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02 November 2026

Highlights for October 2026

Here are the highlights for last month.

We published the following posts.

General Posts:

Free For All Tuesday and Friday Posts:

Sunday Posts:

Web Finds Posts:

If you have any ideas for future posts we look forward to hearing your suggestions, please comment below.

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If you have a guest post idea, please contact steve at philofaxy dot com or if there is a topic you would like to see us cover or revisit also please contact Steve.

I hope you find this post useful, please let us know in the comments and we will do our best to do a highlights post each month.

Wishing you all the best for this month.

01 November 2026

Silent Sunday

21 Years..... 21 hole punches.

31 October 2026

Web Finds - Saturday 31 October 2026

Happy 21st Birthday Philofaxy!

It is time to enjoy a few blog posts from around the internet, grab a drink and make yourself comfortable for our weekly round-up.

Here are some Philofaxy posts you might have missed this week:

Here are the latest Filofax and other brand blog posts from around the Internet. Don't forget to leave a comment on the posts you enjoyed reading, all bloggers enjoy getting comments.

What’s Inside the First-Ever VDS Physical Advent Calendar? - Blog Vdsshop
Paul Smith and Filofaxes - This Bug's Life
Frustruated at the Malden - Filofax
Doing Less Is the Secret to Achieving More with Greg McKeown - FranklinPlanner Talk
Legend personal-sized planner - This Bug's Life
Episode #386: Skills Lab – Projects and Next Actions - Getting Things Done
The Franklin Five: November 2026 - FranklinPlanner Talk
Paul Smith on his proudest moments from the past five decades - GQ Magazine
Spooky Halloween promotions - Blog | Gillio
Mee-Plus ring cover - A6 - Review - PaperPenANALOGUE
Link Love: WTH is up with Meta? - The Well-Appointed Desk
Web Finds – 28 October 2026 - Travellers Notebook Times
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30 October 2026

Free For All Friday No 938 by Laurie

Recently we had a power outage that lasted only about 20 hours, but where I live they happen with some regularity and sometimes for a long time. (One November a few years ago the power was out for nine days. That was a lot of time staying warm by the woodburning stove, and food cooked outside in the snow on the barbecue!)

When the power is out, we also lose phone and internet connectivity, which is annoying and frustrating. Being forced to live analog always makes me appreciate how much of my life I still live offline, by choice and through some effort.

This time it made me realise how I've been relying a little more on digital services than I have in the past. It's mostly little things, like keeping ideas for gifts on my notes app instead of in my Filofax. I'm thinking now about things I can keep in or move to my Filofax to keep them accessible no matter what.

I keep an updated list of medications and any ongoing medical things in my Filofax in addition to important contacts and numbers. I'm trying to think of anything else that would be useful in an emergency.

Meanwhile the news is warning us of another approaching storm, so I can look forward to reading my paper book and recording everything in my Filofax by candlelight and headlamp again!

What do you keep digitally that would be lost if you no longer had access to it online? What might be useful to back up in your Filofax (or elsewhere on paper)?

And as always on Fridays, feel free to discuss anything Filofax related!

Have a good weekend everyone!

29 October 2026

Guest post series - 'Filohax' No. 32 - Paul

Thanks very much again to Paul for this next instalment of his wonderful guest post series.
You can find all of the 'Filohax' posts here. There is an index of all the previous filohax posts here.

Spine-less is more

Dominique made an interesting comment recently about Filofax without logos on the spine.

Line up left to right: Winchester Croc 7/8, Winchester 7/8, Winchester 7/8, Gloucester 7/8, Grosvenor 7/8

I'm from the twentieth century, and her comment reminded me of a peculiar British trait that I think was superseded when the 'Americanisation' of British culture really accelerated in the 1980's - 'unostentatiousness'. The 'no logo' spined Filofax were a product of an era when a product signalled its worth by its quality, not by marketing.

I think it's why the mark 'made in England' was kept on the inside cover- it wasn't done to 'show off'!

However the British have also always had a strong paradoxical streak - who could ever say our flag was unostentatious?!!

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