This week in our What's in your Filofax? series, the topic is what's NOT in your Filofax.
As I mentioned in a previous WIYF, some people prefer to keep their contacts on their phone or computer so this information is not in their Filofax.
I keep a separate planner, so I don't always use weekly diary pages in my Filofax.
Other people use their Filofax as their diary only, and don't keep lists in their Filofax.
What is commonly held in a Filofax but is not in yours?
There are no diary or contact pages in my Malden, as I use Gmail on my iPod touch instead. I don't use the supplied to-do sheets & use ruled paper instead, as I find the filofax sheets messier once I start doing stuff. No A-Z index, but I am considering using them for reference at the back.
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At the moment, I have the diary section and extremely vital information and that's it. I don't have any addresses or to do lists or other lists of any other kind (except for these handful of vital data). I like the idea of having a spartan filofax...
ReplyDeleteI don't have To Do sheets, address A to Z's (although I do have them on seperate sheets under a single tab)
ReplyDeleteNice to know I'm not on my own with this.. lol.
I tend not to use the proper To Do sheets and I never use the A-Z contacts. I keep phone numbers on my iPhone.
ReplyDeleteI don`t use A-Z contacts. But I do have some emergency numbers on one sheet...just in case my mobile dies.
ReplyDeleteLike some of you have already mentioned, I also don't use the A-Z tabs...just have my contacts printed out on 3-4 sheets and put under one tab. Also (I know this probably wasn't too standard, but it is a change) I just received my new pocket filo over the weekend and joyfully downsized. I LOVE IT!!! But this means I decided not to keep my bank balance register in my planner anymore.
ReplyDeleteSpecialized forms. I use lined paper for about 90 percent of my pages (contacts, to-dos, lists).
ReplyDeleteI do use the finance/checkbook form, but could switch to grid paper without too much pain.
(Bucking the trend though, I do keep contacts in my Filo. Too many bad experiences with dupes, data-loss and unavailability to totally commit this information to an electronic solution.)
In my A5 ( home filo ) i dont use tabs/dividers - as i have to many things in it , i use post it ,,tabs'' and made my own . i don't use to do sheets - as don't need them
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In my A5 Lyndhurst (used for work) I have my contacts printed from OUTLOOK, but do not use the AZ index - this filo is totally packed. In my personal Finsbury, I do not use the finance pages (preferring to reconcile using an EXCEL spreadsheet), but like the to do's and the lined/blank cotton cream (am also trying a holiday journal for the first time using the diary pages).
ReplyDeleteI don't have contacts or address info - kept instead in Google Contacts. No To-Do, as I tend to squeeze that into calendar pages.
ReplyDeleteI do not have the AZ tabs or any contacts in my FF. I have those on my BlackBerry and laptop. I may be somewhere without my FF but I am never without my BlackBerry. I have it synched with Google so I can access it from either BB or laptop (or indeed any computer).
ReplyDeleteI do not have ToDo pages or any of the other formatted pages (i.e. financial), just ruled and quad-ruled pages, along with my diary pages, monthly tabs.
When I get my FF printer paper, I do plan on making some templates of my own. As we're having a postal strike right now here in Canada, I hope my order doesn't go astray in the mail and non-delivery mess.
I've been using my Midori Travelers for a few months and there are things I miss about my filo - This post got me thinking about what WAS not in my filo and the answer was pretty much a lot of things I wanted. A lot of people have multiple filos and I had one, granted it was a great leather personal one but heres the thing. I would have loved an a5 - but I couldnt afford the refills I would have needed to make the personal complete. when push came to shove I needed something bigger, I suppose. I know there are some pretty cheap filos but they feel cheap. I liked the feel of the good leather I had. Most filos I see in stores arent the same as they were 15 years ago, they used to have a richer feel. More quality is all I can say. They were another breed of planner.
ReplyDeleteI shopped around for different inserts and hole punches, etc. to see if I could make it work But in the end another type of planner - with leather that feels wonderful - just ended up being better.
But like I said, there are things I miss very much. Tracy
I don't have a diary in any of my filofaxes, the one I usually use doesn't have contact details but I do have my contact details on paper. I don't trust that electronics won't fail.
ReplyDeleteI have to join the no contacts group. I used to have them when I used my domino, but never used them enough- they stayed put when I switched to my Malden!
ReplyDeleteI guess the other odd thing I don't keep in my Filo is a pen! Again, I used to have one, but now I just keep them all in a pen case in my handbag. I feel like this route gives me more space and prevents all my tabs from being smooshed. But we'll see- I'm always changing something around!
I do not have contacts in my Pocket Filofax which I have just started setting up and this will be my "always carry with me" filo. But I have kept the A-Z tabs for vocabulary English-German, Spanish-English. I also do not use the Info sheets that come with the Filos.
ReplyDeleteI never use financial forms in my Filofaxes (but sometimes I keep them as scratch paper for notes.) I also pull out the A-Z tabs but sometimes keep a few as templates for when I make dividers out of pretty paper.
ReplyDeleteI do keep contacts in my Chameleon, which is my main Filofax, but they are written out on colored notepaper and grouped by category (important numbers like husband's cell, daughter's school, doctor; then work contacts; then local friends; then family & friends back home)
I moved to filofax a few weeks ago as my computer kept losing my recent contacts when syncronising with my phone. Plus occasional power problems meant I couldn't access the data. So I have my most important contacts in all three filofaxes (yes I became hooked)LOL A5 for work Personal for home and mini as a purse/wallet Jill
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