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Re:The Yoda of Silicon Valley by pjc50 on Monday December 17, 2018 @12:02PM (#18700177)
No, we definitely do it forwards; fountain pens and cursive used to be a serious problem, as is having your hand over what you've just written, so I write "overhand".

(To see this, do a 45 degree '/' with your right-hand pen, then leave the tip in the middle and make your left hand into a mirror image in the plane of the '/')

Re:The Yoda of Silicon Valley by ams6110 on Monday December 17, 2018 @12:20PM (#18700349)
My dad was left-handed. He'd use ball-point pens that didn't smear, and when he was taking notes he'd flip the notebook so that the binding was on the right.
Re:The Yoda of Silicon Valley by seanmcdirmid on Monday December 17, 2018 @01:33PM (#18700913)
Pens are the worst, they konk out so quickly! iPad pros are really useful here. I wish my hands were transparent, occlusion is also a real problem (it is hard to write a straight line of text if you can't see what has already been written).