Business Card File

Here’s another one for the GTD and planner crowd. Like I wrote previously staples has these fancy new business card wallets. I bought one I couldn’t resist. I see how they can be useful in a number of ways.

In my new position I’m striving to make contacts that are useful, I won’t go into it too much here but I’ve found in this new position that I’m getting business cards from people. Like I’ve said in my previous posts business card are the best for quickly passing off contact info. So as I’ve picked up a few cards here and there I’ve realized I like to keep them on me.

Since I don’t have a fancy cell phone and I’ve already maxed out my 12 number phone book, I need to keep the cards on me. I figured I’ll have the card file on me at all times. So I needed a way to organize it. Post-it tabs are my solution. It turns a card file into a portable rolodex. I’ve divided it up into personal and work numbers. My boss’s card is the separator for the work cards and my significant other’s card is the divider for the personal cards. I keep cards to my website and art in the back and work business cards in the front. Cards as I collect them are stored in the front pocket

One additional item that I made for this is a card of post-it tabs. I used an old starbucks card, put large tabs on the front and small tabs on the back, 2 of each color and then a small stack of notes on there too. That way I always have post-its available at all times.

Comments

[feli]

What an interesting Idea. I am reading and doing som research on GTD and this helpful. :*)

[LessHerger]

Thanks! I think that the old gift card with the tabs on it is going to be most useful. I may or may not use the file as described above, but I know I'm going to use it in some fashion.