In Praise of Print: Reading Is Essential in an Era of Epistemological Collapse

Re:In Praise of Print: Reading Is Essential in an Era of Epi... by aquariusDue on Thursday November 28, 2024 @08:40AM (#42265171)

That's why I'm excited about the new batch of PineNote devices, e-readers running Linux with a custom GNOME theme and a passive stylus.

And yeah, no matter what note-taking and productivity software I try I still end up longing for pen and paper. Sometimes I think scanning my notes and tagging them might be a good enough compromise.

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Re:In Praise of Print: Reading Is Essential in an Era of Epi... by bayindirh on Thursday November 28, 2024 @08:47AM (#42265210)

I exclusively use fountain pens and higher quality wirebound notebooks and notepads.

I number the notebook, and write the start date at first page. Then I number the pages as I go, and date every page.

When the notebook finishes, I remove the binding, scan it at 600DPI, store it as a PDF.

I'll be training a local Tesseract installation with my hand writing one day, but I'm not there. However, these notebooks saved the day more than once in their current form.

I'm using smart devices since Palm/Handspring era. Nothing can replace the paper for me, and I don't want to change my ways from now on. So this is the method I use for quite some time.

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Re:In Praise of Print: Reading Is Essential in an Era of Epi... by internet_points on Thursday November 28, 2024 @09:52AM (#42265656)

    > I exclusively use fountain pens and higher quality wirebound notebooks and notepads.
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    > I number the notebook, and write the start date at first page. Then I number the pages as I go, and date every page.

Iiinnteresting. Would you like to see a ritual that will create a doorway into a different dimension where there is a House of Infinite Rooms?

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