Pocket: It gets worse the more you use it

Re:Pocket: It gets worse the more you use it by blairbeckwith on Saturday July 08, 2023 @11:26PM (#36651210)

You certainly don’t need - I know and have worked with many successful people who don’t have any sort of meaningful (beyond grocery list type) notes or externally-stored knowledge of any kind.

This feels like a comment without substance and in a way, it is. But I think it’s important to push back on this idea that if you aren’t managing a Second Brain while you’re GTD’ing a side project and Tools for Thought-ing your way through the western canon you’re wasting your life.

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Re:Pocket: It gets worse the more you use it by denton-scratch on Sunday July 09, 2023 @05:56AM (#36653111)

I eventually settled on a hardback A4 notebook.

I don't usually need to scan back more than a few days, but one book lasts several months. You can use it standing up, e.g. in a SCRUM. It's resistant to having a mug of coffee spilled over it. It never crashes, and it doesn't need RAID or backups. You can attach post-its to the pages. You can use a stack of 4-5 of them as a monitor stand.

Downsides: you can't paste screencaps into it. And there's no search function.

Yes, it's a glorified grocery list. But it works better for me than any electronic solution.

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Re:Pocket: It gets worse the more you use it by a1o on Sunday July 09, 2023 @07:36AM (#36653638)

I met plenty of productive people who do so with hardback notebooks and a pencil, you are good. Other thing I saw is once they are done with it they glue a paper on the cover and notedown some things and throw the notebook in a big plastic box for archival. Recently finished notebooks tend to find some time living in their desks before going into the box.

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