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Posted by Amontillado
Apr 19, 2021 at 01:40 AM
Index cards are nice. I always carry a pocket index card wallet for quick notes. Shirt pocket sized pads bug me because I hate to waste a sheet out of a limited resource. I can go through two or three index cards a day and never hit bottom. Just keep ten or so in the wallet, and all’s well.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Apr 19, 2021 at 11:38 AM
Markology might appeal to you too, or possibly QwikCards (both of them cross-platform macOS/iOS). The very amiable developer of QwikCards is currently rewriting it from scratch in Swift, but the app is already pretty powerful and nice to use. Markology is really a Zettelkasten system with tags and back-linking; it’s a great alternative to The Archive.
Jeffery Smith wrote:
I’ve tried a lot of notecard-based systems (both hard copy and digital),
>and find that hard copy note quickly get covered with all the crap that
>hits my desk, then are past due when I dig down to them. Bullet Journal
>works better as it is harder to lose. I’m not ready to spend $80 or so
>on a nice wooden card holder.
>
>The digital notecards are nice, but aren’t accessible if they are not
>iOS-based as well as Mac-based. Taskheat came up on this forum a while
>back, and now it is both OSX and iOS, so I’ll give it a try.
Posted by bartb
Apr 19, 2021 at 03:33 PM
IRONY ALERT!!! After reading all the replies I had a brain flash! Many, many years ago I got in the habit of using index cards at work. I liked using them for various tasks, notes, etc. But they got a little out of hand until I found this product: Bomber Jacket International Pocket Briefcase
As time went by at work, PC and network software improved and I used index cards less and less until I went totally digital. (FYI I went digging around my storage boxes and found it!!! It’s like meeting an old friend you haven’t seen in years!)
Posted by satis
Apr 19, 2021 at 04:15 PM
The Whole Earth catalog was onto that a decade ago (and their recommendations repeat-filter out through the Recommendo site from that mag’s Kevin Kelly)
https://kk.org/cooltools/levenger-pocket/
And every few months it seems someone rediscovers index card BuJos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acqA2MvlXqU
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Apr 19, 2021 at 07:46 PM
I know this will shock everyone, but I have one of those too! I’ve never used it… also shocking.
bartb wrote:
IRONY ALERT!!! After reading all the replies I had a brain flash! Many,
>many years ago I got in the habit of using index cards at work. I liked
>using them for various tasks, notes, etc. But they got a little out of
>hand until I found this product: Bomber Jacket International Pocket
>Briefcase
>
>https://www.levenger.com/stationery-notebooks-322/pocket-briefcases-763/bomber-jacket-international-pocket-briefcase-5465.aspx
>
>As time went by at work, PC and network software improved and I used
>index cards less and less until I went totally digital. (FYI I went
>digging around my storage boxes and found it!!! It’s like meeting an old
>friend you haven’t seen in years!)
>