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I don't think you can extend his/her argument like that in a valid sense. I don't think he was advocating for a luddite position. The appropriate question is whether or not the move to computers has improved things. Not every step forward technology-wise is an improvement. Some things need to be walked back. For example, as a Physicist by training, most of the math I had to do was far more easily worked out by hand t…
>I'm only realizing now I'm older and would rather pay a little premium for the convenience of not wading through a gazillion different sites to get the right bookings and prices for a complex itinerary Have you tried FlightFox? I haven't yet, and have no vested interest in / association with them (i.e the suggestion isn't me shilling :)), but it seemed an interesting possibility to me.
With an agent I could say stuff like - these are roughly the parameters I want to fly under; these are the airlines I'd rather chew razor blades than fly on; use your common sense to figure something out I'm not going to hate as an itinerary.
As long as we're on this subject, I'd like to strongly encourage programmers to adopt a "pen-and-paper" approach to problem solving. Just like mentionned in the article, there are great benefits coming from actually writing down the problem. For the past year or so, every time I worked on a non-trivial problem, I did it on a sheet of paper. It definitely took discipline at first but now I couldn't do it any other way…
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I usually end up writing with a pen because I find the greater level of contrast easier to read; I have pretty bad eyesight. Lately I've been using fine-point Sharpie pens and they're great for readability. I do a lot of pencil drawings, though ( http://orng.us/ob8yao ) and I do find something magical about the feel of pencil on paper, and even the smell of the graphite. I can lose myself for hours. But if I'm writin…
I've found that fine-point sharpies bleed through every kind of paper. What kind of paper do you use?
How does one develop the habit of keeping a journal? I've tried several times, but have never made it more than 3 weeks before I started to forget to do it.
I've been keeping a project journal in a series of notebooks for a few years. As I've filled more and more notebooks, I miss the searchability of computerized journals. For a while, kept a text file open all the time and tried using it as a journal, but that's lousy for any kind of sketching. My most recent attempt has been a pile of Markdown files in a Github repository. I edit them directly in Github's editor and t…
More so, if it doesn't suit you I'd be interested to know why--given you seem to have implemented a more manual approach to what Labradoc aims to do.
The major difference from what you've described is that Labradoc has a project-based rather than day-based focus. (Although there's no reason why a "day view" couldn't be an option...)
(Labradoc also uses Markdown.)
I have a web app that I've been using for awhile for this kind of thing. Each note is a markdown document that's versioned in a database. I can create new notes via email (using the excellent Mailgun). There's also a pretty full-featured API which lets me do interesting things with notes. My original goal for it was as a way to get ideas out of my head and onto "paper". It used to be that I would have an idea and the…
Yeah, I've found a project log as a good way to get an idea out of my head too--or out of the tabs in my browser :) until I'm ready to get back to it.
Sounds like your app has some similarities to my Labradoc site (http://labradoc.com/)--I haven't yet succeeded in being able to monitize it. :)
I've been doing this as well. Does anyone have advice on pens? This is what I'm currently using and I really like them: http://amzn.com/B0027AEKJ8 they come in a 4 pack of different thicknesses, and are only $12 at Staples. I'm sure there's better however!
How does one develop the habit of keeping a journal? I've tried several times, but have never made it more than 3 weeks before I started to forget to do it.
* Look back at it at the end of the day and see what you've done that day. This is your reward for using it. Alternatively you could have your own reward.
* If you forget to do it today, restart tomorrow without any fuss. Don't worry too much about the lost day, like I used to.
In the beginning I was pretty excited about it and it was real easy, but after couple months it got a little old. Eventually I got around to the point where if I don't write in the journal while working I feel uneasy.
Does anyone happen to know if there are any leather bound notebooks with pre-numbered blank pages? Moleskine notebooks look promising, except they aren't really leather and don't have pre-numbered pages. I guess I can number the pages myself, but it would be nice to already have it done.
Edit: Saw these in comments: http://www.leuchtturm1917.com/de/content/startseite