19 May 2022

What else is in your organiser?


Your diary insert is most probably the most important component of your organiser, or the most frequently  viewed pages and pages you up date the most often. 

What else do you keep in your organiser? Here is a list of 'stuff' currently lurking in my own organiser. 

  • Maps - I have always loved maps from a young age. I have them for France, London and transport ones too. 
  • To Do Lists - Some long term things, my daily to-do tasks live on my planner pages. 
  • Notes pages, these include my travel packing lists, I also keep a few sheets of blank lined paper here too.  
  • Reference pages - These are fairly random in terms of the contents, but they contain pages that I've created or printed from various sources of miscellaneous information that I need to easily find without a computer being available. It is where my maps live as well. I also keep a copy of my Popular Paper Sizes chart in here too. 
What else do you carry? What accessories do you include? 

13 comments:

  1. That seems pretty much like mine. I also have sticky notes, a pen, a bookmarker. A pending log, a spending tracker, vital tracker, bills due, medical appointment shedule, important dates.

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  2. Whole year dailies, info section (tariffs, suppliers, etc.)+ big lists section (passwords, books, contacts, wines, music, finished lessons in my online course, etc.) + house section (shopping list, freezer inventory, meal ideas, bills, monthly expenses, budgets, my son’s health tracker + medication tracker, his school info and weekly spelling lists) and notes section, where everything else goes (brain dump, recipes, travel packing lists, some notes from internet, prayers etc.)
    I also have a today dashboard and I stick 4 post it with monthly tracker, weekly view, monthly cleaning chart and inbox. All in my little pocket with 25 mm rings.
    Now I am considering to add some maps

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  3. As well as what others have listed, mine contains a rail map and timetable for the local routes, and the spelling alphabets for some of the languages that I speak, as it's easy to confuse them and I can just grab that page when I'm on the phone to reduce any chances of a mix up.

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  4. My basics are note pages, WO1P diary, sticky notes, world map, underground map, general list section, health notes, plastic pocket for odds and ends. All in a personal compact.

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  5. I wonder what folks use make etc for WO1P??? TIA.

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  6. I carry a Personal Filofax as wallet. In my notes section , I have note paper for quick notes, to do lists, and sticky notes. The section on Home has grocery list, menus, freezer and pantry inventory. I also added a chores list. Next is my Money section. My budget, spending, online orders, banks, payments etc go in there. I have a Self section for monitoring my food intake, medication, weight, any symptoms and appointments. Under Dates , I have my year and monthlies, current month dailies, birthdays reminders and anything time related. My last section is for anything I might find useful. Everything else stayed home in my Home binder.

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  7. What is your pen Steve? Look terribly elegant yet fits the pen loop. xxx

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    1. UniBall Vision Elite, I've been using them for a few years now. It's a gel ink but it writes smoothly and fits most pen loops. One of their claims to fame is that they don't leak on flights!

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  8. I’ve recently started carrying some cash notes in my work slimline personal, just as a precaution against losing my contactless card on days at the office in London.

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  9. I believe that I'm a bit unusual as I don't normally have diary inserts in mine (as I use Google calendar instead), but my personal Kensington holds lots of different things like project notes, packing lists, notes taken from books, ideas for Philofaxy posts, podcasts etc. listened to, reading lists, recipes, Mac shortcuts, GTD workflow chart, Hobonichi stencil, SD card & some stamps.

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    1. Next weeks post.... What isn't in your organiser!

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  10. In my A5 Lockwood I have sections dedicated to personal to-do lists, personal notes, personal expenses, work to-do lists, work notes, work meeting notes,work projects section divided by customer, week to two pages diary, address book, a miscellaneous section and a Cheque Book.

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  11. I have six tabs in my personal Sherwood 25mm: Input; To-Do Lists; General Data; Month planner; Day planner; Finance.

    The main section is Day Planner, where I have two years of WTOP Filofax xx-68426 diaries. When each year is inserted, I take time to add details of dates significant to me from a spreadsheet that gives the year and age of the anniversary/event. The diary is then used for appointments (also added to Mac computer ASAP, which then updates iPhone) and notes of things that have happened that day. I use a pencil and many coloured Frixion pens (each colour has a different meaning) plus highlighters of day/date for Bank Holidays, holidays, sickness, etc. Fortunately, I have small handwriting!

    The other major section is Finance, where I keep track of my credit card spending.

    I've got to get used to the GTD method, but I usually use a post-it note with TO-DO things kept on the opposite page of the current week.

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