Gillio Meet Up - November 2023

This last weekend saw me travelling to Brussels to take part in the Gillio Meet Up, ten years after the first meet up led by Mella, that one was held on 30 November 2013. There have been many since then of course. 

I knew a lot of the people attending, but we hadn’t seen each other since 2019 at PlannerCon Europe, so it was wonderful to see each other after so long. 

The event was to ‘reveal’ a lot of new/revised products. The event was ‘live streamed’ using a professional company to provide as many people as possible to be there in a virtual sense and get the news about announcements as quickly as the people there. 

The event was held in a former paper-mill powered by a water wheel or steam engine, which I thought was very fitting considering the products revealed at the event. 

You can watch the recording of the event in the video at the foot of this post.  

I hastily wrote down the details of what was announced. 

1. B6 Slim Appunto notebook cover.

2. The Gillio Cat Collection, three colour combinations, in three models (Medium, Pocket, Appunto A6) two fly leaves with cat paws on them, and the face of a cat on the other. Square shaped clasp with a cat paw imprint. 

3. Crocodile leather prototype…. Very much in the early stages of development. Not calf leather, but actual crocodile!

4. Bags have returned in a big way, five different designs, some similar to previous designs, but with improvements such as removable/adjustable straps etc. 

5. The Vintage Collection leather re-visited with more colours and a new quality leather, again in development. This is a link to the original Vintage Collection from February 2019

6. A new size of ring planner to the Gillio collection HBxWA5 this is for a page size that is 172mm (6.76 inches) high by 148mm wide. This equates to Personal page height, but the width of A5. So think of Personal Wide on steroids!! Personal Wide is 26mm wider than Personal Size, HBxWA5 is 27mm wider than Personal Wide, so you end up with a much squarer page but without the height of true A5 (210mm) 

If this format sounds familiar, it is because Gmax did a post for us back in 2015! And there is part 2 as well.

Availability of all of the above outside of the ones that were for sale today is variable with no definite release dates as yet. 

For full details on any of the items, please skip through the video to get the full details as mentioned by Mella, I was just scribbling down notes in a notebook whilst the presentation was going on so I hold me hand up if there are any errors or I mis-heard something!

It was an excellent event, people had the chance to buy some of the items and see some of the yet to go in to production samples and prototypes, some of them had only arrived from Italy on Friday morning!

A big thank you to Tom Van Harlem and all the team at Gillio Firenze for putting on the event for all the fans. Let’s hope we don’t have to wait four years for the next one!

Silent Sunday

 

Gillio Pocket Mia Cara

Web Finds - Saturday 11 November 2023

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 4 November 2023
2. Silent Sunday
3. Guest post series - 'Filohax' No.8 - Paul
4. Free For All Tuesday - No. 666
5. Video Web Finds - Wednesday 8 November 2023
6. Specialist Diary Inserts
7. Free For All Friday No 783 by Laurie

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. The Great Paper Planner Fiasco: A Comedy of Organizational Errors - Planner Fun
2. My A5 Finsbury is too big and heavy - what alternative? - Reddit Filofax
3. Mission Statements – Business, Family, and Personal - FranklinPlanner Talk
4. Episode #232: Paper vs. Digital - Getting Things Done
5. PLOTTER as an Everyday Tool with a Leather Card Case - PLOTTER USA
6. The Great Paper Planner Renaissance: A Sequel of Organizational Escapades - Planner Fun
7. What dot grid size is best for bullet journaling? - All About Planners
8. New to Filofax - Reddit filofax
9. Set up of my 2024 planner - part 2 - StickersSwissMade
10. Introducing the 2023 Advent of Productivity Calendar: Unwrap 24 Days of Functional Planning Tools for Your Perfect 2024 Planner Setup! - Strange & Charmed
11. Link Love: Is it Black Friday Already? - The Well-Appointed Desk
12. Web Finds – 8 November 2023 - Travellers Notebook Times
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Free For All Friday No 783 by Laurie

I've been using my Mental Health Journal Filofax for about a month now, and have been able to evaluate how it's working. October was a very challenging month, so I'm really glad I set up the journal when I did, because boy did I need it. Here's what has worked so far and what didn't:

There are monthly tabbed sections which contain:

Good Things That Happened This Month: My favourite pages, where I jot down any good things as they happen so I have a running list of good things to look back on. I'm really glad I write these down, because in challenging times it's so easy to forget the good things!

Challenges This Month: As I predicted this has turned out to be extremely valuable. I write challenges or worries as they come up, and then (most importantly) I write what actions I took, or how they were resolved. This lets me see that these roadblocks or worries turned out fine/ I was able to do something about them. This lets me feel less helpless and will be a great reminder of how I have overcome specific challenges.

Monthly Journaling Pages: I haven't used these as prolifically as I thought I would, but the things I have written down have been helpful in revealing thought patterns.

Using a Filofax for this journal has been great, because I have done a lot of moving pages around and am starting to settle into specific tabbed sections. For example, in my month section I wrote down specific challenges that were ongoing and took detailed notes. As they went on I realised I needed each of these challenges to have their own tabbed section for ongoing records and notes. This has worked very well.

Something I quickly abandoned was written weekly evaluations. It was too much re-writing of what I had already written in other sections. I decided to just to a weekly review where I look back over each section and how things have developed in the past week. 

I also did a month review where I looked back over the entire month in each section to see what has been resolved, what is ongoing, what worked and what didn't.

I'm sure my use will continue to develop and change according to my needs at the time.

As always feel free to ask and/ or discuss anything ring binder organiser related!

Specialist Diary Inserts

From the very early days of Filofax/Lefax (1920's-1930's) there were a lot of Army Officers and Clergy who were Filofax users. There was a lot of specialist inserts available for them to use as well. 

During a discussion last weekend on the Philofaxy Virtual Meet-Up, we wondered if the clergy still used a Filofax in any form, differently to ourselves. 

With a little help from Mr Google, we discovered that there was in fact a Church Desk Diary available, and a loose leaf version is also available for an A5 Filofax. 

Unfortunately the web page doesn't show the page layout, but from the description (shown below) we can see it is a page per day diary and a double page for Sundays and other major religious days. 

Compare that to a normal Filofax insert that reduces the space available for Saturdays and Sundays! 

The Canterbury Church Book and Desk Diary 2024 A5 Personal Organiser Edition

This A5 loose leaf edition of the bestselling church desk diary provides a whole page per day and a double page spread for Sundays and major feast days, making it ideal for service planning as well as day-to-day working and notetaking.

It is hole punched, loose leaf, and designed for the 'personal organiser' Filofax size.

Readings from the Common Worship and BCP lectionaries are listed for each day and on Sundays, Holy Days and major saints' days, the Common Worship collects, post communion prayers are printed in full.

Its many extra features include extensive national and diocesan church information, lists of organisations, table of fees, accounts section, a two-year planner, sunrise and sunset times, plus ample space for recording personal information.

Publisher: Canterbury Press Norwich
ISBN: 9781786225078
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 31/07/2023
Width: 14.8 cm 
Height: 21 cm

From the size given we can confirm that it is A5 page size.  

I'm not a religious person as such, but it was pleasing to see that there are such specialised diary inserts available for those people that are.

You can find the full page for this diary at the following address: 

https://canterburypress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/9781786225078/the-canterbury-church-book-and-desk-diary-2024-a5-personal-organiser-edition 

The also do a hardback bound version as well.