Comments on: Anyone still use a Filofax? http://www.carlconrad.net/en/2009/01/anyone-still-use-a-filofax/ Marketing, technology, my views and thoughts on today's digital world Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:59:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jayengee http://www.carlconrad.net/en/2009/01/anyone-still-use-a-filofax/#comment-713 Jayengee Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:59:28 +0000 http://www.carlconrad.net/en/?p=125#comment-713 I'm a convinced Filofax user. I've used them since the late 1960's and have a number which I use for different purposes - recipes, address book, holidays and wildlife recording and one which has everything I need - contacts, various computer settings, abbreviated passwords, career and courses, you name it. I am also a regular user of laptops and, this past year, an HTC Desire smartphone. Many of my 'pages' are actually printed as I have set up Filofax templates using Microsoft Word and have used these to produce specialist forms which I use for motoring expenses (Filofax stopped producing theirs, and needs must...) for Scout programme ideas, wildlife recording and so on. If I lost my Filofax all would not be lost, but it is far more useful than any smartphone could be, and much smaller and neater than a laptop or netbook. I’m a convinced Filofax user. I’ve used them since the late 1960′s and have a number which I use for different purposes – recipes, address book, holidays and wildlife recording and one which has everything I need – contacts, various computer settings, abbreviated passwords, career and courses, you name it. I am also a regular user of laptops and, this past year, an HTC Desire smartphone. Many of my ‘pages’ are actually printed as I have set up Filofax templates using Microsoft Word and have used these to produce specialist forms which I use for motoring expenses (Filofax stopped producing theirs, and needs must…) for Scout programme ideas, wildlife recording and so on. If I lost my Filofax all would not be lost, but it is far more useful than any smartphone could be, and much smaller and neater than a laptop or netbook.

]]> By: Linda http://www.carlconrad.net/en/2009/01/anyone-still-use-a-filofax/#comment-640 Linda Sat, 22 Oct 2011 10:06:02 +0000 http://www.carlconrad.net/en/?p=125#comment-640 I think I would try to get hold of a cheap Personal - Ebay or somewhere - and do practice surgery on that first... it's a neat idea to embed the iPhone in the Filofax! (I uset those pre-printed contact forms for my Filofaxes too - they are great!) I think I would try to get hold of a cheap Personal – Ebay or somewhere – and do practice surgery on that first… it’s a neat idea to embed the iPhone in the Filofax! (I uset those pre-printed contact forms for my Filofaxes too – they are great!)

]]> By: C http://www.carlconrad.net/en/2009/01/anyone-still-use-a-filofax/#comment-625 C Fri, 14 Oct 2011 07:59:06 +0000 http://www.carlconrad.net/en/?p=125#comment-625 Gosh, what a polarised bunch. I have both. iPhone is great for storing a LOT of stuff in a small space, but yep, it takes longer to flick from one app to another than one page to another and so on. And it's not terribly good at holding business cards. Plus, since Apple have never condescended to make notes sync with the desktop (do not talk to me about the "to do" function in Mail, it is a totally cacky apology of an excuse of a miserable hack) I might as well use my nice old fountain pen and paper and enjoy the process. For regularly used notes of course I have my shopping list app and so on, there is stuff I absolutely wouldn't want to do on paper, but there is also stuff I absolutely prefer to do on paper. As for contacts, I have a nice little application (not app, it's on my desktop machine) that prints out my contacts book in the proper format. Punch the paper and away I go, updating is as easy as a new printout every so often. iPhone and fILOFAX can live together (they even both have problems with capitals in the right places, they were made for each other...). Maybe this is because I'm a woman and I carry both in a bag rather than relying on a pocket and only wanting one thing. I would LIKE just one thing, though. I keep eyeing my Personal size fILOFAX and thinking one of the inner cover pockets could be slightly restitched and windows cut in it so I could keep the iPhone inside it. Just need to get my nerve up and take a scalpel to it. Gosh, what a polarised bunch. I have both. iPhone is great for storing a LOT of stuff in a small space, but yep, it takes longer to flick from one app to another than one page to another and so on. And it’s not terribly good at holding business cards. Plus, since Apple have never condescended to make notes sync with the desktop (do not talk to me about the “to do” function in Mail, it is a totally cacky apology of an excuse of a miserable hack) I might as well use my nice old fountain pen and paper and enjoy the process. For regularly used notes of course I have my shopping list app and so on, there is stuff I absolutely wouldn’t want to do on paper, but there is also stuff I absolutely prefer to do on paper. As for contacts, I have a nice little application (not app, it’s on my desktop machine) that prints out my contacts book in the proper format. Punch the paper and away I go, updating is as easy as a new printout every so often. iPhone and fILOFAX can live together (they even both have problems with capitals in the right places, they were made for each other…). Maybe this is because I’m a woman and I carry both in a bag rather than relying on a pocket and only wanting one thing. I would LIKE just one thing, though. I keep eyeing my Personal size fILOFAX and thinking one of the inner cover pockets could be slightly restitched and windows cut in it so I could keep the iPhone inside it. Just need to get my nerve up and take a scalpel to it.

