Ultimate Pocket Notebook
The Geek Home has a page with full description on his Hipster PDA. He called it the Ultimate Pocket Notebook. He is proud of bringing this with him everywhere and organizes the stack of index cards by punching a hole in one corner and using a binder ring to hold them together. In additional to the traditional way of making the hipster PDA, he has made more modification and enhancement to his setup. Some highlights on his additional enhancements are: adding Tape Dispenser, Ruler, Pockets, Sticky notes, storing reference materials etc. Frankly he is pretty full-on with his system:
… Tape Dispenser: An additional section of the plastic can be cut to hold sticky tape. You can use precut lengths or even wrap a long length around a few times. There would be enough room to hold far more tape than you would likely need. You could probably add different kinds of tape if you wanted. Personally, I would use bandage tape or drafting tape, but not regular cellophane tape. You could use either cover to hold tape instead of cuttiing a dedicated piece if you want to conserve size and weight. In my case I wanted to have both covers totally clear for reading.
Ruler: There are options for printing ruler images onto cards. I don’t like the potential for innacuracy involved with reproducing a scale but if it is close enough for you then go for it. I have access to Incra Rulers so I can just use the holes to mark out the scale I need. I can use card or I can use a section of plastic, possibly even one of the covers…
GEEK’s Ultimate Pocket Notebook - [FullContactGeek.com]
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oblique says on November 14th, 2005 at 8:43 am
i was first introduced to the hpda concept by fullcontactgeek around february of 2005. i seemed to intuitively grasp its usefulness right away and since i have known fcg for a while, i was more open to his praises of the thing than if a stranger suggested it, for example…
i used it for a little while, not very efficiently, and it did serve some usefulness to me in terms of organizing the things i needed to get done and remember and plan for the future… but i found the same issues with the clip and the restrictions it gave, however minor they were when compared to organizational life before i used it.
then on november 8th, after my first hpda (using a simple clip and index cards) had been long misplaced partially due to decreasing usage… i caught upn fever… fcg had built a custom upn for me a month prior and at first i laughed, as many others have laughed at me since then even though i’ve only been using the upn a short while, tho i did carry it with me everywhere before i really started using it anyway, in case i became inspired to jot something down.
on the 8th, after seeing more links and pictures online and on fcg’s website, i was hooked… as i have seen from other stories online, it was as though i wasn’t ready to begin using the upn until my mind really grasped how functional and effective i could make it, as well as what i would use it for:
bill payment reminder and tracker
monthly and weekly planner sheets
expense and banking tracker
‘to do’ and all kinds of other lists
favorite pictures
tracking and goal setting for breaking bad habits (cigarettes)
temporary place for #’s, emails and urls scrawled while on the road
paper folder pocket for temp. storage of receipts and loose papers
i stayed up that first night until 5 am making templates in photoshop, not the greatest in design concept but good enough for me. im sure i will be adding new functions and adapting old ones as time goes on…
in order to reduce the thickness, i used blank index cards and printed the templates i would be using in conjunction with each other on both sides of the corresponding card. for example, my to do list for the month (daily list is on a different card), with portrait oriented lines using 5 grid lines per inch in photoshop, was on the front of one card, on the reverse side of that card i printed page 11 of Douglas Johnston’s DIY2 1up kit.. on the card that i planned to have facing that one, i printed page 12 of the DIY2 kit and on the reverse side of THAT i printed my custom template of a one month quick view reference planner… so now, the front page has my to do list, the next two facing pages within (like opening a book) would have the current month planner from the DIY2 kit with sufficient room to write, and on the reverse side after that i would have the next month and any upcoming important dates marked and noted.
yes, i realize that sounds like geekism incarnate. well, the thing works great for me now, it is remarkable that such a simple concept and such a simple object could be of so much help.