[agentultra]

"Nobody writes it anymore. Nobody can read it, anyway."

I think the author is mistaking their self for everyone.

I have rows of my bookshelf dedicated to all my journals. Written by hand. In cursive (for the most part, some technical journals I used standard print for diagrams and annotations).

I use a reMarkable2 as well for ephemeral notes, bullet journalling, and reading/sharing documents from my computer. I like being able to hand-write a note and email it as plain text to myself. Process it with a script and boom, new draft post. While I sit at my desk, no computer in sight. Bonus, character recognition of my cursive writing is pretty accurate.

[bombcar]

It’s poetic license - like saying that nobody reads or writes Latin anymore; there are small groups that still can and do; but it is no longer assumed that every college graduate can.