Mastodawn

I second this:

”When I need to plan something out, jot down things I need to do this week, or just organize my thoughts, I prefer to write by hand. Something about handwriting gets my juices thinking differently. I'd say it's just me, but there's research to back this up.“

But the author then continues to use a phone and a conventional tablet, instead of E-Ink. There, my friend, lies the real difference.

But then again, nothing beats real pen & paper

MUO - MakeUseOf: Here's How Handwritten Digital Templates Have Changed My Day

https://www.makeuseof.com/handwritten-digital-templates/

#notetaking #eink #fountainpen #ProductivityPorn

Here's How Handwritten Digital Templates Have Changed My Day

A phone or tablet with a stylus can be all the notebook you need.

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Karl Voit

Jan 3, 2025

@gisiger Oh, I'd love to use fountain pens and #paper for as much as possible.

However, I also know that I won't carry a paper notebook which contains all necessary information.

Furthermore, I'm not manually transferring handwritten stuff into digital.

And there is no viable offline handwriting recognition I could use.

Or workflows that are suitable to integrate analog and digital which scales.

And yes, I do have an awesome #Boox #NoteAir which I could use for that but the digital environment is not there yet. (I use it just to annotate PDF documents.)

Therefore, I'm 100% digital with my #PIM. 😞🤷

(corrected wrong language flag)

#OCR #fountainpens #Zettelkasten #PKM #orgmode #eink

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ferricoxide Jan 3, 2025

@gisiger

I think the efficacy of hand-writing vs. typing it into a form likely depends on how you came to the technologies. As an Xer, hand-writing was all that most of my contemporaries had: I was an outlier and learned to type in elementary school, and, as a result, a lot of the pathways that would have formed for hand-writing formed for typing – either as an "instead" or as an "as well" (kind of like bilingualism).

When I've been places where typing was non-possible (in class for K-12 and college) or in customer-meetings where individual electronic devices weren't allowed), scribbling into a notebook helped with retention. I chose the word "scribbling" because most of what I did was doodle. It always seemed the mere act of putting ink to paper helped with absorbtion, whether what I was scribbling was notes or unrelated images.

Similarly, typing things has a memory-fixing effect for me. It's like, just knowing that I wrote something up helps fix it in my mind. Perhaps its just the deliberateness of taking the time to put something into a blog that fixes it or maybe it's the knowing where I can re-find something does it.

But, I get that that's not normal (particularly for my age-group).