Premium Filofax Malden Genuine Leather A5 Organizer Planner - Ochre Brown with 2020 Calendar & DiLoro Jot Pad Refill (025847) - Perfect for Business Professionals, Students & Personal Organization

Beautiful cover for my daily planner pages! It is very wellmade, and I love the black leather with white stitching! I am a page per day type of planner, which can be a little tricky with most binder setups. In the past I've had to rotate pages out every three to six months, to make room for new daily pages. I am not a fan of this method. Moving forward, I wanted something that would fit an entire year of daily planning pages, as well as monthly calendar inserts. Basically, I was looking for something that could hold at least 207 sheets of paper...comfortably. I found it! According to their website, the Filofax A5 with 30mm/1.18" size rings can hold 210 sheets of paper. My filofax A5 is currently holding 220 sheets of standard copy paper, which is only slightly pushing it. But I really wanted to make use of my sexy new planner for the remaining month of December 2021. However, I will probably be removing the 2021 pages at the beginning of year 2022, as it does lay a little nicer without the additional 10 sheets of paper. I never intended to use the Filofax inserts, so I don't have much to say, other than, I've never been a fan of the ivory color, which looks more yellow to me. In general, I prefer white planning paper. I'm also not a fan of layouts that combine Saturday and Sunday. Work schedules vary, and not everyone has the weekend off. Anyway, I am very happy with this purchase. I am happy with the pocket placement, and overall design of the Filofax Malden. It was a little pricey, but worth it, in my opinion. I expect to get a lot of use out of it for years to come. Also, it was less expensive on Amazon, and arrived within two days.Regarding the pen loops. They are very small. Almost too small for a standard size ballpoint pen. I am not sure why Filofax did this, as it is most impractical. However, the leather pen loops can be stretched. Which is what I ended up doing after taking initial review photos. Before stretching them, the pen loops would only fit my Marvy le pen, felt tip markers, which are very tiny. The pen loops now fit my Zebra Sarasa Grand Vintage pens perfectly. There are YouTube videos on how to stretch leather. I actually found a YouTube video on how to stretch pen loops for this particular planner. I won't attempt to explain the process here, but it can be done. The leather just needs to be conditioned, which isn't hard at all. I wouldn't want to over-stretch the loops for large barrel fountain pens, but it could probably be done for smaller barrel fountain pens, such as the Pilot Metropolitan. Anyway, I hope this helps.