What Size Filofax Are You Using - Poll

I was going to try and run this as a simple poll, only to discover that Google no longer includes a poll option for the blogger site like they used to!

A change of plan! Simply comment below and in the mean time I will look for an alternative way of running simple polls.

You can comment below. Or visit this page on our linked site. To vote for more than one, just refresh the page. 

How often do you visit Philofaxy?

Thank you to everyone that took part in the recent poll. Here are the final results:

I was quite pleased with the end results especially as it shows that over three quarters of the people that took part (298 people) look at the blog at least once a week, with more than half of them looking every couple of days.

This mini survey is a great help to me because it helps me to decide how often to schedule certain types of posts (news updates, general updates, posts for people new to the blog etc.)

Again thank you to every that took part.

How Often Do You Visit Philofaxy

I've created a poll in the side bar, which you will need to use a desktop/laptop to see, to see how often people visit Philofaxy.

I'm not too concerned if people aren't visiting every day, which would be nice of course. But the outcome of the poll will help me plan posts in terms of how often we might need to repeat important information, so people don't miss things.

Details of each days posts on Philofaxy as you might know go out automatically or manually to a variety of places:

• RSS feed.
• By Email to subscribers (see the box in the side bar to subscribe).
• Twitter (@philofaxy and @philofaxynews ).
• Flipboard (Filofax Focus see the side bar also).
• Facebook groups, this varies depending on the topic.

However, I realise that there is a lot of pressure on peoples time every day of the week these days. 

Thank you for taking part in the poll it will close early in March. 

How many Filofax organisers do you own?

Well we asked the question and got you to 'vote' in the poll. I used the same categories as I used in 2011 and 2009.

Interesting results.. the numbers are increasing with 'I'm in to double figures... more than 10' coming out with the highest number by a small margin.  The percentage of five or more has been steadily increasing.

We might only use one or two at the same time, but I think people like to swap around which ones are their current favourite, or swap for a particular task or say a trip or similar.

Thank you to the 674 people that voted this year.

And you will see what I mean if you look at 2011 and 2009.  So 2011 with 350 people taking part:

And 2009 with only 82 people taking part:

I think we are going to need to redefine the more than ten category in to higher values !

Again thank you to everyone that took part.

Pens Poll - Result

Thank you to everyone that took part in our 'Pen' poll, as you can see from the results the ballpoint pen remains a popular writing instrument for most people. Not far behind is the fountain pen.

Obviously the ballpoint will write on any paper without any bleed-through issues, they are very portable, the refills last months sometimes longer.

The fountain pen is a little more tricky, I've certainly had them leak in the past. But of more concern to Filofax users is their performance with the currently available paper.

At the weekend I tried out a couple of fountain pens on some of the different paper I have here:

• Filofax 'white' 70 gsm - As we know there was some bleed-through, not major but potentially annoying
• Filofax 'coloured' 70 gsm - No bleed through, it performed even better than the white paper and I was quite surprised at this, but I will come back to this paper in a moment.
• Filofax Cotton Cream - Excellent with my sample fountain pens, although the ink did take longer to dry on this paper. 
• Rohdia 80 gsm jotter pad - no bleed-through and it takes the ink well no feathering
• Datacopy 80 gsm copier paper - No bleed-through issues, but the ink did feather a little.
• 'Bristol' paper, although this is in excess of 100 gsm, no bleed through and no feathering, it even performs well with solvent heavy CD marker pen without bleeding through! But you won't get many pages of this weight in to a Filofax. 

So only a small sample, but then I remembered back to the meeting in November with Filofax, the coloured Filofax paper isn't dyed, but printed, so the colouring might be acting as a further barrier to the wet fountain pen ink?

I jotted this down then promptly forgot about it until I saw a You Tube video at the weekend and the person on the video made a similar comment that the coloured paper performs better than the thin white Filofax paper, it jogged my memory. 

The realm of 'Fountain Pen Friendly' paper is quite a difficult problem to solve. The paper has to not absorb the ink too much, yet it has to be receptive to it so that the ink dries quickly on the paper, this is particularly important for left handed users if they are going to avoid smudging what they have just written with their own hand.

My tests weren't exactly scientifically performed or conclusive but having seen others make similar observations I don't think they are too far wrong. The performance of the thin paper might vary with the type of ink used? But the coloured Filofax paper was the surprise of this test. 

Have you tried different ink on different papers to see if it makes a difference?

What type of writing instrument do you use in your Filofax?

Some interesting discussions following on from the meeting notes last week about paper quality and similar topics.

It got me wondering about what sort of pens etc that people actually use in their Filofax organisers. We do see quite a variety in blog posts and You Tube videos. But I thought it would be good to do a poll to see what is the most popular type and see what percentage of Philofaxy readers are fountain pen users.

So please indicate in the poll in the side bar which writing instrument you use.

Diary Inserts - What next?

Ray and I are making good progress with our programme of creating all the various 'standard' formats of diary inserts for most sizes of Filofax organisers. We still have a few more to release in the next few weeks. However, we are now looking to do some non-standard ones.

You will see I have created a poll to estimate the sort of demand for some of the ideas we came up with in a mini very informal brain storming session earlier this evening on Skype.

