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Writing is the best and hardest way to think. "Drop by drop," as I've heard say. I love the binder practice. I got a printer about a month ago, printed a bunch of files (notes, incomplete songs, etc), deleted them, then reduced the mess down to a few pages. That was a productive day. I submit that we have a false equivalency—nay, a false superiority of digital files over paper. After all, that's what we're all about here, right? As you say, the constraints of paper are a feature, not a bug. I would have made this comment shorter, but I didn't have time. EDIT Here you go, from right now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8272394 |
I have a few filled up notebooks and anytime I need some information I look it up in the index, and flip to it. I even write down URL's and descriptions to videos I liked. If I'm watching a video, I write down the timestamp, url, and title, thats how I index media. Maybe if the contents are important like dialogue or lyrics to a song, I'll jot down an excerpt.
It's really cool looking back on old notebooks. Can't wait to virtually go through every day of my life on paper when I get older, show my kids too.
I have a master list document on my computer that has every entry in the table of contents categorized as well, so that makes finding stuff easier too.