To Decorate or Not To Decorate (a planner, filofax, Midori TN, ECLP, ect.)? That is the question!

In this post, we discuss the decoration in planners.

I sound like Shakespeare, aren't I?
Ive done my fair share of my decoration in planners.

I have videos on several of them. I'm guilty!

 This is my faux Hobonichi!

 This is my Midori Traveler's Notebook journal. I enjoy to decorate it! I think I have found my style to journal.

What do you think about planner decoration?
Do you decorate your Filofaxes, Midories, Hobonichies, etc.?
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My Filofax Art Decoration Week 1/52 (Strange)

This week's decoration was inspired by one Strange Decoration on IG. Most likely she used stickers for her decorations, which I didn't want to use (my followers know that I don't like to use stickers). Instead, I used decorative scissors, and my favorite cosmetic catalog (a free one). I chose striped pink-gold-black colors, and tried to replicate the same patterns, it didn't turned out how it supposed to, but I got something that looked like leaves. I made my usual collage - put several layers one on another of the catalog's clippings, and glued it one on another (using regular paper glue). I must say, that collage makes my Filofax pages strong, and I like them more like that, I don't have to be careful with them after that! If you like my decortion, please share it and leave comments below!
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My Filofax Art Decoration Week 52/52 (Christmas!)

I haven't decorated my Filofax in a long time, several weeks, excluding November pages in my pocket crimson Filofax, that I shown in my "Planner  Addict Tag" video, and the day after Christmas I felt the urge to do it, and are very happy with the result! I hope you like it too!
It is a little collage out of a cosmetic company catalog, which are great for that kind of decoration. No washes and stickers used! Gold and pink theme, which turned out as a pretty "partners" together! I need to remember this color combination! Sometimes I discover these kind of color combination just by trying out. This time it worked out!
I used decoration scissors for the borders, Rapesco 6 hole punch for the right page, regular scissors,  and a  regular glue, nothing really fancy!
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My double fetish -my nails and Malden Filofax!

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And you thought you've seen how stuffed Filofax looks like?

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Here I'm trying to set up a Domino Filofax,  which I like because it's not that heavy,  as my Maldens, and I realized that I can't insert ALL pages that I want to insert!  Dam!  Now I really understand the difference between flexible leather cover versus non-flexible non-leather cover!  Is it possible to have a filofax that is not made of leather and that is not that stiff?
Have you been in such situation?  I am worried that the elastic is going to stretch out of shape,  and I won't use it.  Or just swich to another filofax!
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Tameka's Video on her Gorgeous Filofax Set Up with My Free Routine Inserts!

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If you like Filofax, Gillio, Van der Spek, Franklin Covey or binders in general...

...then you should like this bag! I considered buying it, but decided not to do it! Would you buy a bag that looks like a Filofax? We need to give this idea to Gillio or another company that sells custom made binders!

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Daily brain dump and journaling in my pocket Malden in Crimson

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What do I Want from my Planner (Filofax)?

1. To see everything I need to do today/this week/this month  at a glance with hour slots
2. to have slots for my monthly, weekly, and daily goals
3. possibility to track achievement of my monthly,  weekly,  daily goals at a glance
4. projects with relevant to each  project  tasks, as well as  routine tasks built into my daily routine should be visible at a glance
5. each project, task, routine task should be placed into the right category that I have assigned it to
6. each category should be color coded with the colors that I chose
7. color coding should be happening by itself,  without switching gazillions of pens!
8. to quickly find what I need
9. possibility NOT to rewrite my tasks from my monthly to my weekly to my daily pages
10. to have enough space to put it into personal size filofax sheets
11. to have enough space for each day
12. to have the same space for my Saturdays and Sundays as for the rest of the week
13. to pay my morgage for me-well, I'm kidding with this one!
14. to have my daily routine built into my daily schedule, without having an extra page for it, and without my rewriting it every day!
15. Even with everything above, still have 11 exta pages with space equal to a daily page!
16. To be able to write an appointment or a to-do on any place on my daily page and AFTER that schedule it on any hour slot without rewriting it!

               Does this planner sounds like something that is too fantastic, something, that couldn't be made?  Well, I have created that kind of planner! I'm putting this announcement so I won't rest too much, like a motivation to continue to make it. I have created June pages for the personal size filofax pages to print on A4 pages. Letter size printing is next!

