Discovered a new layout trick at the Portland meetup last Saturday

Went to a bullet journal meetup in Portland and this girl Sarah showed me a rolling weekly spread that actually fits my chaotic schedule. It uses like 2 pages instead of a full month view and I can track tasks by day without cramming. Anyone else try a rolling weekly or stick with the original Ryder Carroll setup?

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davis.dylan2d ago

I mean, I get the appeal of a rolling weekly (especially for chaotic schedules like you mentioned), but I feel like it kind of defeats the purpose of the original Ryder Carroll method. The whole point of the future log and monthly spread is to give you that big picture view, not just week-by-week scrambling. Maybe it works for Sarah but I've tried it and just ended up losing track of stuff that was further out than seven days.

singh.jessica2d ago

Actually it's the other way around a bit... the rolling weekly isn't even part of the original Ryder Carroll method at all. He didn't include it in the first book or any of his early videos. The whole system is built on the future log, monthly log, and daily rapid logging. Rolling weeklies became a thing because people wanted to adapt it for work or chaotic lives, but it's a hack people made up later, not something Ryder himself pushed. So the future log and monthly spread are still there for the big picture you mentioned, the rolling weekly just replaces the daily logs for people who need more structure day to day. It's actually pretty easy to use both together if you keep your future log updated... that's where the six month view lives, not in the weekly pages.