I admire that you have had this agenda for nearly 30 years! My word, Filofax should reach out and make you an ambassador! Wonderful video

@Flatability

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! I don't think Filofax would ever reach out, but it is an interesting thought. It don't think they would like my presentation style though, because I say it how it is, with both the good and the bad; and I think they would be a little shocked with some of my reviews on Patreon ;-) I think it's important, as a reviewer, to remain independent of any manufacturer influence.

I love this video. It is great how much you appreciate your Filofax. I hope it lasts forever for you.

@Flatability

3 жыл бұрын

I appreciate that.

@SlinkiestTortoise23

2 жыл бұрын

Me too! @Flatability. I hope this Filofax lasts through generations of your family! Wouldn’t it be amazing if your descendants viewed this video and remarked that your Filofax is still in use two hundred years later! The mind boggles at how long this Filofax will last, and rightfully so, it’s a fine object worthy of succession for generations to come!

I bitterly regret parting with my similar Filofax of that era. Switched to a Psion 3c and 5mx, then to a Palm m505, and on to an Ericsson P800 before a run of iPhones. Never would I have predicted that in 2023, having gone full circle, I’d be back where I started with a new (pleasingly flatable) made in the UK Filofax Original. I’m just grateful they kept going and are still making them. Long may it continue!

Wow you have essentially used the planner for the entirety of my life! 😵 amazing! TFS

Thank you for showing your personal filofax. I know mine will never last as long as your filofax, I enjoyed the video.

@Flatability

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your kind feedback.

What a treasure! Something about a Filofax that I absolutely love. I've owned many binders, but my Filofax personals are my favorites. I hope to keep mine just as long!

@Flatability

3 жыл бұрын

I totally agree!

Great to see you back making videos Neil.

@Flatability

3 жыл бұрын

Cheers Steve. I plan to do more. Best regards.

Every time I go back to rewatch one of your videos (& yes, I've rewatched some of them several times!!), you make me just want to immediately switch back into one of my older (& extremely loved) Filofax's 😍

You should totally do a plan with me series! This was fantastic and I've watched this video multiple times

@Flatability

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your kind words.

Thank you for making and sharing this video. It is so nice to see the love for your planner. And this looks like new to me. Hope to see more of these kind of video's.

@Flatability

3 жыл бұрын

You are so welcome!

This is fantastic that you’ve used and enjoyed this for so long. Great video. Interesting DIY to the pens 😁 The quality is amazing. Thanks for sharing! Peace and love..Suz What ☮️💚🌻

This was magical! loved your passion

@Flatability

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much. It’s great to receive such inspiring feedback.

Yay, you're back, Neil! Excellent vid!

@Flatability

3 жыл бұрын

Thankyou! Hope you're enjoying the new videos.

i love leather binders. I am very specific about my aesthetics since I am an architect and searched a long time for a A5 darkbrown full grain leather. since i hate any branding on the outside filofax was out and options were the much expensive lucrin, the moterm and fabriano. ended up with the moterm for 106 euros and cutted the inner logo out myself, now i am completely in love with it. great video and I love that yours lastet almost 30 years. best wishes from berlin

@Flatability

10 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for your kind words. And I appreciate your feedback.

Love how detailed you are about construction and everyday use. Such a helpful video.

@Flatability

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your kind comments.

Thank you for such an interesting and informative video...great Filofax.

@Flatability

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Looks just like the one I bought in London in 94/95. I loved it but sold it on after 20 years as it was too small for a new job.

@Flatability

3 жыл бұрын

You cant have too many filofaxes.

This Filofax is so gorgeous

@Flatability

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your great feedback.

It is so lovely! It’s perfect. Greetings from Austin, Texas.

@Flatability

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your great feedback. Greetings from the UK!

Wow, that’s impressive! Thank you for sharing. I hope that I can use my own planner also for this long :)

@Flatability

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your great feedback.

I'm dying to take some beeswax, the tiniest bit to the spine.

@Flatability

3 жыл бұрын

I’m tempted. 28 years is a long time without any attention. Maybe another video perhaps.

