DIY Planner - Envelope-style Hipster Cases - Comments

Awesome

Printing — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:18:35 -0400

This is really fine working. I will do this for my postcards collection. ~~ postcard printing

Cool!

shris — Mon, 8 Jan 2007 16:31:35 -0500

Hi Jon.

Very nice mod! I am sure that will be helpful for folks.

I am sure there are lots of mods you could do to the pointy end of the top flap so it would stay more securely by itself, too. I have seen variations on this concept in commercial packaging for stuff like notecards, using arc-shaped slices instead of straight, etc.

Personally, I loved this little box made from translucent plastic to hold all my medical membership cards. Alas, it fatigues over time and splits on the seams, but it was cool while it lasted.

Thanks for the post!

shris

minor mod

jonglass — Mon, 8 Jan 2007 16:08:50 -0500

Hey-

I'm sort of new here--been reading the site for a while--more as a curiosity, and out of my long-standing use of paper planners in the distant past. ;-) But the HPDA has been growing on me, and I may have to give it a try as a supplement to my Palm. ;-)

The reason why I'm posting, however, and why I joined is because I made one of these, and while thinking of whether or not to glue or tape the sides together, I thought of another idea, and thought I would share it. Somebody might find it useful.

My idea was simple, on the sides, I cut little flaps that the front tucks into. This allows the flexibility to completely unfold it when necessary or desired, yet gives some structure to the case for normal use, so it doesn't flap open every time you open it. I took some pictures, and posted them on Flickr. Here are the urls: Warning, these are full-screen images, so you may have to zoom your browser window to see the necessary elements. I took pictures of a cream-colored envelope I made, and left the pencil marks in to help grasp the concept...

Hopefully you can see the photos at this link:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/46929749@N00/350750081/in/photo...

(these are my first photos ever on Flickr, so I'm not sure of the url scheme there)

I hope somebody finds this helpful and useful.

-Jon

Machinery

shris — Thu, 7 Dec 2006 17:08:09 -0500

Hi.

I used to have a machine that would cut these and score them at the same time--it made the box business-card size, though. That was a spiffy machine. Feed in the piece of paper, and fold it when the cut piece comes out the other side.

The machine would take paper, cardstock, or plastic up to about .02" thickness. I had several made from rigid vinyl and polycarbonate. My last one finally cracked last week.

Alas, I no longer have the machine. But some craft stores have that machine--it's a hand-crank die cutting machine found in the scrapbooking department. There are oodles of dies you can use with it. The craft store near me has dies for making take-out boxes, bags with handles, pie-slice boxes, alphabet letters.. Just buy the cardstock from the craft store and they often let you use the machine for free.

I hadn't thought of using a poly-plastic folder to hand-cut one of these, but of course you could. I have some leftover transparent vinyl (.015") out in the garage, maybe I'll make a few. :)

shris

Green-Eyed Monster

Roberto_Notecardo — Thu, 7 Dec 2006 16:47:47 -0500

Whenever I read posts like these, I get green with envy. When the gods of spatial awareness handed out the skills necessary to read, decipher, and fold paper according to directions, I was first in line. Unfortunately, I held the door for everyone else....and there were no skills left for moi. Boo hoo!

Very cool idea...

Chip Nosis — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:05:12 -0500

I don't use a Hipster, but this is a cool idea. I actually use a regular desk size planner, but this was so cool, I just wanted to make one. However, I wound up making two of them. I went crazy and got a bit fancy with it. I used velcro dots to keep it closed and double-sided tape on the sides. I made one out of a card-stock and one out of a poly-plastic folder. A+ idea!

Creative

shris — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 09:37:37 -0500

Hi.

I have to admit I cheated a bit. I have seen this shape of box before. I resized it for index cards. :)

No credit to me for creativity, only for mathematical ability to resize something someone else created.

shris

Very nice!

shb — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 22:44:28 -0500

Now see, that's very creative! You thought up and implemented a very neat DIY idea! Who could complain about that??

-Sarah

Envelope-style Hipster Cases

shris — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 16:24:02 -0500

Two envelope-style cardstock cases for hipster PDAs (index card stacks). One fits about 30 cards, the other about double that. No gluing required.

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Awesome

Cool!

minor mod

Machinery

Green-Eyed Monster

Very cool idea...

Creative

Very nice!

Envelope-style Hipster Cases

DIY Planner - Envelope-style Hipster Cases - Comments