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by vhodges 1114 days ago
I saw the title and went to look up a bunch of paper notepads :-)... (and can share if anyone is interested)

I tend to use Obsidian these days along with the excalidraw plugin (if you just want to try excalidraw without installing Obsidian: https://excalidraw.com/)
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vfinn 1114 days ago
Hehe. Yeah, paper notepads would be nice, but they aren't big enough (they'd have to be tens of meters wide), and if I taped them together, they'd be difficult to handle. Also, erasing stuff is a pain. At one point I was considering using a wall paint for writing on the walls :).

Obsidian is probably a nice tool, but I'd like to have my rigid grid. Graphs are ok, but I don't like how inexact they are.

I'd like just to type, and click switching between cells.

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vhodges 1114 days ago
Excalidraw is nice, not a grid of course, but mostly text on an infinite canvas and has alignment tools to make it neat.

The other thing that popped into my head is maybe a Kanban tool (that would be a grid). You could do a quick paper prototype that easily with some postit notes on the wall to see if it works :).

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