The paper bullet journal, made digital.
Ryder Carroll's method, notation intact. Works with no signal, no account and no app store. Encrypted so thoroughly that nobody but you can read a word of it.
Open Journlet See the notation
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Monday 27 July
•*Draft the landing page copy
×Ring the dentist back
○Standup, 09:30
—Cheaper to fix it now than explain it later
>Book the van
•Pick up Ellie at six
•Chase the Fenwick invoice
The notation
Every mark is Carroll's. None of them are ours.
Types
- •TaskSomething to do
- ○EventSomething that happens
- —NoteSomething worth keeping
States
- ×CompleteDone, and still on the page
- >MigratedMoved forward on purpose
- <ScheduledSent to the future log
•IrrelevantStruck through, never deleted
Signifiers
- *PriorityThe one that matters
- !InspirationWorth coming back to
No emoji, no checkboxes, no substitutes. Where a mark needs to stand out it earns it through weight and contrast.
Faithful to the method
Most digital bullet journals quietly swap Carroll's glyphs for checkboxes and coloured icons. Journlet keeps them. Where something needs to stand out it earns it through weight and contrast, never by changing what a mark means.
Yours before it is ours
The journal lives on your device and works with no connection at all. Sync is a convenience layered on top, not the thing holding your entries together.
Unreadable to us
Entries are encrypted on your device before they are sent anywhere. The server holds nothing but ciphertext. That is a property of the architecture, not a promise in a policy. What is stored, exactly.
Journlet installs from the app itself, not from this page. Open app.journlet.com, then: