| Adding to my thought to answer your question:
Too many software products have failed over my 40 years of computing. Plaintext lives. ReadySetGo! documents do not. 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. |