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For those of you using your Moleskine, Hipster PDA, or other notebook for any sort of productivity use, or for those who just want to have a calendar with them, check out the Thumb Calendar created by Adam Sporka.
The concept is simple: by overlapping the months, Adam has been able to display six months worth of calendar dates on a piece of paper no larger than a business card. The .pdf template comes ready to cut out and fold so you have a 2-sided card that can slide into your wallet, or you can cut the two halves apart and paste each of them into your Moleskine for a full year calendar on a single reference page. Each half fits inside the width of a small Moleskine notebook with a small margin on each side:
For those wondering how to read this calendar:
1. Pick the month you want to read.
2. Use your thumbs to cover the numbers that are not directly below the month header.
3. Note the color of the month header. The last day of the month is rendered in the same color.
The header of each month is appropriately aligned to show the actual days of the week, and there are versions of the calendar that go Sunday to Saturday and Monday to Sunday.
Thanks to Joe for bringing this to my attention. This also seems to have been featured on Lifehacker last year, but I must have missed it the first time around.
Show us your To Do list.
A couple of years back, I adopted Gina from Lifehacker's todo.txt as the new way of managing my GTD next-action (to-do) list. After getting it up and working on my computer, I started tailoring it for my own personal use, and ended up with a personalized copy that resides on my webserver. The back end is still a text file, so I can use the command-line shortcuts to add, delete, cross off, prioritize, and search for items. I can log into my shell account via SSH from any computer to update the list.
However, in addition to the text-based views of the information, I also wrote some php to display the todo list in a tabular format that could be printed to a single 8.5" x 11" piece of paper (for quick print-out), as well as a .pdf formatted to 3x5" index cards (one card per context) so I can continue to use my Hipster PDA system (when I have time to print new index cards at home). This means I can also view my todo list from any computer with an internet connection and a web browser, without the need to have SSH on the computer.
My next revision of this whole thing, when I have some time, is to modify the web interface so I can also add, remove, update my todo list via the web browser. This will be helpful in case I'm away from a computer with SSH for an extended period of time.
And for those of you asking "Why don't you just use an existing web-based todo list, like Remember The Milk?" - I like having total control over how I manage my todo list, as well as how I archive the items I've finished and crossed off. I have a whole mechanism in place that takes my completed actions and moves them into something I can use to generate the inputs to my work's performance review (where I have to list major accomplishments I've done that year), and it comes in really handing to be able to grep my text-based archives to show exactly when I completed a task. Plus, it's just fun to monkey around with this stuff and roll-my own solution. That way, when I wish something was different so that it better suited my needs, all I have to do is make the changes myself.
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