Why I stopped using monthly spreads in my bullet journal

I was at my kitchen table in Nashville last October, flipping through 3 months of unused monthly pages, and realized I'd wasted over an hour setting them up. Now I just go straight to dailies with a future log on one page, and honestly my system flows way better without that middle layer. Has anyone else dumped monthlies and found it actually works?

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avery3662mo ago

Yeah that "wasted over an hour" part hit home for me, ditched monthly spreads last spring and haven't looked back.

briannguyen12d ago

Dumped mine back in February. Used to spend Sunday nights drawing out perfect grids and color coding everything. Now I just have a weekly habit tracker and rapid log everything else. Feels way more natural.

sarah_johnson462mo ago

Trashed my monthlies last spring too, @avery366. Figured out I was just decorating pages instead of actually planning. My bujo went from art project to functional tool real fast.