On problem with paper is that if you start writing down things on paper you start having to manage the paper. It’s physical, so it starts taking up physical space in a way a file or Evernote note doesn’t.
No need; nearly all of the benefit in using paper for working memory (not long-term memory, that’s what Workflowy is for) is in temporary storage, so as Jaime says you can just throw away the paper later.
This. I’ve decided that I’m done with organizing paper. Anything I’ll ever need to read again, I make digital from the start. But I still use paper routinely, in essentially write-only fashion.
This is also a great thing about whiteboards—they foreclose even the option of creating management burden for yourself.
Or, instead of just throwing paper away, take a photo of it with your handiest (digital) camera (probably your phone) and convert the problem of managing paper to the problem of managing (digital) photos. I often just email myself ad-hoc photos of things like this and I use Gmail for most of my email active accounts. I haven’t (yet) needed to explicitly manage my Gmail storage tho.
On problem with paper is that if you start writing down things on paper you start having to manage the paper. It’s physical, so it starts taking up physical space in a way a file or Evernote note doesn’t.
No need; nearly all of the benefit in using paper for working memory (not long-term memory, that’s what Workflowy is for) is in temporary storage, so as Jaime says you can just throw away the paper later.
This. I’ve decided that I’m done with organizing paper. Anything I’ll ever need to read again, I make digital from the start. But I still use paper routinely, in essentially write-only fashion.
This is also a great thing about whiteboards—they foreclose even the option of creating management burden for yourself.
Or, instead of just throwing paper away, take a photo of it with your handiest (digital) camera (probably your phone) and convert the problem of managing paper to the problem of managing (digital) photos. I often just email myself ad-hoc photos of things like this and I use Gmail for most of my email active accounts. I haven’t (yet) needed to explicitly manage my Gmail storage tho.