Travel Journal

Keeping a travel journal is something I often do when I'm going away to visit somewhere, even if I have been to the place before. 

I'm sure a lot of people will think of a travel journal as being kept in a travellers note book or some other kind of bound book. 

However, I think a Compact or Slimline Filofax would serve as a great travel journal. You have more flexibility as to what pages the journal contains and you can archive the pages each year. You have the option of slotting in extra pages too. Of course you also don't end up with a half finished notebook either. 

Having convinced myself that this would be a great idea, I started gathering together some templates from our existing ones and designed some new ones as well.

I put together this daily travel journal page from a few examples on-line and adapted it to Personal Size. 

On the reverse side I've just left it for notes for that day. That way you can archive the individual days or keep them in reverse order. 

And I thought a simple index page would be useful to go with these pages. 

Looking through our own list of file templates, I was also able to pick out some suitable files to go with these new files for inclusion in a Filofax Travel Journal. 

Here are the links to the documents in Word and PDF format, they have been left fairly plain, so you can adjust them to your taste easily. 

All are set for printing on to Personal Size blank paper with the exception of the Time Zone map. 

Clicking on the file titles below will give you a preview of the file. 

• Trip Log .docx .pdf
• Trip Index .docx  .pdf
• Travel Planner for recording the times of trains/flights etc .docx .pdf
• Travel Packing List - Blank for you to customise .docx .pdf
• Conversion factors .docx .pdf
• Undated Day Planner .docx .pdf
• Photography Recording Record .docx .pdf
• Time Zone Map - Print on A4 then trim to size and 'Z fold' in to Personal size.  .docx .pdf

Printing Personal Size Pages

I hope you like this collection of files to enable you to put together a Filofax Travel Journal that meets your own needs perfectly. 

Now to just pick a suitable organiser from my collection for a Travel Journal. 

From Left to Right: DeVilliers Compact, Lefax City 10, Filofax Holborn Slimline, Filofax The Journey Travel Companion. 

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Gardening for your organiser

There is a lot of colour in our garden at this time of year.

If like me you are a bit of an amateur gardener and you need reminders as to when to do certain tasks in the garden at this time of year, then you might like to print off this simple guide for when to prune your plants and shrubs.

• A5 When to prune (Gardening) - .docx .pdf
• Personal When to prune (Gardening) - .docx .pdf

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Household Master Task List - Inserts

You might have heard Karine mention her master task list a few times during the Hitchhikers Guide to the Plannerverse podcast.

To give you some idea of what the master task list might look like I have created one for your household tasks and adapted it for different organiser sizes.

You can of course customise the list for your own needs and requirements.

Download the files and print them out.

A4/A5 Household Master Task List.

Download - Word File or PDF file

Personal Household Master Task List.

Download - Word File or PDF file

A6 Household Master Task List.

Download - Word File or PDF file


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To Do Notes

One our readers Anthony wrote to us with a new file for the files area:

Here is a form I thought you might like to post on the site.  For 2011 I ordered the personal size 2 page per day.  I was not able to order it for 2010 but I still wanted to see if I would like using that format, so I created a similar page with 10 todo lines on the top, and some lines for notes on the bottom.  It prints out double sided on Letter size paper, so you can cut them out and place one sheet between each of the dpp sheets to create 2ppd.  When printing the pdf, the pages seem to line up best if you turn off any fit to page settings, but have the auto rotate and center setting on.  Thanks Philofaxy!!

Thanks Anthony, this file you will find in the Files area. 'Personal Todo/Notes'

If any of you have any files you wish to share with other readers please email them to us.

Family Tree

I'm sure some of you have at some time wondered who your ancestors are. I've not made a big effort myself to plot my own family tree but I'm managed to gather some of the information together from surviving relatives.

There are lots of on-line sites to help you put together your family tree. However talking to some of the people that do this seriously as a hobby, at some point you are going to have to visit a library or research archive and you will need to take down some notes etc. Carrying a small computer might not be the easiest way to do this and sometimes might not be allowed.

Which is where the Filofax will come in. As I mentioned a week or so ago a Filofax doesn't have to contain a diary, without it, it can be an excellent notebook.

So if you want to use a Filofax as your Family Tree notebook I've created a few sheets recommended to me by Tim one of our readers.

You will find the sheets in the files area of Philofaxy. They are in A4 format at present but I've also included the .doc or .xls files so you can download the files and modify them to your own requirements. If you booklet print the pages they will of course fit an A5 organiser.

I hope you find the new pages of help.

Filofax Guide - Updated

I've been working on an update for the big Filofax guide for some months since the original was published. Moving house etc sort of got in the way of me finishing it off. It now includes details of the materials each organiser is made of. Anyway, the latest update is now available in our Files area. Look for Filofax.pdf .

Is there any other information you think would be useful to include in the file? Please add a comment below.

The usual words of caution apply... it's only accurate on the day it was published... prices go up prices go down.. new organisers appear... some disappear [Nooooo!!]... Oh and I'm human so please excuse any errors that have crept in. 

If anyone would like to volunteer to help me maintain this file I would really appreciate it, diving between three different websites is confusing and time consuming! If any of you could just keep a check on just one of the sites (UK, US, France or Germany) that would be a big help. I can share the Excel file with you using Dropbox so it makes it easier to keep it up to date, without needing to email it back and forth.

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