The Suspect: Oxford Note Card Case

Index cards mean business. In fact, they scream importance! After all, what is normally stored on an index card?

Forever they have been used to store contact information in your handy-dandy Rolodexes and used by kitchen cooks to house their secret family recipes. School children and college students use them by the dozens as flash cards and many great (and not-so-great) speeches have been conducted from index cards. Needless to say, they’re useful and when you pass by a flipped over index card, you’re mind thinks “importance” and you bend over to see what kind of tid-bit of information may have been left behind.

Yes, yes. That’s all good. But a post on index cards? Well, yes, but no. This post is on my index card carrier- or my pocket protector for index cards. But it is so much more than that, this Oxford Note Card Case is beautiful for so many reasons.

Evidentiary Support #1: Protection

Yes, I have seen many note card carriers in the past, many of them in box form. That's what makes this one so great, its slim and makes organizing piles of note cards a cinch. No more box-y case to tote around, no more rubber-banned cards falling out of their assigned pile, no more wasted index cards falling to the bottomless backpack never to be seen or heard from again until your test has flown by and your question or vocab word unstudied. This card case protects cards from backpack elements, in a slim carrier designed for easier organization.

Evidentiary Support #2: The Pockets

Okay, so maybe I was a little dramatic earlier, but let me explain why. With the two pockets (one pictured with the Oxford insert above, the other to our right), or note card display slots on both sides of this carrier, I can easily label which class or project each note card case is for- which, if you use note cards for studying, is a much better solution than the awful rubber ban system. In fact, this sleuth's partner-in-crime dubbed it "Law School Approved".

Evidentiary Support #3: The Pen Holder

You've got your note cards easily organized and on-hand, why not throw in the full package and add a pen holder to it as well? Well, I'm not as excited about the pen holder part as most would be, but I guess that's just because I know I could never settle on one single pen to fill the note card case slot- they're are so many wonderful ones to choose from, am I wrong? But for the average person, it may prove useful.

The Oxford Note Card Case holds your standard 3" x 5" note card and the case has a smooth gel-ish feel to it and is somewhat flexible. It comes with 25 note cards, but could easily fit double that amount. It also comes in more than a few colors, so you could easily color coordinate with your classes (which we all do, right?).