31 March 2025

Spring News

Filofax recently announced a new model range called 'The Camden' collection. 

The rings are fixed to a card that slides in to a pocket on the back cover. Therefore you can remove them and use the cover for a bound notebook/journal. Sadly they don't sell these rings separately yet. 

I love the way this has been described as 'Gender Neutral' what I would have once called 'Uni-sex' but that's just me showing my age! They also describe it as 'Vegan Leather' and this is reflected in the price. 


In a past life if someone mentioned the Camden to me, it was a pub in Pembury near Tunbridge Wells!


In other news, Gillio have announced another event later this year. 


Van der Spek have announced their 'Leather of the Month' for April.









29 March 2025

Web Finds - Saturday 29 March 2025

It is time to enjoy a few blog posts from around the internet, grab a drink and make yourself comfortable for our weekly round-up.

Here are some Philofaxy posts you might have missed this week:
  1. Web Finds - Saturday 22 March 2025
  2. Silent Sunday
  3. Philofaxy glossary on Facebook by Anita
  4. Free For All Tuesday - No. 738
  5. Video Web Finds - Wednesday 26 March 2025
  6. Can I Fit Bigger or Smaller Rings?
  7. Free For All Friday - No. 855
Here are the latest Filofax and other brand blog posts from around the Internet. Don't forget to leave a comment on the posts you enjoyed reading, all bloggers enjoy getting comments.
  1. Moving Into Quadrant II (pg. 177-193) - FranklinPlanner Talk
  2. Where to find secondhand Filofax? - Filofax
  3. Episode #303: GTD Project Management - Getting Things Done
  4. New to filofax - Filofax
  5. Welcome to the Franklin Planner Podcast - FranklinPlanner Talk
  6. The Camden Collection - Filofax UK - BLOG
  7. Croc Personal - Filofax
  8. The Power of a Fresh Start - FranklinPlanner Talk
  9. Planner wallet combos - Filofax
  10. The Power of Goal Setting - FranklinPlanner Talk
  11. Quickly create monthly spreads in your bullet journal: These are all the stencils you need - All About Planners
  12. Learning to Delegate (pg. 193-201) - FranklinPlanner Talk
  13. What size is personal size? - Filofax
  14. Black & Red release & restock - Blog | Gillio
  15. Mulberry Filofax help please - Filofax
  16. Building Consistency for Sustainable Progress - FranklinPlanner Talk
  17. Filofax Saffiano A5 - Filofax
  18. PLOTTER 2025 Pop-up Event at Dromgoole’s - PLOTTER USA
  19. The Franklin Five: April 2025 - FranklinPlanner Talk
  20. Link Love: The Introvert Introverts - The Well-Appointed Desk
  21. Web Finds – 26 March 2025 - Travellers Notebook Times
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28 March 2025

Free For All Friday - No. 855

This weekend is one of the two weekends in the year that I look forward to.... the clocks changing here in Europe. North America changed over about 3 weeks ago.  

How exciting!! Whilst a lot of devices in our house change over automatically, there are still quite a few that need to be changed manually. I have actually created an insert with the full list, with some blank spaces, because you always discover one that you missed off the list!

As in recent years I will cheat slightly and do lot of them on Saturday, leaving only visible clocks to be changed on Sunday morning.  

As always on a Friday you are free to discuss anything organiser related. 

Happy clock changing where ever you are....

27 March 2025

Can I Fit Bigger or Smaller Rings?

'Can I fit bigger rings to my Make X Model Y in Size Z?' Is a question I am often asked.

People start the year and as the year progresses so the amount of paper they are carrying increases etc. I'm sure you know the story well.

The answer is 'Yes' and 'No' !

Why you might ask... well let's look at the mechanics of rings.

Rings are available in a variety of sizes and often in gold and silver. In the past they were painted/powder coated a few different colours as well.

Image Source - Van der Spek

The different sizes of organiser and different ring sizes result in different dimensions for the mounting points of the rings on to the base plate. As you can see below Standard (Personal) uses the same base plates for both 25 and 30mm rings. Likewise Senior (A6) uses the same for 20 and 25mm as well as the Gillio 23mm A6 rings.

Sadly, on Junior (Pocket) size they have different mounting point dimensions for the 16 and 20mm rings. Therefore you can't easily upgrade a pocket from 16mm to 20mm rings. You would have to do some surgery to remove the backplate and replace it with the correct one. Not impossible, but you would need to be reasonably skilled to do this sort of work, to re-stitch the exterior and interior leather back together again.



As you can see some conversions are reasonably easy to do 25mm -> 30mm on Standard (Personal/Medium) size are more or less a straight swap.

However, this is where an element of 'No' you can't swap the rings comes in.

Whilst they will physically fit the back plate and work etc, there might be an issue with the space left for the pages, increasing the ring size by 5mm in the above example, means that the thickness of the organiser might be increased by 5mm and the edge pages are moved 5mm closer to the outer edge of the organiser.

That said in some cases the designer obviously considered the larger ring size and the cover is 'bigger'  than the normal size of rings and therefore some can take the larger rings without the pages/tabs sticking out beyond the edge of the organiser.

Is there a list of ones that can take bigger rings? Not as such, but a simple way of telling is to measure the distance from the middle of your paper stack in the organiser to the edge of the organiser when closed. The middle being the highest part of the curve of the rings and is therefore closer to the edge.

Also be aware of the top or the bottom of your stack of pages getting closer to the pen loop if there is one.

Another way of creating the additional space to allow for the increase in ring size is to go from using side tabs to top/bottom tabs.

Going down in ring size say from 30mm to 25mm isn't a problem as long as the ring mounting points are the same, you just need to exchange the rings over. And if you are careful removing the rings you can reverse the change easily should you want to go back to the original size.

I hope that helps and answers your questions, if not please leave a comment below and I will try to respond to your questions as quickly as possible.