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Written by Henrik Jernevad on 2024-11-21 at 23:27

I just wrote a spontaneous eulogy of my use of physical notebooks, triggered by @underlap posting about his notebooks. 🤓

https://henko.net/blog/notebooks-no-more/

[#]notebooks #obsidian

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Written by glyn on 2024-11-22 at 05:37

@henrikjernevad Excellent! I added a postscript to my post in response.

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Written by Willem Van den Ende - Writing on 2024-11-22 at 09:53

@underlap @henrikjernevad nice writeup. I replaced paper notebooks with a mix of typed notes with links, like you. And goodnotes in ipad for handwritten, searchable notes. "Concepts" for infinite space notes. "Nebo" occasionnaly for handwriting practice and focused writing.

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Written by Chris Pitts on 2024-11-22 at 10:42

@henrikjernevad @underlap Interesting. I’ve used paper notebooks for years-the need for a professional journal was drummed into me at Uni.

I did briefly toy with a digital app (Evernote), and found it has some advantages, but unlike yourself my handwriting is far faster than my typing. Also I found that my handwriting suffered terribly-within a year I had lost a lot of muscle memory, and it became unintelligible.

I’m now back to paper, but move important ideas into Obsidian for search&tags

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Written by Henrik Jernevad on 2024-11-22 at 11:30

@thirstybear @underlap Interesting! I don't remind hearing anything about journaling or notekeeping at university (at least outside direct course work).

I tried Evernote a long time ago as well, but never really liked it. One of the biggest benefits of Obsidian (and some other tools) is that it uses local storage. All files are on my disk, or wherever I want them to be. Not locked up on someone else's servers.

Maybe my slow handwriting comes from the fact that I never do it. 😉

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Written by glyn on 2024-11-22 at 13:12

@henrikjernevad @thirstybear Taking notes on paper during my formal education was the only option, given I have never had a very good memory and it was before laptops (and decent fullscreen editors on computers, such as they were). And for maths, I don't think there's yet a great alternative to paper.

I think we were encouraged to keep technical notes in IBM, partly as input to patent applications. But, again, in the early part of my career, there wasn't a decent alternative.

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Written by glyn on 2024-11-22 at 13:13

@henrikjernevad @thirstybear

I may have exaggerated my handwriting speed, but it's irrelevant for note-taking during software development (and journaling) since I think carefully about each thing I'm writing.

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