Anchorlight
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Anchorlight Paper · Filofax A5

Prefer analog?

The same compass, on paper. No screen, no notifications, no battery. Just a pen, a binder and twenty quiet minutes on Sunday.

Free. 50 pages, ready to print. The link appears right away. I use your email only to send the PDF and, rarely, a note about the paper edition.

Open Anchorlight Filofax with the Look up weekly review and This week planning pages
Why paper

Being offline is a choice now.

Everything I built into the Anchorlight app started on paper. A notebook, a pen, one honest question on Sunday evening.

Some weeks I don’t want another screen. I want to close the laptop, leave the phone in the other room and still know where my week is going.

So I turned the whole system into pages. Your anchors, your people, the Weekly Review, the week ahead. Nothing pings. Nothing syncs. It just stays where you put it.

A boat at anchor doesn’t need a signal. It needs a light.

How it works

Download. Print. Done.

No subscription, no app, no account. Three steps and an evening.

1

Download the PDF

Leave your email and I’ll send you the link. 50 pages, A5, ready to print.

2

Buy plain white A5 paper

Filofax A5 refill paper, already punched for the rings. Plain white, 80-100 g, from any stationery shop or online.

3

Print and clip it in

Print at 100 % (actual size), double-sided, flip on the long edge. Open the rings, put the pages in. That’s it.

No Filofax? Any 6-ring A5 binder works. Or print on A4 and cut it in half.
What’s inside

Fifty pages. One calm system.

Everything from the app, laid out for a pen. Print the whole set once, then reprint only the weekly pages.

Cover page
Cover
Your name, the date you started.
How it works page
How it works
The whole system on one page.
My Anchor page
My Anchor
One sentence about where your life is headed.
10 Before I Die page
10 Before I Die
Ten lines that become your compass.
Bucket List page
Bucket List
90 places, firsts and somedays.
People page
People
Your circles, the few who matter most.
Weekly Review page
Weekly Review
Six steps, about twenty minutes.
Look up page
Look up
The review page, one per week.
This week page
This week
Morning, afternoon, evening. And open water.
Day page page
Day page
For the busy days.
My lists page
My lists
Projects, and when to look at them next.
Anchored on paper

Write the code. The task is anchored.

Every Life item has a fixed code. Put it next to a task and you can see, at a glance, which of your days actually served what matters.

Call Emma about Sunday↓ P·Emma
Book the sailing course↓ B07
Write 30 min of chapter 7↓ T3

Leave a light on. On paper.

Get the free PDF. And if you ever want the app as well, it’s waiting.

Free. 50 pages, ready to print. The link appears right away. I use your email only to send the PDF and, rarely, a note about the paper edition.

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