                Would you like to have that kind of a planner? What else would you want from your planner/filofax?
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My week 48/52 in my filofax

These are the philofaxy inserts that I have transformed into my own. I made the same kind of inserts in my A 5 Filofax Calipso and Malden this fall. I divided my life into 6 categories: family, socialfi  money, my personal, everything else. And I write my everyday routine, tasks and to do's according to these categories. It makes my life easier in terms of understanding of what my life consists of and on which part of my life I spent too much or too little time.  I highlighted these areas using my colorcoding system that I have already written about.
There are appointments on the top of the pages. There are other tasks in the middle that don't belong to any category.  Probablly the main reason why I use my own form is that i can find any info that I need to find.
For decoration I have used my first washi tape sent me by Rebecca!  I love it!! Isn't it cool???

Here is the video for this week:

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My week 46/52

This is  I came up with this week:

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In reality  have missed the portability of the personal size, and have moved into it:

As I have written, I don't use the weekly pages as they are intended to be used. I graph my own form. What it is all about I'll write in my next post. :)

my week 39/52 and a sneak peak into my new Filofax inserts!

This week we were sick together with my daughter,  that's why there are no videos and posts. 5he drawings that you see on the right side are done by my daughter.  I'm pro of them!  She has given them to me as a present, and I told her that they will be as a reminder in my planner, so I could see them every day.  

I forgot that I have a video on this week's decoration!  Here it is!

I'm actively working on my new inserts, and week on 2 pages is done!

This is a sneak peak into my new insert!  Look it upon my Instagtam! 

My week {37/52]☆★♡♥ I'm loving A5 size more and more since switching to Calipso!!

Here's my week. Next week will be my birthday!!!

But anyway,  have I ever thought that after VERY long wanting and anticipating a PURPLE (that's important! My favorite color!) Malden, I'll love Calipso more???!!! Life is just full of surprises!
The main reason for that is rings! Calipso has smaller rings, hence,  less weight. And fit me, who is going everywhere by feet,  it IS important!  My shoulders are saying me thank you!

Another reason is that I really has took off almost all extra pages! The Calipso has the WO2P until the end of the year,  extra 10 or fewer pages for to-do's and tracking my routines.

The third readon is that  A5 Malden  has a soft cover. It looks good  stuffed.  Without a lot of inserts,  Malden loose shape and the crackels appears on the cover. I don't like it. Since I didn't want to carry stuffed A5 filofax, I moved!


I have not really switched off to an A5 completely because I haven't done my own inserts yet.  I carry my personal  Franklin Covey around and open it up for my contacts and monthly pages. Yes, I carry TWO binders! :)

The decoration video for this week is here:

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P.S. the pens' flags point on the important tasks on the pages!
P.P.S. I have bought another filofax on Friday! I couldn't resist! I won't tell you which one, you'll have to wait for an unboxing video! :)

My week 35/52, farewell to my black Malden, and a NEW A5 purple Malden, and another one!

I sold my black personal Malden! Yes, I know, I shouldn't have, but before you start to call me names,  I bought another one! I hope it is coming.  And so far it is the most expensive one in my collection!  And I'm not going to say which it is going to be,  you should wait for the unboxing video!  Speaking  of videos,  I made another one on decoration

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My week 32/52-pocket Malden filofax!!!

Since I bought a pocket Malden,  I decided to try to use it as my main filofax. Yes, the pages are tiny tiny, and I do need more space. But it is perfect for on-the-go writing.  And it is really portable.  I do think that it is possible to make it work. Just use more pages. I was busy, and didn't have much time to set it up, even no decoration video this week. And my daughter is sick again, which upsets me a lot.

P.S. The main thing that I enjoy in my pocket Malden is the big picket on the back of the binder. It is very handy to shove there notes on the go, when you don't have time and patience to rewrite them!

P.P.S. Did you notice my new tabs? I bought a new stamps set abd made them outside while my daughter was playing in a playground.  Love ut! I post a picture on my Instagram account about it.

P.P.P.S. I added two flyleaves in the front and back, and seversl sheets of undated day on a page and decorated lined pages. The day on a page and decorated lined pages I hacked from two notebooks that I showed in my "Unboxing a mystery filofax" video. I didn't like using the decorated pages because the pictures on them distract me and  I prefer to have free rather than cluttered space!
One thing that disappointed me was that I couldn't use wider pages (these notebook pages are wider than the standard ff pages). I thought that the pocket Malden is the same as the personal Malden, in which I could use Franklin Covey pages, that are about 1 cm wider than ff personal size pages! No luck here!

P.P.P.P.S. I intended to use it as my wallet, and it is working as a wallet great! A lot of pockets, one for a change, and swveral for creadit cards, and cash.  I wanted to make a several tio loading envelops to divide my cash into several portions for different purposes, but there is no need for that either! But I will make the envelops anyway, just to try out the system!

P.P.P.P.PS I have read a lot of posts and watched a lot of videos on a pocket filofax set up, but anyway, there is not that much information about it. Have you ever tried a pocket filofax or any kind of binder?

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My week 30/52

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