Confessions of an Office Supply Junky - Episode 5: The Hipster PDA - YouTube<br /> by [[Joe Van Cleave]] video circa 2016<br /> accessed on 2025-09-15T12:38:20
Joe Van Cleave had a pencil box with index cards and a pen with which he used to keep a "Random Access Journaling System, using index cards and topical filing by subject" (dated March 2004). He was using 4 x 6" index cards.
He had a 3 x 5" hipster PDA based on Merlin Mann's idea that had thin metal covers with index cards and a book ring to hold it all together. He used colored cards to create section dividers in his hipster PDA.
He mentions the overlap of the hipster PDA with David Allen's Getting Things Done (GTD) movement.
JVC started using a hipster PDA in February 2007
He archived them in chronological order.
Grass roots use of the hipster PDA nudged larger stationers like Oxford to make vertical lined index cards specifically for hipster PDAs.
JVC also shows a storyboard done on index cards with two book rings as binding.
Renaissance Art has a 3x5" index card holder made out of leather as a wallet.
JVC was also using a bulldog clip to hold together his index cards.