I started a birthday journal a few years ago! Every year on my birthday I write an entry, kind of like a letter, to myself. It can be about whatever I want, but I try to focus on the last year of my life and what I’m feeling in the moment. The only things i have to include in every entry are my current reads and my current favorite quote. :)

@jacquelinegratton3672

6 жыл бұрын

I really like this idea! :)

I write letters to my cat that passed away. I write it in a journal.

@sunfyrae

5 жыл бұрын

that is soo cute i'm totally not crying after reading your comment:')

@stylishspit

4 жыл бұрын

@Ilinca Sîrbu :(

@lisag2680

3 жыл бұрын

I am so sorry. That’s beautiful. I believe your cat Is in Heaven and that’s a great way to connect with him or her. My cat passed in August. It is hard. Sending hugs.

@shannington

3 жыл бұрын

oh my goodness,, that’s so cute :) they love it i bet

@lcmari95

3 жыл бұрын

Please publish these letters. Would love to read them!!

I recently changed to just using one notebook for everything (ideas, lists, reminders etc.). I love this format, because it simplifies my life. When the notebook is full, I write the time span on the cover and start a new one. I love the idea of simple life tasks, such as grocery lists, being mixed with abstract artistic ideas. It seems like a very honest and authentic look at my life. Great video!

@onota8527

5 жыл бұрын

Sunny Smith Bullet Journal,you mean?

@ell4736

3 жыл бұрын

That’s what I do too :)

@swimminginhoney

2 жыл бұрын

@@onota8527 I know this comment is 2 years ago ahha but I find it so interesting that someone may not have known about bullet journaling and yet has fallen into the same format completely separately! Makes sense why it’s so popular!

The ones I've got going currently are: -quotes/poems I've collected over the years -"field notes" aka new words and concepts I learn -to-do list (in a pocket-size reporter notebook) -personal journal/brainstorm (for whenever I want to word-vomit about myself) I recently reorganized and reprioritized all my notebooks thanks to your last notebook video!

omg ariel i feel this! i always start a notebook with one idea and then i rip out pages because i'm unsatisfied but i tell myself to stop because it wastes paper!!! great video!

@ArielBissett

6 жыл бұрын

i've been there! where i rip everything out to "start" fresh!

@MaxFadri

6 жыл бұрын

THIS IS SO TRUE AHHHH

"It just doesn't feel as mystical or fun" That is exactly how I feel about typing creative ideas or writing stories on my laptop!

@lisza3955

3 жыл бұрын

SO TRUE HAHAHHAHAHSIFFJBDIXKF

I just want to say that I really like your filming setup. Particularly, that we can see your bookshelves through the mirror behind you. One thing I love about your channel is that you do more than just book hauls and reviews and I think that shows in your setup. But the fact that we can still see some of the shelves, remind us all what we are here for (to talk about books) without getting distracted or overwhelmed by the books themselves.

@ArielBissett

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Hunter! That's really kind of you

When you got up to get the book and we could see your reflection i was ... just ... i loved it I don’t know why

@hernorthwind

6 жыл бұрын

Nari Nari Literally same.

@sunfyrae

5 жыл бұрын

same

@jinjinjin4229

5 жыл бұрын

ARMYYY

@omidshirazi4166

4 жыл бұрын

yeah that's why Im going to follow her she gives us motivation and its nice

I think archiving to-do lists is a unique spin on keeping a diary. And it would be fascinating to see how our daily/weekly tasks evolve over the years and adapt to different seasons of life.

Yes thank you for this video, if nothing else I feel solidarity with you because I always feel scared to write in notebooks in case I 'mess it up' or change my mind about what I want to write. I've recently started a reading journal and try to take notes while I'm reading, because sometimes when I get to the end of a book I've really enjoyed, it's hard to remember all the details and reasons I liked it so it's really helpful to have somewhere to track my thoughts while I'm in the process of reading.

