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I've been trying to make all-digital work for years. I feel like there are significant downsides with digital that make me want to go back to paper (but if I we
by Koliakis 6y ago
I've been trying to make all-digital work for years. I feel like there are significant downsides with digital that make me want to go back to paper (but if I were to print out everything I read, my small apartment would be overflowing in a year and it seems so wasteful).
One of the most obvious benefits to paper that comes to mind is the ability to lay multiple non-sequential pages (from the same paper and from other papers) side-by-side. That spatial aspect isn't replicable afaict and I definitely feel like it limits me in many ways.
- maxioatic 6y agoCompletely agree on both points. Another thing for me is just grabbing a paper and a pen and knowing that's all I can do for the next X minutes. No digital distractions possible.
- BlueTemplar 6y agoIt's pretty replicable - you just open the same document multiple times ! (Of course it's often easier to run out of screen space than out of desk space…)
- Koliakis 6y agoIt falls apart in how you interact with the pages. It's not even close to the same thing, so not replicable at all.