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I say good riddance. Leave it to people who make a job out of it. We should admit it and move on, removing stuck bits of handwriting from where it doesn't belon
by guard-of-terra 11y ago
I say good riddance. Leave it to people who make a job out of it. We should admit it and move on, removing stuck bits of handwriting from where it doesn't belong anymore.
I personally never liked writing on paper, it was ugly and time-consuming; I would never be able to express myself on paper: I'll compress the meaning away or just quit halfway through.
- witty_username 11y agoYup, my typing speed is ~80 WPM and my writing speed is probably way less and not even as easy to read.
- vizeroth 11y agoMy typing speed is more than 80 WPM when I'm 12 hours into a bad day and my handwriting is horrid, but I still often use paper to clarify my thoughts, take notes, and draw diagrams. More often than not, I never actually read what I've written, the act of writing just makes it easier for me to retain the information. Similarly, I've found that I can retain the content of electronic documents more easily if I type them out in a text editor. Sometimes I just delete the text, other times I retain it as a more portable version of the content. Most members of my family think it's strange that I work with paper so much (and continue to buy most of my books in paper form), given that I've made a living writing software and websites for almost 20 years. I just think that, even with computers in the house from a young age, I was taught to use my brain through paper, and every alternative they've come up with to date has been, at best, a half-assed imitation.
- witty_username 11y agoI was taught to use my brain through a keyboard :p. Writing on paper seems clunky to me. And since I'm homeschooled I've been typing most of my answers to books on a computer (for 4-5 years).
- Glide 11y agoI have yet to find diagramming software that lets me express myself faster than a couple of quick doodles on a piece of paper. I find myself loathing to explain something with a "simple" chart that can take 5 minutes to draw by hand but far more on a computer.
- icebraining 11y agoI just use my finger on my tablet. The app recognizes my skewed lines and transforms them into regular forms and connections. Then I can easily export to SVG and finish it up on the computer.
- bootload 11y ago"lets me express myself faster than a couple of quick doodles on a piece of paper." ... and then take a digital photo. Which is the process I've adopted. This is a hard problem to solve with the clumsy digital tools we have at our disposal at the moment. Probably not with this generation of input.
- Jach 11y agoFor block diagrams, graphviz is the fastest for me. If I need anything more complicated than node->node relations, pretty much any editor akin to visio is still faster than doing it by hand and looks much prettier because I have infinite space and can rearrange things on the fly. By hand is useful when all I have for collaboration is a whiteboard, though.
- a_e_k 11y agoI still like it for taking notes. Stuff seems to stick better in my mind when I take notes by hand compared to when I take notes by typing.