Do you use your ring-bound organizer for everything, or do you use a bound notebook for other purposes—journaling or a special project, for example?
I'm often tempted to journal on a blank page in my organizer, but I find the pages can get lost among everything else. I like to journal in a separate bound book where I can see the flow of my thoughts.
And as always on Fridays, feel free to discuss or ask anything related to Filofaxes or other ring-bound organizers!
Last year I got a load of dividers for my ff. It feels like I've got more dividers than content pages if you take out the diary part. For me having them there allows me to take blank pages from the back and start new projects, collections or long form journals as needed. All neatly compartmentalised.
ReplyDeleteMy only issue is remembering which number, colour or title of divider tab is for what. I often end up just flicking through until I find the section I want or something else that distracts me. It's no better than 50:50 that I'll get to the section wanted without being distracted with me. Organisation must be more than just a place for everything!
What's your favourite filofax colour and why? Any you wish they'd sell? The colour of one model in the design of another?
ReplyDeleteI just wonder as I'm a discrete black kind of a guy with ff. Partly because I don't know anyone using them so there's a guilty or secrecy to using it.
Traditional brown? Business black? Not sure what grey? Extrovert fuscia? Or just like the colour. It's not like you can wake up and take the filofax that best suits your mood, activities or clothing each day. It takes time to migrate between filofaxes so you have to pick a colour and stick.
I think that some time ago I would've answered that my favourite Filofax colour would be red as it's one of my favourite colours & it's a lovely bright shade for an organiser. However, my favourite Filofax is actually black which is due to the leather & how well the layout works for me. I've also owned that particular model in a tan colour, but I didn't like it as much as the leather wasn't as soft as the black one...
DeleteI'm partial to Dark Navy Blue, but I also have a lot of black and brown organisers in my collection. Also colour combinations work well too. I have a couple of planners that are black on the outside and red on the inside with contrasting stitching too.
DeleteI'm definitely partial to traditional brown. I have an ancient Windsor in brown, and an A5 Malden in ochre that I use for work and completely adore. But I recently got a personal Lockwood in Garnet that is truly gorgeous. I also have an A5 Lockwood in Navy that is also beautiful.
DeleteI currently have two bound notebooks that I'm using as well - one for journalling & the other for some study & projects. Whilst I love ring-bound organisers, I find that sometimes a notebook may be better, e.g. for meeting notes, so I enjoy using both.
ReplyDeleteIf you asked what I am using I'd answer with everything.
DeleteFF for diary and important personal stuff. Notebook in A4 as bullet journal for work. A5 day to page diary for work to log a particular aspect of my job. Cheapo travellers notebook for another aspect of my work and to check if it could replace a few things in one package. I've got an urge to buy a leather fauxdori.
I use a Filofax to journal in, and at the end of each month, I put the pages into a binder, with months/year label on the spine.
ReplyDeleteFavourite colour either black or brown.
I use a bound day planner as my journal, I prefer to keep it in that format because it is easier to file at the end of the year. It also gives me focus on what I have been spending my time on.
ReplyDeleteNotebooks also have some use in my system but less so than ring bound organisers.
I remember as a kid wanting one of those Psion electronic PDAs. They were the future I once thought. So now I have a mobile phone that's got a bigger / better screen, more processing power, more memory and greater capability. But I don't use it as much more than communication, Internet browsing and telephone address book. Basically functions that an analogue organiser can't do that well.
ReplyDeleteRings for planning, but a bound book of sorts for journaling. To me, a journal is a separate entity. I do make notes in my planner if there's something I want to journal about later.
ReplyDeleteWell I'm getting interested in the travelers notebook system again for work projects. I've seen one that's extra wide to take even more inserts without overhang. There's no equivalent with filofaxes except the Belmont double popper expansion, but that has a limit with ring size. The TN allows inserts to be filed away once the project has finished without needing another holding file.
ReplyDeleteI still like my filofax though. There's still room for me than one system.