“>”Paper? Ain’t that extinct?”
It comes as no surprise to anyone following the whole 43folders-style quest for life tweaks that there seems to be a resurgence in paper-based organisational products. See Merlin’s canonical Introducing the Hipster PDA (follow-up), my own DIY Planner, Scott “Jerry” Lawrence’s Hipster designs, Moleskine notebooks (link & link), and now Mark Berstein’s Tinderbox Cards (he would be the so-intelligent- he-must-be- an-alien-lifeform creator of Eastgate’s wonderful Tinderbox information management tool).[…]
You got the point Mr. Johnston.
Personally it’s a way to get rid of computers. Your brain work differently when you are writing with your hands on paper (more senses are trigged, then ideas that came at that time are probably different).
When I’m starting to model a software component, I always start with a brainstorming on paper. I don’t open Visio or Enterprise Architect right now. No. I get a pen, some sheets of paper and I draw some models; I underline; I strike; I bold my ideas on these sheets. If the model is scrappy? I didn’t throw my computer by the window, it’s too expensive. No, I make a little ball with my paper model and I throw it through the window (less expensive and better to let go the frustration).
I use computers many hours a day… sometimes I think that it’s too many hours… So it’s why I need analog technologies, to trigger others senses while I’m working.
