The Hitchhikers Guide to the Plannerverse

Job Seeking and Keeping Looking for work is not for the faint of heart. It’s a full time job and anyone who says differently is selling you something. In this episode, Steve and Karine (who also happens to be a professional resume writer and career/life coach) give the best tips on how to use your planner to look for work and what setups to consider in order to become top at your job and have

Planner Fail You’ve got everything lined up, all the pens and markers match, the stickers are the perfect shade of (insert favourite colour here), the moon is waxing, and Mars is not in retrograde for once. However, you look down at your planner and suddenly NOTHING WORKS! You are in a strange dimension called “Planner Fail.” In this episode, the gruesome twosome explore identifying a planner

Planner Hacks Celebrating our 10 year err 10th episode we bring you Steve and Karine’s favourite planner hacks as known to us and relayed to you. What’s the best way to make the most of what you’ve got? How to maximise your planner with tricks and suggestions from the depths of the plannerverse. Planners at the ready! Get out your paper and start writing these tips down If you have ideas for

Planner Planning Planning purists, take note! In this episode Steve and Karine discuss the ultimate goal of planning and why the need for multiple inserts. Often planner users get lost in the vast insert shuffle (literally); it’s happened to all of us. We will examine what needs to be contained a functional planner, after all what use is information if you can’t access it? We hope to

Choosing inserts Planners are great things ONCE you figure out which inserts work best for you and how to make those inserts work for you. In this episode, the gruesome twosome tackle the gruelling subject of selecting proper inserts, discussing various types, sizes, layouts, paper quality and thickness. We also discuss whether printing your own inserts is the way to go, particularly when

How do you carry your planner? We often get asked how we carry our planners and what else do we carry with them? We also see a lot of photos on social media of accidents that have happened whilst carrying your planner in a bag along with other things. Sharp objects, ink from pens are all enemies of planners. If you have ideas for future episodes please send them to steve at philofaxy dot com

Planners on the go - Travelling with your planner Show Notes (timings approximate) 01:35 - Organisation for different trips - Business 02:30 - Making your trip less stressful 03:10 - How long will you be away for? 05:00 - Steve's packing lists Travellers Check List (A4) - .doc .pdf Travel Packing List (Personal) - .docx Travel Planning (Personal) .docx .pdf

Why would you pay more than double the price of a Filofax? Show Notes (timings approximate) 02:00 - Other brands 04:00 - Getting to know the people in the companies 05:30 - The differences - Gillio 06:40 - Van der Spek 07:30 - Van der Spek Touch Me 08:15 - Krause Rings 09:30 - Filofax production methods 11:20 - Consumer Law differences 12:15 - Quality 12:30 - Why would you spend more 15:

Using Your Planner To Create Small and Permanent Habit Changes. Show Notes (timings approximate) 02:00 - Life's Lessons 03:30 - Successes in life 05:00 - Small and permanent habit changes 07:30 - Drinkaware 10:45 - Time Management (your own) 11:45 - Journal 13:00 - Life in Balance 16:00 - Don't undersell yourself 17:00 - Focus on what isn't working 18:15 - Writing down and setting tasks

A Multi Plannerverse:  Getting on with two or more planners. Show Notes (timings approximate) 02:00 - Other uses for Filofax organisers 03:00 - The modular life style design 04:00 - What works for you 06:00 - Non leather organisers 07:00 - Steve's A5 set up 11:00 - A6 Diary insert 13:30 - Deskfax 17:00 - Work and Personal planners 17:20 - Monthly insert for blog post planning 20:00

Where to start your planning journey and why.... We would both like to thank everyone for the excellent feedback on Episode 1, take a listen if you haven't already. Karine set the title for this episode. We then both went off to do our own independent research and to come together to put forward our own thoughts on the topic of 'Where to start your planning journey and why.' We are also

What size and why.... So what is this you might ask.... something new for me as well. Introduction. Karine (Tovmassian) and I have been planning this for some time and finally we got to record a proper episode after we had done a couple of test discussions we recorded and had technical problems with. I hope you will listen to the first episode, we know it is not 100% perfect, we still have