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Do you still write notes with pen and paper?

With so much note taking apps nowadays, I can’t understand why does anyone still write notes with pen and paper. You need to bring the notepad, book or that paper to retrieve that information, and most of the time you don’t have it in hand. While my phone almost always reachable and you carry when you go out. For those still like to do handwriting, there’s many app does that and they can even convert it to text notes.

So, if you still write notes with pen and paper, why?

Bimily ,

yes, there is music in the sound of pen across paper and magic in the scratch of a pencil. I still use my phone to take quick notes but I love the sound and feel of paper.

dQw4w9WgXcQ ,

I agree with a lot of peoples take about the convenience of paper notes with the ability to handle them, physically share them and so forth. But I still never use physical notes any more. And 100% of the reason is that I’m always carrying my phone, but I never carry a pen and notebook. My need to take notes is spontaneous and unpredictible, so paper and a pen is never within an arms reach when I need to take a note.

Shinji_Ikari ,
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One thing paper helps me with is free-form thought externalizing.

When you limit yourself to text, markdown, or sometimes even a digital pen/drawing app, I feel like it requires a bit of effort to use which allows ideas to slip from my mind.

With a pen/pencil and paper, I can write, draw, and connect about as fast as I can think. I can crumble the page and refine the idea over and over until something I like is there.

Geth ,

For work I used to have an agenda with notes but over time I realized it’s impossible to actually keep organized and have the most important things be the most easy to find. I moved to onenote and never looked back.

For personal notes I use a tablet with pen because it’s fun to write by hand without wasting trees and it still being digital it’s easier to organize and move information around.

eating3645 ,

I use a tablet for most my notes but there’s a pretty obvious reason for paper/pen - you don’t have to charge a notebook.

Anonymouse ,

I tried many times to “go digital” at work, using different apps and methods, but it comes down to 3 things: I take notes and jot down ideas nonlinearly. For example, I’ll start taking a note from a meeting or lecture, then have an idea that I’ll jot down elsewhere, but go back to the original note to finish it then go and complete the idea. It’s stupid, but it works for me. The second is that I infrequently need to review my notes that are written since they get committed to memory. Unfinished ideas are different. Third, I can find notes faster when I wrote them vs typed them. I have a photographic memory. My desk is a huge mess, but I can usually find what I need because I remember it’s physical location in the pile.

sag ,

Yep.

skip0110 ,
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I use paper for shopping lists, to keep track of dimensions etc, and to-do lists for work.

I tried multiple note taking or to do list apps over the course of a few years before going back to paper.

Benefits: No risk of scratching/dropping my phone because I have it out. Can easily emphasize text, star/cross off items, and mix diagrams and text. Can quickly scan many items by eye. Works when my phone battery dies. Works when no cell service (unlike some collaborative to-do/list apps) Can hand the list to my partner. Instant sync. Satisfying to physically toss out completed lists. Can reference the list while on the phone. Not distracted by phone alerts. Never get spam email or pop ups urging me to pay for an app, or rate an app; no terms of service or privacy policy!

lvxferre ,
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Yes. It’s faster, I have an easier time remembering stuff that I wrote by hand instead of using a keyboard, I can’t be arsed to use a phone most of the time, and I can even apply some primitive “encryption”* to keep a certain overly curious person around me from messing with my notes. I can also use them when I’m designing writing scripts for constructed languages, way faster than doing it in Inkscape.

The big con is that one of my cats thinks that paper is toy, and the other thinks that any large enough sheet is a bed.

*it’s just Italian with ad hoc Cyrillic. Good enough for handwritten notes.

Neil ,
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    lvxferre ,
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    Paper is toy.

    So is a smartphone. At least for my cat.

    Jerrimu2 ,

    I hand write to-do list because I can remember , my phone is a distraction machine.

    gabe ,

    I love fountain pens so much and journaling with them. Extremely therapeutic.

    triclops6 ,

    Today’s my first Lemmy spotting of a fellow fp user! I don’t feel like many of us made the hop from Reddit, welcome!

    gabe ,

    Make sure to check out the fountain pens community on wayfarershaven! :)

    triclops6 ,

    Done! They have pen swap too!

    GenderIsOpSec ,
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    not to sound like a boomer, but i just like to write with pen once in a while so i dont forget how to blob-no-thoughts

    Gorillatactics ,

    I don’t write anything down because the sophon is watching me.

    riodoro1 ,

    Simple sketches of very rough ideas are much simpler for me in a notebook. Its right there when i need it, and they’ve thought me how to use a pen ages ago so i’m pretty good at it. Noting down numbers or dimensions before i can enter them to cad in their proper places is something i do quite a lot too. The built in history feature is amazingly simple but search could be improved upon. Especially if the pages are filled with random things next to each other.

    The notebook is pretty resistant to drops too and i can put plates or mugs on it without risking sratches

    Legendsofanus ,

    So I have this OCD thing where I just have to have a perfect order of things to do, I’m talking about things like what to watch, what to read.

    It’s helpful for me to list them all on paper cuz the excel app on my phone sucks and we have load shedding where light goes every 2 hours a.ccording to schedule and comes back after 2 hours.

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