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Reintroducing pen and paper to your note-taking repertoire might not be such a bad idea, anyway -- it's a much more creative medium than most digital, textual f

Reintroducing pen and paper to your note-taking repertoire might not be such a bad idea, anyway -- it's a much more creative medium than most digital, textual forms.

gonzalohm 18d ago
It's extremely complicated to organize it, though
- tentacleuno 18d ago
  I suppose it's harder to cross-reference and find things, though I suspect you could utilize some sort of organizational system to mostly overcome that. I really do think pen and paper will slowly regain prominence; I personally find that it can be much more liberating than digital media. It's great to be able to use the page as a canvas, writing wherever you want, without having to meet the constraints of a text editor or the likes. Doodles help to visualize and understand problems, too. Tangent for macOS is my current go-to for note-taking, and it works quite well: it's mostly just a Markdown editor, a tree structure of folders (which is really just a normal folder), and the ability to cross-reference and embed images. I suppose the primary problem of note-taking apps is that they sort of have to be opinionated in some way to be useful (that's been my experience, anyway.) Markdown files are also guilty of this: they constrain you to a certain layout, which can either be a negative or a positive. Anything too complicated can be off-putting, whilst anything too simplistic can also be limiting. It's a surprisingly complex field, and it could explain why there's so many different apps for it.
- unclad5968 18d ago
  What is complicated about organizing written notes?
  - coffeefirst 18d ago
    Not complicated, but many people have never learned how to do it or developed a system.
  - 63stack 18d ago
    No search, no making space in an existing page, no moving text around, cumbersome to take it with you everywhere, unlike a phone.
    - abroszka33 18d ago
      You don't really need most of this, or it can be solved simply by thinking and remembering.
      - dartharva 17d ago
        By that logic you don't really need paper notes either.
somat 17d ago
A similar life hack is the next time you have to give a presentation, you know, what is normally a brain numbing powerpoint slide deck sort of thing, rehearse and do the slides live on a chalkboard. The novelty of the spectacle means people will actually pay attention. Whiteboards are ok but really lack that visceral staccato punctuation that a chalkboard brings to the table.

Reintroducing pen and paper to your note-taking repertoire might not be such a bad idea, anyway -- it's a much more creative medium than most digital, textual forms.

gonzalohm 18d ago

It's extremely complicated to organize it, though

tentacleuno 18d ago
I suppose it's harder to cross-reference and find things, though I suspect you could utilize some sort of organizational system to mostly overcome that. I really do think pen and paper will slowly regain prominence; I personally find that it can be much more liberating than digital media. It's great to be able to use the page as a canvas, writing wherever you want, without having to meet the constraints of a text editor or the likes. Doodles help to visualize and understand problems, too. Tangent for macOS is my current go-to for note-taking, and it works quite well: it's mostly just a Markdown editor, a tree structure of folders (which is really just a normal folder), and the ability to cross-reference and embed images. I suppose the primary problem of note-taking apps is that they sort of have to be opinionated in some way to be useful (that's been my experience, anyway.) Markdown files are also guilty of this: they constrain you to a certain layout, which can either be a negative or a positive. Anything too complicated can be off-putting, whilst anything too simplistic can also be limiting. It's a surprisingly complex field, and it could explain why there's so many different apps for it.
unclad5968 18d ago
What is complicated about organizing written notes?
- coffeefirst 18d ago
  Not complicated, but many people have never learned how to do it or developed a system.
- 63stack 18d ago
  No search, no making space in an existing page, no moving text around, cumbersome to take it with you everywhere, unlike a phone.
  - abroszka33 18d ago
    You don't really need most of this, or it can be solved simply by thinking and remembering.
    - dartharva 17d ago
      By that logic you don't really need paper notes either.

somat 17d ago

A similar life hack is the next time you have to give a presentation, you know, what is normally a brain numbing powerpoint slide deck sort of thing, rehearse and do the slides live on a chalkboard. The novelty of the spectacle means people will actually pay attention. Whiteboards are ok but really lack that visceral staccato punctuation that a chalkboard brings to the table.