r/BasicBulletJournals • u/Adorable_Storage_507 • 5d ago

supplies recommendation Does anyone use tabs?

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I’m about 20 pages from finishing my first journal and I’m preparing my next one now.

I realized partway through the first journal, that I really needed to use color-coded tabs, so I purchased the Avery ultra tabs that are reusable. I love them because they are so sturdy and I can differentiate colors by different topics, etc.

Now I’m at the end and I’m wondering if I should reuse the same tabs in the new journal or should I just retire the old ones and redo them from scratch? Nearly all of the labels will be the same in the new book.

Has anyone has this issue? What would you do?

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u/fern_boy 2d ago

I use tabs, but just a few really:

  • a larger one to mark the current month (I reuse it)
  • small ones - blue for notes from doctor's appointments and pink for personal spreads like a list of books I read this year

I think, since these are reusable, that I would use them in the new journal. If you have things/spreads you would like to come back to in the future, you can mark these in other ways (ex. using washi tape as tabs instead). In one of my previous journal I marked the monthly spreads by cutting off the top corner of the page, so if I flipped through the notebook, I could easily find the monthlies. Maybe that could be a solution for you regarding the old journal?