Friday, April 1, 2005
Introducing the Hipster PDF
First Merlin Mann introduced us all to the Hipster PDA. Now Boring Boring reader Jimboni tells us about his system for making Hipster PDFs (complete with a Flickr photoset of his setup.) Jimboni explains:Link (Thanks, Jimboni!)After looking for a better way to handle documents -- rather than keeping them in digital form, where they can be modified and secured -- I finally hit upon the perfect solution: The Hipster PDF. It's cheap; it doesn't use electricity; pens and mechanical pencils -- and other tools for marking on paper -- are readily available; and my Hipster PDF-maker is only twice the size of my cellphone. (You should see the ones they have in Japan.)
True, you can't really email, edit, import, export, backup or revise Hipster PDFs -- and if you spill coffee on them or leave them near the shower they turn to pulp -- but the novelty of my system is handy for bridging the awkward silences that inevitably occur when I brag at parties that I haven't owned a TV in seven years.
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