "still can't believe I ate that whole pizza" and that one line meant more than 50 pages of rambling about nothing.