Hello Cherry!

As I have been mentioning around the blog, I own a delightful cherry metropol filofax in a personal size. I bought it in 2009 when it was even cheaper than its already reasonable price and I thought eh.. why not?

Looking back at older pages I used it as a full time diary for a few years, recording everything from appointments, meetings, deadlines, work schedules and social gatherings (parties!). Then unexpectedly and for a reason I don’t know, everything just stopped. The metropol was being left at home with appointments being recoded every so often if I could remember.

Then at the end of 2012 I discovered it under a pile of papers an instantly fell in love all over again, I started researching and came across some of the awesome sites listed as my favourites on the left hand side here and realised I was nowhere near utilising my metropol’s capability.

So after many late nights printing and sticking and a few shopping sprees I introduced my metropol to lists, goals, schedules and lots more!

Current Setup

My current set up opens up with the dashboard and and a slide pocket with card slots. In the pocket I’ve kept my current specsavers prescription as I ALWAYS loose it and have to fork out for eye tests all the time, a London underground map and a scruffy nail file just in case.

My dashboard currently has a quote and a lil picture that always makes me laugh. I’ve clipped these on with the view to change them every so so to keep me inspired and happy.

•  Tab 1 – Diary
• WPP, which works well as I’m relatively quiet now, but may change up to Wo2P if I get busy.

WPP

• Tab 2 – Month on one page.
• Bought from WHSMiths, I currently record how many times I work out and any reoccurring events with coloured dot stickers. Not sure what else I could do that doesn’t feel like I’m repeating events from my WPP.. Hmmm any ideas?

Tab 2 - Month on one page with notes.

Tab 3 - Notes and Lists

• Tab 3 – Notes
• To do lists printed courtesy of Philofaxy
• General notes about finance, work hours etc
  
  
• Tab 4 – Career
• Notes on applications, interviews and lists of skills, things to read to keep updated.

• Tab 5 – Projects
• Haven’t used this much, currently just records blog ideas

• Tab 6 – Goals
• I’ve created a further 3 tabs for fitness, finance and loves to record my goals for this year

Fitness tab - DIY

• Tab 7 – Loves
• This is just my favourite tab. I can recorded anything I like from quotes, little diary entries on special occasions or sticking memorable tickets from nights out.

Then the usual address and world map with a lil' clear pocket sleeve at the back for stickys.

That’s my current set up that has been working well, but I’ve recently purchased a new addition: an A5 Ebony luxe! AH THE EXCITEMENT!

So I will be re-visiting and re-jigging my set up as I don’t want to carry around as much. Most of my personal writing is done at home so I could do with a slim down.

How have you set up yours? Is it working well into the year so far?