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Do you still write notes with pen and paper? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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With so much note taking apps nowadays, I can't understand why does anyone still write notes with pen and paper. You need to bring the notepad, book or that paper to retrieve that information, and most of the time you don't have it in hand. While my phone almost always reachable and you carry when you go out. For those still like to do handwriting, there's many app does that and they can even convert it to text notes.

So, if you still write notes with pen and paper, why?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

With so much note taking apps nowadays, I can't understand why someone should waste time to find their smartphone, power it on, input the pin for the sim, unlock the screen, find the right app in the app jungle, open it, find the "new note" option, which is hidden in a sub menu instead of using a short cut on your keyboard to bring up a terminal, which opens Vim and automatically saves the file as a note with the correct file name.

[–] TarquinNimrod 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ha ha, exactly! And all you did after that was add 'tomatoes' to a weekly shopping list. And then after turning it off and putting it down, remembered you forgot 'onions'.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

for the shopping list I have a similar hot key and after saving the list, it will be automatically send to my android (over local network, not over the internet, sharing it with dozens of companies) and I can open it with SimpleTask having it sorted by the shelves how they appear in the supermarket to not run like a psychopath back and forth.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You have more people that know how to exit a note app tho, compared to vim.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's true and it's worrying!