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1. girvo+(OP)[view] [source] 2025-01-22 03:08:33
My paper notebooks can't do linking, I can't easily rearrange pages, rearrange my notes on the page, and getting it off my paper and into my work PC is more challenging. My Kindle Scribe is excellent for all of this, and I can't go back, personally!
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2. notato+c6[view] [source] 2025-01-22 04:05:18
>>girvo+(OP)
>I can't easily rearrange pages, rearrange my notes on the page

okay. so don't do those things.

for me, that's what "calm tech" is all about - it's not just notifications and distractions, it's all the desire for more features, and for software to solve all problems. sometimes we can just not have features, and keep some problems, instead of trading our problems for the problems that more features bring.

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3. dredmo+O8[view] [source] 2025-01-22 04:34:06
>>girvo+(OP)
There are of course pen-and-paper approaches to all of these.

Links in text are called references. These can be internal within a document or codex, or external, referencing third-party works. Either case is far less subject to linkrot than URLs have turned out to be.

One of the killer concepts of a bullet journal is the use of indices and spreads to provide an interlinked and searchable reference. If you go back in time, there are numerous journal and commonplace book organisational schemes.

Pages can be easily rearranged using a removeable binding (three-ring binder or various other options), or by using an unbound format such as index cards (the original database solution).

Data can be entered into a computer through scanning and handwriting recognition, though this is admittedly slow, cumbersome, and inexact. On the other hand, you may want friction between your paper-based and electronic data systems.

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4. girvo+VA[view] [source] [discussion] 2025-01-22 09:19:40
>>notato+c6
You’re better at writing than I am then! I make mistakes all the time, so being able to move my words around on the page is super useful.

This to me is calm tech, because that’s all it does: note taking. If your definition is such that only pen and paper meets it, that’s not a very useful definition for tech IMO

5. cridde+Z11[view] [source] 2025-01-22 13:15:34
>>girvo+(OP)
I hope either Amazon or Remarkable come out with a 13" e-paper tablet. I want to be able to read and mark up A4 sized pdfs. The Fujitsu Quaderno is out there, but it feels semi-abandoned.
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6. girvo+SD2[view] [source] [discussion] 2025-01-22 23:29:40
>>cridde+Z11
FWIW the Boox devices are good and are in the 13" space, but my annoyance with them is 1) Android and 2) I broke the screen on my Boox Note 2, and there is no way to repair it, even a screen replacement is impossible apparently, so YMMV.
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7. girvo+OE2[view] [source] [discussion] 2025-01-22 23:33:43
>>dredmo+O8
> Either case is far less subject to linkrot than URLs have turned out to be.

I do not mean URLs, though, I mean locally linking from one page or notebook to another. It's internal references on steroids, and is much more useful to me than my collection of paper notebooks and references were

I'm a BuJo afficionado too! I'm still adapting it to my e-ink note-taking system, starting to get there via folders and notebooks instead of one big notebook, and its exactly why internal linking is so useful!

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8. dredmo+jH2[view] [source] [discussion] 2025-01-22 23:53:18
>>girvo+OE2
In a BuJo: list the page you want to reference. I also create several pages of initial index at the beginning of my BuJo, and generally put spreads at the back, working forward.

That way the BuJo reads as: index, calendrical pages, spreads/references (at the end).

The advantages are non-electronic storage with ready reference. You can only access the current year's BuJo generally (unless you're where your archive is kept), but current references should be readily available on you (e.g., addresses, current information, calendar, etc.). You can only lose the current journal should you misplace it, and the information won't leak out readily as it can from digital storage.

For an index-card system, look up Zettelkasten if you haven't already. Very robust and useful indexing systems have been at the heart of academic and commercial research for over two centuries now, and the systems developed are quite powerful. Digital systems are more powerful still, but have their own downsides: loss or corruption, data exfiltration, and devices which may not be convenient to use in all circumstances.

With a BuJo or Zettelkasten, information capture is possible by carrying a few index cards with you and jotting notes. You have capture, can file these into your journal (or an indexing system, or a loose-leaf binding), and don't risk losing the rest of your archive in the process. The lack of digital distractions is its own powerful benefit.

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9. cridde+pM3[view] [source] [discussion] 2025-01-23 11:37:34
>>girvo+SD2
Onyx is still on my no-buy list. AFAIK, they violated the GPL by refusing to release changes to GPL software that they built the devices on.

But also Android makes it something I’m not very interested in. The Fujitsu device is also running Android.

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10. girvo+Vh5[view] [source] [discussion] 2025-01-23 22:40:55
>>cridde+pM3
Yeah totally fair on both points. I'd bought the Note 2 before I'd heard about the GPL violations... Android is funnily enough exactly why I went back to the Kindle with the Scribe instead, though Amazon has it's faults as well. My ideal device for this space would be the reMarkable Paper Pro but with the Kindle app for reading books installed :)
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