Comment by 🐝 pirkka
Re: "How do you compare journaling by hand to digital note…"
There was a fantastic, in my humble opinion, app called GridDiary, which then was rebranded as GridDiary Classic and later taken down from the iTunes App Store (I think), and the new GridDiary 2 or whatevs is a subscription-based replica by the same author, and I really wasn't in a mood to subscribe to yet another thing, so here I am with LogSeq and Obsidian and a bunch of org and md files, loving it
Feb 12 · 3 months ago
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👻 darkghost · Feb 13 at 00:40:
Oh my, you don't need a subscription for a diary, in my opinion. Old pen and paper won't charge you a subscription. Basic text editors do the job just dandy and came with your device.
@fairlygoodthanks Are you enjoying the Remarkable? I’ve a colleague who is an advocate, but every time I’ve considered it, I’ve thought that it can’t beat real paper + a scanner to import the pages into Joplin (handwriting OCR is currently a gap).
heh, i remember how awazed was i that i was able to use a text editor on my computer with 32kb of ram.
it was possibe to restructure the text, edit without having to rewrite everytting from scratch or without using that white paint over the text.
later on a pentium 1 i was doing video editing and it was like text editing. you could change everything, nothing was written in stone.
i could compare it to linear, non computer video editing, i suffered with it enough.
so i used computer text/video editors and it was a miracle.
i also like to type fast. i can't write by hand as fast. and my handwriting becomes more unreadable more i increase the speed.
then i can't grep in what i wrote.
i also can't create beautiful, accurate texts i can when typesetting. or i can't change a font. i can't have a reflowable text. i can't have italics etc.
i use analog cameras though. i like the aesthetics. but i scan my photos. even those i managed to print in analog way.
🗡️ The_Jackal · Feb 14 at 01:05:
@norayr I've mostly been using my type it down and then copy it into my notebook method for my math notes so it might make me remember it more, as well as the fact that I take so long to get something written.
I find the forced slowdown is beneficial to my mind. methodical, patient thoughts
👻 darkghost · Feb 14 at 10:17:
My mind palace looks like one of those hoarders shows. Slowing down is essential.
🪐 terra-zz0 · Feb 15 at 11:21:
Digital notes are easily forgettable. I used to make a lot of them in Obsidian and now I do in Logseq but do I remember if I created a specific note? Not really.
When I was still a student I used to re-write my notes by hand before exams to learn and... it actually worked.
If you want to remember what you write - it's better to do some handwriting, IMO.
Wow, that is a lot of agreement
❤️ fairlygood · Feb 16 at 20:20:
@lab6 I really like mine. Very hackable devices and there is a good community of people making them more useful.
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How do you compare journaling by hand to digital note taking - I have been journaling now for about a month by hand, with a fountain pen on a paper journal, every evening and find it a treasure. I used to write notes about my thoughts and ideas, tasks and such on Notion and later on Joplin. I find paper journaling superior to these. For my needs atleast. My goal was to find a better structure for self-reflection and my religious practice of Tasawwuf. To make it more embadded in my routine as...