@saniaann1179

5 жыл бұрын

Sameeeeeee

I use a lot of notebooks and when people see them, they're always mesmerised by how do I do this because most people are afraid of messing up the notebook??? And I'm always like IT DOESN'T MATTER!!! JUST USE IT!!!!!!! So this video was a big loud YES!!!! And a classic tip: If you hate a page you did, you can just make some collage to cover whatever it is. I do this all the time. Anyway, I keep: - a bullet journal; - three art journals (different sizes, so I can practice different perspectives); - a notebook for letters I write myself every five years, where I talk about my life in the present, what I'm thinking about and the doubts I have about the future, which I LOVE. I spend weeks writing it, and forget about if for five years, and then I read everything and it's always very emotional and calming, I recommend the experience!; - a ~money notebook~, for all the projects that give me money (podcast, freelancing stuff etc.); - a tarot study notebook; - an astrology study notebook; - a ~letters journal~, which is basically the Sugar thing you're doing. I write letters to people about my feelings and the things that we've been through and never send it, because the goals is just organize the thoughts and feelings, not say the stuff to the people THAT'S IT!

Notebooks are best for doodling - especially for doing doodles of goblins.

@insomniacllama5044

6 жыл бұрын

Goblins are my favourite

@Phena

6 жыл бұрын

The Book Goblin w22cäy

@ilovecats6423

6 жыл бұрын

The Book Goblin yeah but I wanted to know how to fill it with useful things...

I saw this video in my sub box and literally said “YES ARIEL” i love all the videos you’ve been making recently and also adore the new set up xxx

@ArielBissett

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Charli!!

@zainabzubair1797

6 жыл бұрын

same.It's such a treat to have a new video by Ariel!

I've recently started going to therapy and i've thought about starting a notebook and writing a short entry after every session to summarize what i need to work on incorporating into my thought process when i feel overwhelmed by anxious and depressing thoughts into it, all i need to do is find the **perfect** one if you know what i mean xx

@jacquelinegratton3672

6 жыл бұрын

This is such a great idea! I wish I thought of doing that after every therapy session. I can imagine it would be quite useful to also reflect on especially if you change therapists or stop going to one altogether. I had to stop with mine because I left uni so now I am really wishing I had those notes to look back on. Thanks for sharing and good luck finding the perfect notebook! :D

This feels kind of overwhelming to me. I like to keep everything (besides novel planning and grocery lists) in one notebook so I always have it on me and it becomes a chronological organization of my thoughts in one place. I think it's beautiful and interesting when it's messy and honest.

I feel you girl when you said, they are so beautiful and full of potential.

i struggle with this daily, i love notebooks so much and don't want to mess them up and just never use them, lately I've been trying to actually use them and just be messy and free with them - these are some great ideas for notebook uses by the way

Another idea: Dedicate a notebook to be your "record collection". These days most of us doesn't own physical copies of the albums we like. So write the titles and artists down in a notebook, so you don't forget the music you once loved. I'm looking forward to flipping through mine when I'm 50, and re-discover my old favorites.

I LOVE the idea of articulating one's problems into a letter. I think I'll start adopting that excercise too. I think its a good way to rationalize and break down our own thoughts and make them easier to approach and solve.

@ArielBissett

6 жыл бұрын

isn't is such a cool idea?????!

Ariel, all of your DIY and not-directly-related-to-books videos always leave me so inspire to do work and create things, and I just wanted to let you know I really appreciate them. (Not that I don't love the book content too, it's just that these hit my soul in a different way.) Thanks. Keep it up. (Also, I'm having trouble staying motivated and getting through grad school as well so I guess I'd like to say that we can do it, we can get through it! I believe in us!)

I bind my own sketchbooks when I'm stressed...I have about 20 from the past year all unused. I've started giving them to authors at signings lmao. I do have one devoted to my mom's recipes though. She does the thing where measurements are proportional and not numeric so I have her scale system written down for each recipe I get from her.

@ArielBissett

6 жыл бұрын

lately i build lego when i'm stressed, we all do something weird! but that recipe idea is a great one!!

