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Writer's picture은사시 Arisu Chris

How to set up your digital Art journal cover

Updated: Oct 28, 2023

In this post, I will show how to set up your digital Art journal cover, key, and index page spreads. You will get an idea for a customizable journal.


Hopefully, by now you already know your “why” and you have downloaded all resources. So let’s dive straight into creating your first-page spread.



Monthly journal cover set up

Decorating Month Journal Cover Page Spread with your digital bullet journal.


You may often see people start their journals with a page spread with some drawings or quotes. These are called cover pages. They are usually quite pretty and help to define the beginning of something new inspiration.

However, it can cause a lot of pressure to try to create that perfect page. I recommend not stressing about it.


There are clipart and ideas for cover pages in our Arisu Creator Club community Also, you can leave a blank page and You can always come back.


From my experience, I decorated the cover page with year or Month hand lettering, when I first started.



Year goal page in Art Journal designed by Arisu Chris

Key page spread set up


If you read the last blog post, you already know about the keys and why they are important.

We already talked about rapid logging and the signs you use for adding information to your bullet journal in the last post. The classic setup goes like this:

  1. Dot – task

  2. Circle – event

  3. Dash – note

  4. Exclamation mark – priority/important

Of course, you’re also free to create any keys you need for yourself. Think of the things you usually write and it should give you an idea of what extra ones you might need.


Don’t use too many different keys. The whole idea is that it helps you to simplify information, so don’t overdo it.


The key is the place in your Bullet Journal where you write down all the signifiers and their meaning. As a beginner, it’ll take some time to get used to rapid logging, and the key spread is there as a very useful reference page.



key widgets for journal

Key Set up


Write the keys you chose for your bullet journal and describe their meaning. If you are struggling with Key setup, you can get the key widget from our freebie vault.


Your Turn to decorate a bullet journal keys


Choose your key and create your key spread.


Check out our Freebie Vault for ideas and inspirations of key pages and signifiers.




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