It's a soft white color makes it easy on the eyes for extended journaling. The composition of the new paper drastically reduces ghosting, and texture is smooth with just enough tooth to make writing a real a pleasure.

It supports a core BuJo philosophy: Memento mori or "remember death." Remembering that all things will become the past, can help us pay closer to attention to the present. Color is as gentle reminder as I could think of to make the most out of every day.

PLANNERS & DIARIES

Generated in an intensive exchange with the international BuJo community, LEUCHTTURM1917 has designed new features and extras that make self-organisation even more individual and creative. The result of this cooperation is the new Bullet Journal® – Edition 2. Since BuJo is a very self-directed practice, the biggest challenge designing the Bullet Journal notebooks was balancing structure with flexibility. I tried to design features so that they'd appear when they're needed and disappear when they're not. Many features in Edition 2 are so subtle that they're easily missed. I needed a way to both draw attention to them, and explain how they're used. Many of these features are also easily understood, so permanently taking up valuable real estate inside the notebook with instructions didn't make sense. If you're none of the above, when left blank, the white space outside the grid helps to neatly frame the content inside the grid, and make it pop.

The name of each month for your monthly logs, printed in metallic foil, because every new month is a milestone worth celebrating. I kept the dimensions the same because I wanted Edition 2 to sit well on the shelf with Edition 1. Cultivating a neat library of Bullet Journal notebooks is a wonderful bonus of this practice. It comes with a little guide for those who want to discover Bullet Journaling for the first time but also features additional inspiration for advanced journal-keepers. I write a lot about the Why behind the What. The Why > What > How framework is how I approach pretty much everything I work on, from my writing, to my tutorials, to the products I design. I thought it may be fun to explore how this purpose-driven approach informed the design of Edition 2 of the Bullet Journal notebook. I've not covered every feature, just the ones that are new or updated in Edition 2. With that said, allow me to geek out: BellybandLast but not least, the paper is also F.S.C certified, which means that it's sustainably sourced. This is a really big deal for me as I continue to look for ways to make Bullet Journal as a company intentional. More on that in another article. For the more artistic among us, its 120 GSM weight and composition makes the paper much more art/color friendly than to 80 GSM in Edition 1, while not being as rigid or heavy as an art journal. I opted to wrap the instructions around the notebook using the bellyband. This also allowed some instructions to sit directly on the features they describe, like the Grid Guide. The remaining panels were used to provide additional Bullet Journal resources. A happy home is built on love, and a lot of love went into designing Edition 2. I hope it serves you well. If you don't need the guide, then it makes for a nice little gift that you can give to someone you think could benefit from learning how to Bullet Journal.

The new paper used in Edition 2 was created specifically for Bullet Journalists. There are many different ways the community expresses themselves inside their notebooks, and we engineered our paper accordingly.

NOTEBOOKS