Honestly, the video you made on your travel journals revolutionised my life. I remember being really inspired by that video, and a week or so later I got my own journal from Flying Tiger. I've now kept it up since November 2015, which means I've recorded getting to know some of the most important people I have ever met, some of my best friends, including my current roommate. I've recorded moving abroad and starting university. I love that I have these journals, for the same reasons you love the notebook idea for the books you've read. I love journalling so much, it helps me keep writing even when I don't have time to work on my novels, and I kind of owe that to you lol thank you

@nathania9710

6 жыл бұрын

Honestly, your journal/writing related videos are some of my faves, please keep posting them haha

I love the letter-writing idea (as well as Tiny Beautiful Things!). I might try that too. I have one notebook where I list all of my goals for the year, and then keep track of my progress (reading, writing, KZread, organizing, budgeting, etc.). I've had it for the past year and a half and it's been really helpful.

I've limited myself. XD I buy 1 pretty notebook for myself. ONE. And I use it for everything in my life. Recipes in games. Ideas. Journal entries. Course ideas for my next term. To do lists. Doodles. Some pages have my class notes , particularly on days when I am too emotionally exhausted to go to class / use my binder. People call this a bullet journal. But that didn't work for me because there was SO MUCH PRESSURE to make that beautiful, organized, make this beautiful thing with tape and with objects. Just blah. It's my notebook. It's titled "Cierra, Fall 2017 - xxxx" xxx is when I finish it. :) But I definitely want to get more beautiful notebooks. XD but I'm scared of the pressure!

@ossswin

6 жыл бұрын

that's exactly what i plan on doing with a gorge notebook i've been recently given. how practical is it in the long run? do you manage to find whatever you are looking for easily without using an index? any tips?

@KittenCece

6 жыл бұрын

ossswin really practical. And if something is particularly important I highlight along the edge of the page so when I thumb through it pops out

@Becksnnc

6 жыл бұрын

What you've described IS a bullet journal. I have a moleskin notebook that I use for exactly the same reason as you. I just throw every idea I have in there. It's not remotely pretty or fancy. The fanciest I've gone with it is using highlighters to go over things lol. A lot of bullet journals that you see are extremely artsy but that doesn't mean yours has to be. The purpose of them is to be practical. That was how it was originally intended and people switched it up and decided to get all creative with it.

@juliannerichard9745

6 жыл бұрын

this is exactly what I do and I absolutely love it! so practical and condensed (though I do have a separate notebook for long journal entries where I take several pages to work out my thoughts)

i loved all of the ideas you suggested in this video so much! for me it has always been like i have to overcome the fear of messing up my pretty notebook, it not being totally neat and perfect. that has often kept me from turning my notebooks into the objects that i want them to be, which are a garden for my thoughts, a place to store and remember a part of myself. the fear of not being 'aesthetic' enough should not stop me from expressing myself in my notebooks, because they belong to no one else but me, and don't have to live up to any standards (just like i don't have to be a certain way to be good) i now use my notebooks any time i feel like i need to scribble down a thought or impression or to write down something i learnt that day. this video has inspired me to be even more creative and free with my notebooks and again reminded me that it's not about your notes being neat and prestine, but instead about them being your very own✨

I started myself a reading log in my bullet journal and I'm absolutely in love with it. I track title, author, rating, number of pages, amount of total books read, dates I started and finished, and my thoughts. It's so much more fun than Goodreads. I like the idea of Goodreads and it seems like something I should love but I'm so ambivalent about it. My reading log however makes me so happy. Being able to start an entry, read the book, and add the rest of the entry is so satisfying.

I kept a ‘dream diary’ for a while, as I’m really interested in psychology, and wanted to see if I could find any correlations between my real life and my dreams etc. It was an awful experience, as that act of me recording my dreams seemed to trigger an increase in their occurrence, as well as them getting progressively more and more nightmarish... which in a way was actually really interesting, and added a new dimension to that little experiment I conducted with myself! I think that keeping a dream diary is an awesome thing to try at least once, but I warn you to tread carefully, because it ended up being far more confronting than I’d expected.

