Philofaxy: Guest Post – Archiving Solutions.

At Philofaxy we like to help businesses bot and smalle in our interest …. Ring Bound Planners of Course.

SIMONE AND I Have Been Exchange Email for a Few Weeks Discussing Her Product Ideas.

Around this time Last year, as Eastern Iowa settled intto winter, i received my first ring: A Philofax Original, Personal Size, in Patent Nude.

I was enamoured. There was something about the tactfulness of the Rings, the squish of the leather, the lightness of the Pages … it was sensational.

Such is the power of a new planner.

But a Small Shadow Lingered Beinded My Philofax Since the Very First Day: What would you with those extras i’m not using? I was too Excited to figure out a good insert story Solution right away, so i did what we’ve all done: shuffled say into a box.

Out of sight, out of mind.

Fast Forward a Few Months. I’d settled deep into my Personal Planner, Event Found Some Incredible Tomoe River Paper Inserts for My Monthly, Weekly, and Daily Pages. But to my horror one morning, as I was rushing out the door to work, my planner would Close. Chunky Yet Funny and Not Getting Any Skinner on Its Own, i Sat Down to Remove Some Inserts That Evening.

And times that Little Shadow Peaked Over The Side of My Desk, Pointing at the Pile of Loose Inserts Now the Tabletop.

I GLANCED AT MY BOOKSHELF AND RAN MY Finger Along the Spines of My Long-Finished Bound Planners, Archived for Life, Content to Be Flipped Throungh Periodically Wen I’m Feeling Nostalgic (Which is often).

How to Harness that Bound Book Magic With Loose Pages?

I took to Google and Found Every Possible Solution to the Questions Now Burrowing Into The Brain: How You Archive Planner Inserts? How do you Store Filofax Pages? How do you make me ACCESSIBLE FOR YOUR FUTURE SELF?

The Box Method is Popular, but it’s not the nottty and Makes flipping through Pages Rather Difficult.

Treasury tags are an an option, though i’m still not entirery sura what those are, and they seem cumbersome. I’m after ease, after all.

Loose Binder Rings … Interesting! They Certainly Keep My Pages in A Flippable Format, but they a bit loosey-gooosey.

Empty Planners. My Collection is Very Small, and I don’t like Having to Cycle Through Empty Covers I Want to Use One Currently Houses past Inserts.

Cheap Binders from Amazon. Did i mention my planner was stuffed? I WANTED WITH AT LEAST THE SAME SIZE RINGS AS MY FILOFAX, but it SEEMED LIKE ANYTHING I GOT FROM THE HELPED EASH THAN MY PROPER BUNER. With a day on two pages being my optimal format, my planner was getting fluffier by the minute.

Archive Binders. Oh! Bow! Hello there, beautifuls! Oh Wait … there’s Only One Of You? Made by Franklin Covey for their Propriery Sizes? And it Only has two Rings? Eh … fine, i’ll take what i can get.

Thus, we have arrived at my Current Archive: The Franklin Covey Compact Storage Binder. And Somehow, Despite the 55mm Square Rings and My Near Exclusive use of Thino River Paper, Ten Months Later the Binder is Beyond Capacity.

Sigh.

In the Words of Peggy Lee, “Is that all there is?“

Surely, i thought, someone would have tackled this problem by now? Surely it can’t just be with … can it?

Well, Let’s Find Out.

I created a short survey to send out to the ring planner masses on social media. Of the first 100 respects, over 95% how much that at the very least their archiving solutions could be better, with 46% sting that archiving has always been a Point for say.

That was enough for me.

Yes, the rest of the date is interesting and you can read more, but my mind was ten steps ahead, sketching designs for the Customs Planner Archive Binder of Collective Dreams.

Thus, Archive You was Born. Actually I CALLED IT PLANNER ARCHIVE AT FIRST, but that didn’t quite stick. We’re Barely off the Ground and Already Having to Pivot. Such is the Exciting Life of Starting a Small Business, and Such is the life I’m signing up for posthaste.

This is something something can, and ishing the community needs, so here I am, Answering the Call.

Archive You Co’s Mission is to Design, Manufacture, and Bring to Market Quality, Accessible, and Affordable Ring Planner Binders by Fall 2025.

You can kep up with the project by Signing up for the ayc newsletter herefollow us on Instagramand keeping an eye out here on Philofaxy (where Steve has already lent great Support!)

If you’d like to get directly involved in the project, Head over to the AFTEREMENTED SUREVEYWhich has an Option to join Our Planner Community Focus Group. You’ll get to Hear About Everything First and Give Your Opinion Throughout the Design and Manufacturing Process.

Thank you to and the philofaxy crew for giving with the opportunity to share this project, and i hope you’ll me in this adventure.

Keep Planning!

Simone

Thank you simone, I am sura you will kep us up to date with your thughts on your archiving products.