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  • elfen
    elfen Posts: 10,213 Forumite
    I have my diary on here that has my montly/weekly to-do lists (both with different goals that interact with each other).
    I use the calender on the Mac to tell me when bills are due/money due to be paid in.
    I have a yellow notebook for my daily spends/shopping lists/stuff I need to remember or get
    I have my red journal (and my lovely Parker) for my daily things - that I've done, how I'm feeling, what I want to happen. And it keeps me going I think.

    I'm left handed so me and fountain pens aren't the best of friends
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  • Nile
    Nile Posts: 14,845 Forumite
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    Bella79 wrote: »
    Hi all


    I love diarys,pens stationary lol, so ive dug out my old filofax and decided to make a kind of home diary, calender,chirstmas section,lists, meal planning etc

    I just wondered if anyone else did this and how they do it ?

    My name is Nile and I'm a chocoholic and stationery addict.:o

    I use a pencil with my filofax, mainly because I put my sport match fixtures in it.................and they're often cancelled and rearranged.

    I have a list of birthdays and also write in (when I know them) the year of their birth, so that I know when a special birthday is due.;)

    I buy the WHSmith diary pages, which are a bit cheaper than the filofax inserts.

    I've never wanted a palm pilot thingy. With pencil and paper (in my filofax) I never have to worry about battery power............or dropping my diary.;)
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  • Pixiechic
    Pixiechic Posts: 801 Forumite
    I love stationary too :D, Paperchase is one of my favourite shops!

    I have 3 filofaxes but don't use them, I found too clunky too.

    I have a slim diary and a notebook in my handbag. I have a Birthday's and Anniversary's book (easy to see month ahead) and big address book on my desk at home. I have a cash book too.

    I have a white board in the kitchen and write my shopping list as I go, I add what's been used or needed there and then. I don't forget that way! Also write notes, reminders and such and then wipe off when done. I then jot shopping list and meals for week in notebook. I noticed that OH had even written on it when he had used something up so it's working:D!
  • redlady_1
    redlady_1 Posts: 1,601 Forumite
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    oh I had forgotten my blackboard in the kitchen! :D
  • MsHoarder
    MsHoarder Posts: 410 Forumite
    I have a filofax. I use Outlook to organise my diary/to-do list and print out the 4 weeks weekly (week per page that gives me one sheet of paper), trim it down and use my filofax holepunch (geeky, I know) so it can replace the existing next 3 weeks. I only buy a 12 month planner, so I can sketch out long-term plans.

    The next couple of months are printed out in A4 at the same time and put on the noticeboard for anyone to check on.

    Telephone numbers/addresses are also all on the PC, they get printed out and holepunched annually (roughly) to get updated contact details into the filofax I carry.

    One thing I can no longer find though is a notepad for the back with squared paper. That was one of my favourite things about it when I first got the filofax (£5 off eBay)
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  • esio_trot
    esio_trot Posts: 598 Forumite
    MsHoarder wrote: »
    One thing I can no longer find though is a notepad for the back with squared paper. That was one of my favourite things about it when I first got the filofax (£5 off eBay)

    You can get them for £2.25 from the Filofax webby - I assume this is the one you mean. Delivery is 95p I think. I've ordered from there before and their delivery is pretty efficent iirc

    My local John Lewis also does Filofax inserts - might be worth trying there?
  • Justamum
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    I tried having a file and a diary, but they didn't work for me. I've got one of those WHSmith family calendars where I write in what everybody is doing every day, and I've recently also bought a WHSmith 'normal' calendar where I write down what we are eating each day (the scraps of paper I tried using just didn't work. I wonder why? :D:cool:)

    I used to go on the Flylady thread, and I have printed off a week's housework, but don't tend to follow it - flylady really did give me a kickstart to keeping the house in order, so now I tend to keep on top of it at all times, so don't need a list anymore.

    I've got a 16 column cash accounts book which I update every time I spend any money, and I keep that with my bank statements so that I can keep a constant bank reconciliation going.

    Addresses are kept in a normal A5 indexed book (an address book doesn't leave enough space to write anything in).

    Shopping - I recently did a 'master list' of everything I normally have in the cupboards, and I go through that every week and write out my shopping list from that.

    I've got a corkboard to pin up things like repeat prescriptions, hospital appointment letters, letters from various clubs etc which the children are in, but I make notes of any relevant dates on the family planner calendar first.

    Actually I'm more organised than I thought! :rotfl: Mind you it's been a long work-in-progress to get to this point - trying things to see what works and what doesn't.
  • esio_trot
    esio_trot Posts: 598 Forumite
    edited 8 March 2011 at 10:44AM
    Ok, Now I've been on the Filofax website, I can link to what I use!

    Family Lifestyle pack
    White notepaper
    Sticker pack
    Post it notes pack
    Extra to-do lists
    Contact details list (though I do want to do this on the computer)
    Portable hole punch
    Ruler/marker
    Section markers

    Oh how I covet more Filofax bitsandbobs... :)
  • MaLarkin
    MaLarkin Posts: 132 Forumite
    something I have found endlessly useful is a daybook. Used to use one at work and have now carried it over to the home.

    I use an A4 notebook but you could use smaller. Must be spiral bound so it lays flat or folds open and must have a hard cover.

    The idea is that in the first instance everything you make a note of goes in it. Put the date on the page each day so you always know when you made the note. So if you make a phone call you note it (if its significant not talking calls to chat) I keep it by me when I'm on the computer and note down anything that I want to follow up on. People often recommend books so I'll check them out on amazon later or someone will give a recipe and I'll write down ingredients I need to use later when i do my shopping list. Once you've dealt with something put a line through it.

    I love this method and it does away with bits of paper around the place. When we were renovating our house every contact with builders, shops etc went in there and it was so useful.
  • rosy
    rosy Posts: 642 Forumite
    I would be lost without my A5 filofax. ( Actually I have 2 - one to keep addresses, household cleaning tasks, things to remember each month etc which is more of a reference book, and one which is a diary/weekly planner).

    What has been the biggest help for me is to stop buying the refills - none of the free online pre-done pages really suited me so for the diary/planner I've constructed my own week - to - view layout using Microsoft Word ( just a table with the columns and rows sized to suit). I just print that out each year. I have a single hole punch and now I've got the hang of it it doesn't take very long to put all the holes in the right places!

    I've found it to be miles better than buying all the individual official pages - a huge amount cheaper and exactly tailored to suit what I want so everything for the week is on the one double page spread(I have individual spaces for weekly budget, to do list, events, meal planner, I take lots of photos so space for notes of photos I've taken, birthdays, OH's days off, etc) - the filofax is sort of tardis-like now, I get so much more fitted on the page and because I've allowed different amounts of space for each category I don't run out of room - it's got a lot written on it but because everything's separated out I can see at a glance if I want to find anything specific. ( I keep previous years' pages and if I need to find anything from a while back it's easy to find because I know which little bit of the page I need to look at).

    It did take a while to plan it all out and adjust it to get it right but it's so worth it now it's done - and I know I couldn't buy anything exactly like it anywhere.
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