Filofax inserts

I know a lot of the regular readers of Philofaxy bemoan the lack of choice of Filofax inserts and I am afraid I have to agree.

After enjoying using my personal aqua so much over the summer, I was looking into the possibility of continuing to use it come October when my MSc restarts. I am doing my MSc part time in between being a full time mum, looking after the house, etc, so I work on a weekly schedule. I know what I have to complete by the end of each week, but it's fair to say that my day-to-day schedules don't always end up panning out the way they're meant to! I have found the A5 time management inserts work perfectly for me - there's enough room on the daily diary for appointments, etc.; plenty of room for notes; and even space for important reminders and expense tracking. It's perfect! But it only comes in A5 size. Much as I adore my A5 imperial purple Finchley, it's not very portable and there is still something so appealing about an over-stuffed personal size filo that you can chuck in your bag and carry everywhere.

The only personal-size possibility for a weekly schedule like mine is the week to view with notes but this comes with my personal pet hate - multiple languages!! Why take a diary insert that's already small enough as it is, then clutter it up with 5 different languages? I just don't like it. I could of course use the wonderful templates from Ray and Steve, but I'm afraid I neither have the time nor the patience to print, guillotine and punch a year's worth of inserts.

It's such a shame that Filofax can't just get the basics right alongside trying to tempt the fashionistas with their £400 designer binders. Let's face it.  In a year's time when the Temperley crowd are looking for new, stylish, functional inserts on good quality paper to refill their designer binders, they're going to be extremely disappointed!