]]> By: Linda http://www.carlconrad.net/en/2009/01/anyone-still-use-a-filofax/#comment-603 Linda Sun, 02 Oct 2011 12:26:02 +0000 http://www.carlconrad.net/en/?p=125#comment-603 I use a Filofax! This was not by choice originally... I developed hypersensitivity to electro-magnetic fields and went from an uber-geek with all the latest gadgets including smartphones as organizers, to paper. To my amazement, I have rekindled my love of paper organizers, and the Filofax is, for me, the best of the best. I use a pocket size but I am investigating the mini. Even if, in the future, I am able to return to electronic organizers I believe I will carry my Filofax... it is so efficient and somehow comforting... but then I do not read E-books... only the good old paper kind! ☺ I use a Filofax! This was not by choice originally… I developed hypersensitivity to electro-magnetic fields and went from an uber-geek with all the latest gadgets including smartphones as organizers, to paper. To my amazement, I have rekindled my love of paper organizers, and the Filofax is, for me, the best of the best. I use a pocket size but I am investigating the mini. Even if, in the future, I am able to return to electronic organizers I believe I will carry my Filofax… it is so efficient and somehow comforting… but then I do not read E-books… only the good old paper kind! ☺

]]> By: Sans rire, tu utilises encore un Filofax ? | davidbosman.fr http://www.carlconrad.net/en/2009/01/anyone-still-use-a-filofax/#comment-536 Sans rire, tu utilises encore un Filofax ? | davidbosman.fr Wed, 07 Sep 2011 20:27:09 +0000 http://www.carlconrad.net/en/?p=125#comment-536 [...] I mean, cm’on, you still use a filofax? Seriously? Chris [...] [...] I mean, cm’on, you still use a filofax? Seriously? Chris [...]

]]> By: Bard http://www.carlconrad.net/en/2009/01/anyone-still-use-a-filofax/#comment-466 Bard Thu, 14 Apr 2011 06:38:09 +0000 http://www.carlconrad.net/en/?p=125#comment-466 I still use the filofax, as the matter of fact I just bought a new one. I am one of those people who jot down notes on paper to remember, like stick-it, shopping lists, birthdays on a calender and so on. The filofax is ideal for me as it doeas all above plus, planning, travel, meeting, journal, actually everything. There is no way I WOULD do all that on a smartphone. I own a smartphone but I do not use it the same way. I find people don't mind me pulling up my filofax to jot down notes in a meeting, but people who pull up smartphones are frowned upon. Actually people seems to find others with a nice leather filofax more serious in business than smartphone jotters. In mine I have all I need including business cards, member cards and much much more. I love it as a planner, notebook, hold coins for parking, business card holder, organizer, and yes even a contact management tool. Why, well I work worldwide, to use a cellphone for email is in many places so expensive it cannot be defended. Many places I have to use a corporate computer, or even internet cafe. The filofax has all the important contacts right there with me, open bang use. Or smartphone, open in menus, search, find, start typing... curse as the phone shut off screen, get it on again, write the rest on a - - paper - - then use it. I cannot use a smartphone as efficient, nor as comfortable to jot down on as the filofax. Once in Italy, I had a meal for Gods, and I managed to get the receipe from the chef. At the time I was in smartphone mode, jottet it in, flying home my daughter played with the phone, and voila gone. Never again, Filofax is my tool of choice and I love it. I still use the filofax, as the matter of fact I just bought a new one. I am one of those people who jot down notes on paper to remember, like stick-it, shopping lists, birthdays on a calender and so on. The filofax is ideal for me as it doeas all above plus, planning, travel, meeting, journal, actually everything. There is no way I WOULD do all that on a smartphone. I own a smartphone but I do not use it the same way.

