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My sister saw my bullet journal and asked if I was planning a heist
We were at my apartment in Denver last month and she picked it up off the coffee table. She flipped through my monthly log with all its symbols and rapid logging and just said, 'This looks like a blueprint for a bank job.' Honestly, it made me laugh but also think about how my system looks to someone new. How do you explain your bujo shorthand to people who have never seen one before?
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jason1122mo agoMost Upvoted
Honestly, the heist comparison is perfect. My weekly spread probably looks like a conspiracy board with all the arrows and weird symbols. Trying to explain it just makes it worse. You start pointing at a tiny star and saying "that means I paid the electric bill" and they just nod slowly while backing away. At this point I just tell people it's my brain's external hard drive and hope they drop it.
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jade_hernandez2mo ago
The "brain's external hard drive" line is good, but I'd argue the conspiracy board is more accurate. It's not just storage, it's the active crime scene.
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skyler_kim15d ago
the 17 bullet points on my board from last month alone prove that - it's more of a messy evidence wall than a neat hard drive, and the red string connecting "buy milk" to "call mom" is pure detective work.
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