My friend laughed when I told her I was using a color code for my bullet journal

She said 'you're going to spend more time picking colors than actually writing things down.' I insisted it would help me organize tasks by priority and mood. After three days of stressing over which shade of green meant 'work task' versus 'personal goal,' I scrapped the whole thing and went back to plain black ink. Has anyone else had a system that looked good in theory but was a total flop in practice?

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kellyg1417h ago

Did you try matching colors to actual time blocks or just categories?

reese_garcia11h ago

The three days of color stress is honestly the funniest part lmao. @kellyg14 I feel like matching colors to time blocks would just lead to more anxiety over picking the right shade for your 2pm meeting. People act like a bullet journal is gonna change their whole life when its basically just a fancy to-do list. Plain black ink sounds way more chill and probably gets the job done faster than trying to code your emotions with highlighters.