Launched alongside a travel bag in the same style and name. The bag was easy enough to obtain but the organisers quickly sold out and rarely appear second hand - and even then at ridiculous prices.
It’s now exactly 5 years since this organiser went on sale. Much has happened in that time. Train and flight tickets/ boarding passes are now almost always digital and the number of full sized credit/ loyalty cards and use of cash has sharply declined. My pocket Flex by Filofax holds my passport and the few cards I need when travelling. Everything else is on my iPhone in applications such as Apple Pay. A Travellers Notebook in Passport size or a Filofax Pocket Slim could do the same thing in a handier size, so I’m not sure that The Journey, If re-released, as some people request, would be the success it originally was.
For some reason I always seem to get paper tickets when I book a train over here in France. I've tried using their app, but it is very difficult to use as you have the eTicket on the app but you still need to show the loyalty card with the Q code on it! So paper tickets carry on for me! I also print off my boarding passes for Ryanair!
I stopped doing that when I realised how easy digital ticketing and boarding passes had become. Ryanair, Easy Jet and Jet 2 all intend to start charging for paper boarding passes at some point in the future - but not yet. All my UK rail tickets are now paperless.
I just think that Filofax missed an opportunity not to make The Journey organiser more mainstream at the time. A pocket size version would still be useful with pockets for passport, phone battery charger, ear phones, reading glasses etc. Alas, they are still largely wedded to pastel and glittery re-runs of old products. When was the last time they launched something really different? Apart from maybe The Heritage A5, it was probably The Journey!
I'm very interested to read how some of us, even us paper fiends, are moving to digital solutions. I just couldn't imagine myself doing that. If I have tickets on paper I could lose them or have them stolen. Ditto for digital versions, but so much more could go wrong - the phone could stop working, run out of power, refuse to open the app … that would be a nightmare for me. I prefer to have something tangible I can hold and know where it is. It's also the case that countries are moving at very different rates with digitisation. My train tickets (for cross border Germany/Netherlands) are still A4 monstrosities, my flight tickets are still on paper (admittedly, you'd have to chloroform me to get me onto any cattle truck airline like Ryanair). In Germany banks charge businesses a lot of money for digital transactions so many shops etc. will still only accept cash, and Germans prefer cash, I believe because the tax authorities here are allowed to track transactions from bank accounts. I wonder what would need to happen to move me fully to this brave new digital world. I think a lot of us still prefer paper.
I currently take my pocket (or mini) malden with me. I cannot rely on myself to make sure my iphone is topped up with juice to show my ticket when I need to so I still print out train tickets. When travelling I don't need a lot on rings so the Journey would suit me well.
I did consider buying one that was up for sale on Adspot ages ago for a very reasonable price, but passed on it as I know that I'd want rings bigger than 11mm. Like Gemma, I just take my Winchester with me & am still on paper tickets as I don't have a smartphone or tablet.
Launched alongside a travel bag in the same style and name. The bag was easy enough to obtain but the organisers quickly sold out and rarely appear second hand - and even then at ridiculous prices.
ReplyDeleteI have the organiser and absolutely love it. I use it for holidays and it's like a Tardis - holds everything you need!
ReplyDeleteIt’s now exactly 5 years since this organiser went on sale. Much has happened in that time. Train and flight tickets/ boarding passes are now almost always digital and the number of full sized credit/ loyalty cards and use of cash has sharply declined. My pocket Flex by Filofax holds my passport and the few cards I need when travelling. Everything else is on my iPhone in applications such as Apple Pay. A Travellers Notebook in Passport size or a Filofax Pocket Slim could do the same thing in a handier size, so I’m not sure that The Journey, If re-released, as some people request, would be the success it originally was.
ReplyDeleteFor some reason I always seem to get paper tickets when I book a train over here in France. I've tried using their app, but it is very difficult to use as you have the eTicket on the app but you still need to show the loyalty card with the Q code on it! So paper tickets carry on for me!
DeleteI also print off my boarding passes for Ryanair!
I stopped doing that when I realised how easy digital ticketing and boarding passes had become. Ryanair, Easy Jet and Jet 2 all intend to start charging for paper boarding passes at some point in the future - but not yet. All my UK rail tickets are now paperless.
DeleteI just think that Filofax missed an opportunity not to make The Journey organiser more mainstream at the time. A pocket size version would still be useful with pockets for passport, phone battery charger, ear phones, reading glasses etc. Alas, they are still largely wedded to pastel and glittery re-runs of old products. When was the last time they launched something really different? Apart from maybe The Heritage A5, it was probably The Journey!
I'm very interested to read how some of us, even us paper fiends, are moving to digital solutions. I just couldn't imagine myself doing that. If I have tickets on paper I could lose them or have them stolen. Ditto for digital versions, but so much more could go wrong - the phone could stop working, run out of power, refuse to open the app … that would be a nightmare for me. I prefer to have something tangible I can hold and know where it is. It's also the case that countries are moving at very different rates with digitisation. My train tickets (for cross border Germany/Netherlands) are still A4 monstrosities, my flight tickets are still on paper (admittedly, you'd have to chloroform me to get me onto any cattle truck airline like Ryanair). In Germany banks charge businesses a lot of money for digital transactions so many shops etc. will still only accept cash, and Germans prefer cash, I believe because the tax authorities here are allowed to track transactions from bank accounts. I wonder what would need to happen to move me fully to this brave new digital world. I think a lot of us still prefer paper.
DeleteI just take my usual Filofax with me.
ReplyDeleteI currently take my pocket (or mini) malden with me. I cannot rely on myself to make sure my iphone is topped up with juice to show my ticket when I need to so I still print out train tickets. When travelling I don't need a lot on rings so the Journey would suit me well.
ReplyDeleteI did consider buying one that was up for sale on Adspot ages ago for a very reasonable price, but passed on it as I know that I'd want rings bigger than 11mm. Like Gemma, I just take my Winchester with me & am still on paper tickets as I don't have a smartphone or tablet.
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