10.13.07
Hipster PDA, Index cards, and more
The Hipster PDA is a stack of index cards, either bound with a clip or in a holder. (I have a very nice little leather case from Andrew Thompson Co. of Chattanooga. It’s $20 now, but $7.50 when I first got it. I like it better than the Levenger equivalents because it’s much less bulky while still providing storage for extra cards. Good gifts, BTW.)
At any rate, the real deal is to be able to print index cards to your exact needs. I was looking for an index card printer (they used to have them), but it turns out that my current printer can actually print them—and you can get nifty templates on the Web.
Via Lifehacker, here’s a list of 24 things you can do with index cards, and here you can find more about printing the cards. You might want to try these personal finance index card templates.
UPDATE: This little Wiki is the best thing I’ve found for the cards I want. You right-click the link (I suggest not starting with the empty template.) and use “Save as…” to save it into a (new, probably) folder in My documents. Then, in your browser, you open what you saved with File, Open, and select that file. You can then edit the pages—I changed @Waiting, for example, to @Reading and then listed books I have in mind to read (some of them, anyway). Then File, Page Layout lets you set the margins to 0.0, and File, Print, Properties lets you specify page size (and the HP has a 3×5 option), and finally File, Print, Page 1 of 1 will print the top card. (If you have two cards, try printing pages 1-2.)
It works.
UPDATE 2: Here are quite a few 3×5 PDF templates. You have to download each template you want separately, and a couple of them won’t download: the PDF file seems to be corrupted. Still, some good cards.
UPDATE 3: I couldn’t find exactly the ones I wanted, so I created my own. At the link, you’ll find printing instructions and where to download.
