That's a good idea. How big is your needle? Could it stand up to emergency prying tasks or the like? I've been thinking of trying something similar by making a combo marline spike/burnisher/scratch awl/etc.<br><br>I generally carry a Filofax as well as my Kyocera/Palm phone on a daily basis. The Filofax is mainly for notes, since cellulose is still better than silicon for that purpose. I only got the Palm because I found that it actually became a useful device when they integrated it with a cellular phone.