@JT1358

3 жыл бұрын

Me too - that leather needs a teensy feed, and deserves it just for long service!

Nice. Even nicer that its got so much history, I'm determined to keep my favourite that long too. The best leather to me is the zipped versions. They do have flatability as well. There's just something lovely about being able to close it all up.

This was a great vid. I have a few Malden and I love the leather, my stitching on the one I have used started coming a loose after having for a few months so I have them all but up right now….maybe I will take them out again. Inspiring!

@Flatability

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your great feedback!

I keep coming back to Filofax products for note taking. My own leather Personal Portland is a baby; only had it since 1998. Only wear is pen loops which is down to me switching to progressively fatter pens

I hope to keep my Malden this long! Great video.

@Flatability

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for your kind comment; the first one.

How interesting! I love it! I have the Filofax Personal Holborn on the way and I just hope I love it and use it as much as this :) I think the planner world is becoming quite big in the UK at the moment which is great. The shops are selling more supplies x

@Flatability

2 жыл бұрын

I hope so too!

Good to see you making videos again. Enjoyed this.

@Flatability

3 жыл бұрын

More to come!

@eoinlundy

3 жыл бұрын

@@Flatability brilliant! Keep them coming 👍

I used to have an old model (from the 80's or 90's, can't remember) and that laid flat perfectly! I wonder if there has been a change in the manufacturing/design that resulted in having to train today's pieces to lay flat. This video was awesome, your voice and fiddling with the parts of your filofax gave me tingles 😊

@Flatability

2 жыл бұрын

Some lay flat from that era, some don't. Yes, it has everything to do with construction. And thanks for you kind words, Éva; they made me smile.

Will be on the lookout now for a Sherwood! (FYI: I have the EXACT SAME rocking sailboat you have. 😍

@Flatability

3 жыл бұрын

This is an English made Sherwood. I understand that the design was changed later on, with some economies made, but this is an earlier version. Glad you like the sailboat.

Thank you for your video. So refreshing to hear a male perspective. Plus it's so obvious you love your filofax :)

@Flatability

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your great feedback! Interestingly, looking at the “stats”, 40 percent of viewers are male.

On another note, have you considered doing a video of your collection and how you organize them? Some of us might enjoy it very much. thank you again for your great content.

@Flatability

2 жыл бұрын

I have considered it, but I think I prefer to review binders individually. Thank you for asking.

What a treasure!

@Flatability

3 жыл бұрын

Thankyou for your great feedback.

Hi from NZ 👋🏼 searching on YT for this as I found a Hamilton (no inserts tho) at a secondhand shop for NZ$6 in dark brown leather, I wonder how old mine is? About to purchase some inserts. TFS🇳🇿

A favourite Filofax, then; but for what? I have a similar model, the Kensington, same construction, same cut, but without cardboard between the inner and outer leather: this thing won't go in any jacket. It's too big! I can't even take it with me! I'd have to walk around with a handbag. With a backpack. As much as I like the Kensington: it's completely useless for travelling, in the city, on the way to the office. I need something flat and light. I think love in general is like that: it falls on everything we can't have. The more impossible it is to get hold of, the greater the desire. That's why I have generalised my favourites: What I'm using right now is my absolute favourite. All my Filofaxes now meet the Corona standard: they never leave the house.

@Flatability

2 жыл бұрын

Some good points. My Sherwood never leaves my house either. When I go out, I'm using a Guildford Mini Extra Slim right now. And I have several Kensingtons too - a great model; one of the best of the modern binders in fact. If you're looking for something flat and light then I recommend a Guildford Slimline, or, if you want something a little more radical, use a pocket sized mechanism with the boards from a hardback Moleskine notebook - a very effective productivity tool which I have used in the past.

@thomasaushauser1940

2 жыл бұрын

@@Flatability Basically, it's about shame and self-censorship. These ring mechanics have the tremendous advantage that I can make embarrassments disappear immediately, without a trace. If I tear out a page of a magazine because I wrote something stupid or offensive, then the tear-out will forever remind me of the writing that I want to erase from my memory. But a page from a Filofax disappears never to be seen again. So I write more freely, more courageously, more scandalously and sometimes even dare to write down thoughts that I have never allowed myself to think. At least in theory. In practice, I am a coward. I only think what others have already thought. Because thinking one's own thought is tremendously difficult. Practically everything that can be thought has already been thought. Everything ends in repetition.

