I like pencil and paper. Colored pencils are plentiful, and paper is easier to image and share than a whiteboard. You can write smaller on paper and don't get gorrila arms.
Pencil and paper is much better for me for making quick notes to be honest. I actually don't like writing my brain dumps on a computer because it makes it harder for me to think about them. I find that physically using a pencil helps me develop my ideas more because I have to reiterate what I'm writing while writing it. It's definitely a personal preference, maybe it comes from the fact that I always draw things on paper when designing them and always do working out for Physics and Maths problems on paper. When I go to write it in a file, it always feels more official and like a proper document than just scribbles.
I like the friction of chalk-on-blackboard; somehow I write better with it than on white boards. For the same reason, I prefer pencil to pen on paper, and both to an Apple Pencil on an iPad (though the latter is what I mainly use these days because it's easier to share with people).
I'm old school, so I use a paper notebook and a pencil or pen. Just never found anything digital or electronic that's even close being as efficient as a notebook. For collaborating at work, we use whiteboards extensively, to the point where we have literally painted the walls with whiteboard paint and every room has a pile of markers and erasers.
A pencil and a blank piece of paper can do so much more than just write individual words. I can get an idea down faster with paper, and those diagrams are more descriptive (easier to pick up again in 2 weeks).
Not to sound like [something negative], but I really like pen and paper. I carry around a notebook and a few different pens because I like to draw, and because jotting notes down is kinda fun in its own way.
I only need pen and paper when I'll have to draw anything (diagrams etc). For all other cases it's much faster and more convient to write it down in Workflowy. I've never really liked to write things by hand, so maybe that's the reason…
agreed. the main thing i use pencil & paper for is sketching out designs for some physical stuff I make. I always start on paper, but if it's a design I'm actually going to use more than once, it gets drawn up on the computer.
I swear by wooden pencils and 5x5mm graph paper. I have a nice flipboard with a notepad, a pencil, a sharpener and an eraser attached with velcro.
Measured in straight up typing speed, a keyboard is faster but when you're talking note taking mixed with thinking or something that involved equations or diagrams, I can't get anywhere close with a computer. And there are no distractions on paper.
And why wooden pencils instead of a mechanical one? The smell. The smell of fresh shavings from the pencil sets my brain in the right gear.
I disagree. The best medium is a whiteboard or a blackboard :p.
(Really though, something about paper makes me afraid to "commit" things which make the pieces of paper no longer usable. Something made to be erased seems to be the trick for me).
Why is pencil better? The paper/screen difference I've heard about before, but not pencil/pen.
Also yes, I write notes in a lot of books, especially for course taking. And indeed there are scribbles, little drawings, weird math symbols that I'd never attempt in an application, and arrows everywhere.
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