Productivity tools get a mention on the BBC

Posted by Hugh
Oct 29, 2015 at 10:28 AM

yosemite wrote:
A lot of people use paper and pen for tasks, notes, even outlining!
> >On-line forums self-select for the electronically inclined and CRIMPers
>like us.
> >A simple paper list is what I recommend to people who ask me, if they
>say they’ve tried a bunch of todo apps…
> >With a simple paper list comes focus.
> >“whatever works”

Indeed. As I’ve mentioned here before, recent academic research (reported, as far as I can remember, in the New York Times and elsewhere) suggests that handwriting engages “deeper” and more complex areas of the brain than typing. (That’s not to say that, for me, outliners and list-making applications aren’t often very useful. They are. But even when using those, I frequently write out my rough thoughts on paper first.)