2006/05/30

Old school PDA: freakin' genius

Everyone who knows me knows I'm a geek.  I don't pretend otherwise anymore; back when I had steady income I put "early adopter" as my religious status.  I've tried half a dozen PDA's and the only one that's stuck was my current cell phone, running windows mobile 4.0 and sync'ing to outlook.  Having spent the better part of the last few years broke, though, I've started using my father's version of a PDA: pen and paper.  I started carrying around a little memo book, which has thus far been far more effective than an electronic PDA costing a few hundred dollars and destined to end up an expensive paperweight.

Finally someone has come up with a PDA for people like me.  PocketMod is a website that lets you mix and match several templates into a disposable (i.e., loseable) organizer that you print out and fold.  It has a couple dozen page styles available, ranging from blanks to various sized grids to blank music scores to sudoku pages. you've got 8 pages in a booklet to work with, although I don't really see anything preventing you from getting creative and stapling several together into a larger organizer. 

I was telling steph earlier that the greatest ideas in mankind's history were the simplest ones, those that were so simple that they were simply overlooked.  These guys should really patent the idea before franklin covey or dayplanner gets ahold of it.

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