HPDA enhancements. Moleskines sans index cards.

Sometimes it’s best just to go do the dishes.

BTW I stopped by Barnes & Noble to pick up the pocket-sized Moleskine journal…and they didn’t have any anymore. They had other Moleskine models, but no pocket-sized journal.

Whatever. Later.

The HPDA has been a fun exercise the past few days. Some enhancements:

1) Creating a Currently card and a Daily card, to separate the everyday stuff (dishes, coffee, ablutions, etc.) from the ongoing stuff. Sort of replicating the change I made in my ‘Currently’ (now ‘Office’) Outliner Documents, with no days of the week, except to make note of meetings on particular days. Which brings me to:

2) Creating Monthly cards (2005-03, 2005-04) with simple lists of meeting dates and times, e.g.:

2005-03
11th Web meeting 2p
23rd Dr appt 10a

Thus solving one major hassle of the old way: no calendar.

3) Creating data cards with any info needed to cut down on other stuff in the new ‘wallet.’

Denyse read over my shoulder this morning about the Moleskine thing and offered me her pocket-sized one that I had gotten for her as a gift a while back! How cool is that? I ditched the wallet, though with my experimentation I can put relatively few cards in the back fold-pocket, so my compromise was to put the wallet in my backpack, which I usually have around, and just put the most important stuff in the Moleskine.

What it also meant, though, was that trying to also stuff the HPDA in was pretty futile, so today I went with the HPDA in one pocket and the Moleskine in the other — not my favorite arrangement, as I’d like to get rid of things instead of add them on. What I’ll probably wind up doing is consolidating the cards in a much less bulky space somehow with the Moleskine in the backpack if I don’t have clothes space for it.