The Pen Is Mightier Than The Phone: A Case for Writing Things Out (fastcompany)
Writing things down, with your actual hands, is just plain better at getting
you to remember and execute good ideas. Here's why.
There’s all kinds of advice across the web about when to use which app for
each small thing that needs doing. But the advocates for using paper to
complete certain tasks are not so loud (you can’t hear them typing, among
other things). Yet a Forrester Resarch survey of business professionals found
that 87 percent of them supplement gadgets with paper productivity, and 47
percent thought their personal and company efficiency would improve with
better note-taking. The survey might have been biased, since it was sponsored
by the makers of the Livescribe smart pen, but you can’t help but think it
touches on a need to refamiliarize ourselves with ink and thinly sliced wood
pulp.
Paper, but more specifically handwriting, will likely always be with us, and
that’s a good thing. It’s a smoother path from your brain to printed word, it
saves you from task-switching overload, and it possibly makes the best to-do
list.
So here’s a chance for advocates of the hand-written way to make their best
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