Index Cards Save World Again
Today I got to experience a moment of awesomeness, merely by virute of having index cards on my person — and remembering that fact at the appropriate time, which is often the failing of convenient items. I’d come across the concept of the Hipster PDA (and indeed, who has not, if they’ve spent more than a few hours on the Internet?) before but hadn’t quite wanted to take the plunge and divest myself of all my lovely gadgetry in favor of such a simple solution. I had, however, tossed a handful of these awesome Post-It sortable cards into the back of my Filofax ‘just in case.’
(As it turns out, I’ve been using them quite a lot with said Filofax — they are perfect for project cards and support material, which, when no longer considered an ‘active’ project, can be moved quickly to the reference section of my Filofax or my files at home. But I digress.)
Onward with my tale. I stopped in at my current favorite local Starbucks, only to find that for whatever reason, a band had set up across from the counter and was playing — LOUDLY. (It’s not a freestanding store, but inside a building at my university.) There was a huge line of people, all of whom had to repeatedly shout their order to the frazzled-looking employees.
Hell, I thought to myself, first I have to wait in this huge line and then shout to make myself understood? ….Wait! No, I don’t!
You understand where this is going — I quickly produced a card, wrote down my order in the legible blocky print that I have cultivated for occasions where the matter cannot be trusted to my pretty, if illegible, cursive, and handed over my order that way.
The Starbucks employees, weary of deciphering shouted orders, and probably with splitting headaches from the loud music? Were delighted. Everyone in back of me? Also delighted, if only that my order took a lot less time than the others. Me? Well, I’m not a hPDA convert just yet, but I will admit, I love the versatility of the product.
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Heh … sometimes the old ways works best
I like the link to hPDA … wasn’t sure what it was.
And I bet people in queue was thinking “Oh man why didn’t I think of that??”