Silent Sunday

 

Adjustable penloop on a Cordwain Higgler organiser (company sadly no longer trading)

Web Finds - Saturday 29 June 2024

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 22 June 2024
2. Silent Sunday
3. Guest Post - A Time Organiser by Toby
4. Free For All Tuesday - No. 699
5. Video Web Finds - Wednesday 26 June 2024
6. Filofax Malden Popularity
7. Free for All Friday No. 816 by Nan

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. Practice Law 6: Your Behavior is a Reflection of What You Truly Believe - FranklinPlanner Talk
2. The Due Diligence of Decision-making - Getting Things Done
3. The Franklin Five: July 2024 - FranklinPlanner Talk
4. big rings vs small rings (for notetaking & sketching) - Filofax
5. Episode #264: Office Hour – Structure - Getting Things Done
6. Link Love: Living Vicariously - The Well-Appointed Desk
7. Web Finds – 26 June 2024 - Travellers Notebook Times
8. Your blog post could appear here. Please let us know if you have a blog that features ring bound organisers.

• Please leave a comment on any of the blogs you enjoyed reading and mention that you saw their post mentioned on Philofaxy. Thank you
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Free for All Friday No. 816 by Nan

 As the saying goes, you learn something new every day! Recently I learned a new way to define how people prefer to handle information: high context and low context. 

For example, I happen to be very high context. I retain information better when I can put it in a greater context. Hence, I tend to write more surrounding details in my organizer. For example, I forget what "Lunch with Gary" means after a few weeks or even days. So, I write the name of the restaurant and a few words about what Gary and I talked about, maybe even what we ate, which helps me meaningfully recall the event later. 

For low-context people, these details might be distracting and confusing. All they need is simple, clear facts. 

Is your organizer full of context, or as succinct as possible? 

As always on Friday, feel free to discuss anything else related to your ring-bound organizer!

Filofax Malden Popularity

Unless you have been in a deep sleep and not reading the Philofaxy Video Web Finds, recently you can't have missed how popular the Filofax Malden currently is. 

A recent Video Web Finds had a large number of Malden videos in it (~25%) 

• Came out in 2010;
• Initially only in Personal and Pocket sizes; 
• Mini discontinued at one point only to come back again;
• Many colours released over the years;
• It looked like the model would be discontinued at one point but it has soldiered on for many years;
• It has been made in all sizes except A4;
• Many accessories too, wallets, phone holders, tablet sleeves, e-reader sleeves etc 
• Fake 'Malden style' organisers exist but low quality and sold on various on-line sites:
• The leather quality and quality of manufacturing has varied over the years, people tend to like the earlier examples more than recent ones. 
• Orche has been in the range since day one. 

 

Do you own or have owned a Malden? 

Video Web Finds - Wednesday 26 June 2024

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. New GanchiPlans Insert! - GanchiPlans
2. Mail time 61 - Filofax Mini Domino - Flatability
3. Plan With Me! Week of June 24th - BuySellPlan
4. Planner Chat | Personal Rings | B6 Journal - Nessie Plans
5. Filofax wallet holborn pocketrings planner setup - kti. plans
6. The Atelier Box | June 2024 Sub Box Review + Practical Uses | Cloth & Paper - The Planner Aisle
7. FC Compact Plan With Me | Week 25 | Caramel Moterm Personal Luxe 2.0 | FCC Inserts | EDC - My Moxie Dreams
8. New Planner Setup|| Agenda 52 || Pereonal Wide || Day Designer|| Weekly Daily || Functional Planning - Life With MJB
9. Planner Chat | Personal Rings | B6 Journal - Nessie Plans
10. How I use the Franklin Covey method + FREE digital planner!!! - MomYePlans
11. Plan With Me || June 24 - 30, 2024 || Last week of June in my NEW Vintage Aurora! - Sandra Dahl
12. Plan With Me: June Week 3 Reset | Plum Paper Planner Unboxing | Filofax Personal Planner - Brittany Vasquez
13. My (Small) Filofax Collection - Best Laid Plans
14. Filofax Classic Croc Organizer - Personal Size in Fuchsia - Linda aka tortagialla
15. Unboxing / Sticker, Sticker, Sticker / Wochendeko im Filofax - Frieda‘s Welt
16. 3 months with Personal Filofax | Post-trip thoughts & my archiving system which costs only $1 - minimalish.journal
17. Filofax saffiano - pocket rings unboxing & setup! + oxknight review - Hungrygalstudios
18. LOUIS VUITTON GM agenda dated pages update - Mentored mindset
19. Filofax The original mini and A5  stationery shopping confession & money chat - Kati plans
20. Mid-June Update - Filofax Personal Holborn - watchbeccaplan
21. Filofax Wochendeko KW 17 2024 | heartsfailing - Heartsfailing
22. Mid Year Techo Kaigi | Hobonichi Filofax Papertessdesigns! - Tori on paper
23. Filofax saffiano - mini rings unboxing, setup & comparison to pocket rings - Hungrygalstudios
24. A5 Filofax Setup halfway through 2024 - new job - Alice's Life
25. Planner Flip-Through | Personal Rings (Gillio Compagna) - Boarding Group Seven
26. Your YouTube video could appear here. If you have a YT channel that features Filofax organisers or similar, please let us know. (steve at philofaxy dot com) Alternatively ensure your video contains 'Filofax' or 'Rings' in the title or description. 

