I'd love a video on your travel prep! also the archive binders, however wonky, are so so neat. always making me want to print things out and keep them in my pocket. the covers turned out so nicely, I adore the bog book. I think I'd end up making binders on nostalgia, memory, liminality, hauntings - not necessarily separate, but I think I gravitate to those a lot especially thanks to this community.. the ocean, especially the depths, maybe something relating to language. possibly a whole video game related binder.
Oooh I feel you’d enjoy the book Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer ! It’s eye-opening on the role and beauty of the existence of moss and how life on Earth would not happen if it weren’t for moss!
When I was a kid, I had notebooks on the old ghost towns in the mountains of the American West, because I wanted to find one with a small population where I could move when I was grown up, so obviously now I live in NYC. In adulthood, I started one on astronomy and physics of light trying to understand how supernatural experiences could work, and then I took it so far that now I'm back in school for a Math & Physics degree as someone with an art background. It was great hearing about your bog interest! So lovely!
Pardon my intrusion, I'm just always happy when people are interested in both arts and sciences. I studied history and sociology in uni and then I went back to school much later to become a medical lab tech. So many of my classmates could not comprehend how I loved both. 😂 I definitely don't get along with numbers but I've always loved biology. Getting to draw out microscopic samples with all my coloured pencils was like the joy of my life. Thanks for sharing your interests. 😊
It's so sweet to hear how your voice and tone changes when you're talking about your special interests, you're so passionate! I love these videos, pls keep infodumping on us as much as you'd like lmao
I've realized what I appreciate about your videos is that they make me feel less guilty for prioritizing the system that makes me feel good at any given time, even if it means jumping around or leaving something behind. I'm not autistic but I have adhd and really severe anxiety and depression, and having a system that just feels "right" is so comforting, so I just want to be able to enjoy that small win when I can get it, you know? Also in terms of special interests, my current biggest ones are cryptozoology and macabre Victorian traditions. I spent several hours taking notes on articles about Victorian mourning traditions the other day and had such a fun time with it.
if i were to make a special interest binder it would be about pen hacking and ink colors. i like hacking different refills into different pens. i also like comparing inks, say all the blue ballpoint inks or black gel inks. there's all kind of subtle variations within type when you start comparing them. i have a lot of disparate documentation but i really need to pull it together. another special interest would be hiking trails and outdoor skills.
I am thinking about doing a Halloween special interest binder - my favorite movies, books, notes on haunted houses I've been to, etc. Also, maybe one on books but that seems really daunting.
Perhaps create a scavenger hunt list for your Bog trip? We used to go to a place called Aransas National Wildlife Refuge. They had print outs like a fun map that included pictures of all the different species you might see there. It's probably supposed to be a kids activity, but all the adults got into it. :) Also, this video--- So many quotable moments in this one: "Sometimes you just need to be knee deep in grass."!!! "Artists desks are like cats they fill the shape of the space they're in." "Equal parts support and freedom." "Imagine a Bog Vlog." Have a great time traveling Megan. I hope there is a Bog Vlog! :)
i think my special interest binders would probably be on woodcraft (and my associated interests like historical archery, fiction book series around the concept, etc.), minecraft (probably pulling together my thoughts on lore/headcannon and bits from my favourite minecraft youtuber ethoslab), and maybe something on cowboys and other livestock workers in a historical context. there are so many things i'd love to collect info on but those are the ones i can think of that might fill a little book someday. your bog bits are making me want to research the wetlands from my hometown !! i doubt i'd find anything online about it (very small town) but maybe next time i visit i will have to do some investigating because i adore learning about plants and soil and insects and such 🕵
Regarding Bogs, if you are ever in or near York there's Askham Bog, David Attenborough recently got involved with it to help protect it as it one of the few Ancient Natural Bogs left in the country. And is home to rare species of water beetle and beautiful emperor dragonflies.
love the visual of ordering or referencing the pages on a clothesline 🪡👽 the rearrangement of existing notes is such a hobby of mine honestly may be my favorite part of noting things down
I am really loving these Filofax infodump videos! And I would definitely love a video on your travel prep. I am completely enamored with your bog book and how you’re setting up a specific archive just for one of your special interests. For me, I would love to compile an archive on vampires, Victorian mourning, and a specific jewelry artist that I love.
Answering your question, I have sooooo many binders, more A4 size because they need to hold a lot of informations but i got (at least the one I’m currently working on) : 3 astrology, hellenism, herbalism, media critic (like books/movies), 2 psychology, folklore, egyptology and my experimentations on trying routines/systems. I think a lot of people would categorize many of them as study material like many people have, but I haven’t heard of many adults immersing in their self-initiated studies this many hours per day or making their own personnalised cardstock dividers for horizontal and vertical classification. I also got a filofax binder as a journal/calendar for daily pages and elucubrating on whatever crosses my mind :) Thank you for your videos, any kind you make always hits home
Lovely video :) As an astrophysics student (about to graduate & enter grad school!), my research has slowly taken over my hobonichi cousin and I'm probably gonna need to get a second book just for that lmao. I'm just SUCH a bound book person (& don't want to pay school library printing prices) so it'd probably just be a bullet journal-style notebook for the research project itself with a lot of archiving relevant/interesting notes from papers & textbooks. I LOVE having everything in one book in my cousin, but I decided to major in my longest running hyperfixation, so it's a bit chaotic haha. Would be nice to put it in a containment/reference book and organize it by subfield (e.g. cosmology vs. planetary science vs. stellar astrophysics vs. orbital dynamics vs. broader physics like quantum mech, etc). Also would be nice to have a separate reading journal I could use for papers rather than novels haha!
My special interests are held in traveler’s company standard inserts :) I have a food diary/ recipe book (i write down everything i eat ever), a videogame book where i write notes as i play (currently bg3) or little secrets i found online that I dont want to forget
these last two videos of yours have been really exciting for me and i thought i'd comment since it also answers the question at the end :3 in 2023 when you first were in a filofax, i got really inspired by you and got myself a big A5 binder that i tried to use as a 'big book of everything' but since then my system changed a bunch. i realized i like to keep things in distinctly separate sections so now i plan in a hobonichi, journal in traveler's notebooks and use my binder for commonplacing! (i know, best of all worlds lol) i never called them commonplace books before but since i started watching your videos and learned about them i see that the ''fandom books'' ive always had, do qualify as commonplacing. in middle school i had big bound books dedicated to harry potter, tho i do not support the writer or the franchise anymore, it was my most intense and longest lasting special interest. i would copy out short fanfic oneshots and headcannons from watpadd, translate interviews and other material to my native language, do little illustrations, make big lists of all the characters ever mentioned in the books from memory and write all their names backwards for some reason? years later; i evolved, my interests evolved. but i kept the soul of keeping notes about things i enjoy, very much inspired and encouraged by your content. now my fandom binder includes; 'wiki' pages for dont hug me im scared and five nights at freddy's characters, theories i find interesting, origins of creepypastas, especially slenderman, origins of mythical creatures like strigoi evolving into vampires and zombies, and also 'nicer' stuff like discographies of my favorite bands, my chemical romance, stray kids, reviews of their music, some random articles about bees and their communication and cognitive skills, and also furby lore! i really enjoy keeping my little archive like a museum of 'things that bring me joy', making them pretty, satisfying the creative side of my soul and flipping through when i need the extra boost of joy. this is a rather lengthy comment but i wanted you to know how much i appreciate what you put out there into the world wide void and how it has actually affected the trajectory of my life, you gave me 'permission' to enjoy media in the 'intense' way i want to. so thank you for the much needed encouragement! also would love a video on how and what you will pack for your trip!
