Old’s Cool?

Remember the Hipster PDA? It was a bundle of index cards held together with a binder clip, used as a personal organizer.

Invented in the early aughts by a guy in his 30s named Merlin Mann—originally as a joke—it caught on. It helped people get stuff done. And it helped Mann work around his ADHD.

But I’ve always wondered, what if someone in their 70s—discovering their brain worked in a way that called for some simple organization—tried to popularize a paper-and-pen substitute for those early PDAs?

Would popular journalists have said, “Wow, what a cool idea”?

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