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Back when I first started reading Philofaxy, blogging was very popular and many of us who read Philofaxy at that time had our own blogs (many of which are now sadly defunct). We created an online community with commenting and guest-posting on each others' blogs, linking and referencing each others' posts. Personally that was my favourite time in the online community!
Facebook came along, and eventually Instagram. I'm assuming there are also Filofax communities on other platforms like TikTok and Discord but I'm not on those. There's not as much discussion on these platforms, and more video content rather than text-based as in blogs, but it's still fun to see how people all over the world use their Filofax organisers in their lives and work.
Besides Philofaxy (of course!), what are your favourite Filofax-related blogs or social media accounts, past and present?
I go mainly to this site only.I also watch www.notebookstories.com. A lot of Japanese YT channels who are obsessed with anything planning and stationary . I no longer have interest in Filofax promotion or their X posts as I find their product line unattractive to me, and as European I no longer have interest in any American own social media - be it Facebook, X, Instagram.
ReplyDeleteFor me, Philofaxy ALWAYS led the field, even in the heyday of blogging, because personal blogs rely on just one person being able to create interesting-enough content, at a fairly consistent pace, over a long period - whereas, arguably, the point of a truly effective planning system is to be there in the background, a stable support for the bigger business of living your life, especially for the majority of people for whom it's merely a tool.
ReplyDeleteI think it's possible that this, rather than popularity of planners in the wild, may account for the relative lack of blogs, after the inevitable flurry when free blogs first appeared (as I recall this was around the same time as broadband going mainstream, affordable digital cameras, user-friendly WYSIWYG editors all over, etc).
Speaking of content, there are tons of great tips buried away in comments on here - any chance of some content based on Planner Problem Solving please, maybe drawing on old comments (with a screenshot of the comment and a small newly-written piece on that general area, if the ethics of re-using comments are a grey area) and also, inviting people to share their own specific problems for a post, or amazing solutions they came up with, and haven't seen mentioned anywhere else yet?