I have a distraction-free writing device. It's called a notebook and it cost eight dollars.
Lovely! I envy your ability to handwrite my thoughts as quickly as I can type them.
Micro Journal: Distraction-Free Writing Device
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#12sounds like freewrite but in name imho
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#13I have a distraction-free writing device. It's called a notebook and it cost eight dollars.
Lovely! I envy your ability to handwrite my thoughts as quickly as I can type them.
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#14I have a distraction-free writing device. It's called a notebook and it cost eight dollars.
Lovely! I envy your ability to handwrite my thoughts as quickly as I can type them.
> I envy your ability to handwrite my thoughts as quickly as I can type them.
Not your thoughts, certainly. But for matters of any depth, not only code, I find the limit on speed tends rarely to be set by speed of transcription.
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#15I have a distraction-free writing device. It's called a notebook and it cost eight dollars.
Lovely! I envy your ability to handwrite my thoughts as quickly as I can type them.
I'm assuming this is a bit facetious, that said, I think it is worth exploring.
Yes, you can use short hand to learn to write words faster, such that you may be surprised at how fast people can actually write. Certainly, you'd be surprised at how slow some people type. Especially when thinking.
More pertinent for notebooks, though, is how unstructured it can be. Learning to use the space of a page is a big thing that I could never really replicate with text on a computer.
Easy places this is relevant. Math when trying to work out something. Anything pictorial that I don't know how to type out. Graphical spots where I want large parts of it "scratched out" such that it is not relevant for the note I am taking now.
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#16This looks really great! I am glad you are also selling them, I might give it a go. Love that you can send to Google drive too!
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#17Reminds me of a typewriter, but without the solid and satisfying thunks.
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#18Reminds me of the Alphasmart, it was such a great device: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaSmart
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Lovely! I envy your ability to handwrite my thoughts as quickly as I can type them.
I'm assuming this is a bit facetious, that said, I think it is worth exploring. Yes, you can use short hand to learn to write words faster, such that you may be surprised at how fast people can actually write. Certainly, you'd be surprised at how slow some people type. Especially when thinking. More pertinent for notebooks, though, is how unstructured it can be. Learning to use the space of a page is a big thing that…
I take plenty of paper notes, especially for math, diagrams, and other things. But we're here talking about an article about typewriting devices, and in the context of the kinds of things you'd write long-form on a typewriter, "just use a notebook!" is insultingly unhelpful.
I've tried for decades to write long-form things without it causing my hand to cramp up painfully. I know what's wrong, and I also accept that at this point there's not much I can do about it. If I could use an $8 notebook instead of a keyboard, I'd be doing it already.
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Lovely! I envy your ability to handwrite my thoughts as quickly as I can type them.
> I envy your ability to handwrite my thoughts as quickly as I can type them. Not your thoughts, certainly. But for matters of any depth, not only code, I find the limit on speed tends rarely to be set by speed of transcription.
The limit on your speed, as you pointed out. There are times I stare at a screen for an hour and then add a comma to fix a bug. There are other times I'm writing long walls of text as fast as I can get them out of my brain. That's the sort of thing the device in this article we're discussing is meant for. And for me, I cannot possibly put pen to paper as quickly as I can put chars on a screen (or ribbon ink onto typing paper, for that matter).