Continuing on with my bullet journal-like Memindex practice using 4 x 6 inch index cards for 2024. Happy to continue answering questions about it for the curious.
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Sorry if you’ve answered this elsewhere, but where can one find/order those 4×6 tab folders?
I think I got all of these from Amazon originally:
– Smead 1/3 cut manilla
– Oxford 1/3 cut manilla laminated monthly
– 1/5 cut colored plastic dividers with which I use Avery 5148 labels
I was a Hipster PDA advocate in the early aughts, I even made a cleanroom version (plastic covers and cleanroom paper) for use in a chip fab!
Two of these – the 1-year and 1-month calendars – appear to be printed.
Do you print these yourself, and if so, do you print directly on 10×15 paper or on larger sheets which you cut to size?
I am asking because I have yet to find a decent way to print on 10×15 paper (4×6 inches).
I think some of these printed versions were downloaded from https://www.calendarsquick.com/printables/free.html. I’ve seen some on Etsy sell pre-printed variations, but I’ve never tried them before. One can custom format paper outputs for printing on most printers though, it just takes some work depending on the editing software you’re using and how well they allow your printing outputs. Cutting sheets to size is certainly a way to go too.
I’ve not looked into it, but Avery may have some 4 x 6″ preformatted templates you could use in programs like Microsoft Word and then print the outputs. Look at https://www.avery.com/templates/8386, for example.
Is there a description of the method/workflow you would like to share? Read your post with the lovely photos – looks like a bullet journal.
If you missed the links in the original, do check those out, or try those in: https://boffosocko.com/2023/12/26/memindex-set-up-for-2024/#comment-426177
I love this. Need to stare at this picture a while longer until I can understand. But I love it.
Syndicated copies:
Beyond staring and puzzling (which should work especially those familiar with the traditional notebook-based bullet journaling), perhaps these may help:
Young, Pam, and Peggy Jones. Sidetracked Home Executives: From Pigpen to Paradise. Edited by Sydney Craft Rozen. 1977. Reprint, New York: Warner Books, 1981. http://archive.org/details/sidetrackedhomee00youn.
Found it. Very good book by Ms. Young and Ms. Jones!
It is a Method/1 for the commoners . Very sensible.
Thank you.
(Method/1 – a systems design methodology by one of the big consulting firms).
Regarding Hawk Sugano, I was a big fan of his and his PoIC system.
A few weeks ago, I did try to find him on the web, without success.
Have you heard of or read about him recently?
I haven’t seen anything recent from hawkexpress. The only stuff I’ve been able to find is his old site on archive.org. His Flickr account hasn’t been active since 2015, but his Facebook account was active in the last month: https://www.facebook.com/takayuki.h.sugano.
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Are you still using this bullet journal index card system and if so, how has it changed since you began?
Yes, I’m still at it several years on. If it’s changed much, it’s really just gotten simpler. The only complicating factor was buying a filing cabinet (or four) to store it and the rest of my index card collection in: https://boffosocko.com/research/zettelkasten-commonplace-books-and-note-taking-collection/#Boxes (You really only need a small, cheap box, but I love the vintage look and feel of the originals which I collect as a hobby.)
I’ve also added a few typewriters to my practice to type cards up with as well. Makes things more fun.
Any “spread” in a bujo can be an index card: future card, monthly card, daily card, to do card, lists, projects, etc., etc. It’s smaller, easier to carry. I can archive old cards and don’t need to worry about losing everything all at once if my notebook goes missing.
If you need some additional social “proof”, take a look at the idea of the Memindex, which was used for over half a century by hundreds of thousands of people before the Bullet Journal was a glimmer in Ryder’s eye: https://boffosocko.com/2023/03/09/the-memindex-method-an-early-precursor-of-the-memex-hipster-pda-43-folders-gtd-basb-and-bullet-journal-systems/