Conquering My Notes Section

Hi everyone!

Has this ever happened to you? . . .  You set up your planner to be all efficient and organized and pretty.  You arrange it in a way that makes sense to you.  Then you go out into the 'real' world and experience a major fail?

It has to me!  My brick of a planner has pretty paper and tons of sticky notes. However, during a phone call, I realized I didn't know where to jot down a quick note. Crazy huh?

So it made me think: how can I organize myself to make sure I have someplace to write down something quickly.

Answer: my Notes section:

(I think this may be a little harder to explain in photos but I'll try.)

I now use my Notes section as a catch-all of random things that have no place to go, yet.  I put all sticky notes, loose paper, notes sheets, etc. in that one section so that I only have one place to go to write.  Other than my calendar section, this is where I will go first.

As you can see, lots of random notes.
Flyleaf is where I will stick items that are 'in action'.

Previously, it was scattered all over my planner, in almost every section.  I still have a flyleaf and sticky notes in the Menu section, however, most of it is now corralled in one place.

I have tons of sticky notes of all sizes.

I have tons of loose paper of all sizes.

I have tons of blank notepaper.

And even more sticky notes and paper in an envelope. 

The flyleaf will take me to sheets of blank notepaper. 

Another flyleaf will take me to the "To Do" list.

And finally, now I can'tcomplain about having 'nowhere to write'.  I hope!

I have yet to test this out, and I'm hoping it will work for me now.  I know some of you do this already.  I don't know why it took forever for it to click.

Next, I'll write about how I use my "color-coded section" (for lack of a better term).  Now, this part of my planner is perfect, ha ha.

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Stamping in my Filofax

Hi everyone!

I have never got on with decorative stamping in my planner/s because the ink always bled through to the other side and it bothered me.  The only stamping I ever did was with the Muji to do stamp.

When I first got that, I picked up the box stamp as well and never really found a good use for it -- until now!

I did a few things to test it out and quite liked it.

Initial testing, notes pages.

Filofax notes pages

Dotted grid Muji paper

A further attempt.  I stamped out 12 boxes and used calendar washi tape to label each box.  I coordinated the ink to match the color on the washi tape.

Here's how I plan to use them.

1)  2015 Forward Planning.  Filofax doesn't have any inserts like this so it's a good way to forward plan with my own pages.

2)  Birthdays and Anniversaries.  I plan to use the months to jot down birthdays, anniversaries, and other yearly occurences.  This will be on file in my Home Binder as I have all birthdays written down on my Month-at-a-Glance.

I used mostly Stampin' Up ink so they do bleed through to the other side so I will only use the front pages.  If you do stamp in your Filofax, what ink do you use that doesn't bleed through?

And I'm sure you can think of other ways to use this stamp if you have it.  And when you do, please share, I would love to see what you did!

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