i love your bog book! i don't have special interest binders but after infodumping about the tv show merlin over and over in my journals i decided to start a scrapbook/junk journal book for infodumping - and of course immediately lost interest, but it's there when the hyperfixation returns XD i also have recently started binding my own books of the poems of john keats - so far i have a book of what's known as his "great odes" (the most famous being "ode to a nightingale") and all of his first published book, 'poems of john keats' (1817), in the original order. they're done in coptic stitch, and "interleaved" ie with additional blank pages for taking notes. basically, i'm currently doing a phd on keats, and even if i wasn't he's one of my all-time favourite poets, and i was getting annoyed with never having enough space on a page to annotate as much as i wanted - i mean, i have my undergrad notes on one copy of a poem, then notes from my phd, random notes on sticky notes in a copy of a selection of his poems - it was too messy and i wanted them all in one place. so now i can! at least for those poems - i still need to bind his other works, but it's taking a while, especially since the covers are made of recycled materials (usually the covers from pads of paper, or cardboard) which i've currently run out of.
I'd love to watch a video about your travel set up 💛 and I do have a notebook dedicated to my special interest where I collect a huge amount of information about dogs (dog breeds, dog training, photos of dogs, even more photos of my own dog, researches on reactivity & behavior modification, a list of classes we went to, homemade dog food and treats, I even have a graphic of "walk time" with date, location, and time spent walking lol). I love watching your videos, Megan! You make me company when I'm feeling lonely and I'm extremely grateful to have you on my little screen 💛
lurker here, i'm adhd not autistic so i don't know if i can call this a special interest or not, but i have a book dedicated to folklore/mythology of the land. So mainly specific areas and their geography, and then what is thought to inhabit them (e.g. brenin llwyd/the grey king along the mountain ranges of Eryri, the giant Idris from Cadair Idris (very special childhood mountain) and also thinking of starting books on arthurian legends/medieval stuff as that's been a long term interest of mine. I also have "hyperfixation books", aka books i started with the intention of filling up but the hyperfixation ended before I could :((
ooooh that's a dangerous question, cause i'll want to start a million special interest books and then finish none (just as i've been doing my whole life 😂). but momentarily, about Shintoism, writing scripts (especially ancient India), podcasting, debate, and topics relating to like ten different languages. i always have a bunch of things i am interested in and then nothing ever sticks :')
absolutely loving your archive binders! seems like such a cool way to pull together research on focused topics but with the freedom to keep random information that resonates. I could see myself using a system like this for keeping track of my way too many hobbies & interests (and those impulsive wikipedia deep dives....last week's was the history of waffles lol). It's a cool tangible way to see where your focus has been and when. Safe travels :)
already planning to make a few special interest binders! so far i think it'll be: music (emphasis on ethnomusicology and the politics of listening), art (specific artists and movements i find particularly inspiring), linguistics and etymology, and probably another for random bits of media, kinda like a massive web weaving tumblr post but make it a book ahahaha
Definitely interested in your travel bits! My special interest topics are apocalypse, nuclear war, abandoned places, and on a completely different note, artists.
Absolutely love your bog book! My two topics I would have specific books for is knitting (everything from notes from projects to information about wool production) and the sea/water (things like history of lighthouses, swimming, marine biology, anything related to bodies of water really). Really enjoying your infodumps on the filofax! Hope you will make the travel prep & scrapbook-ing content too.
I have just started a notebook for knitting and crochet. I have gone down a rabbit hole and ended up quite interested in slow stitching. Maybe I could start a special interest binder!! 😊 I don’t know if you would be interested, but after you shared your passion for bogs, another youtuber I follow shared a fascinating trip which included Danes Moss in her episode. The Mindful Narrowboat episode #189 at about 15:30 in to the video.
I absolutely love your content! I've been a fan for years and they are just so comforting and amazing vibes, I have purchase your digital planner pintables. I was wondering if there is a video on how you use them/ print them, and if not would there be a possible way to show either to a future video or on your Instagram stories maybe? thank you so much for putting time into your videos they are truly appreciated.
hello megan, regarding the interest binders; i keep notebooks/ring binders on: - the history of labyrinths + mazes / depictions of those (as well as the minotaur) in visual arts and writing - saint sebastian in visual arts + writing, specifically in conncection to the queer community - a binder with my favorite illustrations/posters/book covers featuring the hound from hound of the baskervilles - my personal fiber arts projects with notes on projects and yarn samples - a collection of postcards ive recevied from friends and family or just bought in museums etc sorted by place of origin i have a hard time actually verbally talking about my interests, so i've become increasingly attached to my books, and your videos never cease to inspire me :-)
would love the travel prep video if you're up for it! also completely relate to the spring dread; it's autumn here and i've been feeling so much better lately. as for interest binders, i'd probably choose stardew, rocks, or the idea of personhood/consciousness and the similarities and differences between viewpoints of it regarding neuroscience, culture, etc.
I was litterally thinking about special interest binders before you posted your first video mentioning them! I want to have one for activism/global issues. Pirates/Our Flag Means Death. One for natural remedies. And one for folk lore.
hello megan, i love your vids! i would definitely make a binder on the beatles (analysis of their discography as well as general musings on the band and the john-paul writing partnership because boy is there SO MUCH lore). i would also make a binder about science fiction as an evolving genre, it would probs include discussion my favorite sci-fi novels and star trek! thank u for sharing your special interest binders with us!! ✨
Literally obsessed with the Filofax info dumps! I listen to them on my commute daily. My special interest binders would be 1. Books 2. Tarot/astrology/grimoire 3. Pens/inks
i know exactly what u mean with not remembering stuff relating to interests!! it's nice to hear its not just me! stuff to do with stories i can usually remember okay, but anything that has any sort of technicality behind it immediately just leaves my brain >_
Yes travel prep video! I'd love to create special interest books... I struggle to find the energy for it, but I would probably geek out on the Aztecs, rocks identification, etymology...and bunch of other things. What sparked your interest in bogs?
