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Hipster PDA: Why?
fade | Aug 14 2006
What is the advantage of the hPDA? I've looked through a great deal of sites that concern themselves with the hipster or variants thereof. Most of them deal with the construction of the hipster, and the physical advantages it offers. So what's the advantage of the hipster otherwise? I understand what to use it for, I just don't see a huge advantage over the cheaper prebound option of a memo book. You know, those tiny little spiral notebooks that cost a few cents? They fit in a front pocket better, and are already ruled vertically. They have a hole punched already, so if need be, any tear-outs can be consolidated. They can't be re-organized, but if that's the only advantage the hPDA offers over the memo book, is it really worth it? You pay the price in the danger of losing all your cards when you remove the clip. One bump on the train, and it's 52 pick-up time. I'm not trying to nay-say the hPDA, I truly want to know. 13 Comments
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 I mean, don't get me...Submitted by Linda on August 14, 2006 - 12:56pm.
fade wrote:
I mean, don't get me wrong. I like the idea, and the geek in me likes the idea of custom templates, etc. I'm also not trying to be a memo book evangelist, either. I just wanted to know what advantage the hPDA had over the memo book. Sorry if that came across as argumentative-- The darn lack of voice-tone in posts! ;) What I meant was, if you are collecting them into something, then you would want to compare the hPDA to whatever that "something" is, rather than to the memo pad. It may well be that for you, the hPDA is pointless-- if you have a different system that meets your needs fine (even if it's a way of using a memo-book) then the hPDA would, indeed, be superfluous. I find it useful, as others have also mentioned, for it's sortability, editability, portability, flexibility, and the ability to lay everything I need to do out on the table in front of me at once, and shuffle it around. I think that perhaps, if one were to do a test and a survey, that one would find a greater percentage of spatial thinkers among hPDA users than in the population at large-- it really caters to those who think by *arranging* their thoughts, rather than those with another thinking style. » POSTED IN:
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