Start with pen and paper • Hacker News Board

Re: Start with pen and paper

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Post by wrp » Mon, Nov 09, 2020, 9:01 AM UTC

Jtsummers wrote: post #9

rgrs wrote: post #6

do people use whiteboards at home?

https://smile.amazon.com/Nu-Board-Size-USA-NAA4N4US08/dp/B07... I don’t have one, or a good spot for one in my home office. But for a few years I’ve used the notebook linked above.

I know people who are really happy with these, using the Staedtler correctable pens. I prefer a regular pad of paper, but it seems some people are made more comfortable working things out on an erasable medium.

Re: Start with pen and paper

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Post by LeonB » Mon, Nov 09, 2020, 9:05 AM UTC

rgrs wrote: post #6

do people use whiteboards at home?

I certainly do. I had a big one in my office but I replaced it with a gigantic one.

Re: Start with pen and paper

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Post by kissgyorgy » Mon, Nov 09, 2020, 9:14 AM UTC

This is the hole point why they created reMarkable, to basically disconnect you from the constant interruptions from today's world. You can read about this on their blog: https://blog.remarkable.com/ I got reMarkable 2 and it really works! Now I'm even making notes when I'm in front of my computer, it's way better feeling than typing.

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Post by renke1 » Mon, Nov 09, 2020, 9:37 AM UTC

rgrs wrote: post #6

do people use whiteboards at home?

I do have one, but I rarely use it. It's good for WFH, though, because it makes me look smart in meetings.

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Post by wodenokoto » Mon, Nov 09, 2020, 9:45 AM UTC

chriszhang wrote: post #3

Polylactic_acid wrote: post #2

My favourite is to start typing the question in to MS teams/slack and often I have the answer before I finish typing.

Does your organization use both MS teams and Slack? Why do they use both? Does one provide some advantages over another?

We use teams for scheduled conference calls/meetings as it handles larger groups better than slack and outlook is setup to add team-meeting links into calendar events.

We use slack for team discussions and DM and sometimes for one-one calls.

I think this happened naturally and wasn't a planned path.

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Post by _xoo » Mon, Nov 09, 2020, 9:50 AM UTC

The article's date is "November 11, 2020". Is the author a time traveller? :)

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Post by Ensorceled » Mon, Nov 09, 2020, 9:50 AM UTC

rgrs wrote: post #6

do people use whiteboards at home?

It's the one thing I miss from moving from a home to a condo.

Especially after COVID restrictions went into effect.

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Nov 09, 2020, 9:52 AM UTC

_xoo wrote: post #26

The article's date is "November 11, 2020". Is the author a time traveller? :)

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Re: Start with pen and paper

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Post by mozey » Mon, Nov 09, 2020, 10:06 AM UTC

For wire-framing or diagrams I find pen and paper (or a whiteboard) to be the best solution too. Too often most of the effort goes into "properly" using the app, when it should be spent on the concept. Just draw a picture, take a photo and email it or whatever, and done.

Re: Start with pen and paper

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Post by app4soft » Mon, Nov 09, 2020, 10:06 AM UTC

Daub wrote: post #14

The article does not explain what the value of pen and paper has over a digital note pad. It just declares it has one. However, I can sympathize. I teach drawing and design. Of course, most of my students were raised on digital media. For some, their first experience drawing was digital! I have a lot of trouble explaining to them the value of pencil and paper. In “Personal Dynamic Media.” (1977) Kay, Alan and Goldber…

> I teach drawing and design. Of course, most of my students were raised on digital media. For some, their first experience drawing was digital! I have a lot of trouble explaining to them the value of pencil and paper.

As I'm involved in tech drawing creation & teaching, I already switched from using pencil'n'paper to FLOSS 2D CAD QCAD Community Edition.[0,1]

But, for curious reasons, I really like to draw some technical drawing oldschool-way too.

[0] https://twitter.com/app4soft/status/1323562201794437120

[1] https://github.com/qcad/qcad