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Color-coded hPDA cards?

Do any of you use color-coded index cards? Mine are currently all white, unruled, and I'm starting to use my own DIY hipster-ish thing since I didn't quite like the one on DIY Planner. I'm trying to eliminate the tags sticking out, and I've started grouping the cards by "meta-context" (broader contexts that smaller ones fit into), and I'm thinking of making all the "Home" ones one color, all the "People" one another.

What do y'all do?

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I use three colored index...

I use three colored index cards in my hipster pda. All cards are laminated (including the top and bottom cards) and are setup as follows:

Top card (front cover): DIY Hipster PDA cover printed on white card (context cards follow)

Purple card (project cards follow)

Red card (reference cards follow)

Blue card (blank cards follow)

Bottom card (back cover): DIY Hipster 2006 12 month at-a-glance printed on white.

Works great.

 
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