Printing papers out is a great way to let your optic nerve do the work so you can save your short term memory for comprehension rather than simply recalling wha

Printing papers out is a great way to let your optic nerve do the work so you can save your short term memory for comprehension rather than simply recalling what the symbols are. I absolutely love printing out shortish papers single sided and sticking every single page in order on a poster board or wall. Our eyes are made for flicking from one thing to the next, it works really well. And also highlighting and other note taking is much more direct and intuitive in this format. I also discovered I prefer a columnar format. if I had a monitor that could display 18 pages at once at 12-14pt and was as easy to annotate as using a pen or marker then maybe I wouldn't do this, but I don't.