Notebook Addiction // Filofax Saffiano

My Filofax personal purple Saffiano is my personal diary and I really love it. It’s not a real leather planner, but honestly, I don’t really mind – I love it.

Since I’m an organiser freak, that really likes order, I have a colour coding system. As you can see the index card sticking out on the left, that’s my colour coding system. (pink for freelance, orange for freelance admin, yellow for my fantasybook website, green for studying, blue for personal/free time, purple for creative things, red for administration).

The index card on the right are the colours corresponding with the little bookmarks on the dividers on the planner, which sort of follows the same system, but it also has monthly planners and to-dos added to it.

Each divider has a credit card pocket sticker that holds an Instax photo. Currently it’s all from the cup series I did a while back, but the idea is that I can change it up and put friends and family in there as well.

Tab number 1 (skipped here), hold the personal information (you know, in the rare occasion I take this diary off my desk and loose it). The green arrow hold my main to do lists of things that are not bound by dates. Like the list of books that I want to read of my (personal) studies.

Or the cards I have to make for my freelance work.

Next up on orange are my monthly planners. It’s a quick look into the months up ahead. I would love to have it with the months in the running diary bit, but the way Filofax prints their monthly diaries makes that a bit impossible.

It also hold a WHSmiths year planner. I love this one, and need to take some time soon to colour code everything (I sounds a bit obsessive now!) and fully start using it.

Colourcoding made easy by Paperchase, love it!

The turquoise arrow holds the day to day diary. I’ve put in a quote from the Dutch magazine flow, because I love it. I also added bits of wallpaper from the DIY store to note down my monthly goals. I think it really adds a nice flair to it and with the paperclips it’s easy to find too.

I’ve started using the fly leaf as my dashboard to quickly stick to-do lists and notes to. I’ve cut open the holes so I can easily move it from week to week like with the today marker and I always have the notes with me.

For the months further ahead (I ran out of wallpaper!) I started using the monthly goal sheets from My Life All In One Place. They are perfect too!

Purple again is for creative things (and nice pic of me and Laura) and turquoise is for lists.

Last but not least, pockets, envelopes and stickers to decorate!

Like the Midori, this planner is still being reshuffled and I’m still not completely happy with the result and how it’s all set up. But I do love this planner and I love using it!