tregenza ([info]tregenza) wrote,
@ 2008-04-23 09:48:00
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Contradictory
Lifehacker had great but completely contradictory tips today.

First up was the Carbon Copy Post-It Notes. Yes, Post-It Notes where you can keep a copy for your own records.

I suspect there are at least two people on the fList going "What a great idea, I must get some" but my reaction was WTF!


The next post was about tips on environmentally friendly computing as yesterday was apparently Earth Day. It included Aardvark which can save ink and paper but cleaning up unwanted banners and surrounding "fluff," prior to printing a page.

I'm sure someone ( Lewis Carrol? Douglas Adams?) has commented that being able to hold two contradictory ideas in our head is what makes us human but I don't think we will save the environment by printing a few less sides of A4 if we are also buying carbon-copy Post-It Notes.

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[info]littlemissjane
2008-04-23 09:41 am UTC (link)
Don't forget: Turn off lights when you're not using them to save the environment and leave lights on when you go out to deter burglars.

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[info]the_magician
2008-04-23 10:17 am UTC (link)
Grin!

I can think of only a few useful instances for carbon copy post-its, and they are things that mostly already have their own solutions (such as "While You Were Out" phone message pads).

And for most of the other situations I can think that having such a pad would be useful (giving your contact details to two people, keeping a copy of the shopping list you're sending off with someone etc.) just writing a second standard note would seem more practical.

Oh, wait, having followed the link, I now see it's a notebook that allows you to tear out a post-it sticky copy of what you wrote in the notebook. This makes a *lot* more sense :-) ... you could use it for keeping track of people joining a convention after the reg desk closes (you give them a sticky saying "night member, expires at 3am 24/4/2008" with their name on it, and you have a matching entry in your "logbook" ... ditto for green room drinks orders etc. ... it's a way of keeping a notebook full of the sticky messages you have handed out ... but still, how much time does it actually save? And how many of us have been using standard carbon paper (they must still sell it I guess, though I only see it in those small receipt books!) to copy our post-it messages into a notebook? Gosh, that's ZERO of you!

I've wanted something to remove the fluff on a page before printing, as it always annoys me when an extra page gets printed just to have the ebay copyright notice or the links at the bottom of a googlemaps/multimap page.

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[info]akicif
2008-04-23 11:19 am UTC (link)
I used to use a standard receipt book for that....

Degrotting web pages before printing is pretty useful. I lose most of the ads on a page with adblocker, but there are some sites I use fairly regularly where there are a whole bunch of offscreen, hidden or overlaid divs that all seem to want a page each....

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[info]alexmc
2008-04-23 10:33 am UTC (link)
Walt Whitman, apparently...

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/w/waltwhitma132584.html

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We were discussing copying post-it notes at work recently. We were thinking of using them (or cards and blutack) for Agile Programming - basically recording the different tasks on different post it notes and moving them around to help keep track of what was being worked on.

However the question of recording them came up. We thought of just photographing them every so often....

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