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Re:Plain Text Journaling in Vim by 0xEF on Monday June 19, 2023 @12:24PM (#36392900)
I use a small notebook and Fisher Space Pen. To be honest, it just feels more comfortable with the way my brain is wired. I tend to remember things better when I write instead of type, and I jotva lot of stuff in the margins as thoughts start to flow, where others might find note-taking apps more suited to their style. It really just depends on how you process information.
Re:Plain Text Journaling in Vim by Leires on Monday June 19, 2023 @12:48PM (#36393232)
I'm the same way but I use a hobonichi journal with a frixion erasable ink pen. It flows much smoother. I used to use a moleskine with fisher pen but I kept having to go over lines again. Maybe it works better in space.
Re:Plain Text Journaling in Vim by kej on Monday June 19, 2023 @01:18PM (#36393751)
If you're already using the frixion pens, you might like rocket book notebooks as well. They work with the frixion ink so that the pages wipe clean with a damp cloth, and there's also an app that will scan your notes to your cloud storage or email.

(Not an employee, just a big fan)

Re:Plain Text Journaling in Vim by ilrwbwrkhv on Monday June 19, 2023 @11:34PM (#36399415)
Hey how well does this work? I'm really interested but I'm wondering if after a few uses there is some residue.
Re:Plain Text Journaling in Vim by eggy1 on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @01:01PM (#36407038)
I used to use rocketbooks back in school, and they were quite nice. This was a few years ago so I can't comment on it now, but I really enjoyed it then. You could setup various places for it to save to and there were boxes at the bottom of the page I could check and say the first box was checked it got sent to drive, the second box could be like dropbox etc I had all mine set to different google drive folders for my classes. It was able to scan everything quite well and was honestly pretty seamless to me. I feel like there were more features but I can't remember now, even if there weren't though I still liked the organizational structure of it all.
Re:Plain Text Journaling in Vim by kej on Thursday June 22, 2023 @06:25PM (#36439998)
I haven't had any issues with residue after a lot of use. The only thing to watch out for is writing too hard and leaving a scratch in the paper, but that's easy enough to avoid.