Dot Journaling Quotes

“Plus, the dots are typically very faint, so the book actually looks blank from far away—which means that people who glance at your journal in passing will think you are secretly a witch, because how else would you be able to write such perfectly even rows of text on blank pages?”
― Rachel Wilkerson Miller, Dot Journaling: A Practical Guide: How to Start and Keep the Planner, To-Do List, and Diary That’ll Actually Help You Get Your Life Together

“being organized is one way I practice self-care.”
― Rachel Wilkerson Miller, Dot Journaling: A Practical Guide: How to Start and Keep the Planner, To-Do List, and Diary That’ll Actually Help You Get Your Life Together

“Escrever sobre si mesmo e sua vida (mesmo que só anotações rápidas) é um
imenso privilégio, e esse hábito pode ser incrivelmente libertador. No fundo,
um diário é uma declaração de que nossa voz importa. Se a sociedade
convenceu você do contrário — de que exprimir suas necessidades é
egoísmo, de que sua principal função é cuidar dos outros —, então declarar
sua verdade pode ser um ato poderoso. É um modo de dizer: “Sou mais do
que um coadjuvante de narrativas alheias; sou o herói desta história, e tudo o
que faço, digo, penso e sinto tem valor.” E aprender a encontrar sua voz
quando se está sozinho tornará mais fácil encontrá-la quando estiver em
público.”
― Rachel Wilkerson Miller, Dot Journaling: A Practical Guide: How to Start and Keep the Planner, To-Do List, and Diary That’ll Actually Help You Get Your Life Together

“I also write the x and other symbols inside the event box when appropriate. (For example, if an event gets rescheduled, I draw the migration symbol in the box. If the event is canceled, I put a slash in the box.) And when writing about big moments in my diary section, I use the event box, and then color the box in with one of three markers, depending on what kind of event it was.”
― Rachel Wilkerson Miller, Dot Journaling: A Practical Guide: How to Start and Keep the Planner, To-Do List, and Diary That’ll Actually Help You Get Your Life Together

“next to things that you need to do. Draw an x over the dot to mark to-dos that are complete. Write the less-than symbol (<) over the dot to show that a task has been scheduled, or write the greater-than symbol (>) over it to show that the task has been migrated—aka you didn’t finish it today/ this week/ this month, so you moved it to another day’s/ week’s/ month’s list. You can migrate the same item over and over and over again until you finally complete it (or until you finally say, “Wow, this is never going to happen,” and let it go). Not that I’d know anything about that. P.S. Notice how you can easily turn either of these symbols into an x once the task is complete. Add a caret (^) over the dot when you’ve started a task. (Because even if you don’t finish it, it’s nice to feel like you accomplished something.) Use a dash for quick thoughts, notes, observations, or smaller events. Draw an open box to mark big events (appointments, birthdays, meetings, anniversaries, etc.).”
― Rachel Wilkerson Miller, Dot Journaling: A Practical Guide: How to Start and Keep the Planner, To-Do List, and Diary That’ll Actually Help You Get Your Life Together

“If you’re one of the many people who is told the opposite by society—told that you should be quieter, that expressing your own needs makes you selfish or “crazy,” that you mostly exist to take care of other people—then choosing to speak your truth can be a powerful act.”
― Rachel Wilkerson Miller, Dot Journaling: A Practical Guide: How to Start and Keep the Planner, To-Do List, and Diary That’ll Actually Help You Get Your Life Together

“The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself. . . . Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss. —Joan Didion”
― Rachel Wilkerson Miller, Dot Journaling: A Practical Guide: How to Start and Keep the Planner, To-Do List, and Diary That’ll Actually Help You Get Your Life Together

“Tracking your day-to-day life also makes it easier to understand exactly what makes you happy and healthy (and what makes you unhappy and unhealthy), achieve your goals, and live your best life.”
― Rachel Wilkerson Miller, How to Bullet Plan: Everything You Need to Know About Journaling with Bullet Points