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It's too bad the reference to GTD has a broken link in the page. GTD was the perfect method to support the HPDA. https://gtd.43folders.com/
EDIT: Success! https://web.archive.org/web/20050926032028/http://wiki.43fol...
See also: https://web.archive.org/web/20061018171833/http://www.43fold...
Haha this was a great idea. It demonstrated that many of the hard problems of mobile productivity are "soft" problems in our heads and concepts, not hardware or software problems. I wish the "note taking app" crowd would think harder about that. There is a great book about the early age of hype and how it failed, called "The Myth of the Paperless Office" [1]. Would be great to re-read it and see how it holds up. By t…
I am more shocked the 2004 amazon link to file cards still works, but also sad that the 3 dollar pack is now 11 dollars :(
Wild.
I totally went with it for a while. pretty great stuff.
Haha this was a great idea. It demonstrated that many of the hard problems of mobile productivity are "soft" problems in our heads and concepts, not hardware or software problems. I wish the "note taking app" crowd would think harder about that. There is a great book about the early age of hype and how it failed, called "The Myth of the Paperless Office" [1]. Would be great to re-read it and see how it holds up. By t…
The Myth of the Paperless Office seems less like a myth and more like a premature prediction. As someone whose career started in 2011, I don't think I've ever used a company printer for anything but a convenient way to print out personal files. In fact, I don't think I've ever interacted with paper in a professional capacity except: * to sign employment contracts (and even that's gone 100% digital in the past 5 years…
On my desk is a stack of paper for note taking, drawing and problem solving.
I am sure there are places that have gone entirely digital, but the best replacement for notepaper seems to be things like the remarkable, and it is a poor replacement. Paper is never going to need an update at an inconvinient time, never out of power, works with any stylus and is ready to be used immediately.
It is great if it works for you, but I think your office is an exception to the general rule.
Never stopped using the old index cards and binder clip. Todo lists, notes, GTD systems, brain storming sessions, pseudo code, bird lists, scoring baseball games, etc. Still can't sync to cloud though.
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The Myth of the Paperless Office seems less like a myth and more like a premature prediction. As someone whose career started in 2011, I don't think I've ever used a company printer for anything but a convenient way to print out personal files. In fact, I don't think I've ever interacted with paper in a professional capacity except: * to sign employment contracts (and even that's gone 100% digital in the past 5 years…
Interesting. I was handed a stack of CVs to review by my boss today. They were all printed. So was my employment contract. On my desk is a stack of paper for note taking, drawing and problem solving. I am sure there are places that have gone entirely digital, but the best replacement for notepaper seems to be things like the remarkable, and it is a poor replacement. Paper is never going to need an update at an inconv…
Haha this was a great idea. It demonstrated that many of the hard problems of mobile productivity are "soft" problems in our heads and concepts, not hardware or software problems. I wish the "note taking app" crowd would think harder about that. There is a great book about the early age of hype and how it failed, called "The Myth of the Paperless Office" [1]. Would be great to re-read it and see how it holds up. By t…
The Myth of the Paperless Office seems less like a myth and more like a premature prediction. As someone whose career started in 2011, I don't think I've ever used a company printer for anything but a convenient way to print out personal files. In fact, I don't think I've ever interacted with paper in a professional capacity except: * to sign employment contracts (and even that's gone 100% digital in the past 5 years…
It's ultimately a study of affordances, thinking about what makes paper useful beyond merely storing information.
That's as relevant as ever, even if many of paper's uses have been superseded today.