Staples now sells Hipster PDAs?

[elfs]

This afternoon Omaha had to run to Staples, one of our big office supply chains here in the US, and pick up some paperwork she'd had their printing service run off for her. As I wandered through the aisles, I noticed a big table with a new set-up for a line of products called M.

M, it turns out, is Staples' own brand of Moleskine knockoffs. But what was even more baffling was that among the products on the table I saw a small stiff-backed leather holder for 3x5 cards and boxes of 500-each 3x5 cards with grids on one side and portrait-mode lining on the other.

There it was: Staples is not only selling its own Moleskine knockoffs, it's selling Hipster PDAs.

Comments

[doodlesthegreat.livejournal.com]

If it's at Staples, it's automatically not hipster...

[trinsf.livejournal.com]

Levenger has been selling "Hipster PDAs" for years, in a lovely format -- leather card holder, cards with optional personalization.

[lisakit.livejournal.com]

Hipster PDA? Lawyers call those "tickle" cards and they're still used in many offices. You put the 3x5 cards in a recipe box, add tabs with days of the month and tabs with each month and you place the cards behind the tab for which days you need to look at 'em again. For future months you put the cards, in date order, behind the month tab and when that month comes up you separate them to the appropriate days. Each morning you pull out the day's cards and they tickle your memory about what you need to do.

But don't ever... I mean ever, ever... move the box from one side of the desk to the other. 'Cause apparently it messes up the whole system and the lawyer has to start all over while shouting invective at the front desk.