Journal Jam Fall 2022 Day 6

[lunabee34]

Day 6 Question:

What do you do about mistakes? What hacks or tricks do you do to fix them? Do they throw you completely off?

(If you answer elsewhere, drop us a link in the comments.)

Comments

[lunabee34]

If I made a typo in my journal, instead of scratching it out, I cover it up with a washi tape sticker. Or sometimes I use my Kuretake Zig Color Dot Marker to draw a flower over it. I turn it into a decorative moment.

[annofowlshire]

I just scratch or X them out. Sometimes I might put a sticker or washi over it, but I’m usually not that fussed. I do mostly daily pages, though, so mistakes don’t last very long before I’ve moved on ^_^

[lunabee34]

*nods*

For my planner, I just scratch it out or if I need the space to write, I use correction tape.

[kalloway]

I generally just scratch it out or doodle over it, no big deal. I used to really get flustered by that sort of thing, because ohnoes, imperfection, but...

My job is filthy, and I do a lot of list-making/planning while on break. I can scrub for ages and still be dirty. After nearly a year of 'destroying' notebooks/pages due to a single dirt-smudge, I recognized that this was not going to stop any time soon, and everything will get dirty/smudgey/imperfect and it's fine. My notes are not archival masterpieces - they are a list of things to accomplish during the week or some notes about an adventure video game characters should have or some tools I need to pick up when I can. The oil and dirt and grease and the rest are a part of me and a part of my words and it's good.

[mothereader]

Depends on the mistake, keeping in mind that i don't draw spreads or anything like it.

If it's only a letter or two, i'll just write over it. On my daily pages or if i journal by hand, i'll usually just cross things off with a single line, but on my monthly pages, i tend to use correction tape. Lately, on my test pages, i've also been using erasable pen, Pilot Frixion, but since i don't think it would behave well long term, i don't use that pen on things i intend to archive.

I used to get all out of sorts when i made a mistake, but i'm not phased anymore. I'll cross it off and keep writing.

[lunabee34]

I love that you and pretty much everyone else is commenting to say that they learned to get over being upset about mistakes and just embrace them and move on.

Don't get fussed seems to be the general consensus.

[seleneheart]

In my work planner, it's usually not a mistake, but something that gets canceled or rescheduled. I have stickers that say 'canceled' that I put over the event.

For my bullet journal, it depends in the extent of the mistake. Small ones - correction tape. Bigger ones - I cut a piece from the back of previous journals the size of the mistake and glue it over the problem areas. Huge ones - I usually glue the two pages together and just skip right over them. I guess the alternative would be to cut the problem page out, but I worry about messing with the binding on the page it matches. Another option I've used it to switch whatever I was doing to white on black and just color over the mistake with a opaque black marker.

[lunabee34]

I love the idea of canceled stickers! That's such a great idea.

[bethctg]

I just used my correction tape in my planner not half an hour ago, so I guess I'm a "cover it up" sort... ;)

[lunabee34]

Heeeeeee. Planning in action.

[badfalcon]

I usually just tippex it out

[lunabee34]

*nods*

I do that in my calendar.