Index cards (before and after)

[PJS]

@monkquixote

I know it’s not really the same thing, but I find my retention of things is not as good if I type them (or worse, copy and paste) compared to writing them out.

I long ago realised that my note-taking served no purpose other than to try to cement information in my brain at point of impact, as it were

If not the same thing, it seems very close. Compare with comments on another topic: why students seem to write better with pen and paper than with a keyboard: [url]Study shows students do better on paper than on computer]

And as for

@monkquixote

I need a bigger desk, and I need it covered with paper. I need the inefficiency. I need the space.

I got a bigger desk. Now I need a bigger office. I keep promising Lady Of The House that I will, definitely and most assuredly will, subject this clutter to meticulous scrutiny, and will jettison every last scrap which does not prove at least IMPORTANT, perhaps even CRUCIAL.

But she knows it won’t happen. Hasn’t happened in 25 years; why expect it now?

But I also ramble.

GTD, did you say?

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