So very happy to have found your channel. What a wonderful perspective on the realm of Filofax. I too am all about the flatability. My first cover from long ago had all the flatability. It has disappeared in time though and I don’t know what happened to it. I’m looking to purchase another cover and would love your recommendation for which ones have the best flatability right out of the box. My preference is a red cover in the personal size with 108% flatability. Any thoughts or recommendations would be most welcome. Thank you.

@Flatability

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much. That's great feedback. I appreciate it. My advice is to view several video reviews, of the particular binder you're considering, because... different batches of the same model may have been made from slightly different materials, or maybe a different factory, or, if it is a pre-owned binder, the way it has been used may affect the degree of flatability. And this applies particularly to vintage binders where, depending on how the binder has been both used and stored, can make its flatability vary enormously. FYI, it might be worth considering a Van der Spek binder. As I understand it, some models can have very good flatability from day one, because they can be specified with minimal stiffeners under the leather.

@ad6449

2 жыл бұрын

@@Flatability Thank you for this very quick and very useful reply. I shall now go down the Van Der Spek rabbit hole at your suggestion!

Do you remember a planner similar to the filofax that was around in the 90s called a strategix (not sure if it was spelled that way)?

@Flatability

5 ай бұрын

Sorry. I've not heard of that one. Great channel name, by the way.

Happy 30th a birthday to that beautiful Sherwood of yours 🥳🥳🥳

@Flatability

11 ай бұрын

Thank you.

I have 1980's Wellington if you wanna review one

@Flatability

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your kind offer. The Wellington sure is an unusual filofax. Logistically, I prefer to review my own binders, but many thanks once again.

Such a beautiful Filofax you have there! I bought one years ago and I keep trying to enjoy it, but it's just not a comfortable writing experience for me. My hand keeps banging into the rings as I write across the page.. surely it's not just me? Any advice to overcome this issue as I just love the look and functionality of Filofaxes. Much appreciated!

@Flatability

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your feedback. If the rings are in the way, consider turning your filofax through 90 degrees, and using pages horizontally. I’ll be making a video about this problem soon.

Must admit, I wanted this to be an ASMR! it was quite triggering.

@Flatability

3 ай бұрын

This was certainly a video with two halves. I think, if I made it again, I would have tried to keep the two halves more consistent. I appreciate your feedback.

I purchased a "Filofax" while working in Hong Kong back in the mid 90s. It is black leather, with grain....but the Filofax name and the country of manufacture does not appear anywhere. All of the inserts however has Filofax printed on them, but not on the leather casing. Could this be a counterfeit or did Filofax, not necessarily emboss the company name on all of their products?

@Flatability

2 жыл бұрын

Filofax models, as far as I know, are always marked with the Filofax name.

@jeki6035

2 жыл бұрын

@@Flatability Thanks for your reply. Enjoying your channel. Oddly relaxing.

Do the rings not get in the way of writing>

@Flatability

3 ай бұрын

Potentially for some people. But it’s easy to remove a page and then replace after writing.

how do you archive your pages stacks?

@Flatability

Жыл бұрын

From an archive perspective, I recommend using cheap filofaxes.

I just bought a new one. The quality is not very nice I have to say.

@Flatability

Жыл бұрын

I prefer vintage ones myself, but there are a few models, typically made in the early 2000s, that are also very desirable.

@oliverlison

Жыл бұрын

@@Flatability Yes, I agree. I think that vintage ones are made to last. I have bought the Finsbury A5 and it feels cheaply made. I am not sure if I will keep it or send it back. I have a forthnight to decide.

Great video, never see guys into planners these days! My partner worked in the Filofax factory but isn’t a fan like me!

@Flatability

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your kind comments. I'd love to find out more about the Filofax factory, if that would be possible.