Maybe you’ve seen a geek-hipster walking down Main Street writing on a stack of index cards bound by a bull-clip. Several card-carrying members of the I’m-a-geek-I-swear club have ditched their Blackberry, Palm or Windows Mobile devices in favor of the cheaper and, in some ways, more elegant “Hipster PDA.” These things have unlimited memory (500 index cards for $2.79), are ultimately portable and sharing information with a new business contact, spouse or friend is as easy as pulling a card out of the clip. I’ve been using mine for at least 7 months now and rarely leave home without it. It’s never in the way, and even if I lose it, no biggie, right? Give it a shot.

*The Hipster PDA finds itself at home most effectively in David Allen’s GTD system, but that’s a story for another day.