You’ll immediately see the style and size of the text change and the text will appear in the Outline View we enabled earlier. First, enter the title of the collection and then press *Ctrl-Alt-1* to turn the text into a header. Using the Headers feature in Google Docs is the easiest way to create collections in your journal. It starts off empty since we haven’t added any headers, a key requirement of Outlines, but that changes quickly. Go to View > Outline to enable the Outline View on the left side of the page. This is easily done with Headers (which I will elaborate on later) but first turning on Outline View in Google Docs was the easiest way to keep track of collections and navigate as the document grew longer. If you are in an environment that limits your access to Google Docs, understand that this may not be an option for you.Īs part of the initial capture of information into the journal, I needed a way to easily group the information into Collections and topics and then navigate between them. Where the challenge comes in is in situations where artificial constraints on accessing Google Docs have been imposed, such as in many companies that block access to the platform. Since Google Docs is a cloud based service, access should be an easy matter and for the most part it is. Now this far from a pure implementation of the Bullet Journal, but it does carry forward some of the basic requirements needed to be able to capture, process, and report information.To begin, I wanted to see how easy the capture process would be.

In continuation of my experiment to see what common tools can be used for productive journaling, I’m trying the combination of Google Docs and Bullet Journaling.

Google docs bullet journal template