Bullet Journal Monthly Spread

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Bullet Journal Monthly Spread is where you store your tasks and appointments for the month. Ryder Carrol calls it the monthly log. It helps you see the list of the things to do that month, your events, and your available time.

This is also where you record your monthly mental inventory.

The Bullet Journal Monthly Log

The bullet journal monthly log is one of the core collections.  It is usually set up on a spread of two facing pages. On the left side, you have a calendar and on the right side, you have a list of tasks to do. The topic of the page is the name of that month.

However, the beauty of the bullet journal system is that you can adapt your spreads and your journal to your needs. If a calendar and task list are all you need then that’s great. If you want to include events, tasks, and notes then that works too. You can also include goals.

Calendar

On the monthly bullet journal calendar page, you have a list with the dates of the month. Next to the numbers, you will write the first letter of the corresponding day of the week (one letter per day). Remember to leave room on the left side so that you can add signifiers if needed. If you don’t remember the signifiers then please print our bullet journal key. When you add signifiers then you can easily scan the page to find important items without actually reading everything.

Write in each event that month next to the corresponding date. An event can be an appointment, a birthday, anniversary, or a trip out of town.

If you use our bullet journal templates then the dates will already be included. You can select a ready-made BuJo calendar with 28, 29 (for a leap year), 30 or 31 days. You then add the calendar to your page with one click instead of writing each number each month. Next to each day, you can write what you did that day. Ryder suggests that you keep your list as short as possible since it is supposed to be a monthly reference only. It will show you what you focused on that month.

Task List

The task list will either be on the same page or on the opposite page.

The task page will serve as your ongoing mental inventory page. Add all of the action items that you want to complete that month. You should also migrate tasks that are still open from the previous month to this month. Tasks get migrated from month to month until they are either complete or become irrelevant in which case they are discarded. Only include meaningful tasks. If a task becomes irrelevant, then erase it and don’t complete it.

How to Create a Bullet Journal Monthly Spread

This short video will explain, step by step, how to create a bullet journal monthly spread, and how to migrate unfinished tasks to the following month.

Migration

When you start your bullet journal, you will only add the current month. Let’s say you start in January, then you will add a monthly spread for January right after the future log. In February, you will create a new monthly log for February, and you will migrate unfinished tasks to February. You do not create a monthly log for each month in advance.