I saw the same questions asked on the Bogleheads forums and I'm curious to see what the HN crowd says.
Ask HN: What are some example of low tech improving your life?
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#2How low is low? Wheel good, fire good. Knife, mixed results.
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#3I recently started using scissors more in the kitchen. It made my life easier. / I hope it's what you mean by low tech.
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#4Going back from ToDo-Lists in Apps to simple paper and tick mark them.
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#5I recently started using scissors more in the kitchen. It made my life easier. / I hope it's what you mean by low tech.
To cut food? I've been learning this trick too.
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#6The referenced Bogleheads thread: https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=302399...
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#7I enjoy carrying a paper diary and using it along with a fountain pen to take notes and remembrances. Looking back through them is much more valuable than looking back through any sort of digital calendar or journal, while being much less expensive and prone to disintegration.
Gardening and the simple joy of starting seedlings and watching them grow into fruitful plants is another life-improver enhanced by the most minimal of tech (although choosing seeds online and their low cost delivery to my home is probably mediated by some considerable tech nowadays).
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#8I enjoy carrying a paper diary and using it along with a fountain pen to take notes and remembrances. Looking back through them is much more valuable than looking back through any sort of digital calendar or journal, while being much less expensive and prone to disintegration. Gardening and the simple joy of starting seedlings and watching them grow into fruitful plants is another life-improver enhanced by the most m…
I vouched for your comment since it seems to have been downvoted into oblivion. I don't understand why people took offense with what you had to say. paper diaries are a lot more valuable and require totally different parts of the brain than idiotic cloud enabled note-taking apps.
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#9Going back from ToDo-Lists in Apps to simple paper and tick mark them.
I've gone hybrid for todo lists. Handwritten in GoodNotes on iPad. Seems to give me the best of both worlds - better memory retention that comes from physically writing stuff down, but with search and copy/paste functionality.
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#10Using a bidet instead of toilet paper. I live in Canada, and this is an uncommon practice.