Search for a digital bullet journal and every answer assumes you own an iPad and a stylus: GoodNotes templates, hand-drawn spreads, washi-tape PNGs. Lovely — and useless if what you liked about bujo was never the lettering. Strip the decoration away and the bullet journal is a method, and the method is four moving parts: rapid logging, the daily log, migration, and collections. All four type beautifully.
Rapid logging, with a keyboard
Ryder Carroll's core insight was that capture must be cheap: short lines on today's page, each marked by what it is — a task, an event, a note. In Hejour the day's page is already open when the app is, and the symbols are live instead of ink: type [] and the line is a real todo you can tick, - makes a bullet, plain text is a note. The bullets do things.
Migration, minus the ritual
Bujo's most honest feature is migration: every morning you re-copy unfinished tasks onto today, and the friction is the point — a task not worth rewriting is a task worth dropping. It's also the step where paper journals die, three busy days in a row and the system is a museum.
Typed, you keep the honesty and drop the copying: Hejour carries yesterday's unfinished todos to the top of today automatically. They arrive asking the same question — do this, or delete it? — you just don't have to transcribe them to be asked.
Future log and collections, upgraded
The future log — bujo's parking lot for “next month” — becomes typing @ and writing directly on the day something belongs to; it's waiting there when the day arrives. Collections — those topic pages for books to read or the kitchen renovation — become #tags: put #kitchen-reno on any line, on any day, and ⌘P reassembles the collection on demand, every line on its date. And the index bujo makes you maintain by hand? That's just search.
What paper still does better
Honesty clause: if drawing the spread is the joy — the hand-lettered headers, the habit trackers as art — no typed app replaces that, and GoodNotes on an iPad is your answer. The typed version wins on everything else: capture speed, migration you'll actually do, search across years, and a backup story better than “don't lose the notebook.”
The method, without the transcription: Hejour is a free download — today's log is already open.