Web Finds - Saturday 14 June 2025

It is time to enjoy a few blog posts from around the internet, grab a drink and make yourself comfortable for our weekly round-up.

Here are some Philofaxy posts you might have missed this week:

1. Web Finds - Saturday 7 June 2025
2. Silent Sunday
3. Dates for your diary - Sat 14 & Sun 15 June 2025
4. Free For All Tuesday No. 749
5. Video Web Finds - Wednesday 11 June 2025
6. The transition from A5 Filofax to Personal Size Filofax
7. Free For All Friday - No. 866 by Anita 

Here are the latest Filofax and other brand blog posts from around the Internet. Don't forget to leave a comment on the posts you enjoyed reading, all bloggers enjoy getting comments.

1. Weekly Vertical inserts/refills for Personal size? - Filofax
2. Brown pocket ring organiser for summer - This Bug's Life
3. Searching for A5 dotted sheets which are fountain pen friendly - Filofax
4. Episode #314: Weekly Review Best Practices - Getting Things Done
5. POCKET SIZE REFILLS - Filofax
6. An Introduction to Empathic Listening (pg. 274-282) - FranklinPlanner Talk
7. Clipbook opinion? - Filofax
8. Black pocket Filofax Kensington - This Bug's Life
9. Found this spot on the Filofax - perfect as a pen holder! - Filofax
10. Link Love: It’s My Birfday! You get a treat! - The Well-Appointed Desk
11. Web Finds – 11 June 2025 - Travellers Notebook Times
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Free For All Friday - No. 866 by Anita

Like many people, I used to commute to my place of work and did this for many years. However, once I became a carer for my late Mum, I needed to change to a work from home job as her health quickly declined. When I was working in my previous role, there was an obvious end to the work day when I left the building and walked home. However, now that my work computer is at home, I realised that it would be helpful to put something in place to transition away from the work day and create a habit to help my brain switch off.

Once I'm done for the day, I make myself a drink and go into our spare bedroom and shut the door:

• I meditate regularly, but I'd like to do it on a daily basis as I've gotten out of the habit of this. So, each day, I just see what I'd like to do, maybe a breathing exercise or a guided meditation from an app, or one that I regularly do. 
• Once I've meditated, I have some of my tea and open up my Filofax to see what needs looking at. This daily Filofax time is working really well for me as it's not only keeping it up to date, but it's also inspiring me to think about different ways I could do things, or make decisions on methods I've been considering. And I'm sure that it will result in some more posts for Philofaxy!

Do you set some regular time aside like this to update and tidy up your organiser, and what do you find works well for you?

And as always on Fridays, please feel free to discuss anything organiser related. I hope that you have a great weekend.

The transition from A5 Filofax to Personal Size Filofax

As a long term user of an A5 Filofax (this is my 20th year in fact) I have contemplated changing back to Personal size several times in the last few years, having started in Personal size back in late 1986 (yes nearly 40 years ago!) 

I've also been using the same Enhanced Time Management A5 insert since late 2011, so why change you might ask. 

As well as a large collection of A5 organisers (about 24) I have a similar number of Personal size organisers, plus a small number of Compact and Slimline size. 

In addition over the years I've collected an abundance of Personal size inserts of one sort or another. (A shoe box full, the universal measurement of spare inserts!) What was stopping me from making the change?

A5 has worked so well for me over the years, but may be the smaller size could be made to work just as well. 

First of all I looked for commercial inserts that might fit the bill, but for one reason or another I didn't find any that would fit my own requirements. 

I set to work on creating an insert of my own, a miniature version of my A5 Enhanced Time Management insert. However, in Personal size when I tried it out for a couple of weeks I don't think it would have worked for me, the restricted space on each day was going to be an issue, unless I could tame my hand writing and that has been a problem for the last 60+ years!!! 

Daily inserts would also be great, but that is a lot of paper to carry around, a compromise would have to be met by restricting to say only having 4 months of inserts in the organiser at any one time and make use of a monthly insert or year planner for more long term planning. 

Seeing your week ahead with dailies results in lots of page turning. Then I hit on the idea of two days per page. Would that work? 

I grabbed our existing files for that format and on screen I could see it certainly had a lot of potential. 

I started with file 2.3.2 on our 'Future Diary Inserts' Page. 

