Mrs. pocket's index card organizer

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[@pocket83squared]

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[@ThumpertTheFascistCottontail]

"She's woman of theory, I'm a man of action" Sounds like a winning team. Nice work 👍

[@rickdff62]

I used index cards on rings for flash cards while in college years ago. Really cool idea adding covers and tabbed index cards. Kudos to Mrs. Pocket for the design!

[@giselalemus9057]

WOW it was fascinating watching you create this awesome organizer. Now I want all the tools 😊 Thanks for sharing

[@CheveeDodd]

I used something similar to this as a paper boy in the 90s. I think it was supplied by the newspaper and each customer had a card. It helped keep track of who did and didn't get Sunday paper and who paid each month. I love organization like this, but rarely have the gumption to stick with it. 😥

[@cmerek1]

Thanks Mrs Pocket. That was fun.

[@MrMagicBlox]

those infomercial segments made me chuckle. I'll have to give this a try with 8.5x11 sheets!

[@annalockwood3021]

Have the productivity nerds discovered you yet? Index card based organizing systems are quite a thing. Me? I've been using 4x6 index cards as memory prompts for one thing or another since I was a kid. Now that I'm a lot older, I tape them to the mirror, LOL! I've been thinking of creating sets of recipe index cards to share with family. A nice cover and some tabs would make it really handy. Thanks for all the practical advice on protecting the end pieces.

[@pocket83squared]

My own organizational philosophy is more of a 'pile-up-sticky-notes' approach. This way, you can simply cover up the ideas you haven't got around to yet, without technically disposing of them. It's a way softer process than guilt. Sometimes it's nice to gently forget problems. Also prevents coffee rings.

[@69adrummer]

Are these for family recipes? Work/business contacts?! I could see making a set of recipe cards then giving out to family members at a special event. What a cool idea!!

[@bondee5865]

The clipboard is perfect material for writing on. Love the binding and the ability to rearrange the notes‼️ Great video 👍

[@pocket83squared]

Thanks ;)

[@ElizabethGreene]

If you fiddle with the center-to-center distance a little you might be able to do them so a regular three-hole punch can pop holes in the card. Your drilling approach is going to be way faster though.

[@VagabondTE]

These might actually be a good project for me and my plastic. They're the perfect size and I could probably sell these. Tho, I don't really like those ring shaped snaps so I'm trying to think of another way to hold them together.

[@SeraphimKnight]

As a 30-something who has a phone within reach at all times, I've a hard time imagining what use I'd have for index cards now that I'm done with "normal" education, but I assume a lot of less technologically-inclined people would appreciate them 😁

[@bcvahsfam]

I like the card organizer and the video. I don't have the tools, though. 😢 i would buy one or two from you.

[@yohanesliong4818]

Nice. Thank you

[@LiaVinicius]

I appreciate this organizer 💚

[@intevolver]

Just lovely!

[@ironhead65]

This is perfect! I just picked up 10 2’x4’ sheets off hardboard. I was planning to make little boxes for drawer organizers. I had been investigating ideas on how to steal it against oil and other possible liquids (say from a drill bit that has been used to put a hole in metal). Thank you! (I’m not talking about an oil bath!)

[@pocket83squared]

Poly is your answer. Hardboard's longevity goes up by 10 with a coat. Drill press stuff does get metal and oil on everything! My pine drawers' insides look like they belong to a mechanic.

[@Wordsnwood]

is it compatible with android? 🤨

[@pocket83squared]

Thanks for showing interest! Be sure to download the FREE app, and you'll receive hundreds of great usage tips!

[@Wordsnwood]

@@pocket83squared Awesome, just tell me your Telegram or WhatsApp number and I'll be sure to give you lots of money! 😁

[@TheZequitube]

@@pocket83squared why does it ask for my blood type?

[@mavrick1992]

Holy smokes! I have missed you Pocket

[@drhfhs]

Thanks

[@Hlkpf]

For the census: 1x "immune to organization" and 1x "incapable of organization"

[@maxximumb]

nice

[@jcr723]

Very pleasant video!

[@rolandvos]

Super!

[@AgentWest]

Interesting how just adding those decals at the end made these organizers look more professional than just about anything else. I guess it is the combination of the machined perfection we now expect from a product and the imperfect charm of a hand-made item. As a side note, rule VS ruler to describe the measuring tool. Personally i am used to 'ruler' since it is a tool that is actively used (think screw _driver_ ), while some prefer 'rule'. You seem to be in the second category, so why is that? This is not a question of who is right, simply a discussion of reasons.

