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Colored 3X5's?

Is anyone using colored 3x5's for an hPDA? Seems like I remember Emory having a green Someday Maybe card. Anyone using different colors for Projects, Next Actions/Contexts, etc? I went to Office Depot today to pick some up to try it out, but they didn't have any plain blank ones for double sided printing. When I think about it all, I'm not sure I would actually like it all that much, but I would like to hear other people's experiences.

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high-lighters for color

I have different colored cards which I use as separator also. I don't write on them. I haven't been convinced that I like the way ink looks on colors other than white for ease of reading purposes in different kinds of light.

I do use different colored highlighters to highlight the top of my NA cards so that I can tell quickly what each card is w/o having to read the text. I.e. The top of my @Work cards are yellow, the top of my @shopping cards are red, etc.

When flipping through the cards for the current context, it's easy to id by color than by reading the text. It's the same idea as some use for the colored cards, but I still have the nice contrast of white for readibility.

 
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