I started the Reading Journal for this year and I really love doing it. It helps me see all my books and thoughts on it as I go through the year. I can't wait to see how it ends for the year. I was thinking of doing one for each year lol

I have WAY too many empty ones it’s ridiculous

@RGCorr

6 жыл бұрын

Jay G same!! I buy one then I use one page of it, then I buy another one the week after. So basically my notebooks have 1 page used and the rest plain

@exercise4less915

6 жыл бұрын

I have 32 and theyre so pretty but i haven't used any

@ada3360

6 жыл бұрын

I JUST COUNTED MINE AND I HAVE 32 im sure i even have more but dont know where i've put them... anyway ATLEAST 32 THATS EMPTY!!!! THATS INSANE

@fangli7128

5 жыл бұрын

Jay G Same I had 39 xD

My favorite notebook is my movie diary(the one where I write the number of the movie, its title, the date of me watching it and the rating). I know you can perfectly well use Letterboxd or whatever, but I'd save this notebook first if my house caught on fire

I use one of my note books to write my dreams, like exactly in every detail I can remember I sometimes also put notes on them, Actually I think that I can make a novel from some of them or at least a short story. it's a very useful way.

@therealfirelord3359

5 жыл бұрын

I kept one of these when I was younger. I had really bad nightmares and my doctor recommended it to help me process them, so that it wouldn't be as scary (since nightmares are rarely logical). I've wanted to start one up again but haven't found the right journal. Glad to know someone else does it!

@seriouslyinsanediva

2 жыл бұрын

I filled out two notebooks with my dreams and the possible meaning of them. This really helped to understand myself and my processes in daily life. I should start this habit again. Thanks for the reminder although I'm reading this 3 years later! ;-)

Every time I watch one of your videos it feels like you're sending me excitement through the screen!!

I heard this idea somewhere but I think it's really cool. You make a character journal. It's basically a journal/diary but not of your life. Rather it's the life of a character you made up or anyone else who is not you. I think it's a really good writing exercise

I love this!! Your idea of writing letters to the author of Wild is such a cool idea! For me, once I gave up the idea that a nice notebook had to be used for something special, it made mundane things feel so special. And it also felt great to have used the whole notebook. I'm also a firm believer in using the same notebook for all ideas and projects, especially when the projects are still in their very nebulous first stages.

I so love your ideas!

Such beautifull ideas! Love it, I´ll try them!

Love these ideas!!! Thank you!

I started a reading journal at the beginning of this year and I’m so glad I did, I love it so much. I’ve never been big on goodreads reviews but I love being able to put all my personals thoughts down somewhere 😊 loving your videos recently! xx

I love your content, it's so unique and it's refreshing to watch something new

This is the exact video I needed at this exact moment. Thank you Ariel!

shes amazing! and i love her energy and personality

I started bullet journaling this year, which I loooove (one for work and one personal), and I do a spread whenever i finish a book with the rating and draw my favorite quotes of that book. I doodle things that have to do with the book as well! I love it, and because it's interspersed with my bullet journal it's chronological. For books, since they're a part of my life i can incorporate it into bullet journal. Now, for wedding planning I had a completely separate notebook. So we all have to find a out what works for you in a separate notebook (like a big project!) and what would blend all together in your main journal. Great video! :)

I love these ideas! Thanks Ariel

This was really inspiring! Thanks.

this is way more inspiring than i thought, so thank you!!!! i have a notebook i use for the days where i'm anxious or overwhelmed, and detail in it exactly what i'm thinking or feeling, without the pressure to make it sound totally comprehensible or pOeTiC. its reserved just for those bad days, and i feel like its a really helpful as a de-stresser. on the other hand, after watching your video, i was thinking of starting a notebook where i talk about all my favourite things/the things that make me happy, whether that be certain books, movies, bands, etc. i think you're right when you said it'd be cool to go back and read about someone's opinions on books, so i was inspired by that!!! good job on this ariel,; this was a video i didn't know i needed💜

I love your background, I love your ideas and I love your personality!

Love these ideas.

Thank you for this video ❤

You're speaking to my soul, Ariel! I have over 20 journals and I always feel guilty about getting a new one, but I can't help it! They're all so pretty. I'm definatly going to implement some of your ideas and suggestions!

how tf does your hair just do that. its so beautiful. i use my notebooks for writing ideas and japanese practice :)

I’ve been LOVING your videos. They’re so eclectic. I really like the way you make videos about so much more than popular fiction. Please keep making stuff like this!!! This was so full of cool ideas. I particularly like that you have an app idea. I have so many ideas that I think are weird so I never write them down.

all of my journals are all over the place and I think that's the most convenient for me personally. just mixing up every signle idea, recipe, to do list, memory, dreams. it's like a treasure box!! and it is aboslutely phenomenal to get back to old journals and look bak at how you have grown etc.

