Do you still write notes with pen and paper? - eviltoast

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?

  • Obinice@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Yes, of course. How can I leave a note for somebody in the living room, or pin it to the fridge if it’s on my PC?

    How can I scribble my plans and measurements down quickly without endangering my fancy expensive phone while I’m woodworking? Not to mention I need two hands and need to unlock the phone and find the application etc etc, or I could just pick up the pencil.

    And what about my shopping list? Am I going to absent mindedly carry my phone in one hand while I push the trolley and pick up food, basically BEGGING somebody to come and snatch it from my hand and run off with it? Hell no. I use a written shopping list.

    These are just some random examples, and I do use my tech to note some things down, most notably if I’m sat at the pc and it’s a tech thing I’ll probably load Notepad++ and save a quick .txt note, I have a lot of those. But for little around the house/going out things, my notepaper is always best :-)

    • protput@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Those are some really bad reasons tbh. A digital shared shopping list is the best invention btw. My wife adds stuff in it and I see it on my phone when I go shopping. Who the fuck is going to snatch a phone out of your hand when you shop? And isn’t a phone a pretty useless item to steal anyway? Most of them can’t be wiped these days.