If you have a Filofax organiser, you probably have diary pages – probably ones made by Filofax. If you’re happy with those pages, great. If you’d like to try something different, read on. If you’d like to experiment or adapt a diary that is just right for your very particular needs then you’ve come to the right place.
Steve Morton of the Philofaxy blog and I have collaborated in an ongoing project to produce a range of diary layouts that can be downloaded, printed, punched and used. You can find them all here and they are all free. They are offered for download and use under a Creative Commons Licence. That means you can freely use and adapt them other than commercially. You can share these templates with other people, but you must not charge for them.
You need to decide whether you just want to download prepared layout sets for the full year, or whether you want to roll up your sleeves and adapt our templates to your own needs. There are video tutorials linked below to help get you going. Some of the things you can do when you have the source files are:
- Make and print a diary for any year - past, present or future
- Adjust the space given to different days or other template elements
- Add your name or other details to each page
- Make a diary for part of a year, or for any period you want
- Change the language of month and day name
Follow the links below to the blog posts where the files are to be found. Often there will be several in one post, but the individual files will be clearly signposted and instructions are included in the posts.
Full year sets to download
1. Filofax A4 and A5 sets
2. Filofax Personal sets
3. Filofax Pocket sets
Source files
1. Filofax A4 and A5 templates
Week on two pages (time management layout)
Week on two pages (journal layout)
Week on two pages (new TM/journal layout)
Week on two pages (cotton cream layout)
Week on two pages (journal layout)
Week on two pages (new TM/journal layout)
Week on two pages (cotton cream layout)
2. Filofax Personal templates
3. Filofax Pocket templates
Day per page (minimalist layout)
Day on two pages
Two days per page
Week on two pages (time management layout)
Week on two pages (cotton cream layout)
Month per page
Month on two pages
Diary mail merge tutorials
If you would like a demonstration of the mail merge process for diary inserts, these please view one of these videos in which Steve and I demonstrate how it works with different versions of Office:
Office for Mac
Office 2003 for Windows (similar for Office 2002)
Office 2010 for Windows (similar for Office 2007)
PDF printing issue
When you print your PDF file, it might print out smaller on paper than the Word file it was created from, meaning your pages come out the wrong size. But you can fix it easily.
When you print from Adobe Acrobat Reader, you will see this dialog:
See that 'Print Scaling' setting? That's the one that's shrinking your PDF when you print it.
Change the setting to 'None':
Now, when you print the PDF it will print at the right size.
Day on two pages
Two days per page
Week on two pages (time management layout)
Week on two pages (cotton cream layout)
Month per page
Month on two pages
Diary mail merge tutorials
If you would like a demonstration of the mail merge process for diary inserts, these please view one of these videos in which Steve and I demonstrate how it works with different versions of Office:
Office for Mac
Office 2003 for Windows (similar for Office 2002)
Office 2010 for Windows (similar for Office 2007)
PDF printing issue
When you print your PDF file, it might print out smaller on paper than the Word file it was created from, meaning your pages come out the wrong size. But you can fix it easily.
When you print from Adobe Acrobat Reader, you will see this dialog:
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Change the setting to 'None':
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