Reasons to use a paper-based task manager

Re:Reasons to use a paper-based task manager by jkscm on Sunday January 26, 2014 @07:11PM (#7127809)

But if you go to a meeting somewhere and you would have to choose between pen/paper or a smartphone which would you choose?

Typing speed may not be an advantage of phones [1] but your colleges will not see what you have planned. I could write these thoughts I'm writing right now on paper for myself but I'm "thinking" with you.

Maybe it's hard to argue about it because these two things seem superficially similar. But like paperless offices, paperless note taking/planning will win in the end.

[1]: to be fair, you have been writing with a pen since you're 5 or 6. Most people never wrote anything on touchscreens bevor 2007.

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Re:Reasons to use a paper-based task manager by _delirium on Sunday January 26, 2014 @07:40PM (#7127937)

If I was at a meeting, I'd certainly write on paper; that's one of the easiest cases! For one, it's more socially acceptable to be writing on a piece of paper than to be looking at a smartphone. When you pull out a smartphone, everyone assumes you're just doing something else (checking email, chatting on IM, whatever).

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