1. http://www.diyplanner.com/templates/official/hpda/addons/supp1 (Challenges -> Solutions card is what that one is. Mine says "Anxiety about new boss" and has a list of things I should be mindful of, since I have a new manager.

2. Not much. If I know the projects I'm working on, I can probably recreate the steps. Even if I lost the cards and had a backup of some sort, I'd have to still recreate the cards.

It actually would be easier than losing a PDA, since I actually wrote, saw, held, and thumbed through the cards personally.

I think that is part of the reason I have a fancy case for my cards though. I think I'm more aware of something that is nice and that I like. I like the shirt-pocket briefcase. I love the rope case. I'm more likely to lose my wallet. If it was just a clipped stack of index cards I may forget about it. But it is a bit more substancial than that.

As I pointed out, I have a combo/printer/scanner/unit that I could easily lay out a bunch of cards onto and spot-archive once a week. Maybe that would be a good thing to do as part of my weekly review, forcing me to do a step where I look at everything at least long enough to lay it out onto the bed of the scanner.

The reason I archive is because every year at work when we have an employee review, I like to brief myself on all the awesomeness that I performed. Especially when we have a new manager (look how I tied that all together) and they don't know much about what I even do.