My old filofax

[louiselux]

Next week I'm going to Durham for three days, for a project meeting and a workshop: for the workshop we have to take an object: something that you once used to use a lot but now never do.

I finally decided to take my filofax (aka personal organiser), although I could just as well take my video recorder (or just perhaps the manual to represent it). There are reasons why I never use either of them anymore, so lots to talk about with both. One thing I noticed is that I hardly ever write addresses, phone numbers or email address down anymore. I use my mobile phone or an email program for contacts. I use an actual notebook for notes/stories and a paper desk diary at work. My filofax was intended to be used for all those things--how useful, you might say, but it's interesting that as my use of different types of communication technology increased I stopped using the filofax use different mediums for different things. Of course, it doesn't have to be like this, it just is because of various factors: the type of work I do, what I can afford, what's marketed at me so I notice it in the mad rush of products on the market.

As for the video - I hardly watch TV and never want to tape anything and love the quality of DVDs. I love the user interface because it's easy to use, unlike a video recorder, which takes a lot of guesswork.

Comments

[scribblemoose]

Make sure to wave when you pass through York on the train. ^_^

(er... if you come by train...)

I'm just the same, with my filofax (I've kept it because it was a dear friend and contained my life for about 5 years) and my VCR. We've just got this nifty video>dvd software and I'm thinking of transferring all our old vids we want to keep onto dvd, then it'll be of the past, except for very very occasional videoing of things.

Oh, and one thing I don't miss about the filofax - it was a really heavy bugger to carry around! Especially after 5 years!!

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

I will wave! I am going on train as it happens.

My life changed, mobile phones and email arrived and my filofax just became redundant, I think. I never used it for work though, so never had the ultimate thing where you have to put a rubber band round it because it's so stuffed with things!

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

OK, I just have to ask - what's a filofax? (I suspect this is one of those British-American translation things. Is it like a daily planner?)

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Actually, I should have mentioned that Filofax is a brand name that quickly became the generic term for a leather or plastic bound diary/day planner or 'personal organiser' as they were also called, with additional bits you could add in for addresses, etc. People stuffed them full of paper too and often had to put elastic bands round them because they got so full. The bulginess of your Filofax because a sort of status symbol. I'm really surprised that the Filofax name didn't make it across the atlantic because Filofaxes were a defining yuppie accessory.

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

I mean, in the UK at least.