A bullet journal you can start in this tab
Most pages that promise you can create a bullet journal online hand you a sign-up form. This one hands you a grid. Pick a color on the right, tap a day, and color it in — the day fills once you have covered enough of it. That is the whole interaction, and it is the whole app.
One warning, said before you touch it rather than after: nothing here is saved. Not to a server, not into your browser, not anywhere. Close the tab and the year is gone. We would rather you found that out now than in March.
Why a try-out and not a web app
Six pages on this site tell people there is no web version of DayBloq, and they are still right. The line between a demo and a web version is not how good the drawing is — it is whether it remembers. A grid that quietly kept your year would need somewhere to keep it, which means an account, a password, and a company holding a diary. That is the thing we did not want to build, and the reason entries in the app stay on your device.
So this page forgets on purpose. What it is good for is the question you cannot answer from a screenshot: does coloring a square actually feel like anything? Five minutes here answers that, and it costs you nothing if the answer is no.
The key is the part people get wrong
Five to seven colors. That is the whole rule, and almost every abandoned tracker breaks it. With three, December looks like a barcode. With twelve, you stand there at eleven at night deciding whether the day was fine or quite good, and one evening you decide it is not worth it, and that is the end of the year.
Rename them under the grid so they say what you mean. Yellow has to still mean the same thing in June as it did in January, or you have two languages and no translation. The names this starts with are the ones from the grid in the app.
If you want to keep it
Two ways, and they are not rivals. On paper: the Year in Pixels printable sheets are free PDFs, drawn as vector so they stay sharp at any size, with no email box in front of them. Print one, put it on a wall, color it with a pen.
On a phone: DayBloq is an Android app and keeps the year on the device. Plenty of people do both — print the year, color it on the phone, and copy the squares across on a Sunday.
What we have not built is an iPhone version; that page says so plainly rather than promising a date. And if you came here looking for a journal that lives in a browser tab permanently, the argument against it is written out at online bullet journal — it is not that it cannot be done, it is what it costs you.
Questions we are asked
Can I create a bullet journal online for free?
This page is one, and it costs nothing: pick a color, tap a day, and the grid fills in. There is no account, no email box in front of it, and no trial. What there also is not is saving — close the tab and the year is gone. That is deliberate, not a paywall.
Why does it not save what I color?
Because the moment it did, it would be a web app, and DayBloq is not one. Saving means a server, an account, a password to lose and a company to trust with a diary. The page you are on is a try-out: it shows you how the grid feels before you install anything. The app on Android does the keeping, and it keeps entries on the device rather than on our machines.
Is this the same grid as the app?
The same proportions, the same colors, the same twelve-by-thirty-one layout, read out of the app's own template files rather than retyped. What is missing is the rest of the app: twenty-three page types instead of one, and a year that is still there tomorrow.
Why does tapping a day not just fill it in?
Because that is not what the app does, and this is meant to feel like the app. Tapping opens the day as a larger square and hands you a brush. You color it in, and when you let go, whichever color covers most of the square wins: cover more than half and the day fills with it. Scribble a thin line and nothing is committed, so a stray touch cannot ruin a year.
How do I clear a day I got wrong?
Pick the empty swatch at the bottom of the key, then color over the day the same way. It is the same gesture as filling one in, which is why there is no separate eraser to find.
Can I print what I make here?
Not from this page. Printing a screen gives you a screen-resolution picture of a grid; the printable sheets are drawn as vector and come as real PDFs, which is a different and better thing. They are free and ungated on the Year in Pixels printable page.
Does anything I type or color leave my browser?
No. There is no request that carries it anywhere, nothing is written to local storage, and there is no cookie holding it. The grid lives in the page's memory and dies with the tab.
Questions about the free tier, the subscription and what the app stores are answered on the FAQ. If you are starting a year here, start it on the day you remember rather than the first of the month — an empty square in the corner is not a failure, and empty squares are part of the picture.