I would LOVE travel content - but honestly I love watching anything you put out ❤ for my own special interest binders (neuro-divergent, not specifically autistic): I have the little flowery yellow field notes books for my special interests, which are planting (vegetables and all that), birds and sowing and knitting!! and one for a language I’m learning. love having the little notebooks
i'm loving your bog book, i'm from the subtropics so bogs are very foreign to me and i'd be very interested in a bog vlog! i have some joint/wrist pain so keeping a special interest diary isn't super feasible for me but if i did it would be about the evolutionary history of life on earth, or the evolution of long running media like scooby doo and the addams family which have been my biggest special interests for years now. i love thinking about the ways familiar and formulaic shows like scooby doo have changed over time and what that says about how audiences and societal values are changing too
I would love to see travel content!! If I was going to fill special interest binders, I think it'd be a lot about my own personal mental health research (mostly OSDD), Batman and DC comics in general (they have always been a huge comfort for me since I was little), but there's so many timelines and alternate universes that I'd love to curate my favourite plotlines that I personally would consider canon - that's kind of what I love about DC is there's so many versions of everything that I can just decide what I like as canon and the rest is just another comic series I can pretend I didn't read if I didn't vibe with it. And vampires and other European folklore is another one I'd write a lot about as well and probably a lot from the places my family is from.
I Will make an interest binder for medical articles and one for the somnia tarot made by an artist Nicolas Bruno that have sleep paralysis like me to study the cards . So cool idea the interest binder !
I’ve made multiple special interest binders on gardening (most recently, on creating small micro-climates to grow vegetables and edible native plants that are typically grown in other zones) ❤
For what I'd keep in an interest notebook/binder: I think I'd do textile arts, art history, specialty coffee, and a wedding research book. I've been so horrible at actually keeping notebooks though. I've been contemplating a commonplace book to keep track of all the things I'd like to remember: I tend to cycle through interests and return to the same ones months or years later. (I do keep a notebook for Formula 1! But that's been my only success lol ) I've been very inspired by your binder system: i love how it lets you rearrange and reorganize and spin off categories. I love hearing about it all of your systems and your thoughts behind them and the bog book and also bogs in general.
I have special interest notebooks for some of my writing projects! I think I'm going to pick up a couple of these binders from Amazon and see how the format works out for me.
I'd love to special interest binders about wild flowers so i can learn their names, birds, the history of postcards and stamps and also the 19th century ❤
not to be dramatic, but I think your bog book changed my life. Lately I've been really interested in circus arts, cats, philosophy, and stationary. I'm just doing some stream of consciousness journaling and common placing in travelers inserts. I find myself not wanting to actually look at the pages when I flip through because of how disorganized it is. I think it would be really nice to have something for topics that come up a lot.
Ahh love this so much!! Thank you for sharing another Filofax infodump!! Edit: I am travelling for three weeks and in trying to cut down what I am carrying, I have accidentally created an RPG and writing book haha. I’ve just bought some rings from rymans and have two going through the holes and have a cover so it’s very slapdash, but otherwise I hypothetically would make a vampires book, a classics (Ancient Greece and Rome) book and a book for silly fantasy films that are super bad but so so good
Definitely interested in how you prep your Filofax for travel :) One reccomendation I have is since you print your pages, maybe you could do some of your journaling digitally while abroad and then print those out when you get home? That way you don’t have to carry so many blank pages. It takes away a little from the physical journaling aspect but could be helpful
i love the infodump videos so much! binder wise -- i would definitely have to say i would have a whole one devoted to weather and atmospheric physics. like storms, clouds, fog, weather patterns, rain etc. id also probably have one on space (gravity black holes and astrobiology) lets be real lol. and then probably a psychology/sleep/brain sciences/neurodegeneration one but that crosses over a bit too closely with my like field of work so maybe not :)
if I were to make special interest binders I would have one for fountain pen inks, one for interior design, one for environmental/nature things in general but that also includes cryptids and other strange phenomenon, and one for woo woo spiritual info (moon phases, crystals, tarot, dream interpretation, cycle synching etc.)
I’m so bad at actually reading articles, but I love the idea of research lol. I always end up finding articles I would want to read but not having the mental energy to actually read/annotate, which makes my commonplace woefully unused. Off the top of my head, I’d say I’d have a binder about archiving/personal info management too, and one on conceptions of the self. My issue with defining my Topics of Interest™ is that I think of them in keywords, but a lot of them are interconnected so it’s hard to make clear cut categories. I like memory, the idea of personal mythology, personal narrative, autobiography/fiction, ghosts/hauntings, etc etc etc. I did have one in the past about moss. I second the comment recommending Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer. I wish all information was communicated the way she does. I’m super interested in that commonplace page you had with quotes about sleep/feeling unreal.
i enjoyed this video so much. bog discourse 👌 (BOG VLOG!!) i love the little pinterest screenshots. i also appreciated hearing you talk about memory issues in relation to special interests - i feel the same way, like even with special interests i've had for decades, i have a hard time bringing up information from the depths of my brain lol, but if i read something or someone else tells me something, i'm like "oh yeah i knew that". like i have a whole library of information in my brain, but i lost my library card or something hahah. the reference system in the brain computer is broken!! often i'll have a vague notion that i know something, but i'll doubt myself because i feel like i should be able to Cite Sources and Be 100% Factual. i am def tempted to make special interest binders now!! one of mine is edvard munch & i have a notebook/scrapbook i've been collecting stuff in for ages now, it could use some tidying up and organising. edit: actually now that i'm thinking about it, i realise that making special interest notebooks was a hobby of mine as a kid. i had books for all the classics lol astronomy, dinosaurs, geological formation 😂😂
I would probably have a neolithic/ancient times binder, and one about gardening and possibly one for baking. And ww2... I keep remembering more interests as I write 😅
hey megan, have you ever talked about your routine for commonplacing/journalling esp. when it comes to collecting info/researching and keeping track of what you need to write about
I’ve already bought some binders like yours ready to get into commonplacing! Thank you! One of them will be about mathematics and another will be on physics, each in A5 as they are broad subjects.. then in an A6 for more niche I’m planning to look into chess. Xx
So, just two things: 1. At this point in time I have realised I would be interested in anything you do 😂😂 so I'm all in for the travel blogs 2. I have a book where I put all things I find interesting - which are a lot. I am waiting for it to evolve enough to see if I can make big groups with subgroups inside and see if there can come books of their own!
