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cPDA labels

Rasmussen — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:31:51 -0500

In response to Labels that will actually stick to the cPDA tabs?

I used transparent adhesive labels from a Brother personal label maker.

After a year, the labels continue to hold up to some pretty heavy pocket use.

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Printing to 3x5 cards

wikeh2004 — Thu, 8 Mar 2007 19:54:43 -0500

I was printing the HipsterPDA 4up layout to letter size cardstock and cutting out the cards to make my own Circa HipsterPDA, but began to feel that it was a bit more hassle than I wanted to deal with. Then I finally figured out how to get my Canon i860 printer to behave.

There is no default layout in page setup (Mac OS X) for 3x5 cards for this printer. When I tried to set up a custom 3x5 layout in the printer driver, the printer would just spit out the index cards without printing to them. The manual says it can't print narrower than 3.54". Couldn't load the cards into the photo paper input tray either.

But, I found out that if I configured the page setup for 4x6 borderless (portrait), reduced the size to 95%, set page scaling to None (so the PDF image was in the upper left corner of the 4x6 layout), I could load 3x5 cards into the main paper input tray and print successfully. I played around with the print margins to get it to center correctly on the 3x5. This approach may work for other printers too.

Walter
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Wilde Ideas colors

Rollafool — Thu, 8 Mar 2007 16:13:38 -0500

Thanks, Shris! Those sound like AWESOME colors! Time for me to look into them... black rings can get boring after a while!

Cheers,
Paul

Wilde-Ideas

shris — Wed, 7 Mar 2007 22:18:39 -0500

Hi.

I bought mine from Wilde-Ideas.com. They were out of small black at the time, but they had oodles of white. I'd give them a call and ask them if what you want is in stock before placing an order.

I got white (sort of an ivory color, really), pastel pink, pastel blue, pastel purple (more like raspberry yogurt), and pastel green (pistachio ice cream). They had some true colors in stock too (blue, yellow, red, purple, green).

shris

Hmmm... good to know that at

Rollafool — Wed, 7 Mar 2007 22:11:41 -0500

Hmmm... good to know that at least somebody still has 1/4 inchers in colors! On the Rollabind Systems site, at least, the only option for that size is in clear. Where do you buy yours from?

I have a bunch of them in black, which is my preferred color. Should last me for a while, so don't worry, I won't buy them all up... :-D

Cheers,
Paul

small disc colors

shris — Wed, 7 Mar 2007 22:04:30 -0500

Hi.

That's odd. I just bought five different colors of small discs. All pastels for crafters, but none of them was clear. Could have had my weight in white ones, though, from what the lady at the vendor said.

shris

Small rings

Rollafool — Wed, 7 Mar 2007 21:41:28 -0500

My experience has been the same. My cPDA is pretty "lean," with a minimum of pages and covers cut from thin poly report folders.

When my cPDAs arrive from Levenger in the mail, I'm going to swap out the 1/2" rings on both. One gets small rings for the back pocket, and the other gets jumbos to hold all my map cards.

Speaking of small discs, you all may know this already but Rollabind no longer offers the smalls in anything other than clear.

Cheers,
Paul

Small Rolla Discs

shris — Wed, 7 Mar 2007 20:21:20 -0500

Hi.

Yes, the small are very small and don't fit much depending on your paper thickness. But it's a great size to keep just a few bits of paper on hand so you can write down something you need to remember. If your contacts list is small and you only want to take a day's worth of schedule and info, you could squeeze it in.

I use the Small discs on my back pocket jotter. I don't notice it's there, most of the time. Of course, they stick out the top of the pocket, so I'm not sitting on them. :)

shris

The 1/4" is really too small

Chet — Wed, 7 Mar 2007 17:40:48 -0500

The 1/4" is really too small to fit in too many pages.

How about an extension pen

Chet — Wed, 7 Mar 2007 17:35:46 -0500

How about an extension pen loop that clips to a Circa divider? Is this do-able?

Elastic loop - Circa PDA

Rasmussen — Wed, 7 Mar 2007 16:17:29 -0500

I'll try the elastic pen loop.

I'm interested to see how many versions we can prototype of a divider that inserts into any translucent notebook that would serve this purpose. [I'll post the finished product in the new DiyP pool.]

Thanks,
Ryan

thanks for the printer info

tom — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 17:19:49 -0500

i kind of hate to invest in a printer specific just to this, but i'm having trouble finding 110# paper for printing 4 cards to a page. plus if i go that route i'll have to commandeer the office at work that has the laser printer and guillotine cutter.

also it seems like it would be less of a hassle printing individual cards.

smurfs

shb — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:27:36 -0500

Ah, you gotta love those smurfs!
-Sarah

Printing to 3x5 : advantage of printing directly to card

Rasmussen — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 14:32:13 -0500

Tom,

I use a Canon Pixma iP4300.

I print directly to 3x5s to make aligning the front and back easier. To provide a margin for the smurf-its [unbelievable you guys] ;) I set the printer to print-to-scale at 3"x4.875" and vertically flip the page.

Emory posted a very informative article with photographs depicting his own method for printing to 3x5's here.

Thanks,
Ryan

Got it

jonglass — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 07:20:56 -0500

Mine does the same thing, and boy, do they look nice! Thanks for the idea.

-Jon

Rasmussen's Circa PDA

Rasmussen — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 11:11:26 -0500

I am often asked what kind of Circa notebook I use myself. I keep a letter-sized action folio in my briefcase, but I've really taken to the CircaPDA. This is my current incarnation that has replaced my shirt pocket briefcase. [I didn't think that would be possible until I realized just how much content could be stored and easily accessed with a disc-bound hipster.] I also assembled a video and photoset to better describe how it works. (I think my next project will be assembling one of Sarah's pen holder cards.) Thanks, Ryan

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cPDA labels

Printing to 3x5 cards

Wilde Ideas colors

Wilde-Ideas

Hmmm... good to know that at

small disc colors

Small rings

Small Rolla Discs

The 1/4" is really too small

How about an extension pen

Elastic loop - Circa PDA

thanks for the printer info

smurfs

Printing to 3x5 : advantage of printing directly to card

Got it

Rasmussen's Circa PDA

DIY Planner - Rasmussen's Circa PDA - Comments