Personal Domino Setup Series: Part 1

Hello Everyone!

Todays post is going to be the first post of my setup series. This series will consist of six parts because I want to be able to give a bit of detail about each section, and if I was to do a post on the entire planner this would be ridiculously long! 

This post is going to look at what I have in the front pockets of my Filofax, my zip pouch, and section one. 

I guess I should get the easy part out of the way first... So below is a photo of my zip pouch (purchased from Filofax) in here I keep my Le Pens. I am going to do a separate post about the Le Pens. These are the pens I use to colour code in my planner, which I will talk more about in a later post as well! I don't clip the pouch into the rings because the pens in it make the domino too bulky. If you have a planner with a soft leather cover this may not be such an issue, however the domino's cover does not give at all so having the pouch in the rings really stretches the elastic closure. 

Next, are the card slots on the front cover. In these I store various items (not all are useful when using my planner. In the top slot I have a business card and some page markers incase I need one. These page markers are from the Smash Book line at Michaels. They are really cute but they don't hold many pages! 

In the second and third slot I keep two tickets. These are from events that I went to and really enjoyed. I keep these in the planner just for safe keeping and because they remind me of fun times with family and friends! 

The fourth pocket is actually useful for my planner. In this slot I keep my Martha Stewart Dew Drops. These are removable stickers that you can write things on and then move them from week to week as needed. You can find this line at Staples (I am not sure if any other companies carry the brand). These are good for reoccurring tasks that you do not want to rewrite each week. Keep in mind the stickiness of these eventually wears off and you will have to make a new one, but this is still less work than rewriting the task each week! 

The Domino comes with a large vertical pocket behind the card slots. This pocket is fairly flexible considering the stiff cover the Domino has. I don't keep much in here, just a few essentials. The first thing I keep in this pocket is a page of sticky tags. I live in Canada and purchased them at a store called Dollarama (not sure if this exists in the U.S). As you will see in a later section I use these on my weekly pages. The only other thing that I keep in that pocket are some journaling cards from the brand Smash Book. I also use these throughout the planner (mainly in the weekly section). 

At the front of my planner I have a flyleaf (from Filofax), and behind this I keep a table of contents. The reason I do this is because I don't have a label maker and my tabs are not labeled. So I made a page that shows me what is behind each section. However, I may change this soon since I now have the tabs memorized. The colours on this page mean nothing, they are purely there to make the page look nice. 

Following the table of contents, I have my registration number incase I ever lose my planner. I depend on this so much! I don't think I could live without it!! Haha kind of sad I guess, but I'm sure all you Filofax lovers understand! Also I put a tab at the bottom that is labeled "If Found..." Hopefully if someone found this they would look there! 

Now we come to section one. For this divider I ran it through the printer and put a cute quote on it (I have this done with all my tabs). This section is "Frequently Used Information". In this section you will find personal information, summer class schedule (for university), a list of birthdays, 2014 - 2016 year at a glance calendar (some of these pages are daytime), a 2014 fold out year page, and professors information. 

This section wasn't very interesting but I promise they get better!! I hope you enjoyed this post. Thanks for reading!  If you liked this please follow and share with friends. Section two will be out sometime next week. 

Stephanie xo