Pile of Index Cards

Perhaps people already aware a resemblance between index cards and presentation software like Power Point or Keynote.

I tried to combine them before, but soon I failed. I try to include many slides in a single Kenote file. It provides preview of the slides, but soon the file size grows huge, and then takes some time to ’save’. It makes difficult to synchronize and take backup.

To overcome these problem, I feedback ideas of the PoIC system/method to the digital now. I made a Keynote theme that is called as “dPoIC” (shorten for digital PoIC). Basic rules of the analog PoIC (aPoIC) are applied for the dPoIC file and it’s management.

- One slide for one file.
- File name equals to title of the slide.
- Use four kinds of card.
- All dPoIC files are stored in “Dock” folder.
- All dPoIC files are sort by creation date.
- Organize Task Force later.

The first rule is quite important feed back from analog world. I do not include multiple topic in a single file. There are some differences between the d- and aPoIC.

- Time stamp is not included in a slide.
- The GTD slide is optional.
- The tag is optional.

Time stamp is not needed since the file possess it’s own creation date. The GTD slide and the tag is include just for consistency between aPoIC. The GTD is processed on aPoIC.

I know there are many application like this already exist. Such as, Devon Think, Omni Graffle, etc. But the Keynote plus some feed backed knowledge from aPoIC provides us simplicity, ease of use (I really like “auto grid”), and high degree of freedom. The dPoIC slides can be used for presentation seamlessly as well.

Here, I DO NOT assume to print out the dPoIC slide on actual 5×3 size index cards. It introduces many restriction that is not essencial at all. Rather, I use ordinary paper size like A4 and B5 for print out.

# Now I’m looking for a good icon for the “Dock” folder (o_o)

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