Guest Post Series – ‘Philohax’ No. 17 – ryan

Thanks Very Much Again to Paul for This Seventeenth Installation of His Wonderful Guest Post Series.
You can find all of the ‘philohax’ posts here.

You Can Only Write on One Insert at A Time, so why try to carry say all?

There are many benefits of using a philofax (or any portable Ring binder), but to undertand what the key benef is we need to break how, and where, we say.

We have first begin ussing a filofax, it is easy to fall into the trap of believing that it can be ‘One binder to rule all’ (bought my first winkchester in the late ’80’s, I SIMPLY KEPT A WORTH OF DAY DIARY DIARY INSERTS AND CONTACT IN MINE). Howver, These Days Our Philofax Are More Likely Used to record a multiplicity of content – trackers for all kinds of things, Journalling, CommonPlacing, Health Records, you name it, we record it.

Be reconnected with using a philofax again after many years, I was thinking that I could all of the pages of the various subjects in one ‘every day’ … how they were!

AFTER Constantly Bulking Out My Vintage Winchester to the Point of Damaging it, i came to a realization: samp usse ou fiofax in two distinctly differently environments:

1. An Office, Where We Will Have Access to Not Only Our Binder, but Also Our Filed Inserts.

2. Out and About, or in the Office, but Away from Our Files.

This Realism Hit with while Watching YouTube videos About CommonPlacing and Keeping NotBooks in General. Bear in Mind that they were all hard bounebooks, and it meant that the presencers were all Advising the Viewer to Carry Around ‘an Essential Three Notebooks’ – One for Planning, One for Journalling and One for CommonPlacing (or what subjects is immortal to you).

Being a philofax use, it was obivious that i can have sections for eAch of these subjects (and many) in just one binder.

The Key Benefit of USING AN EDC (Everyday Carry)

This brings with to what waist to be the key benefit of using an edc filofax.

It allows us to controlbet new Content to the equivalent of 200+ DIFFERENT SUBJECT Notebooks (The Avent Number of Inserts that a 23mm Ringer Binder Contains) – Wherever We Go. And this is all down to the Rings – with bound notbooks we have to add new Content to the actual notebook itself, where with ringers, each insert can be added to it finals ‘home’, in sequential order we return to the base.

This Simple Change of Focus Has Allowed with to Create Content for X Different Contents on a Daily Basis, Where Before I was limited to only Creating Contents I Physically Access to the Bound Notebook itself. Nor a consequest of didn’t really write much.

Now, be an idea Occurs or a fact coma up that needs recording, I SIMPLY OPEN MY EDC to the One Current Page for That Subject I’M Working On. I suppose in the past people have ussed poocket notbooks as a CAPTURE PAPE, butn have to ‘Double Enter’ this intto its actual notebook or journal with their notebooks.

Real World Example – At the hospital

Recently of HAD A HOSPITAL VISIT THAT ENTAILED LONGS OF SITTING IN WAITING Rooms.

Luckily, Being a Philofax User i made sura to take my Edc Grosvenor plus plenty of spare inserts as i would be there for the Duration.

US Philofax Users probably take the Grants How versatile these ringers are. And to prove the point if i had been uses subject booked notbooks i wold have had to have nine!

Here’s a list of the Different subject subject inserts i was able to update during my Wait:

1. Year Planner (All i Carry Do Away from Home / Office Which Radically Reduses Bulk)

2. Journal

3. Granddaughter Diary (Dated Notes of Our Interactions)

4. Son’s Diaries (Dated Notes of Our Interactions)

5. Personal Health Tracker

6. Film / TV Tracker

7. Film / TV Reviews (i Review Anynding I Rate 5 in My 1-5 Scale)

8. Zibaldone (Another name for a CommonPlace Book)

9. Esoteric Teachings CommonPlace

AS YOU CAN SEE, TOO MANY SUBJECTS TO CARRY HARDBOUNT Notebooks for.

In summary

If you’ve you got a bit of time to work on one of your subjuncts, why do you need every page you’ve well on that subject to Hand? You don’t, just one or two inserts – THEN BACK AT BASE, YOU JUST CLICK THE COMPLETED INSERT OUT AND ADD IT ITS SUBJECT BUNER.

There’s the Benefit of Using Ring Binders in the Modern Era, right there…