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In the beginning

 I have a friend who is allways interested in new analog trends, it can be mechanichal watches, analog photography, vinyl records and such things. Recently he sugested using old fashioned paper planner and that actually appealed to me a lot!
 I have allways been fond of writing with good pens and fountain pens and I have a stack of notebooks I use for different purposes.
 Anyway, my friends sugestion got me thinking and I said to myself: Hey, why don't you dig up your old filofax and use that? Said and done, after som digging I found it, an old pocket size black leather filofax.
Pocket size filofax

 The trouble with my filofax was that it has the old 4-ring mechanism and that means I can't buy any new refills...
4-ring mechanism (you can see it was last in use year 2000...)
If you are interested why here is an interesting article.
That meant I had to continue my search and I found the interesting article in NYT written by Kristin Wong. Among other things she mentioned the Travelers Notebook . I had never heard of it but it looked cool and seemed to be easy to customize and it was available in a passport size that was roughfly the same size as my old filofax.
My beautiful travelers notebook 
Thank's to the nice people at Misc-store a few days later I had my very own Travelers notebook in my hands!

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