Other examples of anti-technology life-hacks?

jtajta — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 07:04:47 -0800

I'm trying to compile a list of life-hacks and such that have a particular anti-technology bent to them. I hate to bring up the Hipster PDA, I think all the hype it got is kinda silly, but I'm very interested in the notion of highly technology-adept people rejecting electronics in favor of simpler, older methods/materials.

Can anyone help me think of other notable examples of this phenomenon from the life-hack, gtd world? Neo-Hipster-Ludditiesm?

Thanks!

Am I asking too much of iCal?

NewGear — Sun, 28 Aug 2005 18:24:49 -0800

[OSX FILTER] I want to print on index cards, but indirectly. Help me figure out how to print to a PDF sized at 3"x5". Okay, so I've decided to follow the crowd (or at least a segment of the crowd) and start using a variation of the Hipster PDA. I want to print out my daily, weekly, and monthly calendars from iCal onto 3x5 index cards. I'd like to use OSX's "save as PDF" function to print the files as PDFs, then take them to work where I can print them to my heart's content for free. The problem is, when I try to print them, the month header and the little colour-coded guide to the different calendar types take up most of the card, and the actual meat of the information, the calendar itself, is all crammed into a space the height of a centimeter, and is run-together and worthless.

Currently, I'm creating a custom paper size of 3"x5" in Page Setup, turning off the "Print To-Do Lists" and "Print Mini-Months" options in the Print Dialog under "iCal", and then saving them as PDF. I'm running OSX 10.3.9, and iCal 1.5.5.

Is there any hope of getting iCal to print nice, clean calendars (monthly, weekly, and daily) onto 3x5 index cards, or am I SOL with iCal and need to migrate to some other program? I was so hoping this would be easy...

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Other examples of anti-technology life-hacks?

Am I asking too much of iCal?