Shannon M. Thomas | Mostly Genealogy

Organization --  Top 2016 organization posts from orgjunkie.com More planner stuff --  The current issue of Paper Planning Magazine Evernote --  free Evernote templates What have you found interesting this week??

Bullet journaling is very popular right now.  You can find a lot of inspiration on Instagram and Pinterest; there are also Facebook groups for bullet journaling.  Bullet journaling has its own hashtag #bujo.  The concept of bullet journaling was started by Ryder Carroll; you can find more at  bulletjournal.com . My first weekly spread in my bullet journal This past week's daily pages. The genealogy community is getting on the bullet journaling bandwagon as well.  Here are some genealogists who are sharing their bullet journal experience: Dear Mytrle  -- she has a whole series on setting up her bullet journal Dear Myrtle's Wacky Wednesday -- What's Bullet Journaling Jennifer at the Occasional Genealogist  shares some genealogy collection ideas Mary at  Celebrating Family Stories  shares her genealogy bullet journal Youtube video of a webinar titled Bullet Journaling for Genealogy Another page of dailies and my favorite mug filled with some pens and

In my last post  I explained how I was using Evernote to plan my life.  After using it for about a month its not working!  I think the biggest reason it is not working for me is because I sit in front of a computer all day at work and most nights it was a chore to have to go to Evernote to see what was going on.  When I am at home I want to spend my limited computer time doing what I love and planning in Evernote was not it!  I'm a little disappointed because I thought I had found the perfect solution. Enter the Bullet Journal or #bujo!  I am super excited about this.  This is my current planning system. {I am not an artist so please excuse my sad drawings and not so wonderful handwriting} I am able to plan my days ahead and also as things happen that day.  I can be as creative as I want to...which is the biggest reason I love this system.  I have lists throughout my journal.  Everything is easy to find using the Index at the beginning of the journal.  This is so much mor