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Time Spent Creating a Color System for my Bullet Journal Has Paid Off: I Use the Color Meanings Elsewhere Now

Why color code your Bullet Journal? 

Is color coding your BuJo worth it?  

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A theory of a perceived benefit of perfecting a color system for my BuJo daily page and weekly/monthly spreads has proven true.  I told myself the time spent deciding on icons I could easily remember and making a strong color system would transfer over into other note taking. This morning was the first instance I used my color system elsewhere.

I have spent so much time obsessing over color meanings with my Staedfast fineliners I'd be embarrassed if my family knew how much. I don't even know how much! Some core colors have not changed, but others I keep changing the meaning to best correlate with what category in the habit tracker they categorize. So if something like medical things is often used daily/weekly and has its own color, plus I have that category in my habit tracker, I want them the same color in both. Many were but not all. In my mood and pain tracker, meanings are slightly different, but as long as the category is different than any other in my BuJo, I can remember.  Of course, every color is different on my pill graph regardless!

Today I was organizing my post-it note app on my phone and decided to separate things into their own notes: to order, to call, etc.  I wanted to change the note colors to be different, and it hit me: Use the Bujo colors I have designated those tasks so I'll know at a glance what tasks are on the note!  I've played with the color chart so much -- even making a chart of each color's meaning for each section -- that I knew exactly what color to make each note! 

I try to use colors that symbolize things to me to begin with, or connect to that theme at least, so it is natural to know what colors mean and I am not learning from scratch. Like yellow is an energetic color which is food in my habit tracker, so it is easy to recall it is caffeine on my day graph: a beverage falls into the food category, plus caffeine increases alertness and possible energy. Caffeine was red last month but had to change with my adjustments in November, but it has actually been easy to remember the change because of the associations.

So I feel good seeing the benefits of my mad late night color storming starting to flow into other things, which I am hopeful will help to organize tasks better over time. It makes me not feel so guilty for spending more time changing my Bullet Journal system after so much initial setup and changes in September and October, and also makes my obsession over getting it perfect seem not so crazy. Hey, I enjoy that type of thinking and believe it is healthy for my brain, too ("if I use this color group for this, then what color group will be that? Does it fit into my trackers too? Oh just make a Excel spreadsheet and drag them around!")  
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