Ha ironically I thought they were talking about 53's Paper app
I figured it was Dropbox Paper...which is a killer app, although nothing close to being "the" killer app.
Paper is the real 'killer app'
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#102I've tried various approaches and realized that I'm trying to solve different problems in different situations. For example, in some meetings, everyone types at a keyboard, but in others, only paper note taking is socially acceptable. In these cases, capture happens on paper, but I need to transcribe to an electronic format if I want to use these notes later. (I take a lot of notes if I want to remember anything thes…
How about using a Livescribe? http://www.livescribe.com/
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#103I've found journaling on paper to be one of the best morning rituals for calming anxiety. It really is amazing how just writing a few sentences creates a sense of awareness of what's going on in your head. I also tried bullet journaling as my 'system', but quickly abandoned it. It is great if you're not a compulsive to-do list maker, but if you follow a GTD-like system where you frequently capture, it becomes onerous…
Interesting. I wonder how useful journaling would be to help combat insomnia. I will give it a go next time I am lying in bed at 2am with my head buzzing..
Do you work on the computer until late? You should consider trying this app that removes the blue hues from your monitor after 9pm: https://justgetflux.com/ (Apparently, blue coloured light is a cue our brain uses to know when to wake up—morning light has more blue than evening light)
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#104Ha ironically I thought they were talking about 53's Paper app
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#105I never liked all the multitude of list making apps - Evernote, Todoist, Omnifocus, etc. I prefer org-mode[1] on emacs. It's simple, flexible, distraction free and for some reason reminds me of writing on paper. You get the simplicity, while also making it as powerful as you want. 1- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJTwQvgfgMM
That is the same problem I have with most of the list making apps, but for web, at least Taskcade (https://www.taskcade.com) does the job for me, while feeling somewhat natural typing on it.
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#106I've tried various approaches and realized that I'm trying to solve different problems in different situations. For example, in some meetings, everyone types at a keyboard, but in others, only paper note taking is socially acceptable. In these cases, capture happens on paper, but I need to transcribe to an electronic format if I want to use these notes later. (I take a lot of notes if I want to remember anything thes…
Haven't tried that but I've used something called Rocketbook that is a notebook with features on each page that an app can recognize and easily capture and upload pages to specific destinations. So I can take notes by hand and still have a digital record with don't rudimentary tagging. Then you can reuse the notebook. Requires a specific pen and the right smartphone but to me this is totally worth it and I'm not stuck with no notes when I forget the notebook!
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#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
Interesting. I wonder how useful journaling would be to help combat insomnia. I will give it a go next time I am lying in bed at 2am with my head buzzing..
Do you work on the computer until late? You should consider trying this app that removes the blue hues from your monitor after 9pm: https://justgetflux.com/ (Apparently, blue coloured light is a cue our brain uses to know when to wake up—morning light has more blue than evening light)
If you are a linux user gtk-redshift does the same thing, I've also found it be very reliable with ATI's binary drivers (though these days I use the open source drivers anyway).
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#108I hate paper. No searching and highly losable. I'm also way faster on a keyboard than with a pen/pencil. In fact, I had to fax a hand written letter (yeah, don't ask) the other day and realized I'm now almost illiterate with this thing. I could draw very well as a kid, but my handwriting was always pitiful. But after years of neglect, the thing was illegible. I pity the poor person that would have to decifer the hier…
"I'm also way faster on a keyboard" This is sort of the point of pen/paper - slows you down, makes you more contemplative. Plus, with a little practice I'm sure your handwriting would improve.
I practiced through my whole childhood and teens in school, it probably only got worse over the years as I managed to write faster with less care.
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#109In a world moving to mobile and the web I think the problem is there is no solution as powerful as org-mode. Almost every time I see a link like this I see (and think+agree) that org-mode is amazing and solves this. Great.
Except you need to use Emacs. And it's NOT user friendly. Evernote is mucher easier. Todoist is much more integrated. etc. But those things are actually worse than org-mode.
We need a sort of org-mode for the web.
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#110I've been thinking about this a lot lately. Does anyone have a workflow for using paper to take notes & then transferring them to an online notebook (OneNote, Evernote, etc)? My current process is read a chapter, then take hand written notes trying to recall what I just read. A day or more later I revisit material by putting notes into a OneNote or Evernote. I've been weighing pros & cons of this vs doing freehand us…
I haven't tried it, but Molekine has an Evernote Sketch book that's designed specifically so you can take a picture of the page and upload it instantly into Evernote, you might find that useful. I also know they have a notebook you can buy that when you're done with it, you can mail it to them (for free, built into the price I think), and they'll digitize it for you, and either send back your paper copy or recycle it.
http://www.moleskine.com/en/collections/model/product/everno...