The Bullet Journal Method: Track Your Past, Order Your Present, Plan Your Future

by Ryder Carroll

So let’s say you have a Collection (instance 1) that you started on this page. Time goes by, and you have to shift your focus to other things. You use up pages in your notebook. When you want to resume your previous Collection, you create another instance (instance 2) on this page. You shift gears again for a while, and then you continue the Collection on this page (instance 3). To thread these instances together, all you have to do is add the page number of one instance next to the page numbers of the other instances. So if you’re at the start of instance 2, you would write “10” next to this page (threading back to instance 1, which is on this page). At the end of instance 2, next to this page, you would write “160,” threading forward to instance 3 (on these pages). Now you can quickly flip between instances without using your Index. THREADING