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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 think for me I...Submitted by SteveC on August 15, 2006 - 5:52am.
DINO wrote:
+1 for this. For collection I use various pads I have floating around: * A4 -- useful when you may have to note several things in quick succession, for example in a meeting at work or when watching the gardening programmes on TV * A6 (A4 scrap torn into 4) Great for those one liners, 'get milk' for example * reporters spiral bound note pad -- for wandering around the office * A tiny (smaller than A7) tear of notebook which fits in my 'manbag' * or, in extremis, 5x3 index card. I prefer not to use the index cards for note gathering as it seems a waste, but if there's nothing else then I will. All these various sizes of paper end up in the inbox. Actions and projects are then transferred to 5x3s which I try to keep neat and tidy (a challenge with my handwriting!). » POSTED IN:
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