While perusing the stationery section of my local Big W store here in Australia, I came across the Point Journal which is eerily similar to the traditional bullet journal.

Let’s take a closer look!

• Size:  139 x 204 mm (approx A5 size)
• 180 Pages
• Various cover options
• Grid dot inside pages
• Pages are numbered

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The Cover

The cover feels soft and bendy – an usual cover material not normally found on planners. I don’t like it very much.

There are a few cover options to choose from including the teal one in the image below that I chose, as well as a green leaf pattern cover and a brown cover

Inside pages are grid dot

The grid dot on the pages is very feint – if you like you to rule up spreads  using grid dots as a guide but don’t want the dots to be visible after the page is set up, this notebook would be a good option for you.

The pages are numbered too:

The notebook comes with a mini ‘instruction manual’ which gives you ideas on how to use the notebook – basically in the same format as the traditional bullet journal system

Small pocket folder at the back. it feels rather flimsy – it’s just paper glued onto the back page. Not sure how well this will hold up over time.

They also had a gift pack with cute rainbow stickers – but I didn’t like the brown notebook (ugly!) – so got the teal cover version instead. It also came in a leafy green cover version as well.

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Would I use the Point Journal?

No. This might be a good journal to use printables with as I’ve owned it for a year and the ink of the dots has almost completely faded (i.e. it’s like a notebook with blank paper now).

I’m not really a fan of bullet journaling. I like the idea of the bullet journal and how custom it is to a person’s individual planning needs, but it takes too long to set up pages and create things from scratch. I prefer to use the ARC discbound system (from Staples) so I can add, remove and re-arrange pages as often as I need. With bullet journaling you record the page number and reference it in an index, but you might have things scattered throughout the notebook rather than neatly organized in sequential order.

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