Giving a Role to Opposites: How I Harmonize Analog and Digital for Note-Taking
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I love digital devices.
I adore pen and paper, too.
As you know, the two categories of tools compete in reading and writing. Both digital and pen-and-paper solutions work.
Many choose to use exclusively digital solutions, while few others want to remain anchored in the glorious world of paper and pen. Both groups made a dichotomous choice. I suspect their Manicheism is due to a poor compression of the profound implications of using digital devices.
Until recently, I was like them. I alternated digital periods with analog periods, returning from one to the other when the limits of one led me to embrace the other again.
Then, a question tore into my mind: 'What is software?'
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When you say digital, you implicitly evoke software. Have you ever had a device that doesn't need software to interact with you? No. But here, there is a misunderstanding.
The misunderstanding lies in considering software as the human-machine interface of digital…
