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Flickr tag: hipster pda


hipster pda


Originally uploaded by leff.

“Yeah, so I went to school for computers. I do live online. And yet I have never found a task management solution that works better than this stack of 3x5 cards.”

More fun pix available at the “Hipster PDA” tag on Flickr. Also try the “GTD” tag.


TOPICS: Heh, Lofi, Tips

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Jonah's picture

This may not be quite...

This may not be quite as cheap as a binder clip, but its a pretty nice 3x5 card management device from Levenger for those that want the cadillac of 3x5 card handling.

Mark's picture

I like these, myself. ...

I like these, myself. I picked up a poly index card case for 99 cents at Walgreen’s this weekend.

Mark's picture

Ack! I mean these:...

Ack! I mean these: http://www.betteroffice.com/pages/polypages/pencilitems/51430.html

RICHARD's picture

Amen to the 3x5 and...

Amen to the 3x5 and how much more convenient it is than any PDA solution I’ve tried so far. Why is that?

ChuckJ's picture

I've made a Hipster for...

I’ve made a Hipster for myself. It is incredibly useful. I used to be a Franklin Covey “Classic” sized calendar lugger, but no more.

There are a few things I’m still planning on adding to my Hipster which you may want to add to yours also. Take a look at this guy’s 3x5 implementation and some of the printout forms he has made available at http://www.cis.rit.edu/~jerry/Text/hipster/

Todd's picture

Another option, a little more...

Another option, a little more “formalized”

http://www.scanplan.com/index1.html

Jeremy Heigh's picture

Merlin, I lugging around my own...

Merlin,

I lugging around my own hipster (laughably, right beside my blackberry). Unbelievable how many people want to know what it is and how it works.

I’m in the public service - there’s a whole world of people in here that need to read your hacks.

Thanks for your hard work here.

RanH's picture

What is it with the...

What is it with the GTD/Moleskine/FisherSpacePen “holy trinity” going around lately?

How come everybody into GTD has to use a moleskine? And how come everybody that uses a moleskine has to use a Space Pen?

Did it exist before 43F?

Why would you ever want to write through butter?

Merlin Mann's picture

It’s a cult, RanH. I...

It’s a cult, RanH. I run a cult.

This is simply what I demand people do, and, if they have any sense, they simply follow my demands to the letter and don’t ask a lot of fancy questions. Questioners risk…a night in “The Box”!

Butter is one of our sacraments, and all new acolytes are required to write David Allen’s name a thousand times on a single, buttered half of an english muffin, after which they generate a list of Next Actions. Some find it very relaxing. They better, or else they risk…a night in “The Box”!

Thanks for the question; been meaning to get that out there. ;-)

RanH's picture

The thing is, I live...

The thing is, I live in Israel. If Moleskines were more available to me for purchase, I would have had one long ago (but not so long ago that it’s long enough to be before you put this site up).

I am at page 47 of GTD.

I don’t have a space pen; Infact, I always use the fluid type pens. I found my self this morning making a list with a “Parker” ball-point pen. I had to dig through my stuff to look for it, but i didn’t even realise I was doing it at the time.

That’s not even the worst part of it: a few months ago, I switched to using a mac exclusively, after having never even used one ever before!!

This frightens me.

About Merlin Mann

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Merlin Mann is an independent writer, speaker, and broadcaster. He’s best known for being the guy who started the website you’re reading right now. He lives in San Francisco, does lots of public speaking, and helps make cool things like You Look Nice Today. Also? He looks like this, answers questions, and has something like a life.

Merlin’s favorite thing he’s written recently in the past few years is a short essay entitled, “Better.”

 
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