11 Minimalist Bullet Journal Weekly Spreads
Some people think they need to be an artist and create elaborate weekly spreads in their bullet journal.
Guess what? You don’t have to!
You can create lovely pages by using less. You can have clean, simple pages that function to keep you organized. In this blog post, I’ll show you 11 minimalist weekly spreads for your bullet journal.
I’ve even included some ideas for using in a minimalist spread that you might not have considered before. These ideas include washi tape, markers, drawings, and stickers…and they are still minimalist!
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What is a Weekly Log?
A weekly log is a place to pre-plan your week. The original bullet journal method does not include a weekly log. Instead, Ryder Carroll creates a monthly log and future page to record upcoming events, tasks, and appointments.
A bullet journal weekly spread is usually planned over two pages. It can include appointments, tasks, events, habit trackers, the weather…whatever you’d like to see at-a-glance for the week.
Check out the following bullet journal weekly spreads for ideas and inspiration.
11 Minimalist Bujo Weekly Spreads
#1. Add Some Washi Tape
Just because have a minimalist spread in your bullet journal doesn’t mean the pages have to be boring. Cayaline uses two types of thin washi tape to underline the days of the week and break up the sections. A scripted font denotes the weekdays and there is a section for notes highlighted in gray.
#2. Add Calligraphy
This minimalist spread by Calligraphybygurky features simple days of the week sections at the top and bottom of the page and highlighted with green Mildliner. What I really love are the large words of encouragement, “You can do it!” written in calligraphy in the upper right corner.
#3. Incorporate Doodles and Drawings
I love the creativity of this minimalist weekly spread! In the upper left corner is a black and white desk drawing it’s so clean and pretty - I wish my desk looked like this.
The spread also includes so much information for the week including a habit tracker that looks like a little piece of paper hung with washi tape, a notes section, a monthly at-a-glance calendar, and the weekdays. Saturday and Sunday are grouped as the weekend.
#4. Add Outdoor Conditions
This clean weekly spread by slowbujo features everything you need to know about the outdoor conditions for the coming days. Each day includes the weather forecast, temperature, and lunar phase. There’s plenty of room for writing appointments or to-dos for the day. There is also a study and writing tracker for the week.
#5. Use Stickers
You can use stickers and have a minimalist weekly spread! Perfectionismbujo does a beautiful job of highlight that on this page spread. Week is written in shadow block lettering. Two rows of brightly colored washi tape divide the page horizontally. Stickers are added on top of the washi tape for the days of the week and dates. There’s an at-a-glance monthly calendar in the corner. My favorite part, though is the old book pages that have been glued to the page…lovely!
#6. Keep it Simple
Tetheredandtold uses a large letter for each day of the week. They are written beautifully in calligraphy and allow plenty of space for writing in appointments and todos for each day. There’s also a sticky note in the lower right corner of the page to plan what’s up next for the coming week.
#7. Dutch Door
Have you tried a Dutch door in your bujo? By trimming a section of one page, it allows you to have a view of important information for the entire week while using more pages for your spread. For example, on this weekly spread by bujonerds, the todo list is always visible as well as a beautiful drawing of a teacup filled with flowers denoting the week shown.
#8. Botanicals
Amandavogtart chose to decorate her bullet journal weekly spread with panels filled with leaves. It’s a clean and elegant look that frames the page. The weekday headers are abbreviated and written in faux calligraphy. There is plenty of room on this spread for daily appointments, todos, calories, weight, and steps for each day.
#9. Lots o’ Dots
If you like the look of perfection, then you’ll love these weekly minimalist spreads from dots.in.a.row!
To create a look like this, you’ll need a circle stencil as well as alphabet and number stencils. Using pencil, draw the circles for each day of the month. Then using the number or first letter for each day of the week, use the stencil to create that in the circle. Fill in the circle using your favorite markers. You can even put them in rainbow order as shown in this image.
#10. Beautiful Banner
Hand.lettering.joy created a gorgeous weekly spread and what really catches my eye is the monthly banner/header at the top. If features botanical drawings surrounding the November script.
The weekly boxes are perfectly divided on the spread with an extra box for tasks. The days of the week are written in simple lettering while the dates are written inside a tiny flag.
#11. What’s Your Focus?
Stephanie_khor shows us how to create priorities for the week with her focus section. It includes health, relashionship, wisdom, knowledge, and gratitude - all things to be mindful of this week.
The weekly spread includes so much information with a lovely layout. There are columns on the outside of each page to provide extra info, while the inside of each page provides space for daily tasks and appointments.
In addition to the Focus section, the exterior portions include 3 important goals for the week, a habit tracker, notes, and charming doodles.
Have you tried minimalist spreads in your bullet journal? What do you love/hate about them? I’d love to hear in the comments below!
