Amber Filofax
People who know me well enough, know that I LOVE being organised. I’m messy and a little scatty when it comes to clothes and keeping my flat clean, but I am the Queen of lists, to do’s and alphabetically arranging everything! I had a Moleskine and a iPhone, which were working well enough for me, but I wanted something a bit more exciting! I also love putting pen to paper so the calender on my iPhone just wasn’t cutting it.
I remember being about 9 years old and having a Spice Girls Filofax for Christmas and I remember, even at a young age, loving the process of filling out the personal information slip and writing in my diary about my day. Now, it’s more about keeping track of the hours I work and where I need to be and when, but the magic was still there. I’d be thinking about getting one for a while but wasn’t sure about what Filofaxes contained these days. I wasn’t sure if they would work for me. That was until I saw Gala’s post about her new Filofax! I was sold, and I logged onto the Filofax website and started my search.
I knew I wanted a personal size, which is 95mm x 171mm. It’s small enough for slotting into a handbag but also big enough to carry all your important dates and notes! If you aren’t sure which size is good for you, they have a very helpful size guide, which details all the sizes of each Filofax!
Once I knew which size I wanted I had to choose which style! I was looking with a budget in mind, so some were out of reach immediately, but the best thing about Filofax is there is something for everyone! They come as cheap as £20, so you really can afford to treat yourself to one. I finally decided on the Metropol in Amber. It came with lots of accessories and at £24, I felt I could buy some extras for it as well! But if you are unlike me, and you are looking to spend more on your Filofax, here’s a little collage of my favourite Filofaxes!
Finsbury Personal Organiser in Raspberry, Filofax Classic Personal Organiser in Cherry and Siena Personal Organiser in Cinnamon.
I eagerly awaited the arrival of my Filofax and when it eventually got to me, I was so excited to open it and start using it!
My Filofax came with the following:
Transparent pocket, 2010/2011 diary week across 2 pages, ruler day marker, to do pages, white ruled notepad, cream 1-6 number index, world map & cream address index. (I took out all the info pages and the world map.)
Extras I bought for my Filofax:
Business card holder, extra to do pages, week per page with notes 2010 diary, cream plain notepaper, coloured ruled notepaper, cream subject index & assorted sticky notes.
So now you know what I’ve got in my Filofax, here’s how I have organised it all… yes I actually wrote a list to organise the different sections!
First of all I have all my bank cards and store cards in the card slot section on the inside of the cover. I also have a green pen to write with.
I then have the clear envelope with little things in such as passport photos and receipts and my business card holder.
Next up is my timetable sheet (perfect for when I go back to Uni!) and my diary. I bought a different diary for my Filofax because I prefer to have a whole week on one page and then a section for notes on the opposite page.
I then have my address section, which is very useful for me because I always have to ask my parents for family friends address’ so now I can write them all down in one place and not keep losing them!
I then have my 6 different sections, with note paper in each section. The sections are as follows:
To-do (to-do paper), lists (pink ruled paper), doodles (cream plain paper), Belle Fantaisie (peach ruled paper), 5 is unoccupied! (blue ruled paper) & Love (lilac ruled paper).
And at the back I have sticky notes ready to create a rainbow throughout my diary and a little notepad for jotting down anything and everything!
I’m completely in love with my filofax right now. It goes everywhere with me and is just the perfect little organiser. I can’t wait until I go back to university so I can use it to the maximum!
Tags: diary, filofax, note, notepad, organise, organiser, paper, personal, ruled
July 12th, 2010 at 10:42 am
Ooh a girl after my own heart! I abaolutely love organisation and alphabetising things haha
Am very tempted to follow in your footsteps and get a Filofax: the prospect of all those little sections is drawing me in! /nerdyness x
July 12th, 2010 at 1:03 pm
I love the colour and I get obsessed with multifunctional things like this! There is so much you can do in one place woo!
July 12th, 2010 at 11:13 pm
This post almost makes me regret stocking up on another Moleskine diary for the next 18 months! But alas, I kind of like my calendars to be books that I can put up on my shelf afterwards and then look back through them after a while!
However, your system of organisation is awesome!
July 13th, 2010 at 11:09 am
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July 13th, 2010 at 1:53 pm
You are me! I bought (well, selected for my in-laws to buy me as a christmas present) a red metropol and bought similar accessories and discarded similar contents. I was also shocked at how much of a Filofax snob I became in that I thought I would just buy some generic additional sections, but the filofax website was so reasonably priced (incl. postage) I couldn’t bring myself to sully it with lesser products!
My only minor problem with it was that my handbags are obvioulsy unfashionably small as it doesn’t fit… so I simply had to buy myself a pocket sized Eden one too!
July 13th, 2010 at 6:46 pm
Oh My Gosh! I love it! I have a lovely filofax too but don’t use it at the moment- however, yours is pretty inspiring! I am so geekily organised and adore stationery (Topshop…Paperchase….Paperchase!). My friends call me Monica hahahah x
July 14th, 2010 at 5:18 pm
Your Filofax looks wonderful! I saw Gala’s post a while back too, and have been tempted ever since to treat myself to a Filofax. I think I will have to invest in one before I go back to uni in September!
p.s. I totally used to have a Spice Girls Filofax too!
July 16th, 2010 at 5:32 pm
That looks amazing… but why is everyone switching from Molskine to Filofax when I went the other way!!!
July 20th, 2010 at 2:26 pm
Thanks for the peek inside your planning world! Love your photos and the filo itself looks yummy. Have you seen the little stickers they do too? I picked up some in a stationers in Brighton and they’re great for quickly marking in social events, car services, holiday etc!
July 20th, 2010 at 2:45 pm
Fantastic post! I have included the link to your post here in a blog post on Philofaxy, in a list of blog posts about people’s Filofaxes:
http://philofaxy.blogspot.com/2010/07/filofax-blog-posts.html
Happy Filofaxing!
July 20th, 2010 at 3:36 pm
@Cat – I haven’t seen those but I will definitely look out for some!
July 26th, 2010 at 7:01 am
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July 26th, 2010 at 2:28 pm
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July 29th, 2010 at 2:41 pm
i bet gala has sent filoxfax sales rocketing! love your post, it has made me definitely put one on my birthday list and will be perfect to start next year! really love your amber colour, it’s made me choose a bright sunny colour over a pink because it looks so fun!