anyone still use a Filofax?
Ovalteenie
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Tidying up my room I found an old Filofax that I never used still in its box, a 'Kendal' in brown real leather... It feels and smells lovely 
but I doubt I'll start using it. Surely they're obsolete with iPhones and smartphones doing a much better job as a personal organiser? Am surprised the company's still going!
but I doubt I'll start using it. Surely they're obsolete with iPhones and smartphones doing a much better job as a personal organiser? Am surprised the company's still going! 0
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I'll take it off your hands.
I could use it to write down the numbers of all the groovy chicks I meet when I'm doing the boogie down at the local discotheque. :cool:
Me too, it's twenty odd years old, I still put telephone numbers in it, although what's written in the main part is well historical - mostly what evening classes I was teaching in Germany at the time. Strange really. I should just buy another book.
iPhone, iPad, MacBook etc are all lovely, but it's not the same as having an agenda. I NEED to write and tick off what I've accomplished. I also love buying diary stickers, you can't do that with an app.
If anyone uses a Filofax or any type of organiser, I recommend Kate Spade refills. Filofax's inserts are too thin. I don't like flimsy paper. The Filofax coloured paper and sticky note accessories are quite good, though.
I am a stationery fiend. Because there are many of us out there, companies like Filofax would continue to do good business; even in this highly technological era.
For her the filofax is a great solution as no matter how hard we try we can't teach her to use a computer (of any description) properly, and mobile phones are a nightmare with her (I ended up getting her the cheapest, simplest model I could find with a flip or slide cover*)
I don't use a filofax myself, but do still make a lot of use of a traditional calander for noting down dates, with most of the important numbers on my phone/house phone, and computer.
*Otherwise she has a tendency to put the phone back in her handbag whilst still connected.
I also have an A5 filofax which I still use for phone numbers. I tend to use WH Smiths inserts in the A5 but have to use filofax in the small one as Smiths don't usually make the right size for the small one.