I did a couple of tweaks to the file to include 'Tasks' on each day and printed off a couple of weeks of inserts, cut them to size and populated the days with appointments and tasks I had recently had in my A5 inserts. 

I considered printing on to Personal size paper, this would have saved a lot of cutting and punching, except when I tried it, the printer mangled up each sheet that went through it. Back to the drawing board!

In the end I had to print on to A4 paper (two Personal sheets per A4 sheet) and then cut them out. With 108 sheets to cut to size I got quite good at cutting the pages to size by eye. However, it did take several hours to do. 

If I use Personal size on a long term basis I will certainly consider investing in a heavy duty paper cutter. One that can do 50+ sheets at once and make accurate and square cuts. It would save me a lot of time. 

In addition to the diary inserts I also gathered together all of my Personal size inserts in boxes and in organisers and sorted through them. Reusing some that I already had from a while ago. 

In some cases I had to recreate inserts I've been using in A5, but in Personal size to give me the same flexibility as the A5. 

At the moment with the inserts printed on Clairefontaine 80gsm paper it all fits into a Filofax (or similar) with 30mm rings. But with a little bit of thinning down the extra sheets I think I can get my 'fill' to fit in a standard 23mm Filofax, this will give me more choice from within my 'collection' 

Here is a video I did earlier this week describing the inserts and the change over. 

 

I'm quite looking forward to using Personal size again. I already have some appointments cropping up in 2026 to write in and no doubt more as we progress through 2025. 

I also like the certainty of having the files to create these files in future years and not have to worry about multiple languages or QR codes or them being discontinued etc.

Have you decided yet what you will be using in 2026?

Video Web Finds - Wednesday 11 June 2025

I hope you have had a good weekend.

Now it is time to enjoy a great collection of videos from around the internet.

Here are a selection of the latest Filofax videos for your enjoyment.

1. Father's Day - Franklin Planner
2. A6 Gillio Planner Flip - Kayla Hightower
3. This week's releases & restocks (week of June 9, 2025) - Gillio Firenze
4. Setting up summer in Mini 5 Rings - plannercoven
5. MeePlus SlimPad Pueblo in Chestnut! - MeePlus
6. Pocket planner set up June 2025 VDS pocket planner | EDC planner - allyssa
7. Summer Ring Planner Reset | Switching out of Filofax Malden into Moterm Midnight - christa david
8. Friday flip/ It’s a miracle, I’m still in FCC / Gillio Amica - Beverly Plans
9. Switching my a5 planner covers (Lv Cloth and Paper and Moterm) - MyLifeReBranded
10. Plan With Me || Franklin Classic Anna || June 9 - 15th, 2025 - Sandra Dahl
11. Apple's FREE Productivity System That Actually Works (Notes + Reminders + Calendar) - Carl Pullein
12. My Goal Planning Process. Full video on my channel! - Buy Sell Plan Inc.
13. Join Me For A Look At The Gillio Medium Amica Planner In Orizzonte Black - Dana’s Desk
14. Planner shame Part2/ Follow-up/Chatty ramble/ personal rings/ FCC inserts/ Gillio - Beverly Plans
15. The sunshine is here... decorate my A5 filofax for tomorrow - Susan Pepper
16. Filofax Wochendeko KW 22 2025 | heartsfailing - Heartsfailing
17. Organise my Filofax journal with me // Nepo baby does ASMR - Mazzystarrx
18. Pocket Plan with Me: Filofax Domino - Fabulously Creative Plans
19. Let's decorate FRIDAY in my filofax! - Susan Pepper
20. Filofax Lockwood Personal - liegt er flach? Plus Vergleich mit Gillio & Moterm - mylistof
21. Discussion agenda et carnet | Ce que j'utilise actuellement - dollycreating
22. Planea conmigo mis finanzas en agenda A7 Junio 2025 - Minutos Financieros
23. Random Planner Updates | Filofax Malden, Soft Domino, Lockwood | Chat - Shirley Joss
24. Ring Planner Flips & Chat - Pocket & Personal - Monique Writes
25. Diy Spiral 2025 Spiral Bound Planner Into A A5 Rings Recollection Planner: Part Two - Planningwithmonserrate
26. Personal rings flip through (the planner that keeps me sane) - Sleepynotesclub
27. Weekly planning in the A5 ring binder- tough decision washi or PET tape? - Vanness Pen Shop
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Free For All Tuesday No. 749

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