Minimalist Journaling & Self-Improvement Tracking (For People Who Aren’t Good At That Kind Of Thing)

Do you like the idea of journaling, but have trouble doing it? Are you in awe of the beautiful notebook pages you see online, but barely have time to scribble out a grocery list? Do you get overwhelmed by the idea of habit tracking?

Me too! That’s why I spent several years developing a journaling/tracking system that is fun, easy, and effective. It’s based on two principles.

Basic Principles

1. Quick And Simple. To me, any system (ahem, Bullet Journaling) that requires detailed instructions is too complex. I want it to be immediately obvious how this works. No codes, no complexity, and NO rewriting of anything. Sorry, BuJo evangelists, but I have better things to do than copy lists over and over.
2. Meaningful. Notebooks are nice. And expensive. I don’t want to fill them up with my daily chore lists and charts of how many times I went to the bathroom. I want a journal that I can look back on for a snapshot of my life at a particular time. I want to be able to recall what I was doing and feeling, and to gauge whether I’ve made any progress towards becoming a better human being.

In addition to these main principles, I have a couple of other design parameters.