[ardy42]

> For the bulk of us, pen and paper are becoming obsolete. We are quickly embracing digital alternatives because they are more efficient and easy to use.

Bullshit. After trying all kinds of "digital alternatives" for note-taking, I went back to pen-and-paper. As a tool, it's more flexible, balanced, and easy-to-use than alternatives. Plus, hand-creating a physical artifact allows one to utilize natural memory for manipulating physical objects (e.g. remembering the information I need is "on the bottom-half of a page roughly in X location, next to a diagram of Y").

Digital technologies are unbalanced tools optimized to favor a particular use case (e.g. fast entry of only text, bulk reproduction, fast transmission, etc.) at the expense of others (e.g. tool-weight, complexity, overstrict schemas, difficulty composing different types of things).

[coldtea]

>Bullshit. After trying all kinds of "digital alternatives" for note-taking, I went back to pen-and-paper.

Sure. How does what YOU did invalidate a general observation, and even more so, make it "bullshit"?

The observation about what "the bulk of us" do might be factually correct or not (I'm pretty use it is).

But it's in no way invalidated just because you do something else...

Only absolute statements are invalidated by a single counter-example (or a handful of them).

[ysfah]

I understand where you are coming from and I apologize for using the word 'bulk' without providing any data to support it.

There is no denying the flexibility of using a pen-and-paper and the cognitive benefits that comes along with it. However the convenience of using a keyboard on mobile and desktop for daily activities is still significant.

I personally feel using a digital tool like Workflowy, Obsidian.md, or Roam Research brings more creativity to my thinking.

Appreciate your thoughts.