Hard to review this book. On the one hand, I've been keeping a Bullet Journal since January and it has been a life changer. Really. I mean this is a GREAT tool. Counterintuitively analogue, but better for it. This book does a very good job of organizing a teaching method for anyone interested in experimenting with their own Bullet Journal. I use mine for pretty practical life planning (kids, work tasks, upcoming appointments) but it has relieved me of making multiple lists and also breaking down anything I'd ever want to accomplish into a very logical and easy to navigate system. This style of journaling really works for me. It feels like such a huge change, and so useful, that I want everyone to have this feeling. For that, being able to hand someone a book that they can look over on their own time and discover this method is very useful. So these are all reasons I would rate this highly. Without any exhausting or unnerving proselytizing from me anyone who gets this book learns the basic method of bullet journaling and how that method can bloom into an art.

The negatives of this book have very little to do with the method itself. I found Carroll tiresome and this book overstayed its welcome fast. It's too long. It drones. It's kind of condescending. I get the impression that I would never want to be trapped in a conversation with the author, or even an elevator.

This is probably just something that bothered me but hey that's what reviews are for.