Filofax

American  

[fahy-luh-faks] / ˈfaɪ ləˌfæks /

Trademark.

1. a datebook also containing space for addresses, a calendar, and specialized inserts, as maps and checklists.

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Filofax British  

/ ˈfaɪləʊˌfæks /

noun

1. a type of loose-leaf ring binder with sets of different-coloured paper, used as a portable personal filing system, including appointments, addresses, etc

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Filofax

He'd lie to colleagues about where he was spending his weekends, and change the names of his gay friends in his Filofax - George and John became George and Joan, for example.

From BBC ● Jan. 11, 2025

So you learn, when things felt …not in control…I would become very organized, and that sort of was my center, that was my meditation, you know, redoing my Filofax or refolding my socks.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 31, 2023

Another in her study says, there’s some cash in the Filofax and “plenty of love behind the breast pocket of my tweed jacket”.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 19, 2016

In this rendering, that’s a place so improbably uncluttered and streamlined that a gal can use it as a blank slate, or perhaps Filofax page, to map out her existential choices.

From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2014

Miranda opened up her Filofax, where she had written “Mottery Dixit.”

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri

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