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by welpwelp 3436 days ago
I agreed but these are different mediums. With paper you can't erase obviously, so you use significantly more space when free scratching. Hence the usefulness of the whiteboard.

On a different note, notebooks are great. I converted my wallet into thin Moleskine notebooks that fit in my pocket super easily. I put my cards and bills in it. And I always have a pen in me. Archival pens are great. It's good for doodling too :>

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With paper you can't erase obviously

I can, and do, quite easily. I have a twist-out eraser on the end of my pencil plus an artists' eraser in each pen/pencil bag, so I can make pretty quick work of some portion of a page, but if I really want to erase the page, I can do it faster with paper than with a whiteboard: I turn the page.

Decent quality paper and an assortment of Pilot Frixion Clicker (erasable) ball point pens in different colors are what I use for hashing stuff out, but even then a whiteboard is better for some tasks simply because of it's ephemeral nature.
Can you provide a pic?