365/30 Lists!!

Hi everybody!!

The wonderful Kate (The Life of The Perpetual Student) and I have just set up a lists group on Facebook!
It follows the 30 days of lists idea, but we have made it just for us Filofax/stationery fans! Each month we post a list of 30 things you can write about the next month, whether in list form, or maybe as blog posts if you like! We are starting September 1st!

Here's the link to the group on Facebook 365/30 Lists : Philofaxers 

If you don't have Facebook, no problem! Leave a comment here and I will email you the new list every month!

All Star's Guest Post on Ray Blakes My Life All in One Place

Hello All

Well I have done my first Guest Post for Philofaxy this year, it is on Ray Blakes, My Life All in One Place blog, and it is a review about my lovely Sharbo X Mutli Pen.

I hope you enjoy it and read Ray's post just below...


Enjoy 

Imy’s Travelling Goals - All Stars Guest Post - Ray Blake

I am lucky enough to today have Ray Blake from My Life all in One Place, you know that guy who creates all the AMAZING Philofaxy inserts with Steve and has all these GENIUS ideas of how to hack Filofaxes and add extra things that are just magical and helpful, well I have been lucky enough to have him posting on my blog!!! All part of the Philofaxy All Stars. Enjoy...

Having follewed Imy’s recent posts, I know how hard she has worked to thin down her setup so she can work with a Compact Filofax, so when she asked me to write a guest post for her – and specifically to come up with an invention – I knew I couldn’t make something that would take up much ring space. Preferably, it should be something that replaced something she already had.

The obvious choice is the Today marker. Whilst it’s fabulously useful for gaining quick access to the right page in your diary, it’s not doing anything else for you. Given that it’s something you’re going to look at several times every day, I thought there was scope to make it more useful.

So I asked Imy to tell me what her current goals were and I designed her a new Today marker that means she gets reminded of her goals all the time. I called it Imy’s Travelling Goals for three reasons:

1. Because travel is one of Imy’s passions

2. Because travelling connotes movement and action and this marker prompts that

3. Because the goals travel through her Filofax, week by week, and stay current

Oh, and it’s pink. I didn’t feel the need to ask her about that.

Anyway, here is the finished item:

You can download the MS Publisher template and make your own here. Instructions are included. Print on A4 paper, or if using Letter size paper, set printing so that it doesn’t scale to paper size.

Thank you again Ray

Filofax Compact Diary Issue....

I have been using my compact for a few weeks now and I absolutely LOVE it! But I have ONE issue...

What diary do I use??

Here are the three I have to choose from

• Paperchase Pink Week to View (the hearts are just a count down)
• Two Days to a Page Filofax Diary
• Week on One Page with Notes - Dodo Pad 

Ray had an amazing idea: 

I decided to put a week of each in for 3 weeks and see which I preferred..

Week 1 - Paperchase Pink Week to View

Week 2 - Two Days to a Page Filofax Diary

Week 3 - Week on One Page with Notes - Dodo Pad 

I will update you on my challenge every week to let you know how it is going, but so far I have noticed the boxes on the Dodo Pad to be a bit constrictive for my big writing and lots of notes for each day, so I have had to scatter notes around the page and it feels UNTIDY!!!!

I have to write the same two programmes in every Tuesday so we shall see how they look on each page....

Let you know more NEXT WEEK

Filofax Tour 2012

Hello everyone

The Filofax Tour started today, in Truro, meeting Tracy at the train station.

The places the Filofax Tour is going to be visiting are as follows:

Healy's Cider Farm - Cornwall
Lord Dodo Office - Cornwall
Paperchase - Plymouth, Devon
Staples - Plymouth, Devon
Rymans  - Plymouth, Devon
Toys r Us  - Plymouth, Devon
Staples - Truro, Cornwall
Asda - St Austell, Cornwall 

In September the Filofax Tour is going to:

Conduit Street Filofax Shop - London
City Organiser - London
Philofaxy Meet up - London
Bristol - Avon

If you are interested in meeting us at any of these places please tweet us, using the hashtag #FilofaxTour2012 either at @imysworld or @icclewu

Look forward to hearing from you all!!!

Look out for the Filofax Tour bus!!!