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After scribbling down notes in paper notebooks for years I finally decided I didn't want to kill any more trees to take notes I seldom referenced. Now I have a
by thecrumb 1y ago
After scribbling down notes in paper notebooks for years I finally decided I didn't want to kill any more trees to take notes I seldom referenced.
Now I have a digital tablet (Supernote) on which I scribble down all the meaningless stuff throughout the day. Then I review that and anything useful or important goes into Obsidian where I can tag/search it later.
- ujkhsjkdhf234 1y agoOn the scale of the amount of harm you personally do to the planet on a daily basis, I have to imagine wasting paper is one of the least consequential things.
- magistr4te 1y agoI've never done the math on this, but my immediate thought on that reasoning was always that you'd have to burn through a LOT of paper to actually have such an electronic product be more environmentally friendly. Does anyone have concrete data on this?
- __natty__ 1y agoI found some data on slate - between 7000-14000 sheets to balance an iPad over 3 years of usage. [0] [0] https://slate.com/technology/2011/09/paper-versus-the-ipad-is-taking-notes-on-a-tablet-computer-or-a-notepad-more-environmentally-responsible.html https://slate.com/technology/2011/09/paper-versus-the-ipad-i...