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 <title>Contact Log</title>
 <link>http://www.diyplanner.com/hpda-contact-log-story#comment-983</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;Why don&#039;t you print it and reduce it on a copier?&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Wed,  7 Dec 2005 02:04:14 -0500</pubDate>
 <dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
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 <title>Contact Log</title>
 <link>http://www.diyplanner.com/hpda-contact-log-story#comment-368</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;Day Runner used to have pages like this that fit into my Filofax and when I called them recently to ask where I could get them I was told they no longer make them for the personal sized binder because there is not market for them.  So imagine how excited I was when I saw these here.  Now I just have to figure out how to get them sized for the binder I have.  Hmmmmmm.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;AndrewC&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2005 08:40:12 -0400</pubDate>
 <dc:creator>AndrewC</dc:creator>
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 <title>Keeping in Touch</title>
 <link>http://www.diyplanner.com/hpda-contact-log-story</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;img-left&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.diyplanner.com/files/diyp2-hipster-contactlog-thumbnail.png&quot; alt=&quot;Thumbnail of contact log&quot; height=&quot;300&quot; width=&quot;180&quot; align=&quot;left&quot;/&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
Address books frustrate me. They never give me enough space. I don&#039;t
want to just keep track of contact information. I want to know the
last time I got in touch with someone and what our conversation was
about. I want to know people&#039;s birthdays so that I can send them
cards. I want to write down lots of little details about people.
&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;When I found the &lt;span class=&quot;formname&quot;&gt;Contact Log&lt;/span&gt; form in the
D*I*Y Planner Classic kit, I knew I wasn&#039;t the only person with
stalker-ish tendencies. The &lt;span class=&quot;formname&quot;&gt;Contact Log&lt;/span&gt;
form&#039;s great: plenty of space for notes and a built-in conversation
tracker. Using one sheet per person means you can arrange your
contacts in any way you want, instead of being confined to the usual
alphabetic order.&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;The catch: the form&#039;s designed for 5.5&quot;x8&quot; planners. I have an
8.5&quot;x11&quot; planner and 3&quot;x5&quot; index cards, but I don&#039;t have a 5.5&quot;x8&quot;
one. I thought about getting one &lt;i&gt;just&lt;/i&gt; for that form, but I
realized I&#039;d be juggling too many things.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I&#039;ve been using index cards to keep track of my contacts. I can sort
them by name, interest, or birthday. I can shuffle the cards to pick a
random person to write or call, and I keep stationery in my binder so
I can write anywhere I want.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Index cards can hold a lot more than contact information and
conversation logs, too. At my send-off party, I asked my friends to
write down their contact information and two-year plan on one side of
an index card. I also asked them to write a short encouraging note on
the other side. Having a deck of cards I can flip through for quick
warm-and-fuzzy memories makes living away from home much more
bearable.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;So why don&#039;t we have a &lt;span class=&quot;formname&quot;&gt;Contact Log&lt;/span&gt; form for
the Hipster PDA yet? A few minutes with the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.diyplanner.com/templates/official/widgetkit&quot;&gt;D*I*Y Planner Widget Kit&lt;/a&gt; and voila! &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.diyplanner.com/files/hpda-contactlog.pdf&quot;&gt;D*I*Y Planner Hipster Contact Log!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Now if only my printer could do index cards... &amp;lt;wistful sigh&amp;gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <category domain="http://www.diyplanner.com/taxonomy/term/18">Time Management</category>
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 <pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2005 08:00:25 -0400</pubDate>
 <dc:creator>sachac</dc:creator>
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