[@pocket83squared]

Thank you. This project was a simple one, but I do think the finished product has a beauty in this case. It (simplicity) becomes manifest as elegance. To me, beauty and elegance are sort of inextricable. Rule vs ruler in usage: Since you're being so non-combative about it, I'll tell you honestly. Without looking it up, I don't know the difference. To _why_ I would say one over the other, the answer is rather obvious: in general, I try to use speech that's considered correct (on video). Again, this reply is without looking it up-but I suppose I've always thought of 'ruler' as being an Americanized verb-to-noun sort of thing. Rule being a thing that one rules¹ with, it seems like ruler might be the technically less 'correct' usage. Please consider the number of snobby (often European) English speakers who I've encountered, who've decided beforehand that they'd know better than I the True origins of, and thus applications for, any given particular label, based on their own comfortable dialect. I try to avoid those discussions. To me, it's a ruler. ¹"rule," verb, as in indexing something mathematically, linearly. ... And now that I've looked it up, I think I'll probably say 'ruler' in videos from now on.

[@VagabondTE]

Very nice project Mrs pocket. I wonder if watered down acrylic paint would make for a nice look. I'm guessing that you would want to put down a base layer color first so it doesn't break apart when you're painting something else.

[@CigaretteTricks]

Head on shamwow AND magic bullet? I'm buying everything right now I have to be honest with myself sometimes - stuff like these things are wonderful. I love them and I want to use them and I crave organization in my life. I've bought things and made things like this to help me fill that void before. Then I never use them. They sit with 2 or 3 pages used and then lie in wait for me to find them years later and curse myself for never keeping up with them. But boy do I like buying and making them. Either way thanks for the entertainment content. I'm glad some people can stay more organized than I can.

[@pocket83squared]

I'm with you-it's a well thought out, well-built project. It works great. And I'll never use one! Some people benefit from organizing in this way, but I do not. Mine is more of a 'pile-up-the-sticky-notes' approach. But in all seriousness, my wife loves this thing and swears by it. She's been using two of them for over a year now and still raves about them, which is why the video was made.

[@VagabondTE]

@@pocket83squared Yup, post-it notes and scraps of paper. Does it work? not really no, lol. But I recently hung up a large piece of heavy foam board with thumbtacks and that's helping a lot. Plus I also take a lot of pictures of scraps of information and dump them in a info folder on my phone.

[@pocket83squared]

@@VagabondTE Unorganizable folders of miscellaneous scraps of paper stored as images in a phone? *°÷₪ר,¸¸,ר₪÷°`°÷°÷₪ר,¸¸,ר₪÷°`°÷BRILLIANT!°÷₪ר,¸¸,ר₪÷°`°÷°÷₪ר,¸¸,ר₪÷°`°÷* Better than my clipboards that get emptied into different boxes monthly. Heavy foam board with thumbtacks is the worst idea ever, though. My desk pile still beats that; at least it's still only horizontal (potential energy hazards and all).

[@VagabondTE]

@@pocket83squared the foam board was just a piece of trash that randomly hung up on the wall. It won't last but it's working pretty well right now and I barely use it so I think it's fine. And the phone pictures work because it's very little information I need to keep track of.

[@pocket83squared]

​@@VagabondTE Oh, I'm just poking at you. For guys who generate ideas, there's really no storing them all. Use them or lose them. Many of my old gems I've just reluctantly let go, since I know I'll not actually return to them. They keep getting further displaced by new ideas & excuses. They can stay there in those boxes for now. What are our alternatives? Invest even more time in a video presentation that gets 2.5K views? Spend a ton on IP protection that I won't have the gumption to enforce? With any luck, maybe those boxes of ideas won't get burned immediately after I'm gone. Then the finder can inherit the dilemma. Dad told me once that my brains would be a curse. He was right. The dummies out there get to live comfortable lives filled with easy jobs, cruise ships, amusement parks, and salted margaritas. Instead, I obsess over boring-ass puzzles, tinkering with minutia and abstract _a priori_ concerns-as the other grownup kids play. Welcome to the dorks' club. There's no satisfaction here; discomfort is our impetus. Ooh, that's a good one. Jot that down.

[@Nono-hk3is]

I used to be able to find hardboard at the big box hardware stores, but I haven't seen it lately.

[@pocket83squared]

Uh oh. I've been meaning to pick up a sheet, too. Personally, I like the stuff.

