Moleskine hack in a pocket Filofax

Hi everyone! Here's a really quick post about something I just did with my pocket Kendal Filofax :)

This morning Steve, the Philofaxy King, posted a link to a youtube video. Here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QgdDUkyqs8&context=C42d8a3cADvjVQa1PpcFOwp8EFWK3A3vFai0YVJU4Ptc35e_d5AiA=
Sorry, blogger couldn't find the video and imbed it in the post, but just follow the link and find it there :)

Basically, the idea is to take apart a pocket Moleskine (or other, same-sized notebook) punch the pages and load them into a pocket-sized Filofax!
I had a Moleskine which I tried to use for GTD, and it really didn't work for me. I had taken some of the pages out already, so I didn't see the harm in pulling the whole thing apart for this hack!
I pulled out each booklet inside it (a set of about 8 pages, stitched together through the middle), trimmed the edges that I had torn apart, and punched them with my KW Trio. Then I put them in my Filofax!

It's not the tidiest thing; it was quite difficult to get the punches exactly in the right place each time, so some pages stick out more at the top or the bottom than others.

I LOVE this hack for a number of reasons:
I love Moleskine-esque pocket-sized notebooks, and I always have a least one with me when I go out; I use them to write down ideas for essays etc, because I know if I didn't write them down, I would forget them really quickly! I say I have at least 1 with me; but usually I have 3!!! 1 for general uni notes, 1 for MA dissertation notes, and 1 for planning my PhD application!!
One thing I wish I could do with those lovely little notebooks is move the pages about like I do in my Filofaxes. So this is a brilliant solution!
And another thing this hack allows me to do is take out pages I don't want any more, and leave in the ones I do want.
The pages are nice and big, much bigger than the normal pocket-sized Filofax pages. I find pocket-sized Filofax paper waaayyyy too small to use, so what a perfect solution!

You can see the differences in the size of the paper! Moleskine hacked on the left, Filofax pocket sheets on the right.

I think this is a brilliant hack, I can't wait to start using it, especially as my pocket Kendal had been sitting folorn, unused on a shelf!

My Kendals arrived!!!

Yaayyy!

I bought them on Saturday, and they were dispatched late on Monday, and the estimated date of delivery was supposed to be within 5 to 7 days because they were sent by second class, but actually they arrived really quickly (and by first class!)

I bid on the ebay auction within the last 5 minutes and no-one else bid on them so I won and only had to pay the starting price!!

The package included-
Kendal pocket in brown, with to-dos, expenses, note paper, addresses, address tabs and normal tabs plus a top-opening envelope. No diary
Kendal personal in brown, with 2011 week to view diary, tabs, to-dos, expenses, website lists, note paper, addresses and address tabs!

And the package came with extras-
2 personal black rulers/page markers
2 pocket black rulers
Blue/grey alphabet (address) tabs for personal
Another personal week on 2 pages diary!
Another pocket top-opening envelope
2 packs of pocket white ruled notepaper, the value pack with 100 sheets in each
and miscellaneous inserts/refills for the personal- address tabs with little letters instead of capital letters; cotton cream addresses; cotton cream blank paper; cotton cream lined paper; cotton cream to-dos; and more tabs!!

What a great haul!
Now I've just got to figure out what I'm going to do with it all!

I'll give a review of the Kendal once I've used it for a while :)

My first post... just a load of waffle really!!

So this is my blog... let's see how long this lasts! Very bad timing, seeing as how I have to finish my dissertation in 3 weeks and I have an essay plus 3 exams before the end of May, but this blog will be a nice distraction from my work... or a bad distraction!!

My blog will mostly be about filofaxes because I am OBSESSED about them at the moment! Also I might throw in some stuff about my life as a student...

I currently have 4 filofaxes, and 2 more are on the way from ebay :)

• My first is a raspberry personal Finsbury, her name is Violet and she's gorgeous, and holds my personal stuff, lists etc, plus my diary, but I will move that soon to another one- I'll talk more about that later
• My second is my red A5 Domino, called Rufus. I plan my uni work in it, with instructions for each essay I have to write in it, progress lists and most importantly my timeplanners, which are custom day to 2 page diary sheets, undated with an appointments and to-dos on one side, and notes and a journal section on the other. It's really useful to plan in, but I've been too busy to do it by the time my essays are looming! But it should be extremely useful during my MA and PhD to keep on top of everything and plan :)
• My third is my pocket crimson Malden, called Ruby, and she is absolutely beautiful and elegant, I can definitely see myself using this when I am older. I think if I ever move permanently to the pocket size for my everyday, on-the-move diary/notebook/list filofax this will be it :) So professional looking, but cute and gorgeous at the same time :) She holds my day planners, which are actually miniature versions of my time planners that I write in Rufus, but small so I can carry it around campus and use in the library when I have tonnes of books to carry. Actually, my time planners aren't on proper filofax paper, or even a structured table printed out onto paper, but blank pocket-sized paper I cut and punched from normal A4 paper!
• My fourth is my caramel Finchley mini, she is for shopping lists and a reference diary so that when I go around town I can write anything down I need to without having to take my personal with me

My new ones should be coming from ebay in a few days. I bought 2 Kendal filos, 1 in personal and 1 in pocket in one transaction, they were being sold together. I've seen an A5 Kendal which I LOVED and now I've seen a pocket, but I haven't yet seen a personal, so I hope it's as great as I imagine! I think I might sell the pocket on, I think having 5 filos is enough! I might use the personal to put my whole year's (day to a page) diary in it, because I can't fit that in my Finsbury at the moment because it has other papers with lists etc on!
But the beauty of filofaxes is that they are completely flexible! I can adapt them as I want!

Soon I'll put pictures on flikr :)

Now, back to dissertation writing!