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Downsides: Search - How do you grep or Ctrl-F your notebook to find out that one command you ran three weeks ago to fix your dev environment? Copy/Paste - If
by quanticle 11y ago
Downsides:
Search - How do you grep or Ctrl-F your notebook to find out that one command you ran three weeks ago to fix your dev environment?
Copy/Paste - If I ask you for a copy of your notes, you have to retype it out. I can yank and paste into my e-mail client.
In addition, I have to quibble with expandability. Yes, I can buy additional notebooks, but I have finite desk and drawer space. Moreover, the cost of searching increases nonlinearly as the number of notebooks increases. Meanwile, grep runs approximately as quickly on 1kb of notes as it does on 100kb of notes.
- gkya 11y agoI use Org for my lesson notes, and all other notes, but I always capture with pen and paper. It's way more straightforward and there are no distractions and no limitations, I can write, draw, etc. Then I type them, after the fact, into the relevant org file, so that I can edit and share more easily. So, I capture on paper, and store and manipulate on the computer.
- quanticle 11y agoThat's a good strategy, but as a programmer, I'm at the computer 90% of the time anyway. It's much easier for me to have another vim window open or whatever than it is for me to have a physical notebook sitting alongside my keyboard.
- gkya 11y agoI concur, though note that I am talking about taking notes during an activity like a lecture or a meeting. While on the computer I'd never bother myself writing stuff on paper.