I needed this video so much! I've been in kind of a creative drought lately. This helps! Thank you for sharing!

@fayhayward5707

6 жыл бұрын

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I love the reading notebook idea!!❤

Oh my gosh someone who truly understands! You literally mentioned everything I feel when it comes to notebook

I Love Love LOVE your Ideas!!! Thank you so much Ariel! i have so many neglected beautiful notebooks and had no idea what to do/ write in them but haha now i do!

I love this video. First of all you took the words out of my mouth for my attraction to notebooks (and pens). Secondly, most "ideas to fill notebooks" videos come up with these intimidating ideas that take a lot of materials and time, but this video focused on the point of not being intimidated and just take a pen and write. I just subscribed!

I love journals and I didn’t think you would say anything I hadn’t done already, but YOU DID! Thanks for the ideas, I’m excited to try them!

yesss! i love this so much. empty notebooks are so overwhelming, but never again!!

These ideas are so fantastic! I definitely admit to being a pretty notebook hoarder, but I’ve been trying lately to utilize them more often. Specifically I love using them for reading planning, because if there are multiple readathons in a month that I’m interested in, I can write down the challenges and the books I plan on using, and then find ones that overlap if need be... it’s very handy.

Great video! I recently started using multiple notebooks for different reasons and it has been SOOOOO awesome. I stopped using Goodreads, and replaced that website with a notebook and it had taken the stress off.

thanks! u just solved some of my problems in life. very useful tips!

I recently started keeping a reading journal and I'm really enjoying writing on it and decorating it

i have a notebook in which i take notes on the books i'm reading and make lists of books i want to read soon (which is always funny because sometimes i look back at one of those lists that i made 2 years ago and go "oh i still haven't read that one") or just any book related lists. it feels great to have my thoughts on the books i read all in one place. i filled one entire notebook doing this, i used it for 3 years long and it's great to see how my notes changed over time. it shows what you find important in books and how that changes over time, and there are books that are now my favourite books, of which i have notes from when i first read those books. for me there's nothing more fun than reading back my live reaction as i was reading my favourite books for the first time. i do annotate books as well by the way, but i use annotations more as a direct way of "talking to the author" and just to underline passages that mean something to me (because it's annoying to copy that all over into my notebook). the notes in my notebook are more along the lines of "omG YOU NEVER GUESS WHAT JUST HAPPENED:" or just me going on 2 pages long rants. it's great.

I have a quote journal and I love to just flip through it and read the beautiful words and such that i’ve collected.

I have a beautiful notebook with my favorite theme, space, and I wanted to keep it for something special. I was so afraid to mess it up so finally I decided it was silly just keeping it around, notebooks are to be used! So I decided to atempt something I wanted to do for a while, start my Bujo. It was the best decision I made this year. This is a great video! Hope more people put them notebooks to use. :D

thank you thank you thank you these are such great ideas :D

I have a reading journal (well multiple- I started in 2014) and it is so fun when I am rereading books to go back and see what I thought of books when I first read them and then record my current thoughts!

Yes, i love this!

I am so glad I found your video! I have an addiction to buying notebooks, and over the years or few weeks in my case the collection has grown. Some of them are so gorgeous I don't or never end writing in it. Now that I've saw your video I have some ideas on what to write in some of mine. I am now a subscriber! Thank you! Please continue making these awesome videos! -love and light

I used to keep a reading Journal. Now I keep a 'normal' diary in which I often incorporate thoughts on the books I ve read and movies I ve seen! Loved your video, as always! :)

Love this thank you

This video is therapeutic. I'm wrangling with the same feelings about the notebooks I've accumulated. And because I like writing first drafts of stories in notebooks, it's not easy to get the story out while I'm trying to keep the notebook pretty and organized, because a first draft ain't always pretty and organized. So this video is reducing my anxiety about finally putting my notebooks to use. Thanks!

I needed this video more than I've thought.

