What is the first page you see when you open your Filofax organiser?
For a long time I'm sure most people saw the first page of their diary insert.
However these days and with the flexibility of all ring bound organisers your 'first page' can be anything from a family photograph to a to-do list or anything really.
A reader gave me this page a few years ago and I adopted it as my 'dashboard' Sadly I can't remember their name, which is very bad of me.
My fellow 'genius' Ray Blake has produced a series of files that you can download and print to create some excellent dashboards, take a look here: http://www.mylifeallinoneplace.com/search/label/Dividers
What is your first page? Let us know in the comments below.
More often than not I just use the black plastic Filofax flyleaf which was supplied with one of my newer organisers, or sometimes a photograph behind a clear flyleaf.
ReplyDeleteVery functional here: plastic protective flyleaf, then straight in to my Inbox pages. There's no room in 11mm rings for non-functional fripperies... I ought to make some functional use of my section dividers, though; checklists, or something, though I don't really have any routines, or maybe I should probably revert to the little plastic post-it tabs I use for section markers in my manuals; the card dividers were to make use of some stock card I bought cheaply...
ReplyDeleteI mainly use dashboards at the front of my organisers to protect the pages but I do occasionally attach post it notes.
ReplyDeleteThe dashboard in my little pocket organiser is a photo of me and my horse Bill; the one in my personal size, which I use in my sewing room, is a page trimmed from my Swedish weaving calendar and the A5 one is for serious work and has a card from Worcester Cathedral Library, from my art degree days.
I love the word cloud opener, that’s great. I use the black plastic Filofax fly leaf too but decorate it, using coloured, patterned paper and washi tape, then I put some themed stickers on it. My journal set up for Autumn has trees and falling leaves.
ReplyDeleteMy work binders have a similar opening page to above with mainly butterfly stickers. I also have an opening page at the start of every section (I use cream official Filofax dividers with more butterflies or flowers for the sections), once I flick the dividers to the right section I then have a page cut from a magazine, that way the paper is thin. Whilst it looks nice it’s actually to give me a privacy screen when I open a section up whilst I’m face to face with people, it gives me greater control over who sees what. I empty out older pages and store tied with a bit of thin string so it doesn’t get too chunky so it works for me. I use the time spent setting them up as thinking time, a moment of simplicity to declutter the mind.