Author Archives: Steve Morton

Friday TN Question No. 1

As you all know I’m very new to using the Travellers Notebooks, sure I’ve used some notebooks in the past and I’ve used a Filofax Flex with mixed success. With so many people in our planner community going down the TN route, I had to try it out for myself.

However, I am the curious sort of bloke and I’m always interested in how people use different planner  solutions. So by asking some simple questions, one each week, I’m sure I will learn a lot more about how people use their Travellers Notebooks and hopefully other new users will do to.

So this week I will kick off with a simple and safe question:

Do you use a Travellers Notebook instead of a Filofax or as well as? 

Please answer in the comments below, although I know a few of you will answer my question on Facebook.

And don’t worry I will shortly be revealing how I use my lovely Travellers Notebook that Ray Blake sent me soon. It’s not just a photo prop!

Web Finds – 10 November 2014

So I hope you had a good weekend. Sit back and relax and here we go.

  1. Customized Habana Notebooks – Quo Vadis Blog
  2. Introducing the 2015 Starter Pack – inserts for your Midori Traveler’s Notebook – My Life All in One Place
  3. Die “Travellers Notebook Times” – Notizbuchblog
  4. The Pocket Dump – Blank and Write
  5. ZenKraft Bearcat A5 Bi-Fold Notebook – ZenKraft Traveler’s Notes
  6. Recovery with a New Pen – Julia’s Bento
  7. Guest post: Federal Supply Memoranda notebook review – Plannerisms
  8. ZenKraft Hex-Fold Slim Notebook System  – ZenKraft Traveler’s Notes
  9. Crafty Links – Seaweed Kisses
  10. Something Wonderful… – Lovely Cards
  11. ZenKraft Kodiak Black Quad-Fold Slim with Maroon Pockets – ZenKraft Traveler’s Notes
  12. Journal Flip #2: Second Midori Traveler’s Notebook Refill … – Living in the Moment
  13. Free printable planners – Plannerisms 
  14. TN Times Magazine – Steve Morton
We are starting to monitor blogs that have TN type posts in them, if you would like your blog added to the system please contact us: travellersnotebooktimes at gmail dot com

And we have found these videos for your enjoyment as well.

  1. My Traveler’s Notebook Setup – Kaitlin Eckenrod
  2. November Setup – DIYFish MTN v2 DO2P & Small Projects Inserts – Carrie Harling
  3. Unwrapping & Moving Into My Happiedori – Love4Creativity
  4. diy travelers notebook – rayne tolentino
  5. My Midori Traveler’s Notebook Setup – Chit-Chat with Nit-Nat
  6. Flip Through My Midori Travelers Notebooks With Me! – tootooamy
  7. Flip through of my Fauxbonichi / Midori Traveler’s Notebook Oct #2 – MyLifeMits
  8. My Journal Journey – Julias Bento
  9. Field note size travelers notebook – Lauren Orsini
  10. Fauxdori vs Midori Review – GinasOrganizedLife
We are starting to monitor You Tube channels that have TN type videos in them, if you would like your blog added to the system please contact us: travellersnotebooktimes at gmail dot com
Enjoy

Travel Wallet or potential notebook cover?

We were given this Smith and Canova travel wallet as a leaving present when we left UK back in 2010. It has sat in a cupboard still in the wrapping for a few years. That is until I spotted a video by KateB TPS, the layout was very similar to ours, on looking at the makers name it was the same make as well.

Unlike the one that Kate bought this one has a clasp and two poppers on the front to allow for expansion. In Kate’s video she showed how to use the wallet with notebooks in it. With a little bit of inventiveness I managed to create a simple notebook for the wallet which is 205 mm tall by 11cm wide a size that isn’t that dis-similar to what people are already using in their Traveller’s Notebooks already. I made it slightly shorter so that it would slip in to one of the pockets, but the wallet will take a full height 210mm notebook.

I grabbed a file from Ray Blake’s site and just adjusted the margins a little, and there I had a simple notebook. I had some 160 gsm paper as well to create a cover and with the aid of a long arm stapler I was able to create a simple notebook.

Looking at this wallet though it could easily take two or three notebooks. With the clasp moved to the expanded popper I can get my fingers between the closed covers easily. And the notebooks could be easily held in place with elastic bands going over the outside of the cover.

For me though just the one notebook is fine tucked in to one of the big full height pockets. The wallet has plenty of card slots and outside cover slots for train tickets and airline check in boarding cards as well. There are pockets for your passports and small zip pockets for coins too. And all in a nice leather cover.

The travel wallet is still available at John Lewis in UK not this colour but the brown one as shown in Kate’s video.

The Front with a full height slip pocket on the left

Two poppers to allow for expansion and the left hand
one is still covered when the right hand one is used

Lots of pockets and card slots and a pen loop too

The diagonal topped pocket is ideal for boarding cards and train tickets

The notebook I made.