I find people don’t mind me pulling up my filofax to jot down notes in a meeting, but people who pull up smartphones are frowned upon.
Actually people seems to find others with a nice leather filofax more serious in business than smartphone jotters.

In mine I have all I need including business cards, member cards and much much more. I love it as a planner, notebook, hold coins for parking, business card holder, organizer, and yes even a contact management tool. Why, well I work worldwide, to use a cellphone for email is in many places so expensive it cannot be defended. Many places I have to use a corporate computer, or even internet cafe. The filofax has all the important contacts right there with me, open bang use. Or smartphone, open in menus, search, find, start typing… curse as the phone shut off screen, get it on again, write the rest on a – - paper – - then use it.

I cannot use a smartphone as efficient, nor as comfortable to jot down on as the filofax.

Once in Italy, I had a meal for Gods, and I managed to get the receipe from the chef. At the time I was in smartphone mode, jottet it in, flying home my daughter played with the phone, and voila gone. Never again, Filofax is my tool of choice and I love it.

]]> By: Derek http://www.carlconrad.net/en/2009/01/anyone-still-use-a-filofax/#comment-465 Derek Mon, 07 Mar 2011 17:40:20 +0000 http://www.carlconrad.net/en/?p=125#comment-465 Hi, an interesting discussion!!.. Well I am now 68, and have been using Filofax since 1970, & in the late 1980's I turned to a Psion 3, a wonderful tactile object, and again later to Laptops, while still keeping the Psion going for passwords. (They are virtually uncrackable I am told!!) But now in the new Century I have returned to the good old Filofax, with the smell of Leather! I have also discovered Chinese Fountain Pens, Superb Quality, and for the price of a Parker you can have Five, and use different colour Inks. That really does Brighten up the Coloured Pages of my FILO!! But the price of the New Cases are really expensive, Its lucky I have Two large and Two and a half Thin cases. (the half is the 1970 one now held together now by gaffer tape!), things seem to go round and round.... Paper has been in use since about 3500BC!! derek Hi, an interesting discussion!!..
Well I am now 68, and have been using Filofax since 1970, & in the late 1980′s I turned to a Psion 3, a wonderful tactile object, and again later to Laptops, while still keeping the Psion going for passwords. (They are virtually uncrackable I am told!!)
But now in the new Century I have returned to the good old Filofax, with the smell of Leather!
I have also discovered Chinese Fountain Pens,
Superb Quality, and for the price of a Parker you can have Five, and use different colour Inks.
That really does Brighten up the Coloured Pages of my FILO!! But the price of the New Cases are really expensive, Its lucky I have Two large and Two and a half Thin cases. (the half is the 1970 one now held together now by gaffer tape!), things seem to go round and round….
Paper has been in use since about 3500BC!!
derek

