The Filofax

Posted by J. Mark Bertrand
on Friday, April 25, 2008
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Anachronism isn't my middle name, but it might as well be sometimes. Leave it to me to develop a love for the Filofax in an age of PDAs. To be precise, I fell in love in the mid-90s, at the twilight of paper, when a planner still made more sense than a plug-in appointment book. And I've succombed, like most people, to the convenience of computer calendars, relying on my iPhone in most cases. But there's something about the Filofax I can't get over. Call it nostalgia.



I discovered a blog recently devoted to the love of Filofaxes -- dubbed Philofaxy, cleverly enough. It's worth checking out if you, too, have the bug, or would like to contract it. Where paper planners are concerned, I could do without Franklin Covey and Daytimer, but I'm a sucker for the classic Filofax and for pocket datebooks like the Moleskine one. I don't use them as religiously as I once did, but you'd be surprised how often they come in handy, even in a world where the computer is king.