• Please leave a comment on any of the videos you enjoyed and mention you saw a link on Philofaxy. 
• For tips on how to improve your videos, please see this post.  Also this video too Webfinds 
• Your Filofax/Organiser Videos could appear in this list, just contact philofaxy at gmail dot com to be added to our monitoring list. 
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Free For All Tuesday - No. 699

What questions or discussion points have you got for us today?

It doesn't matter if you are a beginner or a more experienced user of organisers, we want to hear your thoughts, questions, opinions etc.

We are here to answer your questions.

Make today the one day you post a comment or post a question. If you are commenting as 'Anonymous', please include your name in the text of your comment. 

It is Tuesday after all, so fire away with any questions and comments.

If you are commenting below, please include your first name at the end of the comment. Thank you. 

Guest Post - A Time Organiser by Toby

 Thank you to Toby for contacting us with details of a recent find

Hello organiser enthusiasts. I found this beauty hiding on a shelf in a local charity shop.

I couldn't identify it at first, until eventually, after a convoluted search around the web, I discovered Time/System organisers and from there I found a reference to 'A' Time on this blog.

The binder had various inserts within it that seem to be a mix of FiloFax, 'A' time and maybe some other brand. 

My feeling is that it's a Time/System binder with 'A' time inserts. I'm guessing its something to do with the book 'A' time by James Noon. 

It's quite a heavy A5 binder in leather with Koloman Handler rings. It has got two pen loops and quite a wide fastening strap. I have attached some pics. It is a bit mysterious and I really like it. 

Toby

The inserts:

Thank you Toby, this is a great find. You should be able to find a copy of the book 'A Time - Busy Managers Action Plan for Self Management' on one of the used bookstores on line. 

Silent Sunday

 

Journal pages - thank you to Daniel

Web Finds - Saturday 22 June 2024

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 15 June 2024
2. Silent Sunday
3. Guest post series - 'Filohax' No. 11 - Paul
4. Free For All Tuesday - No. 698
5. Video Web Finds - Wednesday 19 June 2024
6. Gillio Compagna HBxWA5
7. Free For All Friday No 815 by Laurie

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. Guest Post: Three Yorkshiremen tanning at the salon… - This Bug's Life
2. Dad You’re The Best! - FranklinPlanner Talk
3. PLOTTER Leather Binder Case and the Charm of Ultrasuede - PLOTTER USA
4. Do you need blotter paper? - The Well-Appointed Desk
5. The Simplest Mid-Year Reset to Uplevel Your Life in the Next 6 Months! - Strange & Charmed
6. Patina galore! - This Bug's Life
7. RELEASE: the Mella Compagna 
8. The pen loop is so small - Filofax
9. Episode #263: Skills Lab – Project Planning - Getting Things Done
10. Link Love: Have Pens, Will Travel - The Well-Appointed Desk
11. Web Finds – 19 June 2024 - Travellers Notebook Times
12. Your blog post could appear here. Please let us know if you have a blog that features ring bound organisers.

• Please leave a comment on any of the blogs you enjoyed reading and mention that you saw their post mentioned on Philofaxy. Thank you
• We monitor over 400 blogs and sites, your Filofax/Organiser blog posts could appear in this list, just contact philofaxy at gmail dot com to be added to our monitoring list. 
• We can not guarantee people will read your posts, but we know there is a higher chance of people reading your posts and returning to read other posts if you make them interesting with pictures and good hints and tips. 
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Free For All Friday No 815 by Laurie

Do you use a particular time management system in your Filofax such as GTD, Franklin Planner, etc.? 