]]> By: Lee Osborne http://www.carlconrad.net/en/2009/01/anyone-still-use-a-filofax/#comment-464 Lee Osborne Fri, 04 Feb 2011 20:27:05 +0000 http://www.carlconrad.net/en/?p=125#comment-464 This is all very interesting. After struggling to organise myself using gadgets patently unsuitable for the task, I've gone back to using a Filofax. The only PDA worth using for organising time and tasks is a Psion, and sadly my Psions have all died on me and they're not worth replacing. Although they still work well if you get one in good nick, it's increasingly difficult to back up data or sync it with anything, because PsiWin is really ancient. It was designed for Win 95 and hasn't been updated for many years, and won't work properly with 64-bit versions of Windows. So...I just about managed on my old Windows Mobile device, which was horrible compared to the Psion but did just about work, but now I have an HTC Desire. It's an amazing device and the best phone I've owned, but it's hopeless for time management, and out of the box it has no task management software at all. Sod it...the Filofax works way better for all of that, and it's a genuinely nice thing to own. Sure, the phone is great, but it's for connectivity rather than planning and organising. This is all very interesting. After struggling to organise myself using gadgets patently unsuitable for the task, I’ve gone back to using a Filofax. The only PDA worth using for organising time and tasks is a Psion, and sadly my Psions have all died on me and they’re not worth replacing. Although they still work well if you get one in good nick, it’s increasingly difficult to back up data or sync it with anything, because PsiWin is really ancient. It was designed for Win 95 and hasn’t been updated for many years, and won’t work properly with 64-bit versions of Windows. So…I just about managed on my old Windows Mobile device, which was horrible compared to the Psion but did just about work, but now I have an HTC Desire. It’s an amazing device and the best phone I’ve owned, but it’s hopeless for time management, and out of the box it has no task management software at all. Sod it…the Filofax works way better for all of that, and it’s a genuinely nice thing to own. Sure, the phone is great, but it’s for connectivity rather than planning and organising.

]]> By: kristie495 http://www.carlconrad.net/en/2009/01/anyone-still-use-a-filofax/#comment-459 kristie495 Thu, 30 Dec 2010 17:09:19 +0000 http://www.carlconrad.net/en/?p=125#comment-459 I've been using a Filofax for as long as I can remember - my first was an olive Winchester (color well-faded), my second black pocket with tab&snap closure (now holds umpteen years of addresses and sits by the phone). Currently engaged is a black Classic Personal, which I use every day as a professional diary, to do and annual calendar, as well as to organize business & household accounts & services, hold my checkbook, sort receipts, and manage a running grocery list. "Smartphones" are great for some tasks (phone, phone numbers, email, mobile internet), but still have lots of glitches - starting with poor voice command comprehension and having to combine voice and key commands. Plus, inevitably, when someone wants to jot down a note, I always have paper & pen. Most beneficial: I spell better than the Smartphone and I don't have to jam up or confuse the Smartphone with people or service vendors I haven't been in touch with in years. I’ve been using a Filofax for as long as I can remember – my first was an olive Winchester (color well-faded), my second black pocket with tab&snap closure (now holds umpteen years of addresses and sits by the phone). Currently engaged is a black Classic Personal, which I use every day as a professional diary, to do and annual calendar, as well as to organize business & household accounts & services, hold my checkbook, sort receipts, and manage a running grocery list. “Smartphones” are great for some tasks (phone, phone numbers, email, mobile internet), but still have lots of glitches – starting with poor voice command comprehension and having to combine voice and key commands. Plus, inevitably, when someone wants to jot down a note, I always have paper & pen. Most beneficial: I spell better than the Smartphone and I don’t have to jam up or confuse the Smartphone with people or service vendors I haven’t been in touch with in years.

]]> By: jayzee http://www.carlconrad.net/en/2009/01/anyone-still-use-a-filofax/#comment-457 jayzee Wed, 22 Dec 2010 08:45:01 +0000 http://www.carlconrad.net/en/?p=125#comment-457 OK, at least I tried "to pease You" :) Nothing against shrimps. I love shrimp coctails. And I admit, the portfolio is rather "hefty". OK, at least I tried “to pease You” :)
Nothing against shrimps. I love shrimp coctails.
And I admit, the portfolio is rather “hefty”.

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