It is very rare these days to see a new blog being launched that will be of interest to the Philofaxy audience. However, I'm pleased to share with you that David Round of William Hannah is bucking the trend with the launch this week of 'The Library' He is hoping to create two posts per week, but he has started with a bang with the articles listed below. We wish David well with 'The Library'

'Planner Peace' or 'Organiser Peace' in our case is often banded around on-line and I've been asked the question numerous times. "Have you achieved Planner Peace?" If you say yes, then of course there are lots of follow up questions! Like how did you achieve 'Planner Peace'? For me it was partly about finding a diary insert that worked for my own needs. The one you see below is the one I've

I was kicking around a few ideas for some new inserts recently and came up with this new design for a single page which you can fill in to give yourself an overview of the month ahead. You can also use it at a glance to spot what days you might be free on or to note down peoples holidays etc. Naturally you can customise it anyway you want in the usual fashion. So this is the front of the page.

Today I would like to introduce you to Louise.  Hi, my name is Louise and I'm a secondary teacher in the UK. I discovered the planner community in earnest back in the summer holidays of 2015, while watching a YouTube clip of a chap from Shropshire who was living on canal boats at the time and posting about his adventures. He had a curious little brown leather notebook to track his daily events.

It seems like a long time since we chose the new Touch Me colours, but three new colours will be available on the Van der Spek website today from mid-day CET onwards. The Touch Me Organisers come in: Junior (Pocket) with 20mm rings and with full width back pocket; Senior (A6) with 20 or 25mm rings, two pen loops and full width back pocket; Standard (Personal) with 25 or 30mm rings, two pen

This week I would like to thank Kendra for sharing with us how she uses her organisers. Hi! I'm Kendra. I'm a CFO and owner of a property management company in Southern California, and I spend a lot of time volunteering for the local and national apartment associations. The time I have left over is occupied with sewing, knitting, photography, DJing, dancing...and, of course, using my planners

I received an email from Gordon, who recently discovered Philofaxy. He shared some photographs of his Filofax organiser that he recalls buying in 1987, but it doesn't have a name shown on it. He was asking if we could identify the model name at all. I had a quick look at the 1987 catalogue and I think it's the vinyl version of the Filofax Buckingham bottom right in the scan below. Here is

Microsoft Outlook has been around since the late 1990's, I think the earliest version I ever used was Outlook 97 which came with Office 97. Outlook is intended to do the following: Email Calendars Tasks Contacts Notes How well it does all of these functions is a matter of opinion! I'm sure we have all had to deal with Outlook in our work life at some point. The last time I seriously used it

We have been steadily producing podcasts this last couple of years. We are taking a slight pause in our busy schedules at the moment to come up with some new topics. With more than sixty episodes to listen to there are plenty of topics that I hope you will enjoy. As always we are interested to hear what you would like to hear us discuss.  Even if you would like us to revisit a topic and

Back at the beginning of the year we announced two meet ups coming up in March. You will find the full details about each one here: Philofaxy London Meet-Up - March 2018 Philofaxy Bath Meet-Up - March 2018 As usual we have had a reasonably good response to the announcements. This post is just a gentle reminder to those who might have missed the original posts or have forgotten to contact me