Guest Check PDA


Guest Check PDA: closed
Originally uploaded by atduskgreg.

This is a clever variation on the Hipster PDA that I picked up over on the HPDA wiki page. Use a cheapie, pocket-sized pad of restaurant “Guest Checks” to take notes. The hack is to use the kind with old-school carbon copies, so you’ll always have an archival copy of any notes you take.

Check out the full set on Flickr.

Why do you need carbon...

Why do you need carbon copies? Are you planning on giving a copy of your notes to someone or throwing them away? I thought taking the notes was itself an act of archiving; why do you need an archive of an archive?