Posting this discussion on an Internet web site is sort of antithetical to the purpose but anyhow, AskMetafilter recently had a thread about anti-technology “life hacks” – ways that technologically adept people may be rejecting high-tech in favour of other options.
The person who posted the question cited the Hipster PDA, basically a stack of index cards held together with a paper clip, as the sort of thing they were looking for.