Why and How I Integrate Analog and Digital Note-Taking
Note-taking is the root of thinking: it deserves the proper means at the right moment
Notes record information and are ubiquitous. How many times have you taken a note on the fly? Well, was it relevant where you wrote those notes, either on paper or digital devices?
The paper doesn’t provide any automation, but this lack is beneficial. Notes are what we get from an external data source: they are our point of view. Automation would delegate machines and relieve us from thinking, which isn’t good.
Digital devices provide many kinds of automation. They can help by completing words and sentences while typing. They can even automate the entire process of listening to the information source, taking notes, and reorganizing them to extract additional information: this is the maximum level of delegation, which is no longer note-taking but consuming machine note-taking.
In my personal and professional life, I realized that both are essential for a complete note-taking strategy. I want to share my recipe for mixing analog and digital notes in this article. I’d love to read yours in the comments!
Let’s get started.
