Editing The Pen Addict 124/transcript (section)

== Future Plans ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's it. That was, you're leading perfectly to my next question. Two days from now, this project's over. What's, what happens next?

'''Ryder Carroll:''' Well, um, in terms of the original goal, which was to build the website, uh, I have a lot of questions. Um, there are a lot of different ways that you can use the bullet journal and, um, I want to start taking polls from the people who obviously are very committed so I can start building the right tools. Obviously the, the website won't be everything to everyone, but I want to make it very much from my web development background. I want to make sure that I ship the best features first, you know, the ones that really will make an impact and make it important. And I want to, you know, I have this wonderful opportunity now with people who are obviously engaged to ask them like, what is it that you love? What is the most valuable point to you? And build those pieces first. I think that the website will continue to evolve over the years, certainly. And then after that also just make sure that all the shipping is taken care of, making sure that addresses are, um, ironed out and that everybody gets exactly what they wanted. It's thousands of orders. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Do you have, do you have a, uh, it may be too soon to tell since you're, there's still a lot of questions to be answered, but do you have a rough timeline of when the website, the website, when you're looking to get the website kind of like the first, the first phase of the website up and going for everyone to see the first, the new version?

'''Ryder Carroll:''' I don't want to commit to any timeline right now because I haven't asked those questions. So like, especially with web development, some features that might be really important might also push the timeline back. So right now I'm more focused on getting the book into people's hands first, which will definitely happen much quicker than the website. Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Cause I guess as well, like when people receive the books, there's already a bullet journal system that exists that people can start to use, I guess. Right.

'''Ryder Carroll:''' Yeah. And there are, as I had mentioned before, updates to the bullet journal system itself, but, um, each one of the books ships with a built-in, um, instruction booklet. So you can actually get all the new information like the back is for $5 and plus have the digital download accessible immediately. So even without the book, they can get started on the new version.

'''Myke Hurley:''' The booklet's nice. I mean, cause you know, a PDF is great, but a booklet in a book is, you know, yes, that's, you know, that's kind of, it's kind of what it's all about. Right.

'''Ryder Carroll:''' And yeah, I, I agree, but I wanted to make sure that, you know, some people really love their books and I really didn't want to take that away from them. So hopefully it's the best of both worlds.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, Ryder, I, if you couldn't tell, I'm like giddy for you. I mean, I am so excited about this project and so excited that it's seen just like roaring success and so excited for you and seeing what, you know, what's going to come out of this. And, you know, just talking with you over the past year and watching this grow. So I know that this system's in the right hands and I'm just really, really excited and happy for you that this is going so well.

'''Ryder Carroll:''' Thank you kindly.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. So if, if you have not checked out the bullet journal system, head to bulletjournal.com for one, and then we're going to have the link in the show notes to get to the Kickstarter. You've only got 40 hours left from the time we record. So by the time you download this, you need to be, need to be checking the Kickstarter if you want to get in. And I can't recommend it highly enough. Myke and I are backers. We have huge, yeah, Instaback. Instaback.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, I got, I got one of the limit. I've got the limited edition ones.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So yeah, me too. Me too.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And that proves it.

'''Ryder Carroll:''' Wow. You guys really got in early. That's awesome.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I can't remember how I found out about it. Either I saw you tweet or what tends to happen, Ryder, is the listeners, listeners of this show, they send these sorts of things to me and Brad as well. So like we see about, we see these things relatively quickly when people pick up on them. And I saw it, I backed before I even watched the video because, you know, I love this, this system and to see you make a physical book and that sort of stuff. I wanted to support you for the work that you do, but I'm so, oh, by the way, I love the video, by the way. Yeah, the video is awesome. Really, really great. And the story that you tell in the video, I won't spoil it, but people should go and watch it. Like a lot of like the background of why the system came to exist, which I don't think I knew much about prior to watching that. So it was, it was, it was nice to see that like kind of why does the bullet journal exist rather than it just being a cool thing that you came up with.

'''Ryder Carroll:''' Thanks a lot, guys. That means a lot. Yep. It's funny, but even my parents didn't get the limited edition.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, Myke was right. It was totally our listeners and readers of the blog. I mean, they, they pinged me on Twitter, said, Hey, look, this is up. I was like, you're kidding me. And I went and looked and there was, I don't know, I think there were already a couple hundred limited edition ones gone. So I was like, I couldn't click fast enough. You know, is that counter going to roll down on me? So yeah, it was great. So I appreciate you, Ryder, taking the time to come on and share a little bit about the bullet journal with us. And, you know, hopefully, you know, we will get to talk to you again in the future as this thing continues to grow and becomes ingrained in so many people's lives and helps so many people out. And I just can't thank you enough for taking the time for us. I appreciate it. Thank you so much for having me on the show. You got it. All right. I think that's all I got, Myke.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Awesome. If you want to catch up with us online, there's a few ways you can do that. First off, you want to get the show notes for this week's episode, relay.fm slash penaddict slash 124. If you want to find me on Twitter, I am at imike and Brad is at dowdyism, D-O-W-D-Y-I-S-M. Brad writes over at penaddict.com and he also sells some fantastic products over at knock.co. I'm going with that now, buddy, by the way.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That works for me.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I like it. I love that URL. And once again, thank you to our sponsors this week, the fantastic guys and girls over at Dash, Pench, LA, and Squarespace. Until next time, say goodbye, Brad.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Goodbye, Brad.

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