Usual tradition, or at least mine is that you swap your diary inserts over at New Year. I can see several people nodding their heads in agreement.
Well this year I'm going to break tradition by swapping in to my new set up on Monday 1st December!!
Why Steve why are you doing this?
I'm inpatient to try out my Personal Size set up, also the end of the year tends to be a busy time for me. To avoid that and give me a month overlap I've printed off an extra month of my adapted Two Days Per Page Insert and added it in to my Cavendish.
It will also mean I have a smaller organiser to carry with me when travelling at Christmas.
When do you change over? As it is Friday you can of course discuss anything Filofax related.
I just keep a rolling diary going. Although I do print off the whole year in month per page. Then I add in weeklies a few months at a time. An occasional daily appears when I need to get stuff done.
ReplyDeleteAt this rate if I can work out what set up I want by 1st Jan I will be doing well 🤣
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ReplyDeleteI set mine up in April because I needed to plan some key dates for next year. This was just the tabbed month and year sections.
ReplyDeleteFor detailed pages I swap over to an academic mid year because for projects I keep key dates rolling forward.
Just like Steve, I also wait until January 1st to swap all my inserts and calendars. January 1st is "Calendar Day", when I start synchronizing all my analogue calendars (planners and wall calendars), penciling in all the important dates.
ReplyDeleteFor me, I always switch over in the last couple of days of the old year, when I review how things have gone and set new goals (or - too often - old unachieved goals carried forward!). That way I use most of December to concentrate on the myriad of things I’ve yet to achieve (goals, tasks, to-dos), yet still hit New Year’s Day ‘running’!
ReplyDeleteThose days between Boxing Day and New Year's Day are gold dust to me. I usually go to the office where by tradition it's deserted, get quiet, sit down and finalise my plan for next year, a process I will have started back in September when then schools went back, another time of great energy for new beginnings. I used to have a third 'staging point' in the year in the late May bank holiday half term, when we were always on holiday with children and parents-cum-resident-childminders, but that doesn't happen now.
DeleteAs for diary inserts, I roll them out at different times for different perspectives. 2026 has been in my organiser for almost a year as a yearly planner (2027 has now replaced it), monthly since September, weekly more recently. I only use a daily plan when I have too much on, which seems to be often!