Category Archives: Filofax

Notebook Addict of the Week: g_m_a_x

g_m_a_x has some drool-worthy Filofax photos on his Flickr photostream, including this one, which is by no means his full collection: Looking at the photos almost gives me the shivers– the Filofaxes have obviously been collected over the years, from back when they were made with much higher-end materials. So many gorgeous leathers, so deliciously … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Week: g_m_a_x

Moleskine Monday: Pros and Cons vs. Filofax

Check out this comparison of Moleskine vs. Filofax: (Click images for larger version.) Which one gets your vote? See more at Moleskine vs Filofax « Adventures of Superalzy. Don’t forget that notebooks make great holiday gifts! (As if you could forget…) Check out the Notebook Stories Store for lots of great brands.

Notebook Addict of the Week: ALB Creativity

This week’s addict is not just into her own notebooks… She’s also addicted to the journals of others, from Thomas Merton to Frida Kahlo to Kurt Cobain. But as for her own notebooks, here’s what she has to say: What does one write in? There are so many possibilities. I use two sizes of Moleskines … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Week: ALB Creativity

From Our Readers

Time for another look through the mailbag! From BMT: This might come under the “fell off the face of the Earth” dept. In the early sixties, possibly 1960 or 1961 a loose leaf company (Mead?) marketed a failed loose leaf product named “Nifty.” Instead of the conventional rings on the left side, it flipped up … Continue reading From Our Readers

Notebook Addict of the Week: Andrea

Andrea sent me these great photos of her notebook collection, with the notes below. Pen and ink lovers, there’s an extra bonus for you! I am student of classical archaeology (hardly working on the dissertation thesis) and few months ago I found your website. I was so glad that I am not the only one, … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Week: Andrea

Virginia Heffernan Mourns the Filofax

I enjoyed this article in yesterday’s New York Times Magazine: The Demise of Datebooks, by Virginia Heffernan. I miss my Filofax datebook, with its six rings and dark red leather binder. I had a green one first, with a calendar that cast each week across two cream-colored pages. Back then, at age 30, I was … Continue reading Virginia Heffernan Mourns the Filofax

Notebook Addict of the Week: Mywormy

This week’s notebook addict has the distinction of being our first Filofax addict: This is a particularly hard to justify form of notebook addiction– after all, a Filofax is a durable, refillable binder: you can’t “use it up” the way you can with other bound notebooks and journals. 10 Moleskine-type notebooks might not seem like … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Week: Mywormy

BLACK FRIDAY

As for the other kind of Black Friday, if you can’t handle visiting stores today, do your holiday shopping online using these links and a small commission from your purchases will help support this site: Notebook Stories Store — my collection of notebooks and other favorites available via Amazon Amazon — everything else at Amazon … Continue reading BLACK FRIDAY

Pocket Filofax, Early 1990s

This is the first Filofax I ever bought, sometime in the early 1990s. I had not been out of college long and Filofaxes still seemed like the kind of expensive yuppie status symbol that I’d scoffed at… but then I got a job in a store that sold them, and I discovered that this pocket … Continue reading Pocket Filofax, Early 1990s