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10 August 2025

Silent Sunday

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09 August 2025

Web Finds - Saturday 9 August 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:

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.

Finding a Third Alternative (pg. 317-329) - FranklinPlanner Talk
Thin vs chunky clasp - Filofax
5 Ways a Functional Planning System Heals Your Nervous System (and Makes You More Productive) - Strange & Charmed
First ever Malden Personal! - Filofax
Site update: Rhymes with Ham - The Well-Appointed Desk
Paperian Flat Checklist A5 Notepad Review - The Pen Addict
Snap closure hack - Filofax
Episode #322: Long Lists - Getting Things Done
A fix for cracking leather - Filofax
Link Love: DC Recovery Zone - The Well-Appointed Desk
Web Finds – 6 August 2025 - Travellers Notebook Times
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08 August 2025

Free for All Friday No. 874 by Nan

In the US where I write this, it's back-to-school season! In most districts, school starts in late August or early September. Some kids are back in the classroom already!

Inspired by Steve's Free for All Friday No. 860 in May, here's a map showing when the school year starts around the world. In the Northern Hemisphere, school most often starts in September, which marks the beginning of Autumn. In the Souther Hemisphere, it usually starts during the summer (December, January or February).

Credit: Reddit user Zenkaino-Lovelive

How about where you live?

I like this time of year because all of the back-to-school sales are a great opportunity to buy supplies like pens, pencils, paper, etc.

As always on Friday, feel free to discuss anything related to ring-bound organizers!

07 August 2025

Guest post series - 'Filohax' No. 21 - Paul

Thanks very much again to Paul for this twenty-first instalment of his wonderful guest post series.
You can find all of the 'Filohax' posts here. There is an index of all the previous Filohax posts here

Sunbathing experiment

At this time of year our thoughts turn to holidays, usually somewhere hot and sunny, with sunbathing on the agenda. And why not, there are known health benefits associated with getting a tan. What has this got to do with leather planners, I hear you say? Well last autumn during the last of the summer sun, I wondered if the leather of my Filofax would benefit from some limited sun exposure, in the same way that my own skin does.

So I've been doing a little experiment with my own vintage leather binders ever since, leaving them open, inserts facing down, exposing the leather of the outer covers to the sun's rays for up to no more than 10 minutes at a time.

Accumulatively each one has had the following exposure over about a year:
Grosvenor: 1hr
Winchester: 1hr
Cavendish 30mm: 2 hrs
Balmoral 10clfj: 1hr
Cognac Croc Winchester: 1 1/2hr
Gloucester: 2hr
Winchester 5/4 Pigskin: 3/4hr
Portland 5/4: 1hr
Argyll: 1/2hr

Before everyone lambasts me - I have increased my leather feeding regime as a consequence.

Have there been any visible signs of change in the quality of the leather? No, not as such but the only criteria that matters is that I feel like my binders like it. And you can't say fairer than that, can you?

06 August 2025

Video Web Finds - Wednesday 6 August 2025

I hope you have had a good weekend.

Now it is time to enjoy a great collection of videos from around the internet.

Here are a selection of the latest Filofax videos for your enjoyment.

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