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> I envy your ability to handwrite my thoughts as quickly as I can type them. Not your thoughts, certainly. But for matters of any depth, not only code, I find
by throwanem 2y ago
> I envy your ability to handwrite my thoughts as quickly as I can type them.
Not your thoughts, certainly. But for matters of any depth, not only code, I find the limit on speed tends rarely to be set by speed of transcription.
- kstrauser 2y agoThe limit on your speed, as you pointed out. There are times I stare at a screen for an hour and then add a comma to fix a bug. There are other times I'm writing long walls of text as fast as I can get them out of my brain. That's the sort of thing the device in this article we're discussing is meant for. And for me, I cannot possibly put pen to paper as quickly as I can put chars on a screen (or ribbon ink onto typing paper, for that matter).
- throwanem 2y agoIt's hardly as if one doesn't switch to a keyboard when a keyboard is indicated. Just that it seems a bit silly to start with whatever hundreds of dollars or hours of investment this device requires, needing also to learn how to use and fettle it and tolerate its various inconveniences, when the need it addresses is so relatively rare compared with what a simple, inexpensive pen and notebook, or even a $160 Decimo and a Mnemosyne or Webnotebook, can serve. The device is the distraction.