Do i have any complaints about my new filofax?
Oh yes indeedy I do.
Why oh why filofax people do you make such gorgeous and useful and strong binders, only to ruin the image with your hideous and unimaginative inserts? The paper is thin, the printed address sheets, to do lists, and personal information pages are poorly designed, and do not get me started on the dividers!!!
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| the inserts the filofax came with |
The main reason I wanted the filofax is for the superb binder, so this is ok. I can deal with the insert issue. I am creative, I have a computer, and i have a printer, and i know what i want!
First to decide how i want to organise my filofax, as this will determine what templates i need.
DIVIDERS!
I am thinking that five MAIN divisions will be the best option for me and i can make subdivisions within each main heading. I do not want my filofax to contain things about my day job, as this organiser is something for me to support my creativity, organisation, and self education.
The five main tabs dividing the filofax that work best for what i want are:
- Information: calenders, maps, train timetables, time conversions
- Study: information about the current course i am doing, additional and required reading, and notes
- Business: this is about my etsy store where i sell my handcrafted goodies; craft suppliers, and customers
- Home: grocery lists, budget, to do lists for home
- Ideas: where i will put sketch paper to draw designs, or stick swatches of fabric , or work on blog posts
I bought a pack of five A5 dividers from Marbig, they were $2.45 from Officeworks; the prepunched holes do not match up with the filofax' but that is just a matter of punching new holes in them which was easy and doesn't look silly.
The Marbig dividers have colourful plastic coated tabs, and come with a sturdy index page as well.
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| The A5 Marbig dividers in my filofax |
I can then use the A-Z and the numbered tabs that came with the filofax as subdividers (after I have decorated them to make them interesting!)
While I am talking about the dividers, I want to share this little tip with you: not all your to do lists need to be kept forever as an indelible part of your organiser, sometimes they are just quick notes to be thrown away as soon as the task is complete. This is why i made myself a laminated page to stick sticky notes on to, these can then be discarded when no longer needed!
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| sticky notes (new or with memos on them) can be stuck on this laminated page |
So there you have it, dividers ready to go, and onto creating templates for my filofax!
Feel free to comment!
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I have just created some #templates to use in my #filofax you can download them from my blog http://t.co/zDfYokPJy2
— empressbat (@empressbat) January 25, 2014
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