This is just a quick post so that I attain my “post every week” goal. I must stop sleeping through my alarms.
I was listening to a youtuber enthuse about the utility of index cards in maintaining one’s forward momentum with ongoing (or new) projects. Of course, someone in the comments said that this was just the “Hipster PDA” from 20-something years ago.
Not that I’m mocking someone for discovering something that was new to them and sharing it. But more just an amusement that these things always come full circle. The Hipster PDA was an invention that mocked the personal digital assistants of the time — most of which were smartphones without the phone. As with a lot of these things, it took off and came to have a serious following. And then sort of petered out as almost everyone started carrying little mini computers (now with phone) in their pockets.
I didn’t have any use for the Hipster PDA, since I had spent a lot of money on a Palm Pilot and I was gonna get my money’s worth!
Anyway, I say this many years on, having ditched the Palm Pilot long ago, switched to multiple smartphones, and then eventually buying a 300-pack of index cards. I like to think that it’s a mature response to radically-digital me from the late 90’s. It might also be me having an immature, knee-jerk reaction to the ever-encroaching digitization of my life.
But I still have to laugh at how things always come around like that.
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