In this short, snack‑size tutorial, Matt Ragland introduces the "Time Graph" daily‑log layout for Bullet Journaling, a visual schedule that maps hours vertically in a dot‑spaced grid. Inspired by Mike Rhode’s Sketch Note Handbook, the layout runs roughly from 9 am to 5 pm with optional AM/PM blocks at the bottom, and a right‑hand column for a to‑do list. Matt demonstrates how the design enables quick agenda creation, time‑blocking of tasks, and flexible placement of activities throughout the day. He explains the dot‑based spacing (four dots per hour), how to record specific time ranges, and offers variations such as tighter dot intervals or bottom‑placed task lists. The video ends with an invitation for viewers to try the Time Graph, share feedback, and look forward to more bite‑size Bullet Journal tips.
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Hello friends, my name is Matt and welcome to another Bullet Journal productivity video. This is a shorter video than I normally have. Like, normally my videos are over 10 minutes. This one is relatively short because normally what I'm doing with my Bullet Journal videos is I'm assembling a bit of a template or productivity kit inside of the Bullet Journal. To show you like how to use these different strategies to be more mindful, to be more productive, to keep things simple but still get a lot of things done. I'm just going to give you like one little feature or template or trick or, you know, anything that's really small and accessible, kind of snackable, that bite-sized kind of BuJo snack, is just showing you a like daily log layout called the Time Graph. I learned about the Time Graph from my friend Mike Rhode, who made this book, wrote wrote this book, The Sketch Note Handbook and The Sketch Note Workbook. Both books, especially Sketch Note Handbook, was one of the things that really got me into drawing and doodling and sketching again, which kind of led me to learning, even learning about the bullet journal. This particular Bite-Sized BuJo video is a little bit longer because I'm giving you the intro for it, but you know, just, just 2 or 3 minutes to like see what the time graph is and how you could use it, how I use it, and maybe you'll find it useful. So thanks so much for watching this, and let me know what you think in the comments about like this little bite-sized BuJo experiment. Let's get to it. Here's the new Bullet Journal daily log layout that I've been using for a couple of weeks, and it's this simple time graph. What I'm doing right here, as you can see, is simply writing the hours of the day in a vertical grid along the side of the Bullet Journal. This allows me to do a couple of things really easily. I can block my time and see things on the schedule, which kind of eliminates the need for having to do a separate agenda or appointment. I can also see where it's easy for me to block things in throughout the day and even like schedule things out as the week goes along. For the layout on this, it's really simple. And what I've done is it simply goes from basically 9 to 5, you know, the end of the 4 o'clock hour obviously being 5 o'clock. But then I also have this little like AM block and PM block below, and that isn't always filled. But that way I just know, like, if I'm doing something like a workout in the morning, I can write that in. If I'm having my men's group, then I can write that in at the bottom.. But I'm able to see like the main working hours right here. Another thing that I'll do if I need to, uh, often I'll like do a task manager by just like writing it into when I want to do it, that like time blocking method. But then I can also do like anytime tasks over here on the right side of the page. The layout for this is just basically two dots for the AM and the PM at the bottom, and then every other all the hours right here are 4 dots worth of space. I can basically say right here it starts at 12. I'm basically saying right here I can look at it, know this is going from 12 to 1:30, and then the power-up group call goes from 2 into 3:30. Another way that you could do this is you could certainly tighten up the number of dots that you use for the hours if you want to get more hours in. You'd still put the to-do list on the right side, or if you have space at the bottom, you could do at the bottom there. Bunch of different ways that you could do this, but I've really liked it. It allows me to see a quick agenda for the day. It allows me to time block certain things that I'm doing throughout the day really easily. And I hope that you try it out. Let me know what you think about this time graph layout in the Bullet Journal. Hey, thanks so much for watching this Bite-Sized BuJo video. Let me know what you think about this snackable series of videos to help you like learn little fun things about the bullet journal, different, uh, little like tips, tricks, strategies, templates that you could use. Because this is something that, yeah, I think I could do— I could do more of. Hope you have a great day. Let me know in the comments, uh, if you'll be using the Timegrapher, just like test it out for a daily log or two. Thanks so much, see you next time. Bye!
