I need a new large diary/planner - tell me about yours please

[Jemster]

Hi
I have been trying to manage diary and reminders etc just through my iphone calendar this year. I'm finding it's not working as well as when I used to use my filofax pocket sized organiser.
I seem to plan better and be more organised when I physically write things down.

I've had my pocket filofax for years and its a very handy size to carry around but now I have a busier life with dh & 2 dc I would like something a bit bigger. I'm considering the personal size filofax but the pages look quite narrow.

Interested to hear what paper diary systems you use for keeping everything organised. Any recommendations please? Thanks

check out the organised mum website - they have amazing solutions on there!!

I have the Life Book from Organised Mums....don't know how I lived without it!

Another vote for organised mum. John Lewis sells their calendars.

I use a Dodo diary. 5 columns, week to view on one side, blank or doodled on page facing it. I stick school notices, invitations etc on the blank side. After we've been to the cinema, theatre etc I stick in the ticket stubs which makes it a bit like a journal.

I love my mums office diary, it's similar to organised mum (which I had before) but is a bit more streamlined as it's not a ringbound diary.
They do 2 sizes the big one would be huge to carry around but good if you wanted a central one for home.

www.mumsoffice.co.uk/md2014.html

I got a big A4 diary from WHSmiths lady year and although the layout and paper quality is great, the spine broke within a fortnight. I'll be getting a ringbound one next year.

I've tried loads and ended up digging out my old work A5 filofax, a4 school letters etc fit in once folded in half as well as lots of other important stuff that I keep in these transparent thigies here if you want the organised mum style stickers they have started doing those too here. Its a bit big to carry round though...

Although having said that, it would seem that they do several different depths of filofax (I think that I need to step AWAY from the filofax website and get a life...), so a narrow A5 one would be a lot easier to carry around than my massive fat A5 one...

I think I might actually need a new one... look at all the pretty colours

Collins home and work diary . It has sections for goals etc too! Google it if intrested it fab! Organised mum diary also good but smaller .

I've tried a number of the solutions already mentioned however have developed my own system now as I found elements of the different systems didnt get used - waste of money in my eyes. So now I have a shop bought 2 ring binder and my own set of inserts that I did on PC and then printed off...I can make changes to any of the inserts, type up important addresses/contacts/dates and just add to them year on year.

Best one ever - The dairy diary, available online or directly from ur local milkman, my mum's been getting them since the dawn of time , now my sisters and I all have them every year!