The red overlay shows the sizes of the punches I've tried and how much paper they remove. The first one was too big. The second one was too small. But the third one? Just right. Zsa Zsa, my Studio 44 is home this weekend for a touch of case repair, so she helped me type up cards for the remaining ideas that I'd jotted down over vacation. I was concerned about running the perforated edge down into the works of a typewriter -- visions of the line of holes being chewed up -- but I needn't have worried: Zsa Zsa offered a gentle touch and was most well-mannered.
The saga:
- The original post about index-card plotting
- And then, "Hey, it works"
- Followed by trying to improve it by using edge-punched cards
6 comments:
I wait with bated breath for a demonstration video of your new filing system.
As do I. But then again I haven't even experimented with roll a bind yet. Sigh
Video eh? Hmm. Do I detect a whiff of disbelief in The System? (Or more likely, a little trouble grasping the concept?)
I just had all my NaNo 2008 cards punched this morning -- 200 of them, whew! -- so I'm going to set up my practice system on that stack.
Not at all. We here in the typosphere just happen to like anapr0n (That is, Analog Porn. Yeah.)
The System is bad for my self-esteem. I'm obviously too slapdash to organize this well. Or at all. It seems hopeless to punch holes in my post-it notes, for example.
Please don't stress out about it Monda. As you might have noticed, I tend to fixate -- HARD -- and using index cards worked like gangbusters for me last November. I estimate that I typed up about 200 of the things just for that one novel. I need a better way to sort through them, and this might be it.
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