Resolution review! About a month ago, we were talking about our 2010 Filofax configurations.
How's yours working for you?
I'm using a new format this year, the City Dweller, which has a week on the left page, notes on the right. It took a little adjusting, but I've grown to love it.
29 January 2010
26 January 2010
Filofax litany
I was thinking about all the Filofax planner/ diary inserts I have tried and/ or used over the years. It's quite a list.
Personal size:
Month on two pages
Fold-out year overview with months as columns
Week on 2 pages
Week on 2 pages Cotton Cream
Week + Notes
Family Organizer (available from Filofax UK), with boxes for each family member each day
Day per page
A5 size:
Month on two pages
Fold-out year overview
Week on 2 pages Horizontal
Week on 2 pages Vertical (days as columns)
Week + Notes
Family Organizer (week view with days as columns)
Dodo Pad diary insert
Having it all written out like that makes it look like sheer insanity!
What formats have you tried in the past, and what are you currently using?
Personal size:
Month on two pages
Fold-out year overview with months as columns
Week on 2 pages
Week on 2 pages Cotton Cream
Week + Notes
Family Organizer (available from Filofax UK), with boxes for each family member each day
Day per page
A5 size:
Month on two pages
Fold-out year overview
Week on 2 pages Horizontal
Week on 2 pages Vertical (days as columns)
Week + Notes
Family Organizer (week view with days as columns)
Dodo Pad diary insert
Having it all written out like that makes it look like sheer insanity!
What formats have you tried in the past, and what are you currently using?
25 January 2010
Would you class your Filofax as a collectable - Update
Well further to the post on Saturday... Mark has posted an apology it sounds like his post caused quite a stir!
It seems he is also a Filofax user too! So we will let him off lightly this time ;-)
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It seems he is also a Filofax user too! So we will let him off lightly this time ;-)
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Continuing the theme
Seems like a popular theme this week: calling Filofax and other paper organizers "retro" or "old-fashioned." I prefer to think of them as reliable, classic, personable and archival myself.
Here is another article about "old-fashioned" paper planners, featuring Filofax:
Old-fashioned organizers haven't disappeared
Here is another article about "old-fashioned" paper planners, featuring Filofax:
Old-fashioned organizers haven't disappeared
23 January 2010
Would you class your Filofax as a 'Collectable'?
Caught by one of our readers on Twitter was a 'tweet' by Mark Hill
As you will see he states that 'the PDA and smartphone have completely replaced the Filofax' .... you will have seen I've commented on the post already... !!!
But it was nice of Mark to link to us 'Filofax fans'
We will not be classed as antiques from a bygone era just yet, paper is alive and well in this age of electronic wireless always on communication social networked up to the minute Twitterings. It's the iPhones and other electronics that are the passing phase.
Come back in five years time and you will look at a 1st generation iPhone and think, oh I remember those. But in five years time your iPhone will be a paperweight, things will have moved on, it's expensive battery will have expired. The protocols it uses will have been upgraded, the radio spectrum it uses will have been sold on to the next highest bidder, I was on the team that sold the 3G spectrum in UK for £22.4 billion! And whilst you might be able to turn on your iPhone Mk I, you won't be able to do a lot with it, will iTunes still support such an old model?
Then again your Filofax will be alive and well, pop in a few new pages and you are ready to go. May be an antique to some people, but still working as well as the day you bought it.
OK they don't do the same job... but can you capture your thoughts so instantly on an iPhone? They don't have that same attraction and desire to want to hold it.
I proves I suppose that one person's everyday object (of desire in our case) is another person's 'collectable or antique' I'm not about to sell any of mine to the highest bidder...
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Is the Filofax making a comeback? Seen more trendy young things carrying them, and prices for lovely vintage ones seem to be on the up.So I checked out Mark Hill a bit more and then found his latest posting on his blog about Vintage Filofax & Mulberry organisers.
As you will see he states that 'the PDA and smartphone have completely replaced the Filofax' .... you will have seen I've commented on the post already... !!!
But it was nice of Mark to link to us 'Filofax fans'
We will not be classed as antiques from a bygone era just yet, paper is alive and well in this age of electronic wireless always on communication social networked up to the minute Twitterings. It's the iPhones and other electronics that are the passing phase.
Come back in five years time and you will look at a 1st generation iPhone and think, oh I remember those. But in five years time your iPhone will be a paperweight, things will have moved on, it's expensive battery will have expired. The protocols it uses will have been upgraded, the radio spectrum it uses will have been sold on to the next highest bidder, I was on the team that sold the 3G spectrum in UK for £22.4 billion! And whilst you might be able to turn on your iPhone Mk I, you won't be able to do a lot with it, will iTunes still support such an old model?
Then again your Filofax will be alive and well, pop in a few new pages and you are ready to go. May be an antique to some people, but still working as well as the day you bought it.
OK they don't do the same job... but can you capture your thoughts so instantly on an iPhone? They don't have that same attraction and desire to want to hold it.
I proves I suppose that one person's everyday object (of desire in our case) is another person's 'collectable or antique' I'm not about to sell any of mine to the highest bidder...
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