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02 May 2024

Highlights for April 2024

We are pleased to announce that we have a new contributor to Philofaxy. Yvonne is a long standing member of our Philofaxy planner community.

Her Reader Under the Spotlight post was one of the first in that series back in September 2010.

Yvonne met up with Nan at the 2014 Boston Meet-up. Yvonne is well known to us all.

Her Experienced User post was in August 2015.

Yvonne has already written her first post that you will be able to read next week. She has outline ideas for other future posts as well.

We are very grateful and excited to have a new member of our new team. Thank you Yvonne.

Here are the highlights for last month.

We published the following posts.

General Posts:

Free For All Tuesday and Friday Posts:

Sunday Posts:

Web Finds Posts:

If you have any ideas for future posts we look forward to hearing your suggestions, please comment below.

You can catch up on the Hitchhikers Guide to the Plannerverse Podcasts here:

If you are on Facebook don't forget to join the Filofax for Philofaxy Fans group.

If you have a guest post idea, please contact steve at philofaxy dot com or if there is a topic you would like to see us cover or revisit also please contact Steve.

I hope you find this post useful, please let us know in the comments and we will do our best to do a highlights post each month.

Wishing you all the best for May 2024.

01 May 2024

Video Web Finds - Wednesday 1 May 2024

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.

Please leave a comment on any of the videos you enjoyed and mention you saw a link on Philofaxy.
For tips on how to improve your videos, please see this post. Also this video too Webfinds
Your Filofax/Organiser Videos could appear in this list, just contact philofaxy at gmail dot com to be added to our monitoring list.
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Enjoy

30 April 2024

Free For All Tuesday - No. 691

What questions or discussion points have you got for us today?

It doesn't matter if you are a beginner or a more experienced user of organisers, we want to hear your thoughts, questions, opinions etc.

We are here to answer your questions.

Make today the one day you post a comment or post a question. If you are commenting as 'Anonymous', please include your name in the text of your comment.

It is Tuesday after all, so fire away with any questions and comments.

29 April 2024

Using an additional capture tool with my Filofax - by Anita

Before I started using a Filofax, I tended to have a number of notebooks on the go, which unsurprisingly didn't work very well for me. I forgot which notebook I'd previously used, or one of them got mislaid which resulted in me finding it weeks later and it just wasn't very efficient. David Allen's book 'Getting Things Done' talks about what he calls ubiquitous capture, so like many people in the community, I have an inbox section at the front of my Kensington with spare paper and notes and to-dos get written down there.

However, I won't always have my Filofax with me, even when I'm at home, so I have a number of small capture tools that I often use alongside my organiser.

Left to right - PocketMod, leather jotter and tiny notebook (7cm by 10cm).

My favourite is the leather jotter that was an eBay bargain as no one else bid, so I got it for the price of postage! It's a lovely little thing made by a company called Fabriano, and takes record cards that measure 12.5cm by 7.5cm. And another stroke of luck was that my Mum-in-law had a stack of those cards that she was getting rid of, so I have lots to keep me going.

Currently, the leather jotter lives in a basket in the drawer of my bedside table, so that it's within easy reach. Once I've written anything, the idea is that any of these capture tools are small enough to just pop into my Filofax, so that I remember to process the notes. I tend to put the jotter behind the flyleaf, which keeps it in place and it's also the first thing that I see when I open it up.

In the past, when I used to work in an office, I'd also sometimes keep a spare lined insert (folded in half) in my wallet, so that worked well too for the times that I might leave my Filofax at home. I find that I benefit from more capture tools like this when I'm going through a busy time, as it helps ensure things don't fall through the cracks and also helps me feel less overwhelmed.

Do you also do this, or does everything just go into your organiser straightaway?

28 April 2024

Silent Sunday

Journal pages - thank you to Daniel

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