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?
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There’s research that backs you up.
People tend to retain more of their written notes than typed. The act of writing forces you to assimilate and summarize new information on the fly. Typing allows you to take more complete notes closer to a verbatim transcript, but you engage less with what you’ve typed.
Its your sense of proprioception, too. To write something with pen and paper you have to move your hand in three dimensional space, and this does a TON to engrain the information in your head
Yes, of course. How can I leave a note for somebody in the living room, or pin it to the fridge if it’s on my PC?
How can I scribble my plans and measurements down quickly without endangering my fancy expensive phone while I’m woodworking? Not to mention I need two hands and need to unlock the phone and find the application etc etc, or I could just pick up the pencil.
And what about my shopping list? Am I going to absent mindedly carry my phone in one hand while I push the trolley and pick up food, basically BEGGING somebody to come and snatch it from my hand and run off with it? Hell no. I use a written shopping list.
These are just some random examples, and I do use my tech to note some things down, most notably if I’m sat at the pc and it’s a tech thing I’ll probably load Notepad++ and save a quick .txt note, I have a lot of those. But for little around the house/going out things, my notepaper is always best :-)
Those are some really bad reasons tbh. A digital shared shopping list is the best invention btw. My wife adds stuff in it and I see it on my phone when I go shopping. Who the fuck is going to snatch a phone out of your hand when you shop? And isn’t a phone a pretty useless item to steal anyway? Most of them can’t be wiped these days.
I always have a notepad next to me while working. The notes on paper somehow guide my workflow.
I prefer pencil, but yes, I find it faster and more freeform, and more portable to take initial notes on paper.
My handwriting is the perfect encryption. Nobody else can understand it. Lol.
At work I do that exclusively. It’s faster to make punch lists for jobsites that way
Same, so much quicker to make handwritten notes at work. I also just want to give my hands and eyes a break from using my phone.
Also I don’t have to contend with auto complete
Scientifically speaking, writing with your hand helps a lot with memory and learning, while typing does not have nearly the same effect. Also, a lot of handwriting apps are still garbage. It’s also nice for focusing to not be using a cell phone. Other than that, some people probably just like it
I get a lot of scratch paper as part of my job entails troubleshooting printers (kill me) and so I have stacks of printer test pages, pages printed out with PCL and PS errors and what not. These make good canvases for sketching up quick network designs or diagraming things such as work flows. I usually scan them in a note taking app before shredding them to keep my desk clear but it’s much more convenient that having to use Visio or something on things that just need to be sketched out
Always pen/paper
A note on my phone is about as useful as no note at all. The physical presence of the note is much more important.
Because I like small diagrams and schematics. Doing that in an app, especially on a phone, is tricky. And I find that structuring my thoughts on paper just works better than doing it digitally straight away.
Yes, when i need to concentrate
I use a mechanical pencil. Pentel 205 for life baby.
Equations are a shitload faster to write: this is the main reason.
No fucking spell correction.
Every piece of writing is visually unique and looking back at handwritten notes brings back an additional layer of memory (diaries/personal journals eg).
Paper notes can be permanently destroyed with a high level of confidence and low cost if desired.
Written notes can be easily left for/handed to another person (for flirtatious purposes e.g.), or placed semi-permanently in a useful spot.
Electronic notes are great too, I keep my grocery list and whatnot on my phone, but the reasons above are why I also write things by hand.
I use many methods to collect and organize information. I take pics on my.phone, write notes on my phone, write outlines on my laptop, write notes in a notebook, and write post it notes for me or others. All are appropriate at various times.
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