My two major special interests have always been dog breeds/dog behaviour/dog genetics and also just wild animals in general. And I do think I'd like to start a notebook for each of those things.
Cloth and Paper does have personal sized frosted binders. I don’t know the uk shipping situation but I think they are like $11 USD each and will be uniform in size.
Dfntly would love a video on travel prep! For my special interests binder i think the only one i would really love making is for whales! Love them, and a whole giant book/binder about them would be just perfect
If I did have a speical interest binder, I think I would do it on either the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, War of the Roses or my stories, or maybe just a single thing, like fantasy, I think or just a city I really wanna go to
I am forever putting things "somewhere safe" and then finding they vanished! Maybe Borrowers are real 😅! As for special interest binders, I have quite a few special interests, so I would probably end up with a lot. 100% one for Victorian London, one for episodes of the Uncanny podcast (so good), and one for historic ghost sightings. Niche and pretty random as binder ideas go, I guess.
I went to a cool bog area (I think they were technically mudflats) on Vancouver Island (Canada) near Tofino that had paths and boardwalks through it as well as informational signs/plaques that were really interesting to read. I always take pictures of signs like those so that I can read them again later while going through my photos so I remember what everything is. 😊 If you don't mind sharing, where are you going in Canada?
you've gotten me looking into using filofax and i have the supplies sitting in my cart waiting for pay day! i'm planning to make a binder of recipes i've tried and liked (i tend to cook the same 6 meals but when i want to vary it i always lose track of where my fav recipes are when i want them). i also plan to...idk if it's considered commonplacing but on tumblr i have a 'to keep' tag which is just quotes/articles/posts/poetry etc that really resonate with me that i'd like to make physically accessible and annotate on, and that'll be another filofax binder. and then i write, and so i'd like to have binders for my different books-in-progress with relevant articles/inspo content! i have adhd and suspect i may be on the autism spectrum, but either way this whole system really speaks to me, so thank you for introducing me to it. i journal currently in a kinbor but it feels a bit restrictive and wasteful, bc some days i have a lot to say and not enough space to put it, and others i have nothing to say/am burnt out, and so i have empty pages. being able to insert and shuffle and remove all my stuff sounds wonderful, and i'm excited for the tactility of it.
i actually have the same memory problem, so im considering making a loose book about my psychology stuff now the bite cult model, attachment types, a few pages from the icd-10 and -11 and the dsm-v... yeah i think i would like that :^)
I love your journals and books! I'm always so inspired after I watch them! Quick question - and I apologize if you have answered this elsewhere and I just haven't found it... what paper do you print your pictures for your Filofax on? Yours always look so much crisper than mine... I'm thinking of moving from a sticker paper to using a matte photo paper - but am worried about the thickness of that.
Admire your curious mind and your drive to collect & organize info & photos of your interests!! Your curating your own museum! At 9:38 how do you organize & size these small photos, please? Or do you have a video where you demonstrate that process? Thank you so kindly, Megan! ~with gratitude, kari
If i were to make special interest binders, id make one for everything gothic (music, subculture, literature, art, music, architecture, fashion) my biggest and longest special interest, one on art and design theory, one on biology, and one on philosophy. This is such a cool idea, i have been infatuated with the idea of archiving my knowledge like Sherlock Holmes mentions, your little brain attic has limited space.
Would be really interesting to see about travel inserts (anything travel related because I love it 🥰) also special interest for me would have to Greek Mythology...its very clichè I suppose lol but I'm fasinated with it. Also a probably true crime....especially cold cases I like the theories surrounding it. Have a good day!
Hey I'm having difficulty using a six ring A5 binder, (almost the exact as the transparent one you have in the video. ) because it's too much work to refill it by punching individual holes.... I tried to get pre punched refill from muji here in India, but the holes don't align... And I'm so sad because I really like the binder and I've not been able to find a two ring A5 binder with similar cover... It solved almost all me problems when it had paper... and now I've tried to maintain it for an year but it's just not working... do you have any work around somehow...?
Hi Megan, since you like gloomy things I was wondering if you hard heard of The Excavation of Hob's Barrow. It is a folk horror point and click game, and it takes place in the moors of Victorian rural England. I know bogs aren't moors, but I thought the game's atmosphere (very gloomy and strange) could be of interest to you? Also thank you for your videos, I like to listen to them and then rewatch them and discover new things, your tone of voice and the subjects you talk about always soothe me! :)
Bogs are truly amazing the printer you use to print those pictures is just your normal one ya? Or is it a new one you tried recently So fantastic I’m in a jibun techo rn It’s similar to hobonichi Im tempted to have a small Filofax tho 😭
Not to add yet ANOTHER comment ahahah but to answer the question of what special interest binders I would make: - I already have one for lists. I just make a lot of lists of lots of things so a binder that just contains lists of all different types and categories that help organize and structure thoughts in my brain - I may make one for fiber art (knitting, crocheting, cross stitch, etc)
I'm REALLLY tempted to make a tattoo binder (both the tattoos I have done and other tattoos done but other people), a binder on my art and storytelling. Basically, the two things I'm really passionate about…. I'm kinda thinking of it as “Instagram account” but like really not lol
sorry for the out of the blue video! trying to spread things out energy-wise before travelling next week 🥲
That was awonderful surprise. ^_^
Never apologise for an unexpected video, it was a lovely surprise! And your excitement about bogs was contagious 😊
I'd love a video on your travel prep!
also the archive binders, however wonky, are so so neat. always making me want to print things out and keep them in my pocket. the covers turned out so nicely, I adore the bog book.
I think I'd end up making binders on nostalgia, memory, liminality, hauntings - not necessarily separate, but I think I gravitate to those a lot especially thanks to this community.. the ocean, especially the depths, maybe something relating to language. possibly a whole video game related binder.
Oooh I feel you’d enjoy the book Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer ! It’s eye-opening on the role and beauty of the existence of moss and how life on Earth would not happen if it weren’t for moss!
yes I love this book!
Yes! I was going to suggest this!
absolutely! such a beautiful book
When I was a kid, I had notebooks on the old ghost towns in the mountains of the American West, because I wanted to find one with a small population where I could move when I was grown up, so obviously now I live in NYC. In adulthood, I started one on astronomy and physics of light trying to understand how supernatural experiences could work, and then I took it so far that now I'm back in school for a Math & Physics degree as someone with an art background. It was great hearing about your bog interest! So lovely!
Pardon my intrusion, I'm just always happy when people are interested in both arts and sciences. I studied history and sociology in uni and then I went back to school much later to become a medical lab tech. So many of my classmates could not comprehend how I loved both. 😂 I definitely don't get along with numbers but I've always loved biology. Getting to draw out microscopic samples with all my coloured pencils was like the joy of my life. Thanks for sharing your interests. 😊
@@ketchup016 yes, many confused looks come my way, too. :) Good for you for following your interests!
