(pencil writing)
(Pokemon Game Boy sound)
I love this so much.
I finally have my hands on it.
I love it so much. (laughs)
So here is a video that a portion of you
have been waiting for, not all of you.
Not all of you are going to care about this.
But, ahh!
The bullet journals.
I... have a lot.
I have five of them, and all serve a purpose.
There are a lot of things going on in my life right now,
a lot of different projects,
and you gotta organise those,
because I am terrible at organising.
There are so many things in my brain,
so many things that I want to do,
and it's very difficult to do all of them
if you don't have a place to see it, and organise it.
So, this is not like a step-by-step,
extremely in-depth video about how I actually organise,
because even I don't know how to do that quite yet.
Because I'm still trying to find a real system
that works for me.
But, to put it very simply, I at least use the bullet journal system.
Now, I have a lot of planners.
I've gone through the Erin Condren,
which was fine, it was cute, but it was too much money
because all I wanted to do was buy stickers
and decorate them, which just ruined,
it just defeated the purpose of having it.
So I was spending way too much on stickers and I couldn't deal with that.
So then I saw this, I saw a video about the bullet journal.
These add up, but these work for me.
Now, besides these I do have another planner,
a planner from Ruskerville on Etsy,
which I don't have with me right now.
But it is like an everyday kind of
business-y planner or something
that you would find at the store, but it's handmade
because it's from Etsy, and I actually use those.
I use that one for actual events,
like if I'm travelling somewhere and there's a big event,
and there's a lot of stuff happening in the day,
then I would use that because it has
an actual hourly timetable thing.
So, that's for like really professional kind of stuff,
when I really need to get stuff in order.
This, depending on the one I'm pulling out,
yes, it is for that, but this is more like,
I don't know.
Let's just talk about why I have all of these.
So this is the first one that I got,
and it's a black one because I love black.
This was my 2016, starting in like September,
I think was when I started this.
This was my 2016 planner,
this was going to also originally be, this was.
This one also had stuff from Buffer Festival,
when I was planning for that.
YouTube... planning stuff.
I was trying to make a list for Ai-Media,
the different videos I would do for them.
If you go on Youtube, lots of people have
very artistic abilities. I, however, do not.
Toronto itinerary.
I attempted to be artistic by drawing a cat
for my weekly spread.
Yeah, I had YouTube ideas, I had a YouTube list.
So, it just had everything piled up in this,
and that's when I learned,
well, I always knew this, but the reason why I have so many of these
is because I cannot have everything in one notebook.
I have to have everything in its own separate book.
I just, that's why I collected so many notebooks as a kid.
So, that still sticks with me in my adult years.
But I just, I can't, ugh.
So, this was everything, this was YouTube stuff,
articles for my own personal use or whatever,
that kind of stuff.
And as you may or may not know,
I work at DTV News, which is the All-American Sign Language
Voiceover Caption da-da-da news station.
Link down below.
To keep track of the reports that we do,
whether it be the daily news or our special reports,
I keep track of it in here.
And since our news station colour is like a dark blue,
I bought this just to match that.
So really all this has is I have the monthly calendar
that I can keep track of the days that I have off.
Which, it's a news station, so we air Monday through Friday.
But I take Friday and Saturday off,
so I make sure I have that plus if there's any other
random days I take off, in case I'm travelling,
or if my anchor is out, then I have that.
Usually we do, there's a lot of different writers,
and on average I do three stories a day.
Sometimes more, depending.
And yeah, this one's pretty simple.
I would be happy with this one for a long time.
And then I wanted something just for YouTube planning,
having a list of video ideas and if it was a big video,
then I would have everything outlined.
Not necessarily scripted, I keep that on Google Docs,
but for instance, I'm planning VEDA,
Vlog Every Day in April, so I have the questions right here.
It's not finished.
I'm working on an Alexander Graham Bell video,
which is a lot, there's a lot of notes in here.
So, that is there.
And then I, for example.
So each header,
each colorful header is like, not necessarily the title,
but the main thing about what the video is.
Here's my video list,
and then like that birth control video I did,
I kind of outlined what I wanted to talk about
and in what order.
So I didn't want to have it scripted,
to avoid sounding robotic in the video,
but at least didn't want to go completely off track.
So there's that.
And then I have the emerald one.
Honestly, I wanted this because of the colour.
Because I am that person.
But, book writing, book writing.
I'm writing a book.
Hmm, no, I don't have a book deal,
so this is for fun, because I used to write a ton growing up
and I wanted to get back into it.
So why not do a book?
So I have my title page and all that,
that's actually, what is that? Oh, this is my title page
and it's completely empty... What?
I don't know.
But then I have the main info for my book,
and then a brain dump, so anything I think about.
People do this in their personal bullet journals too,
but anything I think about that doesn't fit
in a certain page, I would just stick it in there. I haven't written anything.
Chapter ideas, and an actual outline,
and then for each chapter that I have,
there's little notes that I write in here.
So like the introduction that I would write for the book,
and then talking about, it's a deaf-related book, okay?
So say my diagnosis, I make a chapter on diagnosis,
and then I write what I want to write in that chapter. And it just.
Identity, dating, that all has their own little chapters there.
And then, the white one.
My brand new one that I bought like a week ago.
2017.
I have a lot of leftover pages in this one,
like I've only hit like 50 pages,
but like I said, I'm that person.
I need to start fresh for the new year, I just do.
But I'm still going to use this,
for if I have colored pencils,
I have colored pencils that I use now because I hate
using pens in this, besides just writing
but for drawing, coloring, decorating... uh, colored pencils please.
So I test out the colors in here,
any layouts that I want to do, instead of constantly doing it in pencil,
I practise it in this.
So it's kind of like a backup to this.
Let me say, you'd think these five would be the end, right?
Nope, because Indigo/Chapters had a Boxing sale,
a 40 percent off, 40 percent off their Leuchtturms,
and I didn't buy any. I wanted to.
But I wanted one for the writing website
that I'm about to launch, maybe.
And one for actual public speaking, but I didn't.
It's not gonna happen yet, it's not gonna happen.
I'm gonna wait.
I really like these. Now, if you know what these are,
then you know that these are actually
kind of really expensive.
Canadian dollars, they're 24, in the U.S.
they kind of depend on where you get them.
Amazon goes anywhere from 15 to frickin' 30, 40 dollars.
But then there's websites, on average,
that sell them for... 16 to 20 bucks.
So they're very expensive. I love the paper.
The pens that I use go great with this.
It's dotted, which is great, I'm a dotted girl.
Some people like grid, I like dot.
It's a good quality notebook.
And it has little bookmarks and stuff.
So that's how I tend to try to organise my life right now,
by having a bullet journal system
and using one journal per whatever it is.
News, YouTube, my own writing gig on my own time.
If you want me to make a Plan with Me,
it's not gonna happen, this isn't gonna be
a Plan with Me channel, because I suck at that.
But there are plenty of other YouTubers
who are bullet journal YouTubers,
who are completely artistic and awesome,
and are much better at things than I am.
So if you bullet journal, let me know.
Let's fangirl, fanguy, fan person together.
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