I started using a binded organiser when I was a secondary student. It wasn’t quite necessary at that point in my life, it was just something that I saw when I was on one of my travels and I just wanted it. When you’re a student, impulsive shopping happens a lot! Anyway, back then it was just called an organiser. Well it still is, it’s just that these days some brands have become so prominent and such a household name that people equate the item to the brand name. And that’s what Filofax is for these binded organisers. Like how we refer to Colgate when we mean toothpaste!
Anyway, the last Filofax I used was thrown away many years ago when an automated version of it was hot in the market. I swapped it for a Tungsten PDI. Years later, my Tungsten also became a white elephant and I’ve learned to do with no Filofax nor PDI because a phone is good enough these days to help store my reminders and appointments in the calendar or reminder functions which are part of the phone’s features.
But now I want to get myself more organised and the phone just doesn’t make the cut in handling what I want to do anymore. So last night I went shopping for a Filofax. I have forgotten how much an organiser costs. There’s nothing cheaper than RM50 and that’s including the smallest sized ones! One of the small sized one that I quite like in design but not the size actually costs some RM99. Did they use to cost that much? Was that why I decided to pay a little more for an electronic version last time? Haha…nah, that was just me liking gadgets over book and pen.
But then again, I have to say that the designs now are so much better. More contemporary as compared to the boring blacks. Well the blacks are still there, of course but I didn’t want a black one so I chose a medium sized, sleek and golden orange one. It looks more like a notebook than an organiser because the binded rings are not visible.
When I was shopping for one of these, suddenly a funny thought came to my mind. I’ve always been a gadget person and having swapped the organiser for an electronic version that can do so much more, and then going back to the basics of putting pen on paper, it made me feel like I was moving from the information age back to the industrial products age!
In any case, I am quite enjoying having a basic diary now. Maybe it’s the novelty of not using one for ages already. Let’s see if I would swap it for some gadget in a year or two!
