Thanks very much again to Paul for this twenty-second instalment of his wonderful guest post series.
You can find all of the 'Filohax' posts here.
Why tech needs analogue
Tech has taken over the world, so why do we need analogue back ups? Well recently in the space of one day I heard of two tech fails where analogue did, or could have saved the day:
1) Smartphone calendar
Our niece was on holiday in Crete, and while there she took a booking for a presentation in two weeks' time, in the UK, adding it right into the smartphone calendar app.
She came back from holiday, and several days later a colleague happened to call her about this particular presentation... which they said was to be at 12.30pm. Something didn't sound right, as she had already booked another appointment shortly after 12.30pm elsewhere - so she checked her phone calendar for the booking she had taken while on holiday...it showed 12.30pm, but she had originally written it into her smartphone as '10.30am' - the app had changed the appointment back to Eastern European time!!!!
2) Password back up
Our workplace's I.T. system is getting migrated from being supported by one contractor to a new one. However, when a colleague (who is responsible for exam results) was given special early permission to use the new system, all of her password 'autofills' had disappeared... leaving her to hunt through cupboards for work books with the written down passwords, eventually finding them in a diary from 2018?!!
I'm guessing that us Filofax/analogue planner users would never fall into these traps - problem number 1 would be solved by writing everything that happens at least into a physical dated 'brain dump' prior to adding it to any type of calendar, and problem number 2 would be simply to turn to tab 'P' for passwords in your storage binder.
I bet we all have a few 'analogue saves the day' stories?
