Paper is still the best :p
Using Paper for Everyday Tasks
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#62Am 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 it. The paper, with the design, is discarded later on... the next time I need to continue working on that system, I start from scratch (although it's way easier than the first time). At some point I have the whole thing so memorized that I can start working on it without having to check the notes. I know it sounds counterintuitive, but "it works".
Also, my notes look terrible bad. I don't even care about my handwriting at that point; I only care about "move stuff from brain to paper".
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#63> Paper doesn't vanish into the shadow realm when I close the window.
No, but it can vanish when you open the window. :-)
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#64IMHO, making records (flammable ones that exist in only one place and don't automatically back up and replicate) by smudging dark schmutz on to dead tree pulp is barbaric.
It's barbaric even when done with a printer. It's extra barbaric doing the smudging with your low resolution meat claw.
I carry a portable battery powered bluetooth thermal printer with me in my handbag. The only thing I will handwrite is my signature.
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#65How about a middle ground? I've been looking into the new generation of eink devices that are great for notetaking. Remarkable etc Best of both worlds and no more dead trees
While I love my Remarkable 2 for taking notes, journaling, drawing and sharing/exporting the results, it lacks search/discoverability/navigation. In a physical notebook it’s trivial to flip back a few pages to recall a note from last week. On remarkable that takes a lot more time, and the time cost is paid twice, once for finding the old note, and a second time to get back to the page I was writing. (Imagine working…
>In a physical notebook it’s trivial to flip back a few pages to recall a note from last week. On remarkable that takes a lot more time, and the time cost is paid twice, once for finding the old note, and a second time to get back to the page I was writing.
Shelved because I realized 1) This will be much more comfortable on forthcoming (cheaper) AR glasses than on one's phone, and 2) I still don't know how to code, but I imagine that this particular UX problem will shortly be one that is no longer insurmountable.
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#66I would love to. The most cumbersome thing about notebooks, even larger ones like A3, is 1) they dont lie flat, and 2) even if (eg. rings) when I want to write on the left page, my hand hits the "spine" between the pages and its not comfortable writing. When I used paper I got used to have a stack of A4, put a title in one corner, I?d keep them on my left beside the keyboard. There are nice a4 in 4 light pastel color…
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.
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
While I love my Remarkable 2 for taking notes, journaling, drawing and sharing/exporting the results, it lacks search/discoverability/navigation. In a physical notebook it’s trivial to flip back a few pages to recall a note from last week. On remarkable that takes a lot more time, and the time cost is paid twice, once for finding the old note, and a second time to get back to the page I was writing. (Imagine working…
Onyx boox allows split screen
Onyx Boox is a GPL offender though with some other sketchy call-home activity going on. This is a dealbreaker for me.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Onyx_Boox/comments/hsn7kx/onyx_usin...
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#68I would love to. The most cumbersome thing about notebooks, even larger ones like A3, is 1) they dont lie flat, and 2) even if (eg. rings) when I want to write on the left page, my hand hits the "spine" between the pages and its not comfortable writing. When I used paper I got used to have a stack of A4, put a title in one corner, I?d keep them on my left beside the keyboard. There are nice a4 in 4 light pastel color…
I like memo pads, something like this: https://www.jetpens.com/Tomoe-River-52-gsm-Paper-Pad-A4-Blan....
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#69Nothing 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, why aren't we taught it early on in school where we're expected to go the next decade taking handwritten notes during lectures?
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#70Am 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…
Ya this makes sense. It's like setting up a chess board to study a position vs trying to do it all in your head.