Saturday, September 22, 2007
Writing on paper
After all these years, I still write on paper. A lot. I just wrote four A4-sized pages of outline for a presentation next week. It took over an hour.
I find that the low speed and physical difficulty of writing helps me focus my thought process. There are no toolbars of formatting buttons demanding they be used too. If I recall something and go off on a tangent, drawing an arrow to the breakoff point for later reconsideration is natural and effortless. Paper also works better than just thinking and memorising because with that I tend to think in circles, constantly re-analysing what I'm already comfortable with. Paper forces closing a line of thought and moving on.
This blog post, oddly enough, was written and posted from a mobile phone, as has been pretty much every post I've made in the past year or so.
I find that the low speed and physical difficulty of writing helps me focus my thought process. There are no toolbars of formatting buttons demanding they be used too. If I recall something and go off on a tangent, drawing an arrow to the breakoff point for later reconsideration is natural and effortless. Paper also works better than just thinking and memorising because with that I tend to think in circles, constantly re-analysing what I'm already comfortable with. Paper forces closing a line of thought and moving on.
This blog post, oddly enough, was written and posted from a mobile phone, as has been pretty much every post I've made in the past year or so.
phoe6 — Sep 22, 2007 11:21:20 PM — # ↩
Kiran Jonnalagadda — Sep 23, 2007 1:20:43 AM — # ↩
deepix — Sep 23, 2007 8:28:33 PM — # ↩
ext_64312 — Sep 24, 2007 1:56:41 PM — # ↩
Nice way. I will try :P
clueless_rebel — Oct 2, 2007 12:07:07 PM — # ↩
I always knew there was a reason I preferred paper, you just put that reason into words..