[@fireprooffox3664]

What age range is this product good for? I have an infant who has been begging me to get him some organizers for his college classes.

[@jayjones4419]

I need this!!!!❤

[@ironhead65]

lol- the great thing about this method, it doesn’t even require water! - me looks at heavily “watered” down bottle of dish soap

[@VagabondTE]

same, lol

[@troymilleraz]

👍

[@Jane_Snow_]

There has to be something available that would do the same thing without going through all this hassle?

[@pocket83squared]

You either want it or you don't. If you want it bad enough, it's as sure as July firecrackers that the consumer-grade version will be inferior. Like so many things, one is left facing the central theme to my KZbin channels: _you can only have this if you'll make one._ And with my most honestly non-sarcastic reflection, I'll ask you, what do you hassle yourself with instead?

[@ebayposhman]

Why don’t u make these and sell them

[@dhs186]

genius

[@IrishAnonymous01]

Any plans to do another Halloween garage laboratory this year? The ones you've posted are very creative.

[@pocket83squared]

Nope. Never again. Where I live, there's about zero% chance of seeing a trick-or-treater. Someday I might make a DIY facehugger tutorial, though.

[@JESUSistheHEALER]

Hi Can you tell me where you got the stencil for the design on the front?

[@pocket83squared]

Sure. They're rub-on decals. They came from the local dollar store.

[@ironhead65]

Ok one last comment. If you were using hardboard to make a box, would you finger joint, butt joint, other? Would you glue first, or seal it first? Glue first, material will absorb the glue. Glue last, easier to seal and the glue has a chance to sit there and not get lost by too much absorption (in my head like glueing and grain). Thank you again for the video!

[@pocket83squared]

Tough one. Depends on size of drawers/boxes and how long you'd like for them to last. Nails, even the little 18-Gauge ones, are probably going to spald thin hardboard. That leaves us with friction-fits and adhesives. For quality, box joints are the way forward. For a drawer, a base can be used to attach the four walls from underneath. As for the glue question, I won't try to answer that with authority without experimenting. My gut inclination would be to heavily wood-glue the box joints in construction, then, once dry, rub in more glue while sanding to fill in the voids. Only _then_ I'd poly the finished drawers. But this is all speculative, so I would highly advise breaking a few test joints to practice first. Wood glue has a much higher viscosity than polyurethane, so I'd expect to see much less absorption by the hardboard with glue. Given the huge amount of surface area in a box joint, I suspect that it'll work just fine. Let me know, eh?

[@pocket83squared]

If this is a shop project, you might also consider using a bead of construction adhesive on the inside corners of the drawers to strengthen them. Sharp corners are only good for catching dust and tiny drill bits anyway.

[@ironhead65]

@@pocket83squared yes, shop project. For my mill cutters and bits and bobs as well as silver and silver and deming drill bit storage (larger than 1/2”). Basically divide one entire drawer with small boxes. Similar to what you used the “dado” box joinery for in one of you’re older videos. I’ll play around a bit and see. Re: construction adhesive, I’ve never used it, does it dry hard? Or will the corner be gummy (I’m thinking like some caulk).

[@pocket83squared]

@@ironhead65 Not used it? Oh my. Construction adhesive might be the perfect solution then. It dries quite hard, and I expect you'll be using it on everything soon. Little hardboard shop drawers are the perfect project to try it out on: Liquid Nails will absolutely not get sucked-in to thirsty hardboard. However, now you'll have a discoloration to deal with. LN may or may not take a stain.

[@ironhead65]

@@pocket83squared since these will be in a drawer and purely functional, sounds like liquid nails, then poly is the way forward for me. I shall give that a try a few things and report back!

[@carmenM-ey6qy]

I don’t have a table saw 😫

[@pocket83squared]

Clipboard can be cut with a utility knife. This video will show you how: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rp2peXeZgJmBhdU

[@mulholla]

Nice project, but I couldn't help thinking a normal ring binder punch would have made a cleaner job of those cards? Or did you think it would just take too long?

[@pocket83squared]

Are you imagining what a hole punch does to paper? Next, let's imagine punching card stock. How many can we punch through at a time? Now let's imagine punching 100 cards. Finally, imagine wanting to punch holes through several hundred cards and some hardboard.

[@thomashverring9484]

@@pocket83squared I don't have to imagine ... I've done it so many time ... Next time I'll try the drill press! (My biggest mistake was punching hundreds of foam rubber sheets. A paper punch really loves that!)