It's so sweet to hear how your voice and tone changes when you're talking about your special interests, you're so passionate! I love these videos, pls keep infodumping on us as much as you'd like lmao
I couldn't agree more! truly brings me so much joy hearing others being passionate for their special interests
I've realized what I appreciate about your videos is that they make me feel less guilty for prioritizing the system that makes me feel good at any given time, even if it means jumping around or leaving something behind. I'm not autistic but I have adhd and really severe anxiety and depression, and having a system that just feels "right" is so comforting, so I just want to be able to enjoy that small win when I can get it, you know?
Also in terms of special interests, my current biggest ones are cryptozoology and macabre Victorian traditions. I spent several hours taking notes on articles about Victorian mourning traditions the other day and had such a fun time with it.
I love that you upload so haphazardly now. My neurotransmitters appreciate the surprise of the accidental ASMR your videos elicit 🫶🏻
very glad to be of assistance to your neurotransmitters 🙇🏻♀🖤
I think the Filofax series has become my favourite one from this channel and I‘ve suddenly developed a peculiar interest in bogs😊
if i were to make a special interest binder it would be about pen hacking and ink colors. i like hacking different refills into different pens. i also like comparing inks, say all the blue ballpoint inks or black gel inks. there's all kind of subtle variations within type when you start comparing them. i have a lot of disparate documentation but i really need to pull it together. another special interest would be hiking trails and outdoor skills.
I am thinking about doing a Halloween special interest binder - my favorite movies, books, notes on haunted houses I've been to, etc. Also, maybe one on books but that seems really daunting.
Perhaps create a scavenger hunt list for your Bog trip? We used to go to a place called Aransas National Wildlife Refuge. They had print outs like a fun map that included pictures of all the different species you might see there. It's probably supposed to be a kids activity, but all the adults got into it. :) Also, this video--- So many quotable moments in this one: "Sometimes you just need to be knee deep in grass."!!! "Artists desks are like cats they fill the shape of the space they're in." "Equal parts support and freedom." "Imagine a Bog Vlog." Have a great time traveling Megan. I hope there is a Bog Vlog! :)
i think my special interest binders would probably be on woodcraft (and my associated interests like historical archery, fiction book series around the concept, etc.), minecraft (probably pulling together my thoughts on lore/headcannon and bits from my favourite minecraft youtuber ethoslab), and maybe something on cowboys and other livestock workers in a historical context. there are so many things i'd love to collect info on but those are the ones i can think of that might fill a little book someday.
your bog bits are making me want to research the wetlands from my hometown !! i doubt i'd find anything online about it (very small town) but maybe next time i visit i will have to do some investigating because i adore learning about plants and soil and insects and such 🕵
Regarding Bogs, if you are ever in or near York there's Askham Bog, David Attenborough recently got involved with it to help protect it as it one of the few Ancient Natural Bogs left in the country. And is home to rare species of water beetle and beautiful emperor dragonflies.
love the visual of ordering or referencing the pages on a clothesline 🪡👽 the rearrangement of existing notes is such a hobby of mine honestly may be my favorite part of noting things down
I am really loving these Filofax infodump videos! And I would definitely love a video on your travel prep. I am completely enamored with your bog book and how you’re setting up a specific archive just for one of your special interests. For me, I would love to compile an archive on vampires, Victorian mourning, and a specific jewelry artist that I love.
I’d definitely make a binder about video editing. That’s actually a really good idea for a collection of notes in Obsidian!
Answering your question, I have sooooo many binders, more A4 size because they need to hold a lot of informations but i got (at least the one I’m currently working on) : 3 astrology, hellenism, herbalism, media critic (like books/movies), 2 psychology, folklore, egyptology and my experimentations on trying routines/systems. I think a lot of people would categorize many of them as study material like many people have, but I haven’t heard of many adults immersing in their self-initiated studies this many hours per day or making their own personnalised cardstock dividers for horizontal and vertical classification.
I also got a filofax binder as a journal/calendar for daily pages and elucubrating on whatever crosses my mind :)
Thank you for your videos, any kind you make always hits home
I’d love a video on how you prep your books for travel and what supplies you bring
Lovely video :) As an astrophysics student (about to graduate & enter grad school!), my research has slowly taken over my hobonichi cousin and I'm probably gonna need to get a second book just for that lmao. I'm just SUCH a bound book person (& don't want to pay school library printing prices) so it'd probably just be a bullet journal-style notebook for the research project itself with a lot of archiving relevant/interesting notes from papers & textbooks. I LOVE having everything in one book in my cousin, but I decided to major in my longest running hyperfixation, so it's a bit chaotic haha. Would be nice to put it in a containment/reference book and organize it by subfield (e.g. cosmology vs. planetary science vs. stellar astrophysics vs. orbital dynamics vs. broader physics like quantum mech, etc). Also would be nice to have a separate reading journal I could use for papers rather than novels haha!
My special interests are held in traveler’s company standard inserts :) I have a food diary/ recipe book (i write down everything i eat ever), a videogame book where i write notes as i play (currently bg3) or little secrets i found online that I dont want to forget
Loving this transition to a BOG CHANNEL 💚
I’m always putting things in “safe places” and never finding them again. Also, always interested in literally everything.
thoroughly invested in and obsessed with the bog book
these last two videos of yours have been really exciting for me and i thought i'd comment since it also answers the question at the end :3
in 2023 when you first were in a filofax, i got really inspired by you and got myself a big A5 binder that i tried to use as a 'big book of everything' but since then my system changed a bunch. i realized i like to keep things in distinctly separate sections so now i plan in a hobonichi, journal in traveler's notebooks and use my binder for commonplacing! (i know, best of all worlds lol)
i never called them commonplace books before but since i started watching your videos and learned about them i see that the ''fandom books'' ive always had, do qualify as commonplacing. in middle school i had big bound books dedicated to harry potter, tho i do not support the writer or the franchise anymore, it was my most intense and longest lasting special interest.
i would copy out short fanfic oneshots and headcannons from watpadd, translate interviews and other material to my native language, do little illustrations, make big lists of all the characters ever mentioned in the books from memory and write all their names backwards for some reason?
years later; i evolved, my interests evolved. but i kept the soul of keeping notes about things i enjoy, very much inspired and encouraged by your content. now my fandom binder includes; 'wiki' pages for dont hug me im scared and five nights at freddy's characters, theories i find interesting, origins of creepypastas, especially slenderman, origins of mythical creatures like strigoi evolving into vampires and zombies, and also 'nicer' stuff like discographies of my favorite bands, my chemical romance, stray kids, reviews of their music, some random articles about bees and their communication and cognitive skills, and also furby lore!