I've read about and tried so many systems over the years, but none of them work for me as they are. However I have incorporated aspects of many into my own system. 

If you look at a lot of time management systems, many have similar aspects: prioritisation of tasks, scheduling events while leaving yourself enough time to accomplish tasks, batching similar tasks, and more.

What time management systems or components do you use?

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

Gillio Compagna HBxWA5

Gillio have recently released a new size of Compagna, it was previewed at their event in November 2023, but it was a very busy event so I didn't get a decent chance to look at it. 

Gillio were kind to send me one from the first production batch to review, and this is it. 

From that photograph you might not be able to understand the size or have heard of it before. 

HBxWA5 equates to HB=Height Bible (Bible is the reference to Personal size in Japan) by A5 Width. 

The page size is therefore 171mm high (Personal Size height) by 148 mm wide (A5 width) and it uses Personal size (spacing) rings. 

It's not a new size or one exclusive to Gillio, this size is popular in the Far East and a French organiser firm also sell organisers/inserts in this size. 

You might recall this post, about one in this size bought by GMax for note keeping back in 2015.  

Comparing it to regular A5, the organisers are about the same width but not as tall. 

Looking at the interior. You will see that the pocket arrangements aren't the same as the A5.

The HBxWA5 has two additional card pockets on the surface of the inside back cover rather than the full width business card/papers slot which has been moved to the front cover on the face of the zip pocket. 

The location of the elasticated pen loop has been moved up to compensate for the reduced height. There is also an elasticated pen loop on the leather fly-leaf. 

When it comes to inserts, there are some from the French company Mignon 

They are some inserts also available from Amazon Japan, but the shipping and taxes can be expensive:

• Daily
• Weekly
• Monthly
• Note Paper

I suspect there might be other suppliers soon. 

I decided to attempt to create some of my own by adapting the Philofaxy Diary Inserts to suit. Being the same width as A5 I naturally choose the A5 inserts, but the reduced height means that the normal A5 page height of 210mm is reduced by 38mm, or 19mm at the top and 19mm at the bottom. 

I've not quite got the margins dialled in correctly yet on these test inserts, but you can see that the designs would work reasonably well in this different format. 

As mentioned in the introduction it uses Personal Size ring spacing and this example came fitted with 26mm Krause rings. 

If we take Filofax Personal size as the starting point the width difference for different sizes that use this height page is as follows: 

Size	Dimensions	Width
Filofax Personal	171x95mm	zero difference
Franklin Covey Compact	171x108mm	+13mm
Personal Wide	171x121mm	+26mm
B6	176x125mm	+30mm
HBxWA5	171x148mm	+53mm

Personal Wide or B6 inserts would also work in HBxWA5 size and still allow for very wide tabs! You would also be able to have 30mm Krause rings fitted without any fear of page overhang. 

Depending on the popularity of this size we might make some 'ready to print' diary inserts available on Philofaxy, we will certainly consider producing a future post on how to convert the existing files to fit this size. I didn't want to get in to that in his review post. 

Please comment below if you would like to see how to create your own inserts in this size.

Finally the HBxWA5 comes in a special box rather than the usual Gillio brown box:

Would you consider using this size? 

Thank you to Gillio Firenze in Belgium for supplying the sample for me to examine and review.

Further information: 

Gillio - IIC bvba
Breedveld 2 unit 7
1651 LOT (Beersel)
Belgium

+32 (0)2 380 63 19

Email: helpdesk@gillio.be

Announcement post: https://www.gillio.be/en/blog-2/mellacompagna
Website: https://www.gillio.be
Facebook page: Gillio Firenze
Facebook group: Gillio Firenze

