I’m a sales engineer at a technical company, so I’m obviously a geek and a gadget freak. If it’s bright and shiny with lots of buttons, I’ll probably want it. But, over the past two years or so, I’ve been using a decidedly non-techie tool to help keep me organized. It’s called the Hipster PDA and it’s powered by 3×5 cards and a pen or pencil. I’ve found it very easy to carry around a small stack of 3×5 cards in my pocket to pull out when I need to take a note.
Yesterday, as I pulled out my Hipster, it hit me. I should make a template for a daily meal tracker so I don’t have to remember what I ate throughout the day and when it comes time to enter my meals into the Google Apps spreadsheet, I have it all right there in my pocket.
So, in case anyone wants to try it out, here is a PDF template that you can use to print out your very own 3×5 card meal trackers.
I highly suggest reading the 43 Folders post on the Hipster PDA. It’s a great low tech tool for today’s high tech world.
UPDATE - I almost forgot, once you’ve got your Hipster PDA all loaded and ready to go, get yourself and Inka pen to throw in your pocket. It’s so small, yet can be a full size pen, you won’t even know it’s there. That way you’ll always have something to write with.
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