i really enjoy keeping my little archive like a museum of 'things that bring me joy', making them pretty, satisfying the creative side of my soul and flipping through when i need the extra boost of joy.
this is a rather lengthy comment but i wanted you to know how much i appreciate what you put out there into the world wide void and how it has actually affected the trajectory of my life, you gave me 'permission' to enjoy media in the 'intense' way i want to. so thank you for the much needed encouragement!
also would love a video on how and what you will pack for your trip!
i love your bog book!
i don't have special interest binders but after infodumping about the tv show merlin over and over in my journals i decided to start a scrapbook/junk journal book for infodumping - and of course immediately lost interest, but it's there when the hyperfixation returns XD
i also have recently started binding my own books of the poems of john keats - so far i have a book of what's known as his "great odes" (the most famous being "ode to a nightingale") and all of his first published book, 'poems of john keats' (1817), in the original order. they're done in coptic stitch, and "interleaved" ie with additional blank pages for taking notes. basically, i'm currently doing a phd on keats, and even if i wasn't he's one of my all-time favourite poets, and i was getting annoyed with never having enough space on a page to annotate as much as i wanted - i mean, i have my undergrad notes on one copy of a poem, then notes from my phd, random notes on sticky notes in a copy of a selection of his poems - it was too messy and i wanted them all in one place. so now i can! at least for those poems - i still need to bind his other works, but it's taking a while, especially since the covers are made of recycled materials (usually the covers from pads of paper, or cardboard) which i've currently run out of.
I'd love to watch a video about your travel set up 💛 and I do have a notebook dedicated to my special interest where I collect a huge amount of information about dogs (dog breeds, dog training, photos of dogs, even more photos of my own dog, researches on reactivity & behavior modification, a list of classes we went to, homemade dog food and treats, I even have a graphic of "walk time" with date, location, and time spent walking lol). I love watching your videos, Megan! You make me company when I'm feeling lonely and I'm extremely grateful to have you on my little screen 💛
lurker here, i'm adhd not autistic so i don't know if i can call this a special interest or not, but i have a book dedicated to folklore/mythology of the land. So mainly specific areas and their geography, and then what is thought to inhabit them (e.g. brenin llwyd/the grey king along the mountain ranges of Eryri, the giant Idris from Cadair Idris (very special childhood mountain) and also thinking of starting books on arthurian legends/medieval stuff as that's been a long term interest of mine. I also have "hyperfixation books", aka books i started with the intention of filling up but the hyperfixation ended before I could :((
ooooh that's a dangerous question, cause i'll want to start a million special interest books and then finish none (just as i've been doing my whole life 😂). but momentarily, about Shintoism, writing scripts (especially ancient India), podcasting, debate, and topics relating to like ten different languages. i always have a bunch of things i am interested in and then nothing ever sticks :')
absolutely loving your archive binders! seems like such a cool way to pull together research on focused topics but with the freedom to keep random information that resonates. I could see myself using a system like this for keeping track of my way too many hobbies & interests (and those impulsive wikipedia deep dives....last week's was the history of waffles lol). It's a cool tangible way to see where your focus has been and when. Safe travels :)
"dedicated bog book" is a lovely phrase lol idk why, it hits my hears just right xD
already planning to make a few special interest binders! so far i think it'll be: music (emphasis on ethnomusicology and the politics of listening), art (specific artists and movements i find particularly inspiring), linguistics and etymology, and probably another for random bits of media, kinda like a massive web weaving tumblr post but make it a book ahahaha
Hi Megan, I love it when you talk about your bog interest. I can hear your joy in your voice ❤
Definitely interested in your travel bits! My special interest topics are apocalypse, nuclear war, abandoned places, and on a completely different note, artists.
Absolutely love your bog book! My two topics I would have specific books for is knitting (everything from notes from projects to information about wool production) and the sea/water (things like history of lighthouses, swimming, marine biology, anything related to bodies of water really). Really enjoying your infodumps on the filofax! Hope you will make the travel prep & scrapbook-ing content too.
I have just started a notebook for knitting and crochet. I have gone down a rabbit hole and ended up quite interested in slow stitching. Maybe I could start a special interest binder!! 😊 I don’t know if you would be interested, but after you shared your passion for bogs, another youtuber I follow shared a fascinating trip which included Danes Moss in her episode. The Mindful Narrowboat episode #189 at about 15:30 in to the video.
I absolutely love your content! I've been a fan for years and they are just so comforting and amazing vibes, I have purchase your digital planner pintables. I was wondering if there is a video on how you use them/ print them, and if not would there be a possible way to show either to a future video or on your Instagram stories maybe? thank you so much for putting time into your videos they are truly appreciated.
Honestly every time you show a photo you took I always love it!!!!
hello megan,
regarding the interest binders; i keep notebooks/ring binders on:
- the history of labyrinths + mazes / depictions of those (as well as the minotaur) in visual arts and writing
- saint sebastian in visual arts + writing, specifically in conncection to the queer community
- a binder with my favorite illustrations/posters/book covers featuring the hound from hound of the baskervilles
- my personal fiber arts projects with notes on projects and yarn samples
- a collection of postcards ive recevied from friends and family or just bought in museums etc sorted by place of origin
i have a hard time actually verbally talking about my interests, so i've become increasingly attached to my books, and your videos never cease to inspire me :-)
would love the travel prep video if you're up for it! also completely relate to the spring dread; it's autumn here and i've been feeling so much better lately.
as for interest binders, i'd probably choose stardew, rocks, or the idea of personhood/consciousness and the similarities and differences between viewpoints of it regarding neuroscience, culture, etc.
I was litterally thinking about special interest binders before you posted your first video mentioning them! I want to have one for activism/global issues. Pirates/Our Flag Means Death. One for natural remedies. And one for folk lore.
