Looking back at my posts here, it amazes me to think that I've only been using a Filofax for the past 12 years. Like many readers, I've loved stationery since I was a child, so I'm surprised that I didn't come across them sooner than that. I remember doing a search for 'leather refillable notebook' and proudly purchased my first ever one, a cherry personal Classic. It was some time later that I eventually found my way to Philofaxy and this lovely community.
When did you get your first Filofax and which model was it?
And as always on Fridays, please feel free to discuss anything organiser related. I hope that you have a great weekend.
I bought my first Filofax around 1993…a personal Windsor in burgundy. I still have it although I haven’t used it for a while. It’s notable for the quality of the rings. I also love the pocket configuration.
ReplyDeleteMy proper grown up Filofax was a Finsbury slimline personal. Must be fifteen or maybe twenty years ago. Before that I was just an amateur!
ReplyDeleteI've since donated that binder and have been using the A5 clipbook for many years. I love it.
My first ring binder was Oberthur, binder itself made by Swann - beautiful red leather! I still have it and hope to find a new set of rings with back plate for it some day...Any tips, in Europe? My first real Filofax was Dorset I bought in 2002. I still have that one and I use it as a storage for extra pages.
ReplyDeleteMy first Filofax was of course my Winchester 4CLF that I got in December 1986, I still have it with my inserts from 1987, 1988, 1989 !!
ReplyDeletemy first one was a Pocket Lyndhust zip folder in black, back from the 1990s. Was still in use about 10 years later and then I fell down the planner hole of US and Japanese planners, in all forms and sizes, only to come back to ringbound covers in this year :-)
ReplyDeleteI've been a Franklin Covey user since 1991, but got my first Filofax in November 2014. Raspberry Personal Saffiano. I'm now in an A5 Malden. I still use FC and half letter size inserts though.
ReplyDeleteTime Manager A5 in 1986. My company wouldn’t pay for me to go on the two-day course, so I paid for the self-help version myself. It came with all the materials and a vinyl organiser. I still use most of the TMI techniques.
ReplyDeleteI bought my first Filofax 3 years ago. Kendal A5. I still have it, but changed the size last winter so I bought a Pimlico petrolblue... but did not like the pockets so changed by selling it and bought instead a Malden dyed Kingfisher blue. Absolutely love it! 😃 Magdi Sibalin
ReplyDeleteI splurged as a college sophomore to get my first faux leather personal Daytimer back in the mid-nineties. The personal sized was limiting for me, so I abandoned that size for the cheaper, yearly, paper planners with my college logo (today's A6 size). Then I read that old "Happiness is a Worn Filofax" article, and bought my very first A5 Finchley in Rose in 2006. Since then, I've added a couple of pockets, personal, and one more A5. I must say that the Filofaxes hold up very well.
ReplyDeleteI've only got a pocket zip model in game leather a personal metropol in fake leather. I'm not sure they age well. Leathery changes with use and wear but fake leather just wears I reckon.
ReplyDeleteCertainly I would like a leather one but can't justify it when the one I've got is good enough for my needs.
Are leather more flexible covers or rigid like the fake leather ones?
It depends on the model, some of the leather binders have internal stiffeners that make the covers more firm, and others are more bendable.
DeleteI bought my first real Filofax (a personal black leather Buckingham) in 2001, almost 20 years ago now. At the time I had been using a Cambridge planner that was like a personal Filofax (same ring size and configuration) off and on for a few years. I bought the Buckingham at TJ Maxx for an extremely discounted price of $20 or $25. I remember standing in the store holding the black Filofax thinking to myself, "Am I going to use this enough to justify paying $20 for it?" ( I was a broke graduate student at the time and had a very strict budget.) Little did I know that that beautiful Buckingham would lead me to Philofaxy and 20 years of enjoyment using Filofax organisers for just about every aspect of my life! I have storage binders holding all of my pages (Personal size for many years, then moved up to A5 several years ago) ever since those pages that came with my very first Filofax.
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