27 March 2009

More Travellers Tales


Philofaxy reader Steve has done something wonderful—created a travel checklist that you can print out for your own Personal size Filofax and similar binders.

It lives on D*I*Y Planner at http://www.diyplanner.com/node/6485.

(At this writing, the D*I*Y Planner link isn't working yet. It takes time for new uploads to become available for viewing. Just keep trying!)

Good travels to you all!

Free for All Friday No. 29

Have a great weekend and comment on any subject you wish!

—Inky

25 March 2009

Travellers Checklist in Detail

Here are the scans of Filofax's Travellers Checklist, an English printing copyrighted in the late 1980s.

I hope these TIFFs are legible. I wish they had come out clearer.

Clicking these images will deliver you to the Flickr page. To read the fine print, click to go to the Flickr page and then click the All Sizes button just above the main image. On the next page that opens, click the Original link to see the full-size image, which is the most legible.

21 March 2009

Weekend Update

I had planned to upload the scanned Traveller's Checklist today, but it turns out the scanned document is a PDF, which I can't upload to either Blogger or Flickr. I will have to figure out a way to convert it to JPEG.

Meanwhile, I'll talk about my most recent Daily Planner order.

- Pocket size 2009 2-days per page for my fitness filo. My diary ends in July, since it's academic year. I've decided to buy a 2009 calendar to finish out the year so I don't have to worry about finding academic ones from now on. Also, I'm switching from week-per-2-pages to give myself more room to write.

- Pocket page marker, frosted plastic. Mine broke as I was pulling it out recently!

- 2 notebooks. One Rhodia and one Miquelrius in sizes similar to the Personal Filofax. One reader asked whether there's a notebook whose pages can be inserted into a Personal, so I've ordered these two to test them.

- A5 2009 week-per-page with notes (on the facing page). I think this might solve the problem I've been having with my work filo, which is currently week-per-2-pages (without appointments). I need a way to keep a list in front of my face, and even without the appointment slots I don't fill up each day's space. The week-per-page gives a truly tiny amount of space per day. We'll see if it's too little even for me!

20 March 2009

Free for All Friday No. 28

Today's the Vernal Equinox -- the first day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere -- according to the World and Time page in my Filofax. It's the Autumnal Equinox, first day of autumn for our antipodal friends. Although I heard from one of my Gothamite friends that New York City had snow for about an hour today.

But we don't have to talk about the weather. Leave comments about whatever you wish.

—Inky

P.S. I finally managed to scan the Traveller's Checklist, and will be posting that this weekend. More scans coming soon!