Are there any other ideas you would like to see for a dated insert?  Some silly suggestions could be a diary with a space to record which Filofax organiser you are currently using, or one with a 5 star rating included for the boy friend or girl friend of the moment....

We have included and 'Other' category in the poll, if you can put in the details of your suggestion in the comments to this post... or email philofaxy[at]gmail[dot]com with your suggestion including what size you would like it in. May be include a sketch of the rough layout of the page to give us a bit of a head start that will be great.

Poll: Business or Social?

A simple question really... What is the primary use of your Filofax organiser Business or Social?

Please vote in the poll in the side bar.

Poll results: How many weeks of diary pages do you keep in your Filofax?

Thanks to everyone who participated in this poll!  Here are the results:


How many weeks of diary pages do you keep in your Filofax? (252 total votes):

Less than 1 month  11 (4%)

1-3 months  45 (17%)

4-6 months  41 (16%)

7-12 months  130 (51%)

More than 12 months  25 (9%)

I was really surprised that so many people keep 7-12 months' worth of diary pages in their Filofax at one time!

What Size Filofax Organisers Do You Own? Poll Result

Thank you to the 247 people that took part in this weeks poll.

We asked the same question two years ago and it was interesting to see how the results compared to then. Like the previous poll on how many Filofaxes people owned,  there was a considerable increase in the number of people taking part so the statistics I think are more representative.

I wondered if we would see a shift in the statistics say from Personal to Pocket, but I'm not convinced that the changes we are seeing in this poll compared to the one two years ago are due to the change in what people are using compared to then.  A rerun next year might be more accurate in terms of trend spotting.

Click on the images to see a bigger version of each one.

Once again many thanks to everyone that took part.

What Size Filofaxes Do You Own

Following on from 'How Many' we are again running another poll, but this time it is What size Filofax Organisers do you own. Again we ran this a couple of years ago.

Tick as many sizes as you own before you press the vote button.

Again thank you to everyone taking part in this poll.

How Many Filofaxes Do You Own - Poll Result

We asked the question again about How Many Filofaxes Do You Own?

Thank you to the 350 people that responded, quite a turn out. Two years ago we asked the same question and got 82 people to respond, so a big increase and a more representative sample size to look at.

This year I increased the number of categories to improve the accuracy of results. So here are the results, click on the picture to see a full size version.

As you might expect people owning only one Filofax out number the rest and it drops off more or less as expected, but then starts climbing back up again once you get to 10 Filofaxes!

I then recalculated the numbers based on the categories from two years ago so we could compare the two results more closely. This produced a few surprises!

I know you can prove anything with statistics, but you have to admit it is interesting to see the 'upward' trend in ownership....

Here it is in percentage terms, only having 3,4 or 5 is decreasing!

Thanks again to everyone that took part and please take part in the new poll in the side bar. Again a rerun of one we did 2 years ago.

How Many Filofaxes Do You Own?

We have asked this question before, but it was about 2 years ago, it will be interesting to see how things have changed in that time!

As you will see I've expanded the number of categories this time, so we can get a slightly more accurate picture... 

Here is the graph from last time.

New Poll - When do you read new posts?

If you didn't know already, we tend to schedule most posts on the site for a future date and time. That way we try to keep an even flow of posts throughout the week without us having to write something every day.

I quite often have a few ideas to write about and these can then be slotted in when there's a gap etc. But I'm interested to know when people read the new posts. I can see from the stats that the number of visitors tends to drop on Saturdays and Sundays. Mainly because you will be busy with other things I guess.

I wonder how many posts get missed when they are posted at weekends....

Anyway, I would appreciate it if you added your vote to the poll in the side bar.

Thanks.

Which diary format do you use - Poll Result

We asked the question 'Which diary format do you use in your main Filofax?' and thank you for everyone that entered the poll.

The result was not too much of a surprise with a large percentage of people using a Week on Two Pages as their preferred format. Of course there are variations within that format, but I think in general terms that format works for most people.

Here is a graph of the results, click on the picture to see a bigger version.

Again many thanks to everyone that took part.

Poll - Which diary format do you use in your main Filofax?

Following an informal poll on Twitter we thought it best to be a little more scientific or democratic if you like.

There's no prizes or catches, just a simple anonymous poll. We will of course publish the results of the poll once it closes.

Thanks for taking part.

How long have you been a Filofax User - Poll Result

So no big surprises in our latest poll. Many thanks for everyone who took part.

How long have you been a Filofax User - Poll

It naturally follows on I suppose from how old are you, to how long you have been a Filofax user?

If you have come back to Filofax after a break of a few years like I did, I will let you decide which period to use. This isn't a serious market research type poll, it's just for interest only.

Thanks as always for your votes and support.

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Poll Results - How old are you?

I asked two questions a couple of weeks ago to work out what our demographics are of our readership.

I don't think you will be surprised with the results shown below. It is however encouraging to see we have some younger readers too.

Click on the images to see them full size

Thank you all for your votes, the best turn out yet for a poll we have held on the site. 

Two new polls for you to take part in.

Please vote in the two polls in the side bar. I will publish the results at the close of the polls in a couple of weeks time.

I've thought of another poll to be run in a few weeks time 'How long have you been a Filofax user' but I don't want to overload you with lots of polls at the same time. 

Thank you for taking part. 
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