I recently switched from using physical notebooks to entirely digital. I can't see myself ever going back. I'm lefty, so my hand cramps when I write. I now get

I recently switched from using physical notebooks to entirely digital. I can't see myself ever going back. I'm lefty, so my hand cramps when I write. I now get to type all day with my lovely Moonlander ZSA keyboard. I'm forever flipping back and forth pages to try and find notes. Now I search by tags and links, using Obsidian. Every journal entry has a list of links to my notes I made that day, so I know when I wrote everything. I can put pictures in my notes! I could do that before, but I'd have an awkward bit of paper stuffed in there, and by notebook completion it'd be stuffed with loose paper. I would always carry a pocket notepad with me. It'd be in bits by the end of the month. Now, I can carry every note I've ever taken on the phone in my pocket. I always felt a little guilty about all the paper. I'm minimalist by nature. Now, it's all stored on a NAS and Cloud storage. I brought all my stored notes to a place for scanning, then proceeded to dump them. It was so liberating. I had 2 boxes that I carried from place to place with all my notes. Now they can fit on a thumb drive. I could fit almost everything I own in the back of my Peugeot 207. Don't get me wrong, I know it's not as effective for memorization, but the benefits have so far vastly outweighed the cons.