Yay, looking forward to the instax video! And also the travel one. 🥰
yeees, a bog blog! we have a small bog near us with a boardwalk that I go to a lot, it's my happy place
i love the bog content… i have a special interest in natural wetlands too.. this is very cool for me :)
hello megan, i love your vids! i would definitely make a binder on the beatles (analysis of their discography as well as general musings on the band and the john-paul writing partnership because boy is there SO MUCH lore). i would also make a binder about science fiction as an evolving genre, it would probs include discussion my favorite sci-fi novels and star trek! thank u for sharing your special interest binders with us!! ✨
Literally obsessed with the Filofax info dumps! I listen to them on my commute daily. My special interest binders would be 1. Books 2. Tarot/astrology/grimoire 3. Pens/inks
i know exactly what u mean with not remembering stuff relating to interests!! it's nice to hear its not just me! stuff to do with stories i can usually remember okay, but anything that has any sort of technicality behind it immediately just leaves my brain >_
Yes travel prep video! I'd love to create special interest books... I struggle to find the energy for it, but I would probably geek out on the Aztecs, rocks identification, etymology...and bunch of other things. What sparked your interest in bogs?
big fan of a travel prep video! also the only thing i thought of to make a binder for was the magnus archives XD
I would LOVE travel content - but honestly I love watching anything you put out ❤
for my own special interest binders (neuro-divergent, not specifically autistic): I have the little flowery yellow field notes books for my special interests, which are planting (vegetables and all that), birds and sowing and knitting!! and one for a language I’m learning. love having the little notebooks
i'm loving your bog book, i'm from the subtropics so bogs are very foreign to me and i'd be very interested in a bog vlog! i have some joint/wrist pain so keeping a special interest diary isn't super feasible for me but if i did it would be about the evolutionary history of life on earth, or the evolution of long running media like scooby doo and the addams family which have been my biggest special interests for years now. i love thinking about the ways familiar and formulaic shows like scooby doo have changed over time and what that says about how audiences and societal values are changing too
I would love to see travel content!!
If I was going to fill special interest binders, I think it'd be a lot about my own personal mental health research (mostly OSDD), Batman and DC comics in general (they have always been a huge comfort for me since I was little), but there's so many timelines and alternate universes that I'd love to curate my favourite plotlines that I personally would consider canon - that's kind of what I love about DC is there's so many versions of everything that I can just decide what I like as canon and the rest is just another comic series I can pretend I didn't read if I didn't vibe with it. And vampires and other European folklore is another one I'd write a lot about as well and probably a lot from the places my family is from.
I Will make an interest binder for medical articles and one for the somnia tarot made by an artist Nicolas Bruno that have sleep paralysis like me to study the cards . So cool idea the interest binder !
I’ve made multiple special interest binders on gardening (most recently, on creating small micro-climates to grow vegetables and edible native plants that are typically grown in other zones) ❤
For what I'd keep in an interest notebook/binder: I think I'd do textile arts, art history, specialty coffee, and a wedding research book. I've been so horrible at actually keeping notebooks though. I've been contemplating a commonplace book to keep track of all the things I'd like to remember: I tend to cycle through interests and return to the same ones months or years later. (I do keep a notebook for Formula 1! But that's been my only success lol ) I've been very inspired by your binder system: i love how it lets you rearrange and reorganize and spin off categories. I love hearing about it all of your systems and your thoughts behind them and the bog book and also bogs in general.
I have special interest notebooks for some of my writing projects! I think I'm going to pick up a couple of these binders from Amazon and see how the format works out for me.
I'd love to special interest binders about wild flowers so i can learn their names, birds, the history of postcards and stamps and also the 19th century ❤
not to be dramatic, but I think your bog book changed my life. Lately I've been really interested in circus arts, cats, philosophy, and stationary. I'm just doing some stream of consciousness journaling and common placing in travelers inserts. I find myself not wanting to actually look at the pages when I flip through because of how disorganized it is. I think it would be really nice to have something for topics that come up a lot.
Ahh love this so much!! Thank you for sharing another Filofax infodump!! Edit: I am travelling for three weeks and in trying to cut down what I am carrying, I have accidentally created an RPG and writing book haha. I’ve just bought some rings from rymans and have two going through the holes and have a cover so it’s very slapdash, but otherwise I hypothetically would make a vampires book, a classics (Ancient Greece and Rome) book and a book for silly fantasy films that are super bad but so so good
Definitely interested in how you prep your Filofax for travel :)
One reccomendation I have is since you print your pages, maybe you could do some of your journaling digitally while abroad and then print those out when you get home? That way you don’t have to carry so many blank pages. It takes away a little from the physical journaling aspect but could be helpful
you're gonna make me obsessed with bogs and I love nowhere near one 😅
i love the infodump videos so much!
binder wise -- i would definitely have to say i would have a whole one devoted to weather and atmospheric physics. like storms, clouds, fog, weather patterns, rain etc. id also probably have one on space (gravity black holes and astrobiology) lets be real lol. and then probably a psychology/sleep/brain sciences/neurodegeneration one but that crosses over a bit too closely with my like field of work so maybe not :)
if I were to make special interest binders I would have one for fountain pen inks, one for interior design, one for environmental/nature things in general but that also includes cryptids and other strange phenomenon, and one for woo woo spiritual info (moon phases, crystals, tarot, dream interpretation, cycle synching etc.)
I’m so bad at actually reading articles, but I love the idea of research lol. I always end up finding articles I would want to read but not having the mental energy to actually read/annotate, which makes my commonplace woefully unused.
Off the top of my head, I’d say I’d have a binder about archiving/personal info management too, and one on conceptions of the self. My issue with defining my Topics of Interest™ is that I think of them in keywords, but a lot of them are interconnected so it’s hard to make clear cut categories. I like memory, the idea of personal mythology, personal narrative, autobiography/fiction, ghosts/hauntings, etc etc etc.
I did have one in the past about moss. I second the comment recommending Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer. I wish all information was communicated the way she does.
I’m super interested in that commonplace page you had with quotes about sleep/feeling unreal.
i enjoyed this video so much. bog discourse 👌 (BOG VLOG!!) i love the little pinterest screenshots. i also appreciated hearing you talk about memory issues in relation to special interests - i feel the same way, like even with special interests i've had for decades, i have a hard time bringing up information from the depths of my brain lol, but if i read something or someone else tells me something, i'm like "oh yeah i knew that". like i have a whole library of information in my brain, but i lost my library card or something hahah. the reference system in the brain computer is broken!! often i'll have a vague notion that i know something, but i'll doubt myself because i feel like i should be able to Cite Sources and Be 100% Factual. i am def tempted to make special interest binders now!! one of mine is edvard munch & i have a notebook/scrapbook i've been collecting stuff in for ages now, it could use some tidying up and organising. edit: actually now that i'm thinking about it, i realise that making special interest notebooks was a hobby of mine as a kid. i had books for all the classics lol astronomy, dinosaurs, geological formation 😂😂
I would probably have a neolithic/ancient times binder, and one about gardening and possibly one for baking. And ww2... I keep remembering more interests as I write 😅
hey megan, have you ever talked about your routine for commonplacing/journalling esp. when it comes to collecting info/researching and keeping track of what you need to write about
We will always support you. Keep working hard no matter what.
