When I'm off over the Christmas period, I always have my normal clean and clear out of my Filofax. As part of the process, I consider what has worked well and also about what changes I might want to make for the coming new year.
Something that I have been doing more of in 2025 is using ad hoc trackers for habits and projects, like the one below for my current 100 days of meditation. I use my Hobonichi stencil and find that it's the quickest and easiest way for me to create a tracker as and when I need one. I find that this can work well for projects, such as when I'm working through a backlog of something, and want to keep track of where I got to or how often I'm working on it. In those cases, I'll often just use the stencil to put tick boxes on a sticky note and have that on my dashboard or a divider for quick access. These trackers are working really well for me, so I will definitely be using them on a more regular basis during 2026.
Do you use trackers in your organiser and if so, how do you do this?
And as always on Fridays, please feel free to discuss anything organiser related. I hope that you have a great weekend.
I also use various pages to keep track of things like medication and lists to break down plans into easy steps. I'd never considered a stencil though, so thank you for the tip -
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Where did you find the little stencil? I just switched back to my pocket planner and I could use something like this...
ReplyDeleteIt's a Hobonichi Stencil; the 'Basic', in this case. There are other stencils available.
DeleteAs someone who used Rotring Micronorm lettering stencils in my youth, the incorrect use of the '8' stencil amuses me; seen here, and in some vendor websites... The Rotring stencil had the two circles horizontally offset, with the intention to draw one, slide the stencil across, and draw the second circle, with the assumption the stencil would rest on the parallel action of a draughtsman's table. I'm sure the Hobonichi is intended to slide the stencil up to draw the lower circle, this forming a normal figure 8, with connected circles.
The '8' stencil has to be made with two circles, because a single, open 8 would not be easy to follow with a pen.
Where did you find the little stencil? I just swiched back to pocket and I wish I could find one of these...
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