I have a remarkable for this. because yeah, just use paper, but like, we live in the future
Just use fucking paper, man
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#42I still use digital tools for documenting my projects and keeping track of long-term tasks, but I agree with the author that papers just fucking works for most things. I sketch out designs on paper. I treat as an ephemeral medium.
Lately I’ve taken to jotting down lists of things on my mind on index cards so I can carry those around and refer to them without the distraction of a phone. The nice thing is that space is limited, so I can’t take on too much at a time. Constraints are a good thing.
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#43Now we can have a robust debate on the best paper and writing utensils! Some will advocate for top-spiral notebooks, some composition books, others will proclaim nothing beats a Moleskine.
Then the fight moves to pens vs. pencils. Fountain pens and carpenter's pencils will slug it out for supremacy in the comments. One lone maniac will die on the quill hill.
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#44I use Apple Notes but it drives me sooo crazy that you can’t left/right swipe between Notes
How is that even possible
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#45My regularly sweaty hands say that digital notes are great. My non-home-owning self says that not carrying around boxes upon boxes of my notes for review later in life is the way to go.
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#46My problem with paper is that I can't keep up with paper. I will lose it several times a day, and inevitably, I will lose it permanently after a year or two. I need the sync and findability that an app on a device affords.
15 years ago while resisting the smartphone shift I got myself a passport case to use as a combined wallet and portable notebook to write things down in. It worked reasonably well and certainly had some robust advantages but honestly so do cross-device syncd apps that I've used since smartphone adoption.
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#47If I didn’t have to travel regularly I would use paper. Next best thing is OneNote with a tablet/iPad and pen. Just set it up like you would with a bunch of paper notebooks. Searchable, flexible, and lightweight. Obsidian/Notion sounds great but are rigid.
My only nod to electronic organization is a simple todo app like Things or Todoist.
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#48For todo lists, I agree and at most a plaintext file or the Reminders app on your phone is enough. For daily notes though I feel like Obsidian is only as complex as you want it to be. My vault for work notes is mainly a haphazard bunch of copy-pasted snippets and chat records pasted in an auto-dated daily note, and it's saved me a bunch of times when I've needed to go back and search something.
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#49As a scientist I keep organized in the following ways:
* I text myself on slack random idea I have about various projects
* I regularly use a white board to write down the current state of all my projects, where they are at, what needs to be done
* I have a notebook that I write todos in for day to day things
Also these things are basically interchangeable. I have had several different thoughts about how to make a better organisation system through software. But so far I didn't come up with one that i would abandon my research to spend the time writing organisational software instead.
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#50My problem with paper is that I can't keep up with paper. I will lose it several times a day, and inevitably, I will lose it permanently after a year or two. I need the sync and findability that an app on a device affords.
If your project TODO lists are stretching into years, it's time to get a better project management system. I recommend paper.
Absolutely.
If an item has been on your TODO list for years, it's most likely not worth doing anyway.
Might as well lose the paper upon which the item is written.