Or, save yourself the cost and launch Microsoft Word. Head to your nearest office supplies store and buy a stack. And we can use them to sharpen the capacity of our data-numbed brains. So thankfully, index cards are still around. The deluge of information has swamped us again. The term does sound familiar, doesn't it? People had problems with information overload even three hundred years ago. ~ Anne Lamott (Author of Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life)Ĭarl Linnaeus invented the index card and he is often considered as a pioneer of information retrieval. I believe in lists and I believe in taking notes, and I believe in index cards for doing both.
And I am not the only one who finds the productivity in it.
