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Just use fucking paper, man

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Re: Just use fucking paper, man

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Post by PhasmaFelis »

auggierose wrote: post #8

I think if you prefer paper over tools like Things, which I like very much, then you are probably super organised already in the first place. I mean, how do you organise all that paper??

Yeah, if you only need to write down a few lines of tasks every day, that's lovely for you, but to me this reads like a dude commuting to work on a bicycle telling a semi trucker that he doesn't need that big engine.

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Post by zooi »

I've tried many note taking methods, including paper, and none of it really fit my needs. So I wrote my own application, just for me, with nobody else in mind. It's perfect and I recommend everyone to do the same.

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Post by akira2501 »

mwcremer wrote: post #12

As @kabdib says, "You can't grep paper."

I rarely need to. The things I'm writing down have a shelf life of at most one week. I also draw pictures and diagrams which you can't grep anyways. The Tops brand Steno Pad has been a feature on my desk for the last 30 years. If you use it linearly it's somewhat self indexing and going "back in time" to find things is much easier than you'd expect.

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Post by OldGuyInTheClub »

I tried to keep a simple table in Apple Notes and it got frustrating, fast. Couldn't control formatting and it would randomly change font sizes. Looked at alternatives and was confronted with more complexity - looks like notes are just the entry point to mindmaps/braindumps/network diagrams of thought processes. Creating a table in Markdown is even less fun that creating it in Notes.

Now I just track my blood pressure on paper.

Re: Just use fucking paper, man

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Post by bee_rider »

I tried but I can’t figure out how to call the compiler on my hand-written notes.

I actually think it would be really interesting, if I could point a camera at my notes and somehow have it spit out a Matlab code or something like that. But I’m not sure how it would work. It would need to understand at least that the things in the brackets are sub-matrices…

Re: Just use fucking paper, man

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Post by viraptor »

Listing the simplest apps, down to Apple Notes as complicated has got to be a troll.

I'm sure there are people who prefer paper for good reasons. But there are no reasons with justifications listed here. Just a very short personal opinion.

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