Bye bye Filofax, hello Midori

Hello everyone.
Today I am finally going to share with you my Midori Traveler's Notebook.

I decided to move away from Filofax about seven weeks ago after completely losing faith in both them and SlamPR. So I made a makeshift diary, and then finally ordered the midori.

I have now been using the midori for 4 weeks, and love it!!

So from now, this post will be picture heavy :)




I added a little butterfly charm to the page marker.




We have the inside cover, with Midori's sticky pockets. And a craft file on the right with the spotty sticky pockets.








Inside the craft file.




After the craft file I have the midori free diary. It's a week to view.




The free diary is very handy for starting at random times in the year as you write in your own dates and months.




At the back of the diary I have some sticky notes, then the green cover is the quadrille notebook with Muji sticky note on it.




Inside my notebook.




I use washi tape on the edges of the pages to make it look pretty. This is my password page.




Then I had a page for the Filofax meeting yesterday with train times and child care arrangements noted down, and also who was attending the meeting.




This is a rather random page. My phone hasn't been keeping its battery very long. So I've started taking note when I charge it, and how long it lasts.




This is the information page at the back of the quadrille notebook.




Then I have my photoaday list that I'm doing on Instagram.




Next comes my Christmas section.




I have pages for presents to buy people, to do, Christmas card list etc.








At the back of the quadrille notebook I have another sticky pocket for cards then there is a zipped/card pocket.












Then at the back there is some more sticky pockets.








So there is a tour of my midori.

Will I return to Filofax????
I may well do. The meeting was very positive yesterday I saw one at the Filofax shop that I love, but didn't buy :(. So if I can get a new one then I will.

:)



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My mini move

Hey everyone.

With all of the drama with Filofax and their "issues" I began to have planner fail.
I won't entirely blame Filofax, but I began to wonder whether I should continue to support a company that functions the way it does.

So I began to experiment.
To cut a long story short (which may well be a blogpost in the future) I have decided to downsize, to, wait for it.............................Mini.

**Gasp**

Yes I am moving to my baby Filofax the Mini Lyndhurst. This is my baby for two reasons. One it's a mini of course, and two, its the first Filofax I bought.

So I thought I would give you a quick tour of the set up. It's not very detailed as I've only moved over completely this morning.

So here he is.








I have decided to stick with my little to do post it's dashboard at the front as they are very handy.








I'm using week to view at the moment. I may purchase a German cotton cream ruled for 2013 if I stick with it. I'm using little dot stickers for colour coding as I can't fit my multi pen in there. It should also help to find when people are doing things as well.




There isn't really much happening behind the tabs at the minute. Just the usual stuff I have in other Filofaxes.




I have two clear pockets at the back for holding random bits etc.




Then I have my little red riding hood zipped holder that has also featured in other Filofax set ups of mine. I use this for money.




I'm keeping notes in the back of this for the time being. This may change, and they may end up in the front pocket. In the back pocket I have some stickers for colour coding, and vouchers. I'm also using my Filofax pen.




So there we have a quick tour of my mini set up.

:)

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A tour of my Osterley compact

Hey everyone.
Today I have for you a tour of my Filofax Compact Osterley in grey.
It is a video, yes that is right a video tour of my Osterley called Oscar.




Now I apologise for the crapness of this video. I hate doing videos and having photos taken of me, especially when I can see me.
So I hope you enjoy it, click on the link, and any comments/questions feel free to comment below.
:)
My Osterley tour
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My first Filofax YouTube video

Hey everyone. I have finally made my first YouTube video. it can be seen here.
My Filofax Pocket Chameleon
Hope you enjoy it!!
:)


*******UPDATE********

Thanks to Mstraat for the name suggestion for my Chameleon. He is now named Pascal.




Thank you :)

:)

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Why I changed from Personal to Pocket Filofax

Hello.
Today I am going to blog about my decision to move from personal size Filofax to pocket.

Here are my reasons which I will go through.

Diary space.
Portability.
Functionality.

I use my Filofax for my everything. It serves as my;

Diary.
Reminder.
To do.
Purse.
Coupon holder.
Password reminder.
Notebook.
Someone to cheer me up.

I thought I had all of that when I found Iggy the personal Enigma which I blogged the set up Here
He filled all of the purposes shown above.

My move to personal was only meant to be temporary leading up to Christmas. It enabled me to track successfully my Christmas section Here
Then once I bought the Day-Timer diary I fell in love with monthly tabs. Iv never seen these available for pocket Filofax so stuck with personal.

Now I'm coming to the end of my uni course I don't have anywhere near as much to write in my diary. No lectures/seminars/deadlines/to do etc. This got me thinking. Why do I need such a big diary? It's depressing when you look at it and it's empty. You can only fill it with so much crap to try and make it look interesting, and it is more cumbersome to carry around than a pocket. I got chatting with Imy one night on FaceTime and she felt the same. She did a Blogpost on it.

We came to the decision a pocket move was in order. As I loved the personal Enigma I decided to get the pocket Enigma and call him Ziggy.

Here they both are.




I said about my diary looking empty in the personal size, so here is a pic of this weeks diary with both the personal and pocket.



And here is last weeks.



A lot of the to do's in pink I don't really need to have in the diary. It's just a checklist.
And since I have made my own monthly tabbed dividers Blogged here I am happily back in a pocket set up. It ticks all criteria for my "everything", is more portable, fully functional, and the right amount of diary space.
Sorted!!

:)



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My Enigma Love

Hello everyone. Today I thought I would introduce you to my Filofax Pocket Enigma. As I no longer need a lot of diary space I decided to move down from personal to pocket. But that is a different post to come soon. **update** now here**
So here is my Pocket Enigma Ziggy.




I adore the enigma in vermilion and am so excited about this set up.




I am using my Bic Fashion pen. I know it doesn't really match the colour of the Filofax but I love having different coloured ink instead of the usual black and blue. I have my two most used cards at the front and in the little pockets I have my note money. In the zip pocket I have have steps and little notes. On the right there is my ever faithful dashboard that I blogged about Here




On the back of my dashboard I have my sticky hot lists from Day-Timer. Then there is a photo of my girls.
I am so excited about this next bit. I have never got on with dividers in pocket when I have my Bic pen in the loop and started using top tab dividers that I made myself. After a long think, I came up with a genius idea. Why not make some top tab dividers to match the enigma.
So I printed off a picture I found on google and made three dividers.
Here is the first.




Isn't it fantastic!!!!




Behind the first tab I have note paper. It is Hello Kitty from Yasmin who sent me a full set of Hello Kitty inserts :).




Behind the second tab is my information section. It has personal details, Filofax registration number, passwords, Esmé's alphabet learning and anything else I need in there.




Then we have my third tab. Now this one might change. It currently is my address tab. As I only have 6 addresses in there, they might get moved to the information section and this be something else.
Then comes my diary.




I'm currently using a month on two pages tabbed that I made myself from Hello Kitty monthly diary pages. Above you can see the front of the tab, then below, the back.




I made the tabs from A-Z tabs from Filofax, 2 letters per tab.




I'm also using a cotton cream week to view ruled diary from the Filofax website in Germany. I love this diary set up. Especially how Saturday and Sunday are the same size.




Next I have a clear pocket with stickers in it for decorating my diary etc.








Then we have a clear pocket with coupons in for shopping and a card holder with store cards in.




I use the popper pocket at the back for holding money.
I love being back in a pocket.




It's so much easier to carry around.




I hope you enjoyed the tour!!
:)
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