This is cool, but I find for me that as soon as I sit down in front of a computer, my mind goes blank and I forget what I was planning and just pick up with whatever is already on screen. To do some thinking about my week, I have to use paper to force myself to focus.
For what it’s worth, I have that issue, but I’ve combated it very effectively by doing the actual journaling and note taking on a very dumb medium (the reMarkable e-ink tablet these days, and previously just small paper notebooks). I transfer those notes I still care about over at the end of the day to a system vaguely like what the author describes. This lets me focus and be in the moment when I’m writing/journaling/etc., but gives me all the benefits of searching and (for my use case) back-references that I’d miss sticking purely to paper. That’s how I’ve done things since the 90s, and I don’t anticipate changing. YMMV, but a system like this can be a very nice complement to longhand writing if you want it to be.
This is cool, but I find for me that as soon as I sit down in front of a computer, my mind goes blank and I forget what I was planning and just pick up with whatever is already on screen. To do some thinking about my week, I have to use paper to force myself to focus.
I know this phenomenon all too well. This comment could also have been written by me :D
When someone asks why do I keep notes, I answer “because I’m stateless”.
Anyone know if there are any AI apps that can be trained to recognize a person’s handwriting? (if they can grok diagrams that would be even better!)
For what it’s worth, I have that issue, but I’ve combated it very effectively by doing the actual journaling and note taking on a very dumb medium (the reMarkable e-ink tablet these days, and previously just small paper notebooks). I transfer those notes I still care about over at the end of the day to a system vaguely like what the author describes. This lets me focus and be in the moment when I’m writing/journaling/etc., but gives me all the benefits of searching and (for my use case) back-references that I’d miss sticking purely to paper. That’s how I’ve done things since the 90s, and I don’t anticipate changing. YMMV, but a system like this can be a very nice complement to longhand writing if you want it to be.