27 May 2022

Free For All Friday No 707 by Laurie

Believe it or not, I am already planning events more than a year from now. I'm making reservations and writing in dates 13 months from now, and more.

I keep far-future planning pages in my Filofax for just such things. I have monthly pages all the way through 2024. I use the Philofaxy month on two pages free printables, and I print them single-sided so the backs of the pages are blank. I stuck on month tabs (I like the ones from Personal Planner but loads of businesses sell them) so I can flip easily to the right month. Between the months I add in pages for planning or notes related to anything happening that month, so that when I arrive at that month, everything I need to know is already there. 

Do you do far-future planning in your Filofax? What system do you have for planning beyond the current year?

And as always on Fridays, feel free to ask and/ or discuss anything Filofax related!


9 comments:

  1. Absolutely I do! That is what planners are for, no? ;) I print my own inserts so that gives me some flexibility. For years I have been using week on 2 Pages spread, and I would normally carry About 12 months in advance. I always carry a sheets called ‚Next’ to capture anything that goes beyond the period I currently hold in my planner. Its just an empty sheet.

    I have changed jobs recently and decided to start with dailies which I didnt need before. I have moved to dailies entirely but after few months I am still missing the weekly view so I have just reintroduced that. I carry now around 12 months of weeklies that I use for future planning and dailies only for next 2-3 weeks. I hope this will work but we shall Find put - i need to give it some time!

    I use month tabs to get to the right month on weeklies and today marker for dailies. I don’t think its perfect but I will know better once I have a good Run with it.

    I do like your system very much, but I don’t like monthly spreads, far too little space for me to do anything meaningful with it ;)

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  2. I'm currently in future planning limbo! Our son and family are patiently waiting to exchange contracts on the sale of their apartment and new house, they hope to move within the next 2-3 weeks... but until they have exchanged contracts nothing is certain.

    And to add to the fun! I'm grounded waiting for my new passport to arrive, it's just a straight renewal, but it could take up to 11 weeks! (Mid July) before it arrives, they have taken over 3 weeks just to acknowledge receipt of my old passport that I had to post back to them after submitting my application on-line.

    I use the yearly planner from Philofaxy (of course!) to plan travels and future events. The planner is one I've used for years, it started originally as an Excel spreadsheet!

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  3. I have so many different folders with different layouts. Future planning depends on the folder but I have found the 6 month grid with space to put in dates and what's happening is working well for this year and next. This is on top of either a plain page for a month or just weeklies up to the end of the year

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  4. I have an insert I designed myself that mimics a Future Log from the Bullet Journal Method. It's been working great, and I add the four seasons so if something isn't month specific but season specific, I can put it there. An example: prune peach tree in winter.

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  5. Future planning? That goes into the week to two pages for the year I'm in. Planning further in advance simply doesn't work for me. I'm not that organised and never will be. For example, I'm still planning my short break over the jubilee Bank Holiday weekend! Lol

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  6. Definitely do some future goals mapping. For the past few years I do a mind map of goals that year. Then try to tag those with a month in the year. We just recently bought a house, so now I've got a map of things to work on for the next few years.

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  7. Mind mapping is a tool I've never understood or been able to use. Just don't get it. Don't know why or how but I can't do it. Real blank page thing for me!

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    1. The nice thing about mind-mapping is that you start small, with a single word or idea. Then you just go from there. There are no wrong answers. Once you've covered most of a letter-size page, you're in The Zone and heaven only knows what may pop out. 🤪

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  8. Just doesn't work for me. I might write the first words but nothing happens next. I get zero insight or inspiration from that tool. I have no idea why but I get a block from that tool. I'm better off simply writing a list as I get something from that but not mind mapping. Each to their own I guess.

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