[@ThumpertTheFascistCottontail]

A piece of sharpened tube makes a great drill bit for paper. Creates clean holes. Just be mindful of heat build up.

[@pocket83squared]

Yes. That does work! The first organizer was made with a sharpened metal tube. The process didn't make mention in the video for length reasons, but also because it's problematic. There are two ways to sharpen a pipe, and they're both limited in their depth of cut. If the outside pipe edge is sharp, the thickness of the paper circles will add up quickly and fill up the pipe. If the inside edge is sharp, the thickness of the pipe causes it to jamb against the paper holes after only around ¼" of depth. All in all, cutting with a pipe is a great trick, but not the best way for a large amount of paper.

[@davebullard]

"Product has been shown to combust when exposed to uncontrolled oxidization reactions." 😁

[@pocket83squared]

Chemistry humor. It's like a sublimation taking place on a Las Vegas sidewalk. Hold your breath-it's gonna end up totally dry and completely uncool.

[@therook6139]

"heavily watered down dish soap" "This method doesn't even require water!" Seriously, though that's a great technique

[@pocket83squared]

This is what I like to call an _ironoboros:_ it is when a statement has been made so obviously incorrect as to have its untruth become self-evident, in which case the irony becomes only after somebody believes to've found a discrepancy. C'mon. You're poking a cactus.

[@therook6139]

@@pocket83squared A poor attempt at humor on my part. I was thinking in the same sense as your disclaimer, but alas, internet comments are a poor medium. Thanks as always for fantastic content and ideas. I have been slowly building a wood shop and have incorporated a few things from your videos over the years.

[@VagabondTE]

@@pocket83squared ironoboros.. I like it. This is very much how my humor works.

[@pocket83squared]

@@therook6139 Of course. Thanks for being a good sport. Smile emoji.

[@JThriftybee]

:)

[@ElizabethGreene]

Do you have an instagram where you could you throw up some pictures of your sanding block, table saw stuff pushers, and miter saw stuff holder-downers?

[@pocket83squared]

Haha. Should it be embarrassing for me to say that I don't know what Instagram is? But all of those things have been shown in my videos at one point or another. Sanding blocks: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mYDHd5iQr7mAi8k John Heisz's push-stick: kzbin.info/www/bejne/goibgYiplreGhrs Miter saw? I'll have to think about that one. I think I filmed one about its details and didn't release it. Maybe a viewer will remember. Oh! There's this one, about cutting tiny slices: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eKvdgJapfc9lntU

[@ElizabethGreene]

@@pocket83squared Thanks! My remaining fingertips appreciate it. :)

[@Ungtartog]

Oh! I see.. you are over here more now.. I posted a reachout to see if you had accounts on other social media sites. Is there a venue for casual conversations, debates and arguments with the manifold creative and brilliant mind of Pocket83? Or just here? Do you blog or bullshit anywhere?

[@pocket83squared]

It's not a control thing for me, exactly. It's more like a try-to-keep-from-losing-all-control thing. It's hard to find a better place for casual conversation that doesn't intrude itself too much. Since commenting really get treated as more of a mindless, secondary commodity here under the 'Tubes, this is (inadvertently) as good as it gets. That said, I actually had to pick your comment out of the bin for that awfully vulgar word. Ironically, the more the external world presses down on me to become civil, the more hostile I want to become. Consequence of being a contrarian, I guess. I'd like to think of it as being a divergent thinker, though. Anyway, in real life, I'd offend a whole sloop-full of drunken sailors by just using my default informal. And here e-moderation wants to protect me form curses? Too bad the unfiltered comments already broke me a decade ago. At least here we can freely exchange while I'm still in _some_ control. If you comment frequently on other channels, you might've noticed that often people don't seem to respond? This is because far more of your comments get spam-blocked and/or removed than most people realize. Neutral is best for channel growth, and the hidden hatred still counts as engagement. ugh. Pernicious, Machiavellian attempt at control. It so reminds me of the _Twilight Zone_ episode, 'To See the Invisible Man.' Here, I try to keep every attempt at fair expression, even if I disagree with it. The only commenters blocked are those who've already had repeated warnings to be constructive. Very seldom are things removed. Thus, please, feel free to say whatever you like here; I enjoy your brilliant ʇᴉɥsllnq, too, you know!