I've been trying to get myself to make a dream journal because theres always that one dream I dont remember, that gives me the feeling that I loved it, and it's gone forever. Plus dreams are such a good place to find inspiration since anything can happen in them. Not only that, but I want to write a little blurb about how my day was before I slept, because I think the correlations between that and your dreams is rather fascinating.

Ariel, your channel is amazing. Regards from Brazil. 😁

Love the idea of a notebook with book reviews and thoughts. I could call it my Book Book ha! Awesome ideas xx

YAS! I actually started using my pretty notebooks for to-do lists and it’s increased productivity like 100%! Thank you for this video!!!

Your "Dear Sugar" journal made me think of a movie that you might want to check out. It is called The Answer Man. I love it, but I know not everyone loves it. The main character wrote questions down and sometimes he found the answers and wrote them too. It's definitely a good idea :) Also, as someone who has a reading journal, I will never stop doing it, so I can't recommend it enough.

I have a reading journal! I got it off amazon and it’s really motivated me to read more

I relate to this so much!

I have been wanting to journal for so long and have a plethora of notebooks I had no idea what to do with. This video was a life saver, Ariel. Thank you!

Will definitely try the brainstorming one! I have just one spiral notebook which was initially for to-do lists but then I started brainstorming there because it was accessible and now it's a mess. And yes, waiting for your new videos is so difficult! But the wait is so worth it every time. Great video,Ariel!

Great advice 👍😎

Would love to see an updated video on how you went with your entries and if you have any more ideas 😊❤

Hey! Love all the different ideas. Once I rediscovered a notebook with two pages filled of something that I didn't like anymore, so I ripped them out, cut them up and used them to make a cool new collage on the new first page of the notebook. Recycled them, basically. Felt really liberating.

Love love love the reading journal idea. I'm a notebook addict/hoarder too, so I think I'll have to take you up on that idea! :) x

I have 4 notebooks on the go right now: a to do list one (not pretty but it works for me), a new to me vocabulary notebook that isn't used as much as I would like, a notebook the is all these inspiration things (quotes, ideas, anything that has caught my imagination side of my brain in the off chance I would write a book one day, an example I wrote half a page summary of an introduction to a novel I'll never write on what it would be like if earth had rings like saturn) and the final notebook is a mash up of a reading bullet journal and a 'scrape book' of my year were over the year I'll write a one line note about things that happened and at the end of the year I put them all together into a nice reminder. I'd really like to journal semi regular but it would be hard to start and then continue that habit over time but I think it's so neat to have a chronology of your life.

@crimsonpeaks999

6 жыл бұрын

that vocabulary notebook is such a good idea! i think i may start doing this too

Loved this! Your videos always inspire me Ariel, and I'm definitely going to start writing about the books I've read!

Really liked this video! I have many notebooks that I find too beautiful to fill. :) I have started one for poetry, though, and I'm super excited for it! I believe it's a good idea for you as well. You have beautiful poems!

Ariel you've quickly become one of my favourite youtubers ever. Your content is so unique and inspiring, that often I find myself watching your videos over and over and I'm like " I WANT TO READ AND WRITE EVERYTHING YAY"

I've been using a notebook lately to journal every night, which isn't a novel idea, BUT I dedicate one or two pages to my writing about my day and then use the opposite facing page to doodle and draw out my day creatively. It's a nice way to unwind and to pick out the things that stuck out the most each day.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

I have been loving ur notebook videos. Could you please do more .

This was really useful Ariel thank you! I have so many unused notebooks laying around. Now I know what to do with them.

One of my most treasured notebooks is a black Moleskine reading journal which has designated alphabetised tabs for the books you read, and each page has room to write the name of the book, publication date, awards won, author nationality etc. as well as space to write your opinion on the book. It's honestly revolutionised the way I read, as I can physically keep track of my thoughts and write down quotes and actually think about them rather than just copy and pasting them from Goodreads. I love notebooks and I loved this video! Thank you for making such cool and helpful videos like this

I love this video! I actually have a notebook where I log all the books I have read and my thoughts about it and of course a list of all the books I want to read in the future, I hope to pass it down to my kids and they will use it as a reading guide.

I always do that...I always rip out my pages

Great ideas Ariel, I also have the tendency to collect notebooks and I have been thinking that I really need to start to fill them up!

Loveeee this video