I’ve tried Evernote and Scrivener, paper planners and Moleskines, and seemingly every app under the sun to capture my ideas. But I keep coming back to one simple, underrated tool to catch those ...

For many of us, pen and paper are our preferred tools to capture our thoughts, set goals, and remember things. If that describes you, you'll probably love this index card organizing system. Called the ...

A 3-by-5-inch unlined white index card found in a dark file drawer in Denver details the 1904 naturalization of Jane Bang’s grandfather in uneven typewritten letters. The card represents a document ...

Some 78 years' worth of data on 1,300 Michigan lakes that had been recorded on index cards has been brought back to usability in a yearslong digitization project. Now in public electronic databases, ...

Like every graduate student, I once holed up in the library cramming for my doctoral oral exams. This ritual hazing starts with a long reading list. Come exam day, the scholar must prove mastery of a ...