May 7, 2006
D*I*Y Planner Hipster PDA Edition v3 Released
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My Canadian colleague and fellow Sherlockian devotee, the wise and erudite Douglas Fortescue Arbuthnot Johnston, has released the latest hipsterPDA version of his phenomenal DIY Planner.
As Douglas himself says, the hipsterPDA is:
a series of approximately one hundred free productivity forms designed for printing onto index cards (a.k.a., the Hipster PDA). Designed especially for the D*I*Y Planner project, the package includes a wide array of cards covering life management, project planning, calendars, notetaking, business development, and creative uses like writing, storyboards, mind mapping, and photography.
The package includes:
- A series of graphical and photographic covers, including folding versions (with an optional envelope), and an OpenOffice.org template to create your own.
- A Getting Things Done Quick Reference Card, including a flow chart, a weekly review list, and a list of “Stuff”. (The “Getting Things Done” card is obviously based upon the excellent book of the same name by David Allen, and is therefore © David Allen). For PERSONAL, non-commercial use only, please.
- Yearly calendars for 2006 and 2007, in both Sunday-Saturday and Monday-Sunday configurations. (Yes, your pleas were heard!)
- Many different variations on the monthly calendar, both horizontal and vertical, as well as several one- and two-card weekly calendars.
- The Day Keeper, a daily time management form, with multiple timed and untimed versions (some including actions and notes).
- Actions, Waiting For, Agenda(s), Potential Projects (that’s Someday/Maybe for GTD folks), To-Do Lists, and other task management templates, including several tabbed versions you can punch and include in a larger planner.
- Several “top-down” life and project management forms, including Harmony, Project, and Priority Matrix.
- Many multi-use templates, including Checklist, Table, Notes (four types), and Weekly Tracker.
- A number of business-oriented forms, including Finances, Job Tracker, Product Idea, and Solutions.
- Several flavours of the Matrix, a form for writing or tracking tabular data — exercise/fitness logs, calorie counting, grades, borrowed library books, budget items, etc..
- Templates for Contacts, Contact Logs, and Important Numbers.
- A series of cards to unleash your creative side — Story Idea, Plot Point, Character, Item, Story Board(s), Mind Map, a pocket Photographic Release, and more.
- A set of handy tabbed cards, including an OOo template to contruct your own. (The folding cover also has an optional extension to protect tabs.)
- Sundry other forms, including Book Note, Shopping, blank lines/grids, and more.
- Tired of explaining the Hipster PDA to people and jotting down the 43 Folders and DIYPlanner.com websites? Well, pass along “The Helpful Hipster PDA Reference Card”.
Now, you may ask yourself why you would want a paper planner in an age of wireless connectivity and internet-with-everything. Simple. Because powering up the laptop takes time — a paper-based planning system allows you to leave the heavy chunk of metal behind and sit quietly in a cafe and or under a tree and collate your thoughts and ideas. A nice fountain pen or luxury pencil, a sunny day, a delicious cappuccino… who could ask for anything more?
Stumble it!
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