Apart from a couple of brief breaks, I have been using a Filofax for seven years now.
I just can't imagine going back to how I used to be using random scraps of paper, or switching between multiple partially started notebooks. I first came across Filofax and the Philofaxy site after doing a search for 'refillable leather notebook' and I was quickly drawn in!
How did you come across the community or start using a binder?
And as always, it's Friday so please feel free to discuss anything ring organiser related.
Have a great weekend.
A 1995 article in Mademoiselle on Filofax began my planner journey. But it was in 2014 when I came across the Bullet Journal system that led me to discover there were videos and communities dedicated to not just this but planners as well
ReplyDeleteI started using a Filofax back in 1986.... BI... Before Internet! also BP Before Philofaxy! I used it until about 1991 or may be 1992 but I drifted off in to using electronic PDA's until 2005 when I had to go back to using a Filofax... the same one I had bought back in 1986!
ReplyDeleteBy chance one day I did discover Philofaxy in about 2008 doing a Google search for something. By this time I was then using an A5 Finsbury I had bought because it was easier for me to be able to print inserts for it.
I then started creating some of my own inserts because I discovered that Filofax had changed so much in those 15 or so years!
I became aware of Filofax from a Sunday Times article back in the 1980's, I also discovered a shop near to where I worked in Kingsway in London stocked the full range so I used to go there to decipher the catalogue.
I also remember visiting City Organiser when they had a shop in Canary Wharf in the late 1990's when the HQ of my organisation moved to Docklands.
Before Facebook there was and still is a Filofax Yahoo group, although it is totally inactive these days.
I can't remember... That's terrible isn't it!
ReplyDeleteI got into Filofax in the 1980s after seeing them in Heffers bookshop in Cambridge and Osbornes stationers in Birmingham. And Philifaxy was a natural destination later on when I wondered why the products had changed so much.
ReplyDeleteI got my first binder system through a business seminar in 1992, then discovered Franklin Covey in 1993. Got my first Filofax in 2014, and now have a happy mix of both systems. True Frankenstein-planner.
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