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HPDA vs Pocket Moleskine

Hello

I have an HPDA and a Pocket Moleskine. I find the HPDA a massively useful tool... life chaging, really.

I love the Moleskine, but I'm not sure what to use it for.

It's a love triangle. How do people tend to find a use for both? (I know a lot of you do!)

The reasons for not switching to Moleskine completely:

- I love being able to ditch some cards and keep others in the stack, and replenish with new cards whenever I want
- It's useful being able to file cards on similar topics together
- Beaming
- Having a quick reference card on one side of the stack and a blank space on the other means truly instant access
- It's much more pocket size... pop it in your pocket and forget its there.

What's a man to do?

Cheers

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I use a combination of...

I use a combination of hPDA and Pocket Weekly Planner. The hPDA has three stacks: one stack of contextual actions and two stacks of non-contextual actions. (This amounts to 150-250 cards, BTW.)

Then I use the Weekly Planner as a calendar (of course) and keep one index card per day with a list of 6 or so things that I'd like to get done that day. That way I don't have to keep moving things that don't get completed from one day to the next in my planner. When I use up a card, I just trash it, and the planner serves it's purpose of displaying the "hard landscape" that David Allen talks about.

 
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