Do you ever look at your organiser sometimes and go, "Arggh!"?
For some reason, that was my response the other day and I wasn't sure why at first. I'm still using my faithful GTD set up that works for me and I'm not in planner fail, so what's going on?! And then I realised that sometimes I just feel like I need more space, even though personal size suits me well normally. All of my supplies are in personal size, so I don't really have any interest in returning to A5 either.
As you do, I had a good rummage in my stationery supplies and came across this A4 pad that I had been considering giving away, as it's never been used.
I trimmed off the excess height, so that it would fit (sorry, Mr Sloth) and hey presto... more space! I've snipped through next to the punched holes as I think it'll be easier to write on if I remove the page.
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The back of the page is blank, so I'm considering how I might use that as well, but I'm very happy as this solves my problem and uses up something from my supplies too.
Do you use any larger folded pages or inserts in your organiser to give you more space?
Here are some previous posts, in case they might be of interest:
- Want to use bigger pages in your A5... it's possible
- Larger pages in your A6 organiser
- Can I fit an A5 page in to my Personal Filofax?
And as always on Fridays, please feel free to discuss anything organiser related. I hope that you have a great weekend.
Nice observation that removing the 'dead space' would leave a Personal 171mm.
ReplyDeleteI might have trimmed the right margin, and gone for a quad fold (folding back from Monday first), leaving each day a clean 'page' with no fold. But that would, of course, have meant a weird, narrow page in the organiser, that might not 'work'.
Kevin
Hi Kevin, yes, I was quite pleased with how it fits well to the height. Thanks for the idea about about a quad fold instead & I will give it a try 🙂
DeleteI've moved on to a discbound planner, it was time to try something new. However Anita mentioned something above that blew my mind. Snipping from the edge of the paper to the holes! So now you have a ring bound planner and you don't have to open the rings up to remove pages.
DeleteHad anyone tried that and is it something that could work long term like discbound?
I put a band of washi tape over the side before i punch the holes and snip them, that way its sturdier.
DeleteSome years ago my pages started taking on strange configurations and shapes, fold out, fold up, concertina pockets, double sided folds, star shapes, octagons.
ReplyDeleteIt all started with a dalliance into moleskines and finding that I needed inserts, notelets, extra places to keep stuff beyond the back pocket and I couldn't insert a page if I had thought of something too late. I would stuff notes in-between leaves and hoping the elastic would keep them in place. One day I was tired of slips of paper falling out. In frustration I went at them with a glue stick.
That was a revelation. Because presently I realised I could attach them at angles, or sticking off to the side. Suddenly the limitations of a boring page were gone. There emerged an immense freedom in not having to constrain myself within a regular rectangle. If I want to carry on up beyond the edge of the paper I do just that. I stick a piece on, in the direction I want to go, and carry on writing.
Anarchy.
It works even better in a filofax, because the pages don't have to squeeze between the covers of a book like in a moleskine.
And it is particularly useful for non linear time management systems like circular timelines because you can attach time blocks at any point and fold them out like petals on flower, unfolding as the day passes.
Each page becomes an individually origamical random flourish. My Filofax is now a bouquet of paper blooms bursting out from the binder. A garden of productivity and inspiration.
Free yourselves from the tyranny of the page. Buy a glue stick. Go crazy.
Thank you for the alternative use of these types of planner pages. As a crafter I keep the refillable temporary and permanent glue tapes in my pen case. Periodically crafting in my planner on-the-go is fun. Especially when it's an A5 day of meetings, errands, and appointments. -Jessie, Pittsburgh, Stateside.🌻🌻🌻
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