Blog archive January 2026
04.01.26 / 01 / filofax as blog
Before I threw out the Filofax diary inserts I went through them making notes of significant items. The notes looked like blog entries, so I turned them into an extension of my blog archives back to 1988. Click the blog archive link above to see.
There isn't enough material to do the usual monthly archive pages, so it's a page per year. I haven't included all of my notes, some things are too trivial or personal or have no story to tell. Conversely I've added things that weren't in the Filofax but are too important or interesting to leave out now that I've made the pages.
It's very clear that my life changed dramatically from 1996 onward, as I got involved in alternative worship. 1998-2002 is a whirlwind - I was simultaneously in several churches, several discussion boards, writing columns, making or editing websites, creating parts of events, photographing and publishing them, designing flyers and publicity and so on. It was possible because I only needed to work intermittently for a while. By late 2002 I had to get a full-time job in architecture again to repair my finances, so some of this stuff had to stop or happen more slowly, but then I started a blog.
I have diaries from before the Filofax, but they don't contain much information (and I have no desire to revisit the periods). There was something about a Filofax which encouraged a thicker narrative, perhaps because I lived out of it in an active way, it was always open on the desk being written in.
It's hard to remember how analogue life was in 1988. To publish a blog would mean typing it out (a word processor at best) and faxing it, or posting photocopies. I suppose that's what a zine was.
