A barista in Seattle showed me her bullet journal and I sat there nodding like I understood everything
Last spring I was killing time at a coffee shop in Fremont before a shift, and the barista started showing me her bullet journal while she refilled my mug. She pointed to a spread with color coded boxes and tiny doodles for each day, and said something like 'this is how I track my water intake and my cat's mood.' I just nodded and said 'oh neat, that looks real organized' but honestly I had no clue what I was looking at. She had little dots and arrows and symbols that I guess mean something, like a whole secret language written in a Leuchtturm notebook. I told her I use a plain spiral notebook for my grocery lists and reminders, and she laughed like I had told a joke. I still think about that moment sometimes. Has anyone else had someone show off their system and you just pretended to keep up?