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by liprais 1834 days ago
I grew up learning using pen and paper,I will stick to that.

Younger digital native generation wants to go all digital? totally ok with me.just we have to learn to agree to disagree.

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If pen and paper works for you, then so be it!

I grew up with pen and paper too, but now I couldn't live without the synchronization and easy sharing enabled by digital. Also I suck at organizing with paper while digitally I can neatly organize everything in folder.

However I do think digital note taking is more painful than hand writing if you want to go beyond plain text, and digital devices can be distracting when I should be focusing so I recently ordered an e-ink tablet that I'm waiting to be delivered. My hope is that it brings flexibility of paper with the organization and sync/sharing functionalities of digital.

Similar here, pen and paper for almost all notes. If I want to keep it for longer I might add it on my personal wiki. But I try to keep it simple and stupid.

I feel people spend too much time focusing on how to make/digitalize notes instead of just make notes.

Would be interested to see methods how to do that better. I am more of a mechanic pencil and paper user. Sometimes use markers when feeling fancy. Has there any new developments since the "bullet journal"?