I’ve already bought some binders like yours ready to get into commonplacing! Thank you! One of them will be about mathematics and another will be on physics, each in A5 as they are broad subjects.. then in an A6 for more niche I’m planning to look into chess. Xx
So, just two things:
1. At this point in time I have realised I would be interested in anything you do 😂😂 so I'm all in for the travel blogs
2. I have a book where I put all things I find interesting - which are a lot. I am waiting for it to evolve enough to see if I can make big groups with subgroups inside and see if there can come books of their own!
My two major special interests have always been dog breeds/dog behaviour/dog genetics and also just wild animals in general. And I do think I'd like to start a notebook for each of those things.
When I was in Japan I picked up 7 of those gloo sticks, they’re the best!
Cloth and Paper does have personal sized frosted binders. I don’t know the uk shipping situation but I think they are like $11 USD each and will be uniform in size.
Travel set up yes please!
My special interest book right now is about the City of Kowloon.
Dfntly would love a video on travel prep! For my special interests binder i think the only one i would really love making is for whales! Love them, and a whole giant book/binder about them would be just perfect
If I did have a speical interest binder, I think I would do it on either the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, War of the Roses or my stories, or maybe just a single thing, like fantasy, I think or just a city I really wanna go to
I hope you are able to visit a bog so you get that good good special interest time, but also because I am so invested in the rhyming of bog vlog :D
I am forever putting things "somewhere safe" and then finding they vanished! Maybe Borrowers are real 😅! As for special interest binders, I have quite a few special interests, so I would probably end up with a lot. 100% one for Victorian London, one for episodes of the Uncanny podcast (so good), and one for historic ghost sightings. Niche and pretty random as binder ideas go, I guess.
I would totally have a minecraft or Overwatch binder for the lore! I love Overwatch lore and have a lot of lore for minecraft cause of game theory!
I would probably keep a book on how other people take notes, or make sketchbooks. 😊
I went to a cool bog area (I think they were technically mudflats) on Vancouver Island (Canada) near Tofino that had paths and boardwalks through it as well as informational signs/plaques that were really interesting to read. I always take pictures of signs like those so that I can read them again later while going through my photos so I remember what everything is. 😊 If you don't mind sharing, where are you going in Canada?
you've gotten me looking into using filofax and i have the supplies sitting in my cart waiting for pay day! i'm planning to make a binder of recipes i've tried and liked (i tend to cook the same 6 meals but when i want to vary it i always lose track of where my fav recipes are when i want them). i also plan to...idk if it's considered commonplacing but on tumblr i have a 'to keep' tag which is just quotes/articles/posts/poetry etc that really resonate with me that i'd like to make physically accessible and annotate on, and that'll be another filofax binder. and then i write, and so i'd like to have binders for my different books-in-progress with relevant articles/inspo content!
i have adhd and suspect i may be on the autism spectrum, but either way this whole system really speaks to me, so thank you for introducing me to it. i journal currently in a kinbor but it feels a bit restrictive and wasteful, bc some days i have a lot to say and not enough space to put it, and others i have nothing to say/am burnt out, and so i have empty pages. being able to insert and shuffle and remove all my stuff sounds wonderful, and i'm excited for the tactility of it.
i actually have the same memory problem, so im considering making a loose book about my psychology stuff now
the bite cult model, attachment types, a few pages from the icd-10 and -11 and the dsm-v... yeah i think i would like that :^)
Love your videos!
Is there a specific reason you glue your pages together instead of using both sides?
I love your journals and books! I'm always so inspired after I watch them! Quick question - and I apologize if you have answered this elsewhere and I just haven't found it... what paper do you print your pictures for your Filofax on? Yours always look so much crisper than mine... I'm thinking of moving from a sticker paper to using a matte photo paper - but am worried about the thickness of that.
Admire your curious mind and your drive to collect & organize info & photos of your interests!! Your curating your own museum! At 9:38 how do you organize & size these small photos, please? Or do you have a video where you demonstrate that process? Thank you so kindly, Megan! ~with gratitude, kari
If i were to make special interest binders, id make one for everything gothic (music, subculture, literature, art, music, architecture, fashion) my biggest and longest special interest, one on art and design theory, one on biology, and one on philosophy. This is such a cool idea, i have been infatuated with the idea of archiving my knowledge like Sherlock Holmes mentions, your little brain attic has limited space.
I'd love to make a special interest binder on medieval manuscripts 📚
Would be really interesting to see about travel inserts (anything travel related because I love it 🥰) also special interest for me would have to Greek Mythology...its very clichè I suppose lol but I'm fasinated with it. Also a probably true crime....especially cold cases I like the theories surrounding it. Have a good day!
I'm curious if you have any thoughts on Plotter? Is it a system you're interested in trying since you've taken to rings so well?
Hey I'm having difficulty using a six ring A5 binder, (almost the exact as the transparent one you have in the video. ) because it's too much work to refill it by punching individual holes.... I tried to get pre punched refill from muji here in India, but the holes don't align... And I'm so sad because I really like the binder and I've not been able to find a two ring A5 binder with similar cover... It solved almost all me problems when it had paper... and now I've tried to maintain it for an year but it's just not working... do you have any work around somehow...?
Hi Megan, since you like gloomy things I was wondering if you hard heard of The Excavation of Hob's Barrow. It is a folk horror point and click game, and it takes place in the moors of Victorian rural England. I know bogs aren't moors, but I thought the game's atmosphere (very gloomy and strange) could be of interest to you?
Also thank you for your videos, I like to listen to them and then rewatch them and discover new things, your tone of voice and the subjects you talk about always soothe me! :)
I really want to use this to collect recipes and other food-related info items
I would make a special interest book for lighthouses or baking if I had to pick one subject 😊
Can I ask what printer you use to print your pages? I'm struggling to find one.
Bogs are truly amazing the printer you use to print those pictures is just your normal one ya? Or is it a new one you tried recently
So fantastic I’m in a jibun techo rn It’s similar to hobonichi Im tempted to have a small Filofax tho 😭
would love to see all things travelling:)
Not to add yet ANOTHER comment ahahah but to answer the question of what special interest binders I would make:
- I already have one for lists. I just make a lot of lists of lots of things so a binder that just contains lists of all different types and categories that help organize and structure thoughts in my brain
- I may make one for fiber art (knitting, crocheting, cross stitch, etc)
This sounds fantastic ☺☺
Do you have any resources or videos on how you make your filofax paper and what paper you use?
They sell the inserts in their shop and I’m pretty sure they use kokuyo business paper
I'm REALLLY tempted to make a tattoo binder (both the tattoos I have done and other tattoos done but other people), a binder on my art and storytelling. Basically, the two things I'm really passionate about…. I'm kinda thinking of it as “Instagram account” but like really not lol