Christopher writes –
I came up with this self-organizing post-it note that you can print on your home computer. It’s helped me immensely, and I’ve received so many compliments, that I decided to make it available for free online.
If you’re like me, you live your life on post-its. Everything from grocery lists, to new ideas, to super important phone numbers that I should never, ever lose. It means that when I’m looking for that super important number, I have to look through every other post-it to find the one I want.
ENTER THE OVERnote
The OVERnote is something I came up with to help me navigate this paper sea. Now my notes are self-catagorizing and I can find things at a glance.
OUTDRA.WS – Link.
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That’s great… but when you say you have to go through all your post-its to find a phone number, doesn’t that say something about your organizational method? Maybe it’s a good time to re-evaluate that strategy when that becomes a problem…
Silly question maybe, but how do you print on a post-it note? Doesn’t the sticky part cause a problem? I really like the design though. Great idea!
It seems like this would require an awful lot of work darkening the areas you don’t want to be visible.
Thanks for your nice note:
It’s a three step process: print out page one – this is the layout grid. Next, stick the super sticky post-its onto the grid. Finally, run this page covered in post-its back through your printer, printing the second page of the file onto your post-its. Now you have OVERnotes that you can use to better organize your life.
Because super sticky post-its stay sticky after multiple uses, I usually stick a few blank ones in the back of my weekly planner.
Great idea Phil! Thanks for the note :)
(btw: It’s DYNCorp, the CEO gets a little irritable when people add the ‘a’ or drop the ‘p’.)
Krylon makes a post-it-glue in-a-can product you could use to make free-form full page or odd-shaped post-its… or just to save money on 3m products and save your printer.
http://krylon.com/main/product_template.cfm?levelid=5&sub_levelid=8&productid=1734&content=product_details