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My Kingdom for the Right Sized Pad!

June 1, 2004

My Kingdom for the Right Sized Pad!

Are you like the average computerist and have 10,000 notes scribbled all over the place? Can your chicken scratch be seen on napkins, envelopes, small children, dogs, iguanas; anything in range? Is everything that can be written on (and even things that can’t) filled with your illegible analog script?

Web urls, product model #’s, device driver names, email accounts, passwords, article notes, phone numbers, reminders, checklists, wish lists - all this and more is usually scattered all over a 20mile radius of any computer user’s room. Notes crammed in desks, accidently tossed out, obscured by coffee or cola spills, lost and/or forgotten is the plague of a computerist’s life.

There’s just no way to write it all down in one place. Have a pad, forget where it is, so you scrawl something on a postcard that’s closer. Writing everything is just not doable on the computer, far too awkward and unavailable in case of emergencies like power outages, computer crashes, typhoons, The Inquisition, not to mention stampedes of lustful oxen. This dilemma doth plague the computer user and their hectic, eclectic note-taking for eons. Give or take eons.

My kingdom for the perfect pad of paper! A pad where you can organize and write down everything! Whoever invents the perfect of pad of paper will rule the world! One that’s not too small that you have no place to write! One not too big it gets in the way of the mousepad or keyboard; or you have to bitch-slap the sleepy cat off the desk into the wastebasket filled with cranky piranhas just to lay it flat.

Ever look in a drawer and see how many random pieces of writeable material with unorganized indecipherable notes of old are? How does one organize such a mess?

You don’t.

Just venting. God my desk is a mess!

Hope you all lay awake at night thinking about this.

My kingdom for the perfect pad of paper!

Posted by Vincent Navarino (who has an iPod) at 10:18PM • 7 comments »

7 comments

Comment from: gweeptish
PISH TOSH All you need is a PDA that never loses power or is powered by one of them perpetual motion machines as seen on TV
June 2, 2004 @ 12:27AM
Comment from: Observer · http://www.deathpix.com
I saw that one...the one by Ron Popeil, right? Oh, I can even remember the tag line - "Set it [in motion] and FORGET IT!" As for the notepad dilemma, if the mouse, etc, is on a flat surface (like a desk - not a keyboard drawer with a pull out mouse pad), why don't you get a legal pad, trace the shape of your mouse pad onto it, and cut out the part of the pad where the mouse pad would reside? Then you can set the pad in the middle of the notepad and have writing surface all around it. Just an idea. PATENT PENDING!
June 2, 2004 @ 09:33AM
Wow! I actually kinda like Obsie's idea! :)
June 2, 2004 @ 11:16AM
Comment from: Rob
I use soda cans for note pads... Does that count?
June 2, 2004 @ 12:25PM
Vinny: You have too much time on your hands! Try a mini legal pad (7.5" X 5") and a valium. :o)
June 3, 2004 @ 01:56PM
Obsie: Your idea was well thought out and practical, which is why the hairs on the back of my head are standing up. No trace of mockery is a sign of your mocking, HA! Nice try! Rob: No. Gizmo: I went for now with an imperfect 3 subject 9 1/2" x 6" mini notebook, 150sheets. The problem with non-spiral pads is the pages are all over the desk and not in the pad hence more clutter. Note: I still haven't cleaned the desk so that's one more item to the pile, ack!
June 4, 2004 @ 11:51AM
Comment from: the problem solver
Boy are you grumpy this week. Might I suggest a good MAXI for your problem .........WITH WINGS
June 4, 2004 @ 08:27PM

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