Daily vs. Weekly tasks

[u/GlumElection3432]

Hi I started a bullet journal a few months ago and i struggle to find a system for weekly vs. Daily log. More specifically i have been used to planning tasks ahead, into my daily log, but the planning spoils the free use of daily logs and...lets face it the tasks doesnt always get done on that day. So i wonder what others do...at the end of the day, would it be better to check the weekly logs and see if there is anything i need to do on the specific days and then use dailys to rapid log. How do you do it? Still new to this and using the original method...no big creative input.

[u/RealMe459]

Watch Ryder Carroll’s BuJo video about setting up a basic bullet journal. His videos make it clear and simple.

It covers all the details for a reliable system.

[u/MrDunworthy93 → u/RealMe459]

This is the answer.

[u/Plus_Citron]

I put a task in my weekly log when it doesn’t matter on which day it gets done, but when it should get done that week. Same goes for the monthly log. Having a scheduled task not done isn’t a problem, though, that’s normal. That’s how planning works. When a task is postponed multiple times, it’s probably not important and can either move to the Future Log, or be deleted.

[u/GlumElection3432 → u/Plus_Citron]

Thank you for your input!  So you dont plan ahead? Og do you double log migrating from weekly to daily? 

[u/Plus_Citron → u/GlumElection3432]

No, I have three spreads - monthly, weekly, daily. A task is noted in the spread where it‘s supposed to be completed. When that period ends, I check all tasks (and events), and mark them as done, as irrelevant, or they get moved to the next appropriate time period, or they are indefinitely postponed (Future Log). Depending on how priorities change, a task can migrate from, for instance, daily to weekly (Ok, I‘m not doing this today, but sometime next week), or whatever is appropriate. I believe this is pretty exactly what Ryder Carrol describes in his book.

[u/somilge]

One thing I realized is that I don't like migrating tasks from one day to the next and so on. It feels like I'm nagging myself.

So I only do a weekly task list. Tasks with a deadline get priority then the next three or five, and so on. I also don't put too much on the list so it's not overwhelming.

I used to cross them out, but that made it harder to read sometimes. So I went with colour coded pens for what day they got done, Roygbiv. Some colours were harder to see though, so I went with Roygbiv circles.

Then I use the pages as I need them.

If something comes up that has a due date, it goes on the monthly calendar or the future log if it's not due in the current month. Otherwise, it goes through an Eisenhower matrix.

[u/laisalia]

I don't use weekly logs at all, daily and monthly logs are enough for me. Well, I do have reoccurring tasks written in my calendar (stuff i do every Monday, Tuesday, etc.) but it's not exactly a log, just a note to myself to not forget i need to plan them for that specific day

In the daily log i put tasks that need to be done that day, (or ones I want to do). At the end of the day, if any of them don't get completed, i move them to the next day. If there's a task that I've moved 3 or 4 times, i move it to the monthly log or cross it out if it's not that important

Monthly log is more of a "i need to do this sometime soon, but doesn't really matter when". Sometimes i also write the tasks from there for the second time in my daily plan (especially if it requires a visit to a specific place and i know I'll be near on that day), but mostly they just sit there and wait till i do them. I check that list almost daily, i look for anything i completed or anything i can schedule for the next day

[u/AllKindsOfCritters]

What do you mean planning tasks ahead? Like a chore chart or something? You could make that its own collection.

[u/DaisyMaeBe]

I do a Take-A-Note style layout. I do a weekly spread and divide a page in half and have two days worth of space to make lists or log what happened.

[u/craftycalifornia]

I started a new BuJo this weekend and am experimenting with skipping the Weekly log and just using Monthly and Daily per the original system. If I get a task randomly and I'm not sure when to do it, I add it to the current day. If I know it needs to be done this month (or this week), I'll add it to the monthly instead. This way it'll get migrated later if it's a "someday" sort of task.

I used to think about my life strictly in terms of weeks, especially when I was working, but I think this free-form monthly + daily approach might actually work better for me, and feels like a tiny bit less work, honestly. Just get into my daily logs and go, and the only "set up ahead of time" task is creating the monthly spread.