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Showing off my new combined Filofax and TN planner setup (video)
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What do you use your Midori Traveler's Notebook for?
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If you are anything like me, then you probably get great pleasure out of finding out how other people use their Midori Traveler's Notebooks. So I have decided to share with you a few ideas...
The GREAT thing about Midori Traveler's Notebooks...
...is that you can refill them with notebook refills that are cheap to buy and easy to make yourself.
If you make your own you can make your notebook refills with any number of pages to suit your individual needs. The less pages you decide to have in each notebook refill, the more refills you can fit into your TN and the quicker you can get through each notebook – which personally I find quite satisfying :)
It's also convenient if you're still getting used to your Midori TN, and you're still not entirely sure how you want to use it. You can try out different refill designs for a short time without feeling anxious about waste.
TN refill ideas
There must be an infinite number of ways you can use your TN refills.
You can get so many ideas just by browsing other people's blogs, chatting to other Midori Traveler's Notebook users on Facebook, or just thinking about your personal interests and looking at stationery online.
Here are some ideas to get your creative juices flowing ...
Dream journal
If you're a vivid dreamer, recording your dreams might be a fun way of looking into your subconscious and working through desires and fears.
If you keep your Midori, Traveler's Notebook by your bedside, when you wake up first thing in the morning you'll be able to quickly recall details of your dreams and record them.
This can assist a very interesting and personal journey. You should try it!
It might also help you to develop an emotional connection or relationship with your journal, which is what all of us Midori fans strive to do through personalisation.
Doodle book
If you like to let your pen wander aimlessly across the backs of envelopes when you are on the phone, maybe you should consider keeping a doodle book.
Who knows, each page could turn into wonderful abstract pieces of art!
Doodling is also a wonderful mindful exercise that can help you to unwind.
Brainstorming pad
Everybody has a preferred way of taking notes to remind themselves of ideas for shopping lists, blog posts and other things.
Why not try brainstorming as a free and visual way of generating ideas?
Dedicate a notebook refill to your brainstorming– it'll encourage you to use this open form of note-taking and reap the rewards.
The best thing about brainstorms is that it is easy to add onto your ideas any time, linking ideas together and seeing where you end up!
TIP: Use your notebook horizontally for more space!
Stamp or sticker collection
People who like to collect things things might enjoy dedicating a TN notebook refill to collecting, say stamps, stickers, receipts, lists ... it's up to you!
Recipes ideas
How about a notebook dedicated to yummy recipes?
It can accompany you to the supermarket when you go, and then you can take it out to make space for something else when you know you won't be doing any shopping!
What inventive ways do you use your Midori Traveler's Notebook refills? Tell me in the comments below ...
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Cool ideas for Moleskine Postal Notebooks
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I love it when I discover innovative little notebooks!
Small pocket notebooks are always a tempting purchase, they sort of grab you by surprise. You never usually need yet another pocket notebook, but at the same time, another wouldn't hurt.
When it has a quirky little feature - like transforming from a notebook into an envelope ready to seal and pop in the post - well, resistance is futile.
Why would you need a pocket notebook/ready-made envelope? Well, who cares... don't you just want one?
Ideas for how to use the Moleskine Postal Notebook
Encourage children to create storybooks
I have a five year old niece, and being a fan of good old snail-mail service, I developed a penpal hobby with her so that we could write letters back and forth. It was the perfect opportunity for me to go to Paperchase to purchase lots of girly letter-writing sets and stickers. (I always take advantage of reasons to spend money in Paperchase!)
Most of her letters consisted of pictures. I like to think I'm a bit artistic too, and one day I got carried away and wrote a whole mini picture book for her to read. It was about a little owl's first day at school, and I used lots of cute owl stickers.
I knew she was nervous and excited about moving up the the big school. So I designed and hand-crafted a little pocket storybook specifically to fit into an envelope and pop in the post for her.
Now if only these Moleskine Postal Notebooks had been available then – they would have been perfect!
Therapeutic 'sealed' journalling
I got into the habit of writing hand-written letters to myself as a form of Journal Therapy while I was going through a break-up.
I'd write myself a letter and get all the emotional analysis out of my system. Then I would seal the letter and put it at the back of my bookcase and feel SO much better.
I don't know why, but there was just something about finishing the letter, saying everything I needed to say, and sealing the envelope, that felt really good. And then of course not being able to re-read or mull over what I had written.
It was my way of saying that I had dealt with those feelings, said what I needed to say, and that was the end of it. And if I felt the feelings resurface, I would simply write another letter, until one day I got a bit bored of it, had nothing more to say, and miraculously I was over my break up!
You could do the same thing with these Notebooks. When you come to the end of the notebooks, just seal them like a letter, and store them away somewhere for future entertainment or self-reflection. In fact, these Moleskine Postal Notebooks could be dedicated specifically to journal therapy needs. I like it!
Travel pen pals
If you're doing a bit of travelling it would be nice to collect thoughts and scribbles to send back home to friends and family.
Moleskine Postal Notebooks would be perfect for that.
Or even if you have a pen-pal that you write to regularly, whether you're travelling about or not, you could still use these notebooks as a fun and alternative way to write your letters.
I know that I would love and treasure a letter if I received it in such a cool form! It would be like a little piece of art or a mini travel-journal – someone else's adventures in a little bound book written specially for me. One of a kind. how wonderful :)
Who knows, maybe 'notebook mail' could be the next big thing? What do you think? Tell me how you'd use a Moleskine Postal Notebook in the comments below...
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The time I bought my sister a Filofax... and KEPT it!
I was convinced that I could change my sister's life by converting her to share my secret love-affair with Filofaxes. So I bought her one, but had trouble letting go ...
Like me, my sister is a virgo, and in many ways we are quite similar. She also has the same strange interest in pens and paper that I have, and we both used to keep diaries and scrap books as kids, Although being my younger sister, perhaps she was just being a bit of a copy-cat.
If I could just get a Filofax into her hands though, I knew it would be contagious.
So I ordered her a beautiful bright red personal Chameleon Filofax.
I was so excited. Was this just an excuse for me to buy more Filofax Goodies and not feel guilty? Probably.
The thing is, when my sister's Filofax arrived, I had the pleasure of unwrapping it, and as soon as I had it in my hands – I felt oh-so-confused!
How could I possibly part with this beautiful thing now that I had seen it?
It was so vibrant, and when I placed it on top of my A5 Aqua Chameleon Filofax I saw something very special indeed. The colour combination was exciting and delicious. There was no way that I could part with it.
As you can see below, that bright vibrant red follows you as you open the Filofax up, it's everywhere.
Now then, I'm not normally a 'bright red' type of gal – that has always been my sister's thing, which is why I chose the red one for her.
But I was beginning to think that maybe I could be...
And inside it came with these tutti-fruity coloured numbered tab dividers.
I was jealous. I wanted them, end of story.
The only thing I could do was go straight back online and purchase another red Filofax for my sister and keep this one for myself. Yes, I was officially purchasing two of the same Filofax. My addiction and insanity was finally confirmed. But what's a girl to do?
I gave my sister the second Filofax last Christmas and she laughed when she opened it, but I had faith that it would soon seduce her, and it did.
It's all about the personalisation, as you dedicated Filofax lovers know.
She gradually gave in and made it her own, and then one day she called me up and made me the happiest sister on the planet ...
"Zara," She gasped with angst in her voice, "Zara, I can't find my Filofax! What am I going to do? I don't know what I'm doing tomorrow!"
That's my girl, I thought with a big smile on my face :)
I hope you enjoyed my silly story :)
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