Re:How To Take Exceptional Notes and Be Productive with Paper
by ryanobjc on Wednesday September 18, 2013 @03:57PM
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Yes exactly this. Social signals matter.
To go a bit more meta, the question is, who are you? Who do you want to be? Who do you want people to perceive you as?
Using a fountain pen hits all the highlights to these questions.
Besides, it's just plain old COOL to be using a writing technology that is over 200 years old. The quality pens feel amazing, and encourage additional note taking for me.
Another advantage to paper notes: They arent searchable. Yup you heard me, NOT SEARCHABLE. Oh wait, you say, I want to search my notes... so I put everything in email. Then I get fired. And my boss owns my private notes. Oops.
To go a bit more meta, the question is, who are you? Who do you want to be? Who do you want people to perceive you as?
Using a fountain pen hits all the highlights to these questions.
Besides, it's just plain old COOL to be using a writing technology that is over 200 years old. The quality pens feel amazing, and encourage additional note taking for me.
Another advantage to paper notes: They arent searchable. Yup you heard me, NOT SEARCHABLE. Oh wait, you say, I want to search my notes... so I put everything in email. Then I get fired. And my boss owns my private notes. Oops.