Somewhat of a random note, but what's up with the WebMention trackbacks at the bottom of OP? I'm not seeing any outright malicious/spam links but there's a lot of redundancy, and unhelpful anchor texts like "Bridgy response" in some links, whilst other links from the same service manage to excerpt the mention correctly.
Using Paper for Everyday Tasks
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#112Somewhat of a random note, but what's up with the WebMention trackbacks at the bottom of OP? I'm not seeing any outright malicious/spam links but there's a lot of redundancy, and unhelpful anchor texts like "Bridgy response" in some links, whilst other links from the same service manage to excerpt the mention correctly.
That's a bug in my web mention scraper! I've been meaning to fix that but I have had bigger things to worry about.
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#113Am I the only one that does write down stuff in paper to realize that I never come back to it at a later point? In fact I just throw away all my notes after a few weeks. The only reason I write down stuff is because: it "liberates" my mind. I can't keep all the details in my brain. Example: designing a system. I can see the system in my mind but at some point I need to dump it to paper, so I can keep thinking about i…
I always avoided this habit because I didn't want to accumulate sheets/notebooks; I picked up a Remarkable Tablet in December and it's been a game changer for me. All the benefits of paper-based note-taking with none of the mess, plus I can easily cut/paste/erase/reshuffle stuff, use different line/grid templates, and markup work documents without having to print them first.
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#114I find myself feeling naked whenever I'm too far from a pen and paper. I take most of my structured notes on a computer, but paper is where I think through ideas. I can draw diagrams, do math, and organise thoughts visually more easily on paper than digital.
I also hate taking notes or writing much more than a text on my phone, so I enjoy having a notebook or looseleaf paper wherever I am.
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#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can and happily will second the A5 Rhodia Webnotebook recommendation. They're small enough for convenience, big enough for depth, sturdy enough to stand up to prolonged and heavy use, and full of beautiful Clairefontaine paper on which it's a positive pleasure to write. I've been using them for my diary for years now, and expect to go on doing so as long as I can still get them. (Fwiw, I like a Decimo better than a…
Ooh, that’s a beautiful pen! The pocket clip seems like it’d serve the same purpose as the triangular grip on the Safari: “however you want to hold me, this is how you’re going to.” The Safari is the first pen that ever coerced me into holding it the “right” way (instead of my natural “lateral tripod” grip; see https://www.scoopwhoop.com/pencil-grip-names/ ) and I love it for that. Also, I’d be bummed if I lost my Sa…
Oh, I worry about losing mine too, but if I'm doing anything that might pose a risk of it falling out of my pocket, I'll have my backpack with me and can stash it safely there. Other than that, it's either on my person, on my notebook, or in my hand. (Or in the car, if I'm visiting with my friends with the dog. I puppysat her for a week once, during what must have been an impressionable time in her youth - she greets me the same way every time as if it were the first time in years.) I might just be unusually good at keeping track of my things, though!
The clip is useful for the reason you describe, and that serves the user's purpose in a way I think most pen reviewers don't use a Decimo or Vanishing Point for long enough to discover. The whole design intent of the pen is that it should be easy and convenient to use entirely one-handed, and having the clip placed as it is helps the pen nestle neatly between the user's fingers as they change grip from "uncapping" the pen to writing with it.
After a while, just like with any other click pen, you barely have to look at it or even think about it to do it - I haven't done the latter in so long that I had to do the former just now in order to know how I use it at all. Most of the time I just use it. It's pure muscle memory at this point, and the clip is the only reason that can be true - not that the more deliberate process of preparing a conventional, round-sectioned fountain pen for use isn't pleasant in its own right, but the Decimo's lower overhead makes it much better suited to the way I think and write, as well as to regular carry and use with no need for special handling and no more need for special care than, say, my glasses.
(Sheesh, I should get Pilot to pay me a word rate...)
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#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
The note taking device like Remarkable or Supernote are getting pretty close.
over the years I've been so dissapointed with pens[0] at some point I've given up. but maybe I will muster the will to try again :-) [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compaq_Concerto
The Remarkable2 tablet uses a pen with disposable nibs, which means you get good writing feedback. In addition, they optimized the e-ink display for writing by minimizing the distance between the display layer and the pen (ie, less gap between the tip and where you see the writing). The device also has generally minimal lag.
If an iPad is 60% of the writing experience, the RM2 is 80+%.
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#117Am I the only one that does write down stuff in paper to realize that I never come back to it at a later point? In fact I just throw away all my notes after a few weeks. The only reason I write down stuff is because: it "liberates" my mind. I can't keep all the details in my brain. Example: designing a system. I can see the system in my mind but at some point I need to dump it to paper, so I can keep thinking about i…
For me, paper works for short lived tasks or "I need to get this out of my head for a now" style inbox stuff. Mostly just post-its and maybe a few larger scraps of paper.
Anything long-term or larger in scope I want to have in a digital, searchable, format.
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just stating the obvious. All people writing with a fountain pen know that writing in notebooks of any sort is more pleasant when said notebook is rotated 90 degrees, with its spine going across. From left to right. Then, the angle of the paper to the tip point does not vary across the line.
Surely you mean 45°? 90° is rather extreme.
Not if you're writing parallel to the spine.
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#119I keep thinking I’ll like paper, but I just don’t. A few years ago I started keeping a daily journal: not so much a diary with today I feel… but a record like changed the van’s oil. Drove the kid to camp. Called Mom. . [0] I was using Drafts on my iPhone as a kind of bullet journal, with an action group I wrote. [1] After a year of this, articles like this one convinced me to switch to a paper journal and to get a ni…
Wow that Drafts action thing looks amazing. I’ve not used Drafts much, how does the action group run: you do it manually somewhere within Drafts?
And then once you run it, you archive that day’s notes and start a new one for the next day?
I imported it and m currently trying to find where you run custom actions in ios Drafts.
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#120Nothing about shorthand. Not that this blog post specifically should have, but it seems conspicuously absent in all blog posts about paper, handwriting, note taking, etc. It's an established idea and demonstrably allows people to take dictation and court reporting at much faster speeds than handwriting - print or cursive. Why is it such a non-thing, even in productivity/efficiency circles and alternate/quirky circles…
I read a tiny bit about shorthand and invented my own using some of the principles other systems were designed on during a long weekend. Great investment, lots of fun. I specifically designed notation that could be common across digital and handwritten, and that paid off big.