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Do you still write notes with pen and paper? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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With so much note taking apps nowadays, I can't understand why does anyone still write notes with pen and paper. You need to bring the notepad, book or that paper to retrieve that information, and most of the time you don't have it in hand. While my phone almost always reachable and you carry when you go out. For those still like to do handwriting, there's many app does that and they can even convert it to text notes.

So, if you still write notes with pen and paper, why?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Is owning 7 typewriters and 2 fountain pens a yes? Because yes, I love pen and paper.

I don't really find that a hassle to travel with a pen and notepads. I'm also quite fond of the reliability they offer me compared to electronic devices, hell sometimes I travel with a typewriter because of the joy typing on it gives me.

Computers aren't really the same, and typing on glass fucking sucks. Really, it gets painful to type on a smartphone for me real quick.

Also there is something more authentic and real about pen and paper, something material and existing. Something which I can hold and inspect, put up in different light, look at the grain of the paper the trail of the ink. Oh and if you have a particular way of writing it gets not only transmitted by how your letters look, but also by how quickly you wrote them, the paper you wrote that on, the ink and nib you've used. Just so many factors in how it looks in the end.

But the process itself, oh the process. It's just so much more restricting. And weirdly enough that feeling is liberating.

You are so much more focused on what you are writing, you have to sit down to it properly and think. Because redacting and changing anything is so difficult compared to computers, you have to be sure of what you write. You can't just let your thoughts flow without rime or reason.

It's truly a magical experience, something I'm not willing to give up.