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Re: The Hipster PDA (2004)

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Post by gsinclair » Thu, Mar 31, 2022, 7:41 AM UTC

samatman wrote: post #39

Mild coincidence! I did an Instructable on making one of these from a Moleskine, back when the conceit was popular: https://www.instructables.com/Moleskine-Hipster-PDA-case/ The mild coincidence being that I remembered this in January and made myself another one. Which... I haven't been using. At least it's there for the next time I get annoyed enough at Things to meme myself into thinking I'll start writing things d…

I’m curious: why the annoyance at Things?

Re: The Hipster PDA (2004)

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Post by gsinclair » Thu, Mar 31, 2022, 10:54 AM UTC

I well remember digging in to this at the time. A nice idea that didn’t work too great for me, so I dropped it after a while. But I have ever since always kept index cards handy for lists or temporary info.

I’m thankful to the HN citizen who alerted me to thetodaysystem.com - an excellent use of index cards to keep focus on the important tasks of the day.

Re: The Hipster PDA (2004)

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Post by bencollier49 » Thu, Mar 31, 2022, 12:34 PM UTC

marstall wrote: post #32

bencollier49 wrote: post #29

Hmm, is "Hipster" still a current term? It feels like hipsters aren't in evidence as much as they used to be before lockdown.

(2004)

Oh yeah, totally, it was just interesting to see how the term was being used back then and reflect that I've not seen it much recently.

Re: The Hipster PDA (2004)

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Post by rchaud » Thu, Mar 31, 2022, 3:45 PM UTC

gammarator wrote: post #24

I used one for years! Finally gave it up in 2011 when I got a smartphone. I think I’ve had more trouble with data loss from Evernote than those index cards, ironically…

I loved using Evernote, but stopped cold when I accidentally deleted a long article draft by hitting a keystroke when I had all text selected. The replaced the text with whatever key I typed.

Maybe I closed out of the window before noticing my mistake...the muscle memory of CTRL + S doesn't apply to cloud document apps. But when I reopened Evernote, all that was left was that keystroke. There was no way to revert to a previous version.

Re: The Hipster PDA (2004)

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Post by samatman » Fri, Apr 01, 2022, 6:13 AM UTC

gsinclair wrote: post #61

samatman wrote: post #39

Mild coincidence! I did an Instructable on making one of these from a Moleskine, back when the conceit was popular: https://www.instructables.com/Moleskine-Hipster-PDA-case/ The mild coincidence being that I remembered this in January and made myself another one. Which... I haven't been using. At least it's there for the next time I get annoyed enough at Things to meme myself into thinking I'll start writing things d…

I’m curious: why the annoyance at Things?

It isn't anything Things did.