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I'd love to get into using notebooks more, but I just don't think it's for me. I buy a stack of cheap legal pads (although I get A4 sized) and a box of cheap Bi

by jjice 4y ago

I'd love to get into using notebooks more, but I just don't think it's for me. I buy a stack of cheap legal pads (although I get A4 sized) and a box of cheap Bic pens that I think I got about 10 years ago. I tear pages off of the legal pad and staple or join them with a paper clip to keep them organized, but they end up being recycled when they're done. For long term stuff that I want to search, I `notes` directory with some text files and a `:date 2023-03-10` at the top has served me well. I still really love seeing what people do with their notebooks, I guess I'm just not one of those people though.

corobo 4y ago
Have you tried not buying the cheap stuff? Maybe that's the issue. I switched to thicker paper and nicer pens and I write a lot more now. I find writing by hand gets information to bed in a lot better than typing it too. I don't even mean break the bank, I use Amazon Basics notebooks (until they shrinkflate the paper quality) and the pilot g-2 07 pen. Nothing too fancy. Each to their own of course but if someone said they hated running because their running shoes were cheap and uncomfortable I imagine most people would come up with the same solution.
- jjice 4y ago
  Ya know, I haven't. That's a good point. Honestly splurging once on some nicer gear to try might be worth it. That's for the suggestion.
yamtaddle 4y ago
I always think I want to use notebooks, but end up just using the Notes app on my iPhone because I have it with me nearly 100% of the time and it syncs to my laptop and tablet. Any effort at using notebooks falls apart the first time I don't have one with me—out, or just in another room of the house—and need to take a note. [EDIT] There's also the fact that, at this point, I write maybe a couple hundred words per year by hand, tops, not counting signing things, and am starting to get really bad at writing by hand, after a decade-plus like that. Like 50% of all the writing a do in a given year these days is probably filling in forms for doctors or whatever, and I don't do that much of that, and it barely counts as writing, really (name, address, that stuff)

by jjice 4y ago

corobo 4y ago

Have you tried not buying the cheap stuff? Maybe that's the issue. I switched to thicker paper and nicer pens and I write a lot more now. I find writing by hand gets information to bed in a lot better than typing it too. I don't even mean break the bank, I use Amazon Basics notebooks (until they shrinkflate the paper quality) and the pilot g-2 07 pen. Nothing too fancy. Each to their own of course but if someone said they hated running because their running shoes were cheap and uncomfortable I imagine most people would come up with the same solution.

jjice 4y ago
Ya know, I haven't. That's a good point. Honestly splurging once on some nicer gear to try might be worth it. That's for the suggestion.

yamtaddle 4y ago

I always think I want to use notebooks, but end up just using the Notes app on my iPhone because I have it with me nearly 100% of the time and it syncs to my laptop and tablet. Any effort at using notebooks falls apart the first time I don't have one with me—out, or just in another room of the house—and need to take a note. [EDIT] There's also the fact that, at this point, I write maybe a couple hundred words per year by hand, tops, not counting signing things, and am starting to get really bad at writing by hand, after a decade-plus like that. Like 50% of all the writing a do in a given year these days is probably filling in forms for doctors or whatever, and I don't do that much of that, and it barely counts as writing, really (name, address, that stuff)