An iPad can work as a digital journal pretty well. With the Pencil you can handwrite on the days you want to handwrite and you can sketch. The days you want to type, you can do that as well. You can also paste in images, videos, sound recordings, or just about anything.
Yup. Switched to the iPad Mini just for that 2nd gen pencil support.
My usual preferences are digital-first; I'm quicker at it, and my writing is abysmal. I have started carrying a notebook in my backpack, because sometimes typing is just not convenient. I don't want to sit in some settings, poking at my phone, as it is both inefficient and anti-social in ways that scribbling in a note book isn't perceived to be.
It's all pretty new to me, but I think the paper supplement to text interfaces works where it gets transcribed in some form later. The paper can be disposed of, I won't be keeping that once it's served its purpose.
I think its absolutely fine to switch up mediums. Sometimes I think we get a bit caught up with the mentality of 'this is the way', but when it comes to thoughts getting them out however you can is what you need to.
+1
There'd be days I'd be writing for 90 minutes straight, the same amount of text I could type in probably a third of that time. I also eventually like to transcribe the handwritten to digital as well, so I'm typing it eventually anyway.
Pandemic really fucked with the habit though, and so far I haven't been able to get back into the groove again. Maybe switching to handwritten again will help.
Here are my stats by year: 2016(Hand):9K, 2017(Hand):47k, 2018(Hand):>9k (not all transcribed), 2019(Digital):123k, 2020(Digital):47k, 2021(Digital):11k, 2022(Digital):7.5k