[@Ungtartog]

@@pocket83squared I relate to this. "Ironically, the more the external world presses down on me to become civil, the more hostile I want to become."... I don't think this is abnormal. Ironically, I feel an overabundance of censure only exacerbates the mentalities and behaviors it is meant to squelch. For some reason, it is exceedingly difficult to make this clear to the agents advocating for such censure. These strictures persist under the rubric of supressing "Hate Speech, Racism, Misogyny, Xenophobia, Etc." ... it is hard to measure, but the sloppy methods employed, in my estimation, have done far more colloratal damage to healthy expression than they have been successful at mitigating anti-social behavior. When "unusual" behavior is equated with being suspicious or even criminal... eccentrics are under threat. Destin over at "Smarter Every Day" had a great video on this topic as it pertains to KZbin. I forget the name of the video but "Don't Lose Your Voice" was the moral of the story. Imma go track down that Twillight Zone episode you mentioned.

[@Ungtartog]

@@pocket83squared Great TZ episode,, just got a chance to watch it. The SmarterEveryDay episode I was referencing is #266 "KZbin is Changing. More about being manipulated by algorithms, than overt censure... but related.

[@pocket83squared]

Disclaimer: please don't read the following as though I have a crabby tone. It's a pleasure to exchange with you. You are one of a small handful, those here who I wish I really knew. Just let me vent. Wrt #266: the message in general is certainly a fair point, but I'll respond to the video's impetus in true-to-form contrarian style. This will sound a touch harsh, but I'm not sympathetic. Given Dustin's 10+ million (by subs) audience, he's already compromised his voice in order to be able to achieve that level of exposure. Mass media will now expel every unwashed message; there are, necessarily, refinements being made to any presentation of such scale. In fact, the organic, slightly impromptu feel that the video carries is itself a contrivance. It's disingenuous for him to believe that he can present a genuine message here. There are only presentations here. It's all fake. Let's take a lateral step. There's this crappy 'literary' magazine that I have a subscription to. _Poets & Writers,_ it's called. A nice, well-written gesture from the Mrs., and so I try to read it over my lunch on occasion, at least until my stomach turns. Over time, the mag has carved for itself a fairly obvious central theme: inclusion. And to this idea I am not naturally hostile. As a young person, I was a monster who gradually developed via artistic channels into the Left-leaning, Classical Liberal's ideal. But the adult me-as a fair-skinned, property owning, and whisky-drinking male hetro antitheist-I am now under sufficient castigation to've become resentful of such an ultra progressive periodical. In a too-ironic reversal of emphasis, the lit rag _actually_ avoids any depiction of such a likeness as mine. No, I'm not all that hung up on it. Fairness is relative, temporary, and it's not justice. My type had our time, and we've enjoyed abusing our privileges for too long. In fact, the sinusoidal aspect of this reversal sort of makes me smile. Restores my faith in statistically-emergent Karma. No, it's the magazine's selfish writing that irks me. It's fucking awful. Every other paragraph begins with an "I," and those that don't are probably just using some other personal pronoun. There's hardly anything in it worth reading, unless you enjoy a whine and cheese lunch. Though it does have its occasional gold nuggets. And here's one I'd like to share, from Sarah Fay's little self-indulgent piece, _The Fact-Checked Memoir..._ : [The trend was (and still is) to question truth’s place in memoir. Three assumptions justify the truth-isn’t-important-in-memoir position: (1) memory is fallible, (2) actual truth isn’t as important as “emotional” or “interior” “truth,” and/or (3) life doesn’t follow tidy narrative arcs, but coherent storytelling often relies on them.] Wow, is that potent stuff. No, the new emphasis on 'stories' and their Relativistic slash Postmodernist displacement of objective reality doesn't sit well with my 'Imma be a scientist when I grow up' background. But its affect on narrative presentation is undeniable. _Some_ compromises must be made whenever we use the bullhorn, lest the mob take it away from us. Hunter Thompson knew that journalistic truth was a naive ideal, even going so far as to once admit, "If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people (including me) would be rotting in prison cells." Truth thus has to be given soft edges. Why should this bother us? We've become used to ambiguity-and even paradox. The most seemingly solid matter still has a nebulous boundary at the level of the atomic. To see our most firm beliefs slowly dissolve, we need only look more closely at them. Do I trust that Dustin wants to keep his message 'pure'? Sure. Benefit of the doubt. But also, I still see others' most earnest expressions (as my Mom used to say) in that _I believe that you believe it_ sort of way. Even the most quick-to-censor channels still think that they're preserving free speech by suppressing 'trolling.' It's all fuzzy edges.

[@pocket83squared]

Oh, yeah. lol: www.pw.org/content/the_fully_factchecked_memoir_backing_up_facts_standing_behind_truth