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Yeah good luck writing with coloured pens at the speed teachers speak.
I managed it for 4 years in college, with usually 3 hours of lecture per day. Was it work? Sure. One was busy the whole lecture. But the results were clear. My favorite pens at the time were the Pilot pens. Today I love the Tul pens. I have long since scanned them all in. I should post them on my website, just for fun.
For example, I often ride a bicycle, about 10 hours at a time, sometimes I listened to music and thought about problems (most of the time I imagine what the product looks like, how to interact, what the process is, etc. This feels so amazing) while riding my bike, and recorded the results of my thinking in an resource manager(used as a note-taking app) I created. In this way, I solved many problems, made my brain clearer, and released the fatigue of the week.
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This is what i do too. Paper Notebooks + old-school Digital Voice Recorder (get one which takes replaceable batteries) are a great combo to train oneself to use regularly and consistently for everything.
What recorder make and model do you use?
But you can get whichever one fits your budget and works for you.
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I think an analog note taking device (woah!) requires more discipline than a digital one. In the digital world, you can always re-arrange your chaos at almost no cost, whereas you are screwed in the analog world. I'm curious: How do you organize your notes? If you mind to share.
I do almost no organising of my paper notes. The only thing I do is that I add a date to the corner of the first page of when I start making a specific note and I keep index pages where I list page/note titles (or topics, themes, not everything have a title) and a page number. I often browse my notes even when I'm not looking for anything. I read what I've been thinking previously because that often sparks new ideas…
We're still not there yet, even with the latest addition of (muted) colour.
They're great I guess for reading and annotating PDFs (ugh). But so is a (laser) printer.
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That’s funny, because if you go into any machine shop you’ll find machinists writing things down in notebooks (and probably cursing engineers who never set foot in the shop).
Those are job shops, there are no old school production lines left in the US. Here's what they used to look like from a century ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa0PAg7FfMk&t=350s
Do you mean that they use robots today and therefore aren’t “old school”? That’s true in most industrialized economies.
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Empathy is in short supply these days but especially on HN. Very strange to watch adult humans fail at basic theory of mind tests such as understanding that other people can have their own preferences
Being useless isnt a preference In my company if an engineer came out with this nonsense he would be placed on my special system of making his role so unpleasant to the extent that he leaves