Index Cards Ruled the Other Way
Submitted by erikas on Thu, 2006-01-12 16:02.
Because I don't carry my planner everywhere I go, I always take a few index with me for notes. I find that a lot of these notes are in the forms of lists, and it would be really convenient to have ruled index cards with the lines across the short ends (on both sides preferably). Are there any companies that make these? If so, where can I buy them? I realize I could print them out on blank cards, but my printer is annoying to work with on smaller papers.
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I think Oxford may make them
I think Oxford may make them but I took the easier way and sliced 5x8 cards into two 3x5 cards + a 2inch slip. The 3x5 go in the hipster, the 2" get used for other little lists.
Hope this helps,
--Tass
Clever
Yet another reason to splurge on a guillotine. That is a great idea. Thanks.
-Erika
They are called portrait ruled cards - by Oxford
Oxford Recycled Portrait Ruled Padded Index Cards
Esselte (Index Cards):
3 x 5 are cards held together at the top edge of pad, so they can be torn off as needed. Recycled with a minimum of 10% post-consumer material.
Portrait ruled cards as SACs
I've found that these Oxford portrait ruled cards work quite nicely as satellite action cards. I punch the holes with a single hole punch in the same position as in the DIY SAC template, but I find the ruled cards sufficent (and more flexible) than the templates for the "SAC" function.
Awesome. Thanks
I guess I'll have to order some. :)
-Erika
In Belgium, I buy squared
In Belgium, I buy squared index cards made by a company called Exacompta (www.exacompta.com) exactly for that purpose. They produce index cards in a wide-variety. Not sure though whether their stuff is available on the other side of the Atlantic.
index cards
Best I could come up with.
http://www.greenlightoffice.com/product/displayblock.aspx?bl...
I've been looking for years
I used them for a long time, but then the supply dried up. I searched the net, still no luck. I finally bought the Levenger cards. But the rules on those are way too narrow for most uses.
IMHO Portrait is the way the cards should be used. I invented portrait filing boxes and tabs for them, since I only use them this way. To do lists, recipes, you name it... I use blank ones and print out most everything.
I tried to get Levenger to make an upscale version of my index card boxes and guides. I'm sure the market would be there once people saw the light. At least in a cottage-industry sort of way. But it perplexes me.
Everybody knows narrow columns are easier to read than wide ones, so I don't understand how they got used wrong in the first place. I guess ruled index cards pre-date newspapers with columns or something.
The few I've found in storage in dusty shops have been really ugly. Paper-thin card stock, big blurry blue lines, and they age quickly (yellow). I'd love to solve this problem.
Post-it Cards
Hi, Post-it makes a vertical card with lines. Of course it is sticky too. If you get the sortable ones, you can shuffle them. I like them them a lot. I think I got them at Target.
http://www.3m.com/US/office/postit/products/prod_cards_sort....
Stick with cards
I see many posts praising the post-it sortable cards; they must work well for many people. Just to note the other side of the coin - I bought and tried some, and was very disappointed, because:
Am I picky and too opinionated? Yes. But I found with my own system, post-its should be post-its and index cards should be cards, the hybrid doesn't work for me.
I use the already-cited trick of cutting up 5x8 cards - if you buy the largest package of 5x8 cards you save a bit of money over buying the pre-cut ruled-the-other way padded index cards.
Hipster Templates Work Too
I found Doug's 4-up Hipster templates to be the answer I was looking for. I like the wide-lined "Notes" myself. He also has a narrow ruled version without any label on it, too. While I have gone to a hybrid system of using both notecards and a classic size binder, I still like my "Notes" cards.
lined cards
A company called Levengers makes the cards and a nice leather holder. It is called a pocket briefcase. www.levenger.com.
Really ?
never heard of them
>:D
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ygor never heard of levenger
me neither. I just find my bank account mysteriously shrinking a couple times a year, and these strange things called Circus, or something like that, keep showing up on my porch.
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