In Ryder Carroll’s Bullet Journal 101, he makes use of a future log so that you will be able to list down things that need to be scheduled months in advance. If I’m not mistaken, this is one of the backbones of the system.

This Collection is used to store items that either need to be scheduled months in advance… or things that you want to get around to someday. Set up your Future Log by graphing the pages by the amount of months you’ll need. Two equally-spaced horizontal lines across facing pages creates a six-month calendar, for example. Once your Bullet Journal is caught up to your first month in the Future Log -in this case April – simply move any items that you’re not going to do into the next month. 

My Future Log Attempts

When I first started, followed the system to the letter so that I would be able to understand what or what will not work for me.I had a future log in my 2016 (which started September) bullet journal and I was not able to maximize its functionality. I had a bit of info written down but it was barely used. *cringe* it’s too colorful

Since that didn’t work out in the first 6 months, I tried to modify Ryder’s original “design” and created a vertical future log. It worked out for a while and I started writing things down as soon as possible so that I’d be able to fill it out.

I then moved to a new Leuchtturm in August 2017 and created another future log with hopes of me filling it out once more and I basically failed. It was the first page on my new Leuchtturm and I never returned to the page after I had created it.

I ditched the future log but…

During my 2018 bujo planning session, I was thinking of spreads that I should get rid of – future log was one of them. I had a feeling that I would rely on my Future Log by June or July so I decided to create a page that would allow me to have some peace of mind. In order to do that I created a yearly calendar/overview. It serves no purpose except that I am able to see the dates at a glance. As you can see, January to July are shaded gray because the months have already passed. I really don’t need it, to be honest. It’s just nice to have and nice to look at.