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(The Pen Is Mightier Than the Keyboard) [https://linguistics.ucla.edu/people/hayes/Teaching/papers/Mu...]
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I take notes in a $.79 spiral paper notebook. When it fills up, I just scan it and get another one.
Can you recommend a quick, easy method for scanning all the pages? I like paper notebooks, too. Someday, I'd like to have an app that would let me turn any ordinary stack of scratch paper or notebook into a searchable PDF in under 5 minutes. I would finish a notebook and just put my phone on a gooseneck stand and turn the pages one at a time (not riffle) at one page per second or two, and it would know when to take t…
I use my Canon camera: Click click, flip page, repeat. Copy to laptop, batch resize & rename, drag into a folder.
No OCR, but it wouldn't pick up my shorthand anyway :)
There's a stupid number of problems where the easiest answer is "pen and paper" because while it's hard to make redundant, it's completely security auditable.
Bit of a life-hack I picked up awhile ago is to "write the notes by hand, then type them out later". This has a few advantages. First, you basically get all the benefits listed in this article. Second, you get the advantage of repetition, and possibly correcting errors in your handwritten notes. Last, you have pretty notes to read off of later if you need to study for something, which is useful.
Yeah I do this for anything that's both important and complicated - it can be a slow process for me, but when typing things up I'll usually end up further refining my thoughts and coming up with new ideas, in addition to the benefits you mentioned. Although my handwriting is also hilariously bad, so it's kind of necessary for anything I anticipate needing to closely review in the future.
One aspect the article doesn't mention is spatiality, and how that aids memorizing. As you might know one very common technique used by memorizing masters is to place things you want to remember in some imagined 3D world. This effect is also something I've experienced strongly myself when listening to audiobooks while running. I figured I can actually remember the exact place along my running route in a nearby forest…
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I'm confused about rocketbook, why would you want to reuse notebooks? Paper notebooks are cheap enough to be disposable
Some reasons off the top of my head: * I can scribble group meeting notes and share them in Slack by just scanning from my phone and they come out great—including drawings * I can scan my notes quickly as PDFs and keep them for years to come * Some classes allow me to upload and refer to my notes during exams * I don't waste any paper
As for wasting paper, even in my furious note taking days in college, it didn't amount to that much paper. I don't think the stack after graduating reached a foot high. You'll waste orders of magnitude more paper throwing away junk mail, food packages, etc. Besides, paper recycles easily. Plastic rocketbook pages, nope.
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Yeah, the title should be "Handwriting helps particular kinds of people remember particular kinds of things"
There was a somewhat recent astonishing revelation that a lot of people are apparently unable to visualize things in their mind (which was interesting to both groups in different ways respectively), so I bet that if you don't visualize things in your mind, it won't help much with recollection.
One aspect the article doesn't mention is spatiality, and how that aids memorizing. As you might know one very common technique used by memorizing masters is to place things you want to remember in some imagined 3D world. This effect is also something I've experienced strongly myself when listening to audiobooks while running. I figured I can actually remember the exact place along my running route in a nearby forest…