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I like to organize things. I also need a place to record and refer to things throughout the day. Back in the corporate world I used carry cut up pieces of blank paper clipped together in my back pocket. I kept my to-do’s, ideas, etc on them.

In June of 2005, with a kick-start from 43 folders and Douglas Johnson, I published my 1st Hipster Stack. I’d get a kick out of what others can do with this, so I am releasing it under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license. (Do be careful with attributing some of the other folk’s content I’ve included.)

My general stack has something for everybody:

Categorization via the Meta-Line Organizer.
Designed for cheap (gray scale) printing.
Economical use of an 8.5 x 11 piece of paper. (Plus more room to write.)

• Blank.
• Grid.
• Checklist.
  • I’ll often keep my ‘official’ to-do list on this.
• Lined.
• Tear-away.
  • Allows me to give notes to folks and not lose too much paper.
• Fold Up Cards.
  • More formal cards. Yes, that is a picture of poison oak.
• Dictionary.
• Rulers.
  • Metric and English. Sorry it is a bit rough when printed.
• Conversions.
  • Metric and English.
• Star Chart.
  • I do a bit of astronomy so it makes sense to me.
• World Map with Time Zones.
• Chess and Checkers.
• Playing Cards.
• Go.
  • The 9×9 version.
• Battleship.
  • For two players.
• Sundial Day Planner.
  • I get fed up with one’s life totally planned by the hour so here is my little retort.
• Morse Code and Semaphore.
  • I can never remember this stuff when I could use it… so like similar stuff, into the Hipster it goes.
• Staff (Music)
• Do It Yourself Art.
  • OK, this is along the lines of the conceptual work I do…but totally valid for anyone to use and compose their own art.
• Full Sheet.
  • Because sometimes you just need a full sheet of paper.

Hipster PDA (pdf)

Hipster PDA Scribus Source file available upon request..or until I get it uploaded and linked.