Instagram: @GillioFirenze 

Video Web Finds - Wednesday 19 June 2024

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. LV PM Agenda: Set-up and used as a wallet - MamaG
2. Plan with me | Journal with me | B6 | Personal Rings - Nessie Plans
3. June Planner Updates - dr_alvaplans
4. Filofax Croc Compact Setup 翻手帐聊天 - Lornaonmoon
5. Janet Leather Porpora Pink/JL Black Standard Rings Van Der Spek VDS Planner - Dana’s Desk
6. Plan with Me in my VDS Undyed Nubuck Ecume with FC Compact Inserts | Personal Planner - MaineMamaPlans
7. Plan With Me | June 17-23 | Gillio Medium Compagna - Randi Sullivan
8. Have Fun Planning with me in my work Planner 10-16 of June - Natalia
9. Quick Planner Flipthrough (Newly Reorganized) - GanchiPlans
10. Setup My Personal Filofax Rings Planner With Me - Chamie Castillo
11. Plans with me in my Family planner :) - Natalia
12. Plan With Me || Franklin Classic || June 17 23, 2024 || Half Letter || NEW Vintage Aurora - Sandra Dahl
13. Pocket rings setup in the filofax ranger | lindseyscribbles - lindseyscribbles
14. てちょ活/A5システム手帳/オリジナルオーガナイザー/FILOFAX - ミッチャンチ
15. Unboxing Filofax Classic Croc Personal Compact Fuchsia｜Filofax A6 Personal 粉鳄开箱 - Lornaonmoon
16. Filofax Wochendeko KW 15 2024 | heartsfailing - Heartsfailing
17. Pocket planner love - One Crafty Dolo
18. Filofax review not sponsored - Bertha budgets
19. 翻翻看：Filofax croc compact粉鳄, LV定页本, Moterm pocket粉鳄，定制Peublo皮三折手帐本, lovedoki黑鳄 - Lornaonmoon
20. Weekly plan with me | personal rings | filofax original | minimal planner | Nicole Makes Plans - Nicole Makes Plans
21. Setup My Personal Filofax Rings Planner With Me - Chamie Castillo
22. Week 2 || Flip Through Personal Rings Filofax - Paper, Pens & Coffee
23. Daily Journal pages in my FiloFax - OrganizedandBlessedMom
24. A5 planner, pt 1. - One Crafty Dolo
25. How To Make A Laminated Folder For Your Walmart Daily Planners - Scrapcraftastic
26. Updated Planner Lineup - Natalieplans
27. Introducing the Mella Compagna (HBxWA5) - Gillio Firenze
28.  Filofax Heritage review - personal compact - Flatability
29. Your YouTube video could appear here. If you have a YT channel that features Filofax organisers or similar, please let us know. (steve at philofaxy dot com) Alternatively ensure your video contains 'Filofax' or 'Rings' in the title or description. 

• Please leave a comment on any of the videos you enjoyed and mention you saw a link on Philofaxy. 
• For tips on how to improve your videos, please see this post.  Also this video too Webfinds 
• Your Filofax/Organiser Videos could appear in this list, just contact philofaxy at gmail dot com to be added to our monitoring list. 
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Free For All Tuesday - No. 698

What questions or discussion points have you got for us today?

It doesn't matter if you are a beginner or a more experienced user of organisers, we want to hear your thoughts, questions, opinions etc.

We are here to answer your questions.

Make today the one day you post a comment or post a question. If you are commenting as 'Anonymous', please include your name in the text of your comment. 

It is Tuesday after all, so fire away with any questions and comments.

If you are commenting below, please include your first name at the end of the comment. Thank you. 

Guest post series - 'Filohax' No. 11 - Paul

Thanks very much again to Paul for this eleventh instalment of his wonderful guest post series.
You can find all of the 'Filofhax' posts here.

Filohax sketchbook

It's taken me 20 years to figure out my latest 'Filohax', but it has been worth the wait - using a personal size Filofax to house multiple kinds of sketch papers. 

If any artists out there reading this consider the established order of things, you will understand how limited bound sketchbooks like Moleskines are - you get one type of paper per sketchbook, meaning that you have to decide before you leave for a sketching expedition how many different pads you are going to need. 

I made the move away from Moleskines after 20 years, because I knew after getting back into FF that it was bonkers to carry a binder AND a sketchbook when a Filofax can do both jobs. 

At first I just replicated what I had been doing in the Moleskines - using cream paper to do my sketching onto. The change into using whatever coloured or textured paper I felt like happened when I was preparing for a holiday by the sea a year ago. 

It was a proper 'bolt from the blue' moment when I thought how difficult the sea is to render in monochrome, and realised - 'why not draw onto coloured paper using white to create highlights?' 

It all changed in that moment, I can now keep quite a wide range of different stocks in my EDC / Sketchbook (a Slimline Executive in Kid leather), and with my Filofax pencil case snug in the rings I've got everything I need. 

Give it a try; you know it makes sense!

Slimline Executive in kid leather