Thank you for this post! I like writing on paper (I don’t think I’m negatively influenced by school actually, and it definitely helps me think) but I have an aversion to it because keeping it around is such a hassle. When I do write something down on paper I intend to digitalize it/scan it, but I don’t actually do that. I’m already stuck with ten notebooks full of stuff; I don’t want to accumulate more.
I manage to convert lecture notes into Anki cards though, so I suppose it’s partially having a plan, and practicing.
Maybe a whiteboard would help, too, because I can’t keep it in the first place. I should look into that.
Does anyone have additional ideas of how to get used to paper?
but I have an aversion to it because keeping it around is such a hassle
I’ve recently switched to doing most of my thinking on paper, and the key for me is not keeping the paper around. It’s tempting to use paper as a long term storage for ideas, but I aim to use it solely as a working memory extension. I try and enforce this by tearing up a piece of paper as soon as I’m done using it to think (or if there’s more space, I scribble out the existing writing). If I want to keep the idea recorded somewhere, I try to create the most bare bones set of key-words and question needed to regenerate the info, and I put those nuggets in an online wiki.
Thank you for this post! I like writing on paper (I don’t think I’m negatively influenced by school actually, and it definitely helps me think) but I have an aversion to it because keeping it around is such a hassle. When I do write something down on paper I intend to digitalize it/scan it, but I don’t actually do that. I’m already stuck with ten notebooks full of stuff; I don’t want to accumulate more.
I manage to convert lecture notes into Anki cards though, so I suppose it’s partially having a plan, and practicing.
Maybe a whiteboard would help, too, because I can’t keep it in the first place. I should look into that.
Does anyone have additional ideas of how to get used to paper?
I’ve recently switched to doing most of my thinking on paper, and the key for me is not keeping the paper around. It’s tempting to use paper as a long term storage for ideas, but I aim to use it solely as a working memory extension. I try and enforce this by tearing up a piece of paper as soon as I’m done using it to think (or if there’s more space, I scribble out the existing writing). If I want to keep the idea recorded somewhere, I try to create the most bare bones set of key-words and question needed to regenerate the info, and I put those nuggets in an online wiki.