DIY Planner - Request for Hipster PDA 3.0 Template Ideas - Comments

trip diary

josephlimbrick — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 01:19:27 -0400

i have every template imaginable that may be compatible with mine or my girlfiends planner. i went into my pdf stocklist ot see if i could dig out a trip diary that i could carry in the car A5 is a bit to big.
trip diary hpda is my request / suggestion

Active Perscriptions & the Workout Tracking Form

Rebecca — Fri, 26 May 2006 08:16:03 -0400

Hi.

I know both have been covered before.
But ...

Active Perscriptions should be prominent and structured. Not long ago I went through and threw out all my old medications and added a list of what I was taking to my wallet. It's also in my planner (in the important information section), but I figure the more places you can have this info - the better.

Workout Tracking form
There's lots of styles out there. I recently joined HyperStrike. Their workout tracking form looks really nice. But having a more generic weight tracking form would be a nice addition.

My 2 cents.
Reb

It's not really a card, but

Rebecca — Fri, 26 May 2006 08:04:30 -0400

It's not really a card, but a web banner or DIY approved button would be nice too. Heck - I'd add it to my website. :)

Reb

Landscape Note cards?

madmaxmedia — Thu, 25 May 2006 15:30:40 -0400

Hi,

I have just migrated to the Hipster from a Sony CLIE, as well as using index cards for writing. So far, so great! It's amazing what you can do with low-tech...

I would love to have landscape note cards. I can also use the lined blank sheets or Matrix cards, but then I wouldn't have the spiffy DTP elements like the title 'Notes' and the B&W bar.

Thanks!!

Titles on Bottom

carolw — Tue, 2 May 2006 10:08:14 -0400

I've used the Hipster templates for a couple of months and find them very useful (nice looking, too).

Since I use a binder clip at the top corner of the cards, it is sometimes difficult to see the titles at the top. I would love to see a blank card, lined card, and checklist that have space at the bottom to write a title.

Thanks for all of your work.

Erm, knitting...

dougj — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 23:49:10 -0500

...is something I know nothing about, although I did take up crochet for a week when I was ten. Then I went back to collecting spiders.

Perhaps you two could touch base, and come to me with specific requests for templates, like the exact layout?

Assume I'm completely ignorant of many things, and you'll probably not be far from the truth.

all my best,
dj

Good suggestion

dougj — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 23:25:27 -0500

You know, I've never really thought of such a thing. That *is* a good way of spreading the word, and saving some of our treasured users a bit of time.

Thanks for the idea, Thalia!

all my best,
dj

Knitting and Crocheting

L1ndy — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 21:55:12 -0500

Carla,
I crochet and just recently learned to knit. Now, I have no idea of what tools I own in either category. I do have Denise interchangeable needles, and love them. So, I have not fretted about not knowing.
I should know and I think it would be nice to keep a count. Someone else requested a template for tracking needles, but never said what sizes (US, Canada, UK, etc.) or whether or not she wanted to track straight, circs, or dpns. What are you thinking? Additionally, with the other information you are wanting to track, what size paper are you thinking of? Still on board with 3x5? I think this could be a great collaboration. It's late now, and been a long day. Will look forward to your reply.
L1ndy

Knitting (and crocheting)

Carla Hufstedler — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 18:22:24 -0500

Knitting (and crocheting) templates would be lovely--and I would be happy to help! :) Just email me.

Needles owned, current projects w/details, shopping list, pattern organization, websites, etc.

DIY planner contact card

Thalia — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 12:14:05 -0500

Having for the third time in a fortnight written out the details for DIY planner, 43 folders, 37 signals & lifehacker on a card to give to someone who asked "where can I get one of those/ how are you so organised?" can I request a card for this purpose please? I'll double-side it with one of the GTD cheat-sheets and then I'll be set.

If not, I'm thinking of rewriting my business card, because I'm spending more time giving out your details than mine!

personal/compact size pages

PandaPuff — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 17:42:39 -0500

3.0 in 3.75" x 6.75" pages would be incredibly wonderful!!!

What I'd like to see is a

rheostaticsfan — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 13:39:12 -0500

What I'd like to see is a ONE page a month on 3x5. Version 2 seems to only have 2 pages per month. I'd gladly give up the notes field at the bottom to just get 5 rows of weeks on a single page/template.

I just found you guys yesterday and boy am I having fun now!!

knitting

L1ndy — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 11:48:54 -0500

I think I cut off my attempt to post. You may see a partial attempt. Sorry!
Ok, European, Canadian, Metric or US sizes? Circular, Double-pointed or Straight needles? That is a lot of info for a 3x5 card.
I think it is a great idea, though! I also think you will wind up with at least two cards. I'm thinking more on the layout. Any other info needed?

Please make the graphic

Eric Warnke — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 10:51:16 -0500

Please make the graphic version full bleed ( no margins ). I have a HP printer with .22in margins and it's a pain to get these pages printed ( if at all ). If I print them from OS X preview they cut off the edges oh so slightly. If I take and graphics versions and print them I end up with almost .5in in border because it's bordering the border on the card already. Having a full bleed version of the graphics would make it possible to print on a printer with strange margins, in fact having the PDF full bleed would also be nice as well since people could use that version with "resize image to page" on Adobe Reader and get perfect prints the first time.

Not that it helps right now,

Cain — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 07:03:25 -0500

Not that it helps right now, but as far as programmatically generating customized cards goes, OOo Draw format (.odg) is just as good as SVG. Both are XML, and pretty easily manipulated. (Actually, the Draw format uses several svg elements.) .odg, like SVG, is a relatively simple declarative schema, and is well suited to programmatic manipulation. In any case, OOo SVG import/export is coming along, so the two may soon be functionally synonymous. Now if we can just get out of Illustrator and into Draw...as you can't do ANYTHING programmatically on a .ai file. (Trust me, I've tried. My brain still hurts.)

(N.B., this isn't just theoretical; I spent some time yesterday rejiggering a little script to create custom sheets of hPDA cards, with configurable margins, positioning, duplex pairing, etc. for a project I am working on, inspired by the Exoskeleton Hipster.)

But whatever it is, any manipulable format of v3 would be much appreciated. I tried programmatic manipulation of the PDF files, and all I got was a headache. :-/

-Cain

Request for Hipster PDA 3.0 Template Ideas

dougj — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 04:38:19 -0500

Things seem to have solidified, design-wise, in the creep towards the 3.0 packages (it seems much more complicated nowadays, with so many sizes and formats), and I'm constructing a master list of those templates I want to see included. So far I'm fairly confident about the larger sizes, but I'd like to know what you folks would like to see in the Hipster PDA Edition 3.0.

If you have ideas or requests, please leave them as comments in this thread. I know there are plenty of ideas in other forum and article posts, but I want to look at this forum thread as the official "gathering place" for the 3.0 edition requests, so please don't worry about submitting your idea again.

Tell me what sort of form would make your life easier, and the sort of use you envision for it, and I'll try my best to slot it into production. Bonus points for thinking up the fields you'd like to see included on the template.

D*I*Y Planner - Request for Hipster PDA 3.0 Template Ideas - Comments