3. Never buy or sell ... (In "The Index Card," Pollack and Olen altered this to "10% t0 20%"). 5. Pay your credit card balance in full every month. 6. Maximize tax-advantaged savings vehicles ...

Pollack said that the best personal finance advice "can fit on a 3-by-5 index card ... how is this person being paid?" Rule No. 6 on the index card is to make your financial adviser commit ...

To prepare for this initiation, I bought a lifetime supply of index cards. On each four-by-six rectangle, I distilled the major points of a book. My index cards—portable, visual, tactile ...

The perfect place is the humble index card. Sure, index cards have come and gone from our personal organization systems. Fewer of us use them to, say, record family recipes, but index cards are ...