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Quadrimester 3
October 1st 2025 saw the start of the final 4-month “term” in my planner. It will finish on January 31st 2026. I had every intention of it all being set up well ahead and I was surprised that I was still in turmoil come mid-October. At that point I started to draft this blog post Continue reading
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August 2024: There is a plan!
I am deep into my summer slump, with a distinct lack of creativity and enthusiasm washing over me. July has been quite a slog, and here, hot on its heels, comes August. The good news is, I have a plan – a plan for planning, that is – which puts me way ahead of this Continue reading
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2024 diary pages

Having decided to buy a Personal-sized Filofax Holborn to use as my diary/notebook for next year, the main hurdle to clear was deciding what type of diary format would work for me. Historically, I’ve found that week-to-view spreads need to be A5 size and when I’ve had week-to-view in Personal size, it’s been less successful. Continue reading
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This time it’s personal

Okay, I succumbed and set up the Personal sized Filofax. Once I had decided that I needed to inject some new life into my wool collection, it seemed obvious that the same was true of my planner. Perhaps I need to embrace my indecision and keep my options open? Perhaps I need to be able Continue reading
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A lot to like
Aware that I suffered a fit of damning with faint praise when I wrote about the Cross Bailey Light fountain pen on Friday, today I’m going to be more enthusiastic about Filofax’s new decorative accessories. Over the past month four Collections have launched – the Garden Collection, the Indigo Collection, the Confetti Collection and, most Continue reading
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It’s all about the paper

The thing about the planner community is that our photography can, at times, tend to focus on the externals whereas, of course, what actually matters is the paper inside the cover. I’m not saying that the cover isn’t important, it is. We choose our covers to convey, to ourselves as well as to the outside Continue reading
