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>Adding the extra step of taking a picture loses a lot of the productivity gain. Does it really? I feel like I spend many minutes filling out the page, and a

>Adding the extra step of taking a picture loses a lot of the productivity gain. Does it really? I feel like I spend many minutes filling out the page, and a few seconds taking a picture of it. And I still have the paper.. I do not need to take a picture of it right away. I scan my notes with my phone in one batch setting. Remarkable seems very expensive to save me from a 5 minute scanning session after a few hours of writing notes. On top of that it's another thing i have to carry and charge and possibly troubleshoot. honestly, it is kind of silly to me that remarkable tries to sell itself as a place to take notes. It's main selling point to me is that it is a kindle I can take notes on. but I dont read enough to warrant purchasing an ereader

omarhaneef 5y ago
If you are diligent about scanning your notes at regular intervals, then I think you are fortunate to have that capacity. I have every intention of taking a photo of my notes but have not done so. What is your process/ritual? end of the day? end of the week? do you set a trigger or reminder? Do you review them while scanning?
- cupofpython 5y ago
  I do them in bulk, when i have bits of downtime here and there like waiting for water to boil. I use my phone to scan, and then move the photos I try to be up to date by the end of each month because i also scan receipts and like having them for reference when looking over my spend for month. That said Ive still got some march notes to scan in. I dont review them at all in relation to scanning them. I am making a digital archive of things Ive written down for any reason. If it is not worth archiving then i can delete it later, which i often do. What helped me most with becoming consistent with it was a few key things listed below - and the overall process can be picked up and put down whenever i feel like it without causing chaos 1) Respect the page. when taking the note, I do not assume context will exist for it later. If a stranger were to get a photo dump of all my notes, they have a reasonable chance of organizing them appropriately. Missing context is written on the page first before putting it away, like date, page number, header keywords 2) I scan everything with my phone 3) I move scans from my phone to a single 'destination' folder on my computer / cloud and delete from my phone. 4) Within the destination folder, I subfolder for items of multiple pages. Not categories or dates or anything fancy. Just a very simple grouping of page x of y situations. No thinking involved. Similar to a stapler 5) I move things out of that scan dump folder into my regular digital file organization as needed, if needed. Personally, I have a "Handwritten Notes" folder - and within that folder I have an "Unfiled" folder which is my scan dump location for #3. After Im done with step 3 I move everything up a level out of the "unfiled" folder In general, most of my digital file organization is with shortcuts anyway, so at this point im done with the scanning process. I find getting things scanned is meaningful by itself, and i dont see the need to comingle my handwritten notes with my digital notes. shortcuts used whenever i want both types of things in the same folder

omarhaneef 5y ago

If you are diligent about scanning your notes at regular intervals, then I think you are fortunate to have that capacity. I have every intention of taking a photo of my notes but have not done so. What is your process/ritual? end of the day? end of the week? do you set a trigger or reminder? Do you review them while scanning?

cupofpython 5y ago
I do them in bulk, when i have bits of downtime here and there like waiting for water to boil. I use my phone to scan, and then move the photos I try to be up to date by the end of each month because i also scan receipts and like having them for reference when looking over my spend for month. That said Ive still got some march notes to scan in. I dont review them at all in relation to scanning them. I am making a digital archive of things Ive written down for any reason. If it is not worth archiving then i can delete it later, which i often do. What helped me most with becoming consistent with it was a few key things listed below - and the overall process can be picked up and put down whenever i feel like it without causing chaos 1) Respect the page. when taking the note, I do not assume context will exist for it later. If a stranger were to get a photo dump of all my notes, they have a reasonable chance of organizing them appropriately. Missing context is written on the page first before putting it away, like date, page number, header keywords 2) I scan everything with my phone 3) I move scans from my phone to a single 'destination' folder on my computer / cloud and delete from my phone. 4) Within the destination folder, I subfolder for items of multiple pages. Not categories or dates or anything fancy. Just a very simple grouping of page x of y situations. No thinking involved. Similar to a stapler 5) I move things out of that scan dump folder into my regular digital file organization as needed, if needed. Personally, I have a "Handwritten Notes" folder - and within that folder I have an "Unfiled" folder which is my scan dump location for #3. After Im done with step 3 I move everything up a level out of the "unfiled" folder In general, most of my digital file organization is with shortcuts anyway, so at this point im done with the scanning process. I find getting things scanned is meaningful by itself, and i dont see the need to comingle my handwritten notes with my digital notes. shortcuts used whenever i want both types of things in the same folder