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!
Hi, 2 days ago I got my first Filofax, A5 Meadow.... the first title page with foil had a code sticker on it which I could not remove easily....not nice rests of sticker stayed on the foil...☹️ how to clean it without demaging the foil? Why was the sticker placed there when it is not possible to remove it??...the titel page is so important, nobody wants stupid rests of sticker on the first page of a new expensive diary...thanks Marcela
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ReplyDeleteWD40 but be careful!
ReplyDeleteThank you, I would not belive, but wd40 had helped, the foil is perfectly clean :-)))
DeleteI've tried Getting Things Done, Flylady, and Franklin Planner, but simple prioritization of tasks is what I always come back to. I've also borrowed the Franklin concept for using 2 pages per day and keeping notes on the day I took them, then indexing the notes at the end of the month. I currently print my own diaries.
ReplyDeleteOn a different FFAF topic, I've been playing with ideas for duplex binders. Now, there has been some previous discussion of Filofax Duplex binders:
ReplyDeletehttps://philofaxy.blogspot.com/search/label/Duplex
including this alternative design:
https://philofaxy.blogspot.com/2018/10/guest-post-keyword-dual-ring-binder-by.html
But I didn't like either of those. So I came up with an alternative, which is to have a 'S-shaped binder', with ring mechanisms in each of the S folds. It's probably not an original idea, but I don't recall seeing it before; I have seen books/magazines that have inverted front/back sections, so making a 'dual front cover' book. Some of the rationale is to have more capacity, without the bigger rings; bigger diameter rings require wider binders, and I think need more thickness, for a given thickness of retained leaf stack.
Having had the idea a few months back, I was stumped for a while, because the outer face of one half becomes the inner face of the other. But, having recently bought a Personal Clipbook, with a simple doubled & bonded vinyl fabric for the covers, I realised I could make my S-shaped cover from two pieces, overlapped and bonded in the middle, and folded and doubled for the outer covers. This allows the outer of each half to stay as the outer. Front and back covers of each half (their outer, and shared centre) are both double thickness, leaving single thickness for the flexible spine.
Mocked up with cereal packet cardboard (both the overlapped centre, and doubled outers), and a couple of cheap, Amazon Pocket mechanisms loosely fastened, the concept works surprisingly well. At the moment, I use a large rubber band around both binders, but two centrally-fastened elastic bands would be better, or just conventional tab/popper fasteners. It is surprisingly easy to use each of the binder halves, and they seem to rest quite nicely in the hand or on the desk. For my use, each half will contain a different manual (Instruction and Operation). To identify which half is which, when the binder is closed, each cover half could be a different colour or style.
So I'm now on the lookout for some vinyl fabric, similar to that used on the Clipbook, to have a go at making a more permanent experiment. I think I would add a thin strip of double fabric or plastic reinforcement (e.g. slice of PET bottle sidewall) down the spine, before riveting the mechanism in place. And use double, bonded layer for the front and back cover.
Any thoughts? If anyone is interested in seeing pictures of my 'Fruit & Fibre' binder, I can ask Steve to put some up.
Kevin
On a different FFAF topic, I've been playing with ideas for duplex binders. Now, there has been some previous discussion of Filofax Duplex binders:
ReplyDeletehttps://philofaxy.blogspot.com/search/label/Duplex
including this alternative design:
https://philofaxy.blogspot.com/2018/10/guest-post-keyword-dual-ring-binder-by.html
But I didn't like either of those. So I came up with an alternative, which is to have a 'S-shaped binder', with ring mechanisms in each of the S folds. It's probably not an original idea, but I don't recall seeing it before; I have seen books/magazines that have inverted front/back sections, so making a 'dual front cover' book. Some of the rationale is to have more capacity, without the bigger rings; bigger diameter rings require wider binders, and I think need more thickness, for a given thickness of retained leaf stack.
Having had the idea a few months back, I was stumped for a while, because the outer face of one half becomes the inner face of the other. But, having recently bought a Personal Clipbook, with a simple doubled & bonded vinyl fabric for the covers, I realised I could make my S-shaped cover from two pieces, overlapped and bonded in the middle, and folded and doubled for the outer covers. This allows the outer of each half to stay as the outer. Front and back covers of each half (their outer, and shared centre) are both double thickness, leaving single thickness for the flexible spine.
Mocked up with cereal packet cardboard (both the overlapped centre, and doubled outers), and a couple of cheap, Amazon Pocket mechanisms loosely fastened, the concept works surprisingly well. At the moment, I use a large rubber band around both binders, but two centrally-fastened elastic bands would be better, or just conventional tab/popper fasteners. It is surprisingly easy to use each of the binder halves, and they seem to rest quite nicely in the hand or on the desk. For my use, each half will contain a different manual (Instruction and Operation). To identify which half is which, when the binder is closed, each cover half could be a different colour or style.
So I'm now on the lookout for some vinyl fabric, similar to that used on the Clipbook, to have a go at making a more permanent experiment. I think I would add a thin strip of double fabric or plastic reinforcement (e.g. slice of PET bottle sidewall) down the spine, before riveting the mechanism in place. And use double, bonded layer for the front and back cover.
Any thoughts? If anyone is interested in seeing pictures of my 'Fruit & Fibre' binder, I can ask Steve to put some up.
Kevin
Hi Kevin
DeleteMulberry made some like your idea, see this post:
https://thisbugslife.com/2016/02/09/mulberry-double-binder-in-black/
Steve
Aha! I thought someone would _surely_ have got there before me... In my prototype, the halves overlap much more; those Mulberry ones have a distinct 'step' between each half that I don't like, for a reason I cannot justify rationally at the moment; just 'looks wrong'...
DeleteDelving further back into Philofaxy history, I found this post:
Deletehttps://philofaxy.blogspot.com/2016/01/design-your-own-organiser-how-difficult.html
Steve's pictures of possible duplex binders look very similar to mine, including the issue of what happens when you open an 'S-duplex' binder up. I experimented by placing two kid leather Pocket binders back-to-back. Surprisingly, with one open & one closed, the open one does lie quite flat. I guess that's down to the excellent flexibility of kid leather.
I did order some vinyl leatherette fabric from eBay, but it's much thicker than I hoped, so will keep looking for a Clipbook-style fabric.
Kevin.