Pen and/or pencil and paper. Mead, Moleskine, Rhodia all make great paper notebooks along with Staples, OfficeMax having house brands. Pens and pencils are available from a variety of sellers as well.
Lacks text searchability, distributed backups and portability (it's not on your phone all the time).
Has multiple tactile benefits. Can always be scanned for digital backup if need be. Far less likely to be hacked, never has a version that randomly deletes a note. Forces you to keep notes in an actual place not essentially a series of memory addresses of local and/or remote computer.
As someone who's played with nearly every item on this list from tiddlywiki to vim wiki to the mind mappers evernote, .plan files, etc etc. Paper is still the most flexible. I just think differently when I'm not limited by keyboards and/or almost OK drawing interfaces (aka penultimate, paper (the app), etc).
A little DoxieGo scanner and paper is the place to be. Otherwise you'll find yourself looking back at your vast cache of notes in cloudnot.es (or whatever new YC15 startup comes up with the new hot note app that revolutionizes your life) that document your thoughts from 2014-2019 and you'll end up wondering... what really mattered here? How do I save this... Why did I save this? Do I need this note on what I wanted to buy my ex-boyfriend for valentine's day 2017? Etc etc.
The ephemeral nature of paper is perhaps its biggest feature, forcing you to save it or delete it. Or just go full Warhol and save everything: http://edu.warhol.org/aract_timecap.html
I love pen and paper, and use it a lot. But I'm still struggling for a solution to capture things like bookmarks/mobile thoughts in a way that I can use alongside paper. Right now I use a combination of Google Keep and Pocket, which are great for capture but I fail to review them regularly enough IMO. Paper you can't help reviewing every time you use it :)
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Pen and/or pencil and paper. Mead, Moleskine, Rhodia all make great paper notebooks along with Staples, OfficeMax having house brands. Pens and pencils are available from a variety of sellers as well.
Lacks text searchability, distributed backups and portability (it's not on your phone all the time).
Has multiple tactile benefits. Can always be scanned for digital backup if need be. Far less likely to be hacked, never has a version that randomly deletes a note. Forces you to keep notes in an actual place not essentially a series of memory addresses of local and/or remote computer.
As someone who's played with nearly every item on this list from tiddlywiki to vim wiki to the mind mappers evernote, .plan files, etc etc. Paper is still the most flexible. I just think differently when I'm not limited by keyboards and/or almost OK drawing interfaces (aka penultimate, paper (the app), etc).
A little DoxieGo scanner and paper is the place to be. Otherwise you'll find yourself looking back at your vast cache of notes in cloudnot.es (or whatever new YC15 startup comes up with the new hot note app that revolutionizes your life) that document your thoughts from 2014-2019 and you'll end up wondering... what really mattered here? How do I save this... Why did I save this? Do I need this note on what I wanted to buy my ex-boyfriend for valentine's day 2017? Etc etc.
The ephemeral nature of paper is perhaps its biggest feature, forcing you to save it or delete it. Or just go full Warhol and save everything: http://edu.warhol.org/aract_timecap.html
I love pen and paper, and use it a lot. But I'm still struggling for a solution to capture things like bookmarks/mobile thoughts in a way that I can use alongside paper. Right now I use a combination of Google Keep and Pocket, which are great for capture but I fail to review them regularly enough IMO. Paper you can't help reviewing every time you use it :)