Photo | Chris Aldrich

Two packages of index card guides sitting on a library card catalog next to a gray Royal typewriter. The manilla package has 4x6" guides and the 5x8" guides are in blue pressboard.

Oxford seems to have quit manufacturing the 1/5 cut tabbed 4 x 6 inch index card guides, but yesterday I scored a bundle of 100 along with some 5 x 8 inch A-Z guides. The big win here was that the lot came for a total of $3.50!

Typewriter Backing Sheets for Index Cards

If you’re doing a lot of typing on index cards for your zettelkasten, recipes, or other uses, this may be a useful typewriter hack:

Shadow of a colander held up in the sunshine at the peak of the eclipse. The multi-pinhole camera shows a flower pattern of sun circles with a small bite taken out of each of them by the occlusion of the light by the moon all focused onto a concrete background.

I saw hundreds of images of the eclipse today, but none remotely similar to mine. While thinking back on how I imaged the eclipse with my “pinhole colander camera”, I realize that so much of my life is informed not only by science, but the science of cooking.

Typewritten index card that reads: "Having my morning cup of coffee while attending this month's Micro.blog Analog Tools Meetup was a singular spot of joy on a rainy and otherwise dreadful day. It was heartwarming to see so many different tools and methods at play among such a small group of kind people. I can't wait to see everyone's smiling faces and hear their advice and experience at next month's third Saturday meetup."

Micro.blog Analog Tools Meetup January 2024. 🖊️🗃️📓☕

Handwriting and Typecasting PASTA

Transcription:

I’m slowly coming to realize that handwriting or typecasting to my website means that I am left with a permanent, physical copy of my post which I can archive into a physical card file. I can file them by date to create a version of a diary, and/or I can file them by taxonomy so that I might reuse the ideas at a later date zettelkasten-style.

The IndieWeb has a pattern for this: Publish Anywhere, Save To (private) Archive (P.A.S.T.A.)

Typed index card which reads "The only advice, indeed, that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions." ---Virginia Woolf, How Should One Read a Book? (1932) #reading practices #advice

“The only advice, indeed, that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.”
—Virginia Woolf, How Should One Read a Book? (1932)

Annotated on December 07, 2023 at 09:51PM

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Typewriter Backing Sheets for Index Cards

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