Thinking With Pen and Paper

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• Author: LJ MIRANDA
• Full Title: Thinking With Pen and Paper
• URL: https://ljvmiranda921.github.io/life/2022/08/04/pen-and-paper/

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It’s fun to go back to my old notes and say: “Oh, I was a little bit stressed when I wrote this down.” There’s an archival element in it that digital formats cannot capture. Sure, it’s a bit of a reach to say that my written notes are better for preserving my thoughts—if they got lost or burned down, then it’s all gone. What I’m talking about here is the written note’s capacity to encapsulate “what really happened” during the time I thought about a particular idea. In a text editor, everything is reduced to the same font, sterilizing those details away. (View Highlight) - Note: Analog tools such as pen and paper capture a more raw picture of your thoughts. There is more inherent metadata. Handwritten content has additional metadata