Congratulations, dear reader! You have just joined a not-so-exclusive club (or support group, perhaps) for the daily chaotic individual: a person with too large a to-do list paired up with too small a window of that fiend they call time. Hours are priceless artifacts you don’t possess and sleep is a fairy tale that is as helpful to your schedule as a unicorn.

Take a second here for a Footloose-esque scream if you need one. No rush, I feel the same way.

Now, while there isn’t a suggestion I could or would want to offer that can make your schedule disappear, I can suggest to you something that might perhaps help your sanity. At any given moment, I can only imagine just how many things are racing through your brain like it’s a NASCAR track, threatening you with panic and stress and burdens you didn’t ever need. So, in order to infuse a little organization into your personal brand of anarchy, I present to you the time management skill of bullet journaling.

You may perhaps have already seen this technique as a millennial trend of recent months.

Bullet journaling is a method of taking the train station of thoughts in your brain and roughly sketching it out in front of yourself. It is a fully customizable time management and note-taking system that helps you to order your days and time.

At its base level, a bullet journal is an agenda where you can write out your schedule, showing planned events and daily routines. Generally, bullet journaling is done in notebooks with pages that have dots instead of lines, making it easy for you to sketch out boxes for separate days, events, task managers, etc. Because it is up to you what you write into it, you can use it to track study habits, expenses, dieting, etc. The choice truly is yours.

Since bullet journaling is so very unique to the individual, there’s not much I’ll talk about concerning what could go into it. Rather, I want to advocate for using this method at all. There is something so very useful about writing out what is on your mind. It causes you to put into perspective your daily activities and helps you have a better idea of how to handle the time that you do have to spare. Have an hour or two after a class? Write up a to-do list and get ahead now so you don’t lag later.

Tracking habits is also a huge help. If you are someone who is not necessarily as good with money as they’d like to be, the simple act of writing out your expenses per week helps you to have a clear view of the cost of your actions and how you can create a budget that will help you to feel more financially secure, relieving endless amounts of stress. Setting written goals for yourself provides an uncanny sense of motivation to complete them and helps you to remember you set them at all.

Bullet journaling allows you to keep everything in one place, and even when your to-do list is long and stress mounts, it can help you feel like things are a little bit more under control. It gives you a clear view of the road ahead of you that you can structure however you see fit.

Take the chance to take a few steps ahead for yourself. You don’t know when you might need them, and they are beyond priceless in a world of disarray.