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by codpiece
1095 days ago
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I wrote a response of all the barriers between me and my thoughts when an e-Ink tablet (Remarkable) is powered down or sleeping, but that was just kind of pedantic and obnoxious so I deleted it. The reality is that you can go back to your papers and journals, often many years later, and see an arc, a leitmotif that you cannot with digital. Yes, I have 20 year old plaintext notes, but there is something about flipping through pages of a diary late night or idly on a sunny day; seeing the scrawls, feeling the urgency or lethargy in the penmanship that cannot be replicated. I have lots of devices, some of them quite fun and lovely, but really, pen and paper have the least friction and longest conveyance of subtle thought. |
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What I do now:
- Meeting notes are always digital and plaintext for posterity and search, I use LogSeq
- I have a daily paper journal and calendar. These become interesting over time. Looking at my monthly calendar from 1993 in Prague is pretty cool. I was a cool guy back then, I swear.
- Paper journal for deeper thoughts, ambitions, plans, goals, insights. These matter, and that's where you can see the arc over time. I personally love a Pilot Metropolitan gel pen and a Leuchterm notebook. I have fountain pens and all that, but really, you need a balance between pleasure to use and not afraid to turn the book into a mess.
- For me, the joy of computing these days is using Stable Diffusion (SD) to produce incredible images. I don't want normal, I want whatever SD gives me. Its a surprise and delight. I recall an article in an art magazine about how a photographer gave his blind friend a camera; the images the blind friend produced were unbalanced, blurry and overexposed. Each one visualized a glimpse into a world we can't inhabit. SD does that for me now. I'll keep the old models as it improves.
- Oh (I've edited this like, 10 times), for brainstorming, there is nothing better than an 11x14 newsprint sketchbook. You can draw all over it in every corner and use spacial organization for your thoughts. Like a cheap, indelible portable whiteboard that you can take to the beach or mountains. Best thing ever. What about digitalization? Retyping is an editing exercise.