Tuesday, June 14, 2005

Hipster PDA- (reprint) I like to organize things. I also need a place to record and refer to things throughout the day. Back in the corporate world I used carry cut up pieces of blank paper clipped together in my back pocket. I kept my to-do's, ideas, etc on them. Imagine my surprise when I found some like minded folks. 43folders introduced the notion of a paper PDA (Hipster), and it seems to have taken off. (Google, Flickr.) Douglas Johnston has released a very nice set of Hipster templates. I've been busy working on some Hipster templates as well. My take is a bit different in that I do not really follow a formal methodology such as Getting Things Done. (7/13: More Hipster PDA goodies under my new Hipster PDA section.) My set: Categorization via the Meta-Line Organizer. Designed for cheap (gray scale) printing. Economical use of an 8.5 x 11 piece of paper. (Plus more room to write.) Blank. Grid. Checklist. I'll often keep my 'official' to-do list on this. Lined. Tear-away. Allows me to give notes to folks and not lose too much paper. Fold Up Cards. More formal cards. Yes, that is a picture of poison oak. Dictionary. Rulers. Metric and English. Sorry it is a bit rough when printed. Conversions. Metric and English. Star Chart. I do a bit of astronomy so it makes sense to me. World Map with Time Zones. Chess and Checkers. Playing Cards. Go. The 9x9 version. Battleship. For two players. Sundial Day Planner. I get fed up with one's life totally planned by the hour so here is my little retort. Morse Code and Semaphore. I can never remember this stuff when I could use it... so like similar stuff, into the Hipster it goes. Staff (Music) Do It Yourself Art. OK, this is along the lines of the conceptual work I do...but totally valid for anyone to use and compose their own art. Full Sheet. Because sometimes you just need a full sheet of paper. John Norris' Hipster pdf version. John Norris' Hipster Scribus version. (Scribus is a free desktop publishing app.) I'd get a kick out of what others can do with this, so I am releasing it under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license. (Do be careful with attributing some of the other folk's content I've included.) 10:08:26 AM