Category Archives: MyTN

My favourite Travellers Notebook – Cori

Today we start the first in this new series with Cori from ‘talesfromapolkcountygirl.com‘

Q1. What is your favourite Travellers Notebook cover (Make/model/size)?

My favorite TN cover is my Foxy Fix Marina Le Petite #5, the B6 size.

Q2. How long have you owned it?

Since July 2016, but I was participating in #onebookJuly2016, so I didn’t actually set it up or anything until August. But I’ve been using it ever since.

Q3. What is it that you like about it so much?

The B6 size, 7″ x 5″, is the perfect size for me for multiple reasons. My local stores always have notebooks in this size and they’re pretty cheap. I love that I don’t have to rely on ordering online and WAITING (I hate waiting) for the inserts to show up.

Q4. Do you use it all the time?

Yes, it is my EDC. I have my blogging insert, a dashboard, a folder, my monthly/weekly combo insert, my daily/journaling insert, and a brain dump book in the back.

Q5. Do you think the design could be improved in any way? How?

Design improvements depend on the designer. I wish there was more flexibility in terms of choosing pockets for the TNs. I don’t care for the card slot style pockets in the front of the TN. I would prefer secretarial pockets in the front and the back.

Thank you Cori be sure to check out her blog at: talesfromapolkcountygirl.com

If you would like to share with us your favourite Travellers Notebook, please contact Steve admin @ travellersnotebooktimes.com 

My Favourite Travellers Notebook

Gillio Giramondo and the VdS NomadAnother suggestion by one of our readers. To start a series of guest posts which will feature peoples ‘Favourite Travellers Notebook’

Anyone is welcome to take part in this series, it doesn’t matter if you own 1 or 101 travellers notebook covers. There will be five easy to answer questions and if you can also include some photographs for us to use that will be excellent.

So if you would like to volunteer for this series please drop me an email: admin AT  travellersnotebooktimes DOT  com and I will send you a copy of the questions and the instructions.

Minimalist Every Day Carry

There are quite a few times I don’t want to carry my usual planner and ‘man bag’ such as one day this week when we were going out to lunch.

So I adapted what I really needed for a short trip out of the house for a few hours.

So I grabbed my Gillio Intelligent Wallet, this holds 6 cards and has an internal storage slot for paper money, my iPhone 6 and my Filofax Flex Leather Slim Notebook cover.

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The Filofax Flex has a gusseted pocket on the front inside cover which will take my iPhone 6 easily still with its case on too. Tucked in there it wouldn’t be a distraction during our meal! The pen is my usual Uniball Vision Elite rollerball

The Flex Slim takes notebooks that are 15cm by 8.5cm not a common size. You can of course buy replacements from Filofax but I made this one myself with a simple template and followed the instructions by Ray Blake in his video. I kept the number of pages down to just 12 pages and added a card-stock cover, it keeps it fairly slim and compact. I used Clairefontaine 80gsm paper for the notebook.

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The three together fit easily together and fit comfortably in my jacket pocket.

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I will be using this combination quite a lot more for short trips out, if I think of something I need to remember I will have a notebook ready to hand every time.