Bullet Journal for iPad

The Bullet Journal for iPad is an iPad bullet journal with 200 dot grid pages and nothing pre-printed on them. You draw your own monthly logs, trackers and collections, the way a paper bullet journal works, and the index keeps them findable.

The file opens on its cover. Tap to go to the index, a list of 200 numbered rows you label as you go. Tap a row and you’re on that page. The bar at the top of every page takes you back to the index.

The cover is one of Rabia’s paintings, like every mildspring cover.

Works with five iPad apps

Before listing our iPad notebooks, we loaded them onto an iPad and tapped through them in five apps. The index rows, the arrows and the links back all landed on the right page in each one. A few apps ask a question on import, so here’s what to pick.

• Goodnotes: import it as a new notebook. Links work while the pen is selected. The free plan holds three notebooks, and this one counts toward them.
• Notability: import it as a new note and leave Add space on None. The app’s toolbar floats over the top of the page, so scroll down a little to reach the bar.
• Noteshelf: after a link jump, its Return to Page button takes you back to where you were.
• CollaNote: when it asks whether to add space to write, pick None so the pages keep their size.
• Apple Books: already on your iPad, and handy for reading back through a finished notebook.

Sized for iPad not stretched

We drew this journal at three page sizes, one for each iPad screen shape. The 11 inch file is 158 by 227 mm for the 11 inch iPad, iPad Air and iPad Pro. The 13 inch file is 197 by 263 mm for the 13 inch iPad Air and iPad Pro. The mini file is 118 by 180 mm.

You pick your iPad at checkout and get the file drawn for that screen. There are no blank bands at the top or bottom, and the side margins stay even. Each file is about 2 MB.

What is inside the iPad bullet journal

• 200 dot grid pages, one per index row.
• A linked index with 200 numbered rows you label yourself.
• A link bar on every page back to the index.
• No pre-printed months, weeks or habit charts, so you can start any day and lay out pages your own way.
• PDF bookmarks for the cover and the index, for apps that show an outline.

How it works

It’s one hyperlinked PDF. There’s no extra app to install and nothing to sync. Download it on your iPad, open it from Files and import it into your notes app as a new notebook. Once it’s in, the links work offline.

Write each new collection’s name on its index row as you start it, for example November log, Books to read or Garden plan. The index becomes the journal’s contents page.

The same notebook is drawn for other tablets too, so there are Supernote, Kindle Scribe, reMarkable and Quaderno versions, each cut to that screen.

Frequently asked questions

iPad and Apple Books are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries and regions. Goodnotes, Notability, Noteshelf and CollaNote belong to their makers. mildspring is not affiliated with any of them.