X47 Organization system A6

This X47 organization system only holds three A5 inserts and is therefore not only suitable for jacket pockets due to its small format, but is also slim in size. Otherwise, like the larger versions, it is made of fine cowhide. Two slip pockets can be used to store notes, while five smaller pockets can hold credit cards. Two different colored drawing strips serve as bookmarks and a loop holds a slim pen up to 10 cm long.

Every organization starts out with a tool. That is literally, philologically true. The Greek word "organon", which is the root of the word organization, means exactly that. But there can be many tools in an organization and nowadays it’s digital "tools" and "apps" which collect and sort addresses, appointments and notes, parking them in a globally accessible digital never-never land (or "cloud"). It has its admirers. For analogue individuals, there is a broad spectrum of organizational aids beyond smartphones, laptops or tablet computers. It’s interesting to observe how the size of those analogue systems followed the vector of technological development of electronic devices. During the heyday of the PDA (Personal Digital Assistant, as the older among us will recall) the pocket calendar and books for taking notes couldn’t be small enough, which is why even formats smaller than jacket pocket compatible A6 entered the market. In the tablet computer era, the A5 took over as the only serious desk top format. The analogue organization system features both formats, but its greatest strength is the elaborate concept and the ability to combine components in different formats.

The X47 was designed by the former management consultant, Matthias Büttner. It’s a natural outgrowth of his appointment packed business practice. In the last several years it has matured into a well thought out system of options and combinations. There are places in the booklets for appointments, addresses, notes, etc. which can be secured with the aid of a rod in the spine in spring loaded tracks inside the leather cover. The primary advantage is that a completely filled X 47 cover is quite a bit more slender than a ring binder, which has a "minimum thickness" determined by the construction (i.e. the binder mechanism plus the thickness of the cover). An additional advantage is that the insert can be written on almost to the middle of the page. And finally, the individual "sub-systems" (annual calendar, monthly and weekly plans, notebooks with different rulings) can be quickly re-shuffled for daily use: Is the annual calendar, the monthly calendar, or the more detailed weekly calendar needed (or all three)? Should the ruling be used today for sketches, or hand-written notes? Is a logbook or a teacher’s calendar needed? These are all parameters which can be quickly decided and implemented and in contrast to ring binder logic they can be easily established as functional units. You’ll only be taking with you what you actually need for today. Or tomorrow, when the requirements might be completely different. We offer four versions of the X47 – one opulently and one basically equipped (and correspondingly economical) model in A5 and both models in A6.