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?

  • @theblackpaul
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    510 months ago

    I’m a millennial and I still write notes with pen and paper simply because I can’t be bothered to learn how to format in a notes app of any kind.

    All of my notes are formatted in a bizarre way that makes sense to me. Applying that format in a digital space is always a giant headache.

    I am switching to using Obsidian. Skipping the formatting all together and instead linking all my disjointed ideas to each other seems to be working pretty well.

    • @argv_minus_one@beehaw.org
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      110 months ago

      I’m a millennial and I still write notes with pen and paper simply because I can’t be bothered to learn how to format in a notes app of any kind.

      I’m an older millennial, and I’ll tell you how I format my notes: in text files. Markdown if I’m feeling fancy.