Mobile analogue or hybrid organisational and time-management system

Posted by MadaboutDana
Feb 12, 2018 at 10:26 AM

After my rather frivolous remark above, I’ve very much enjoyed reading this thread. Fascinating! What a lot of good ideas!

There is something about being constrained to a screen and keyboard that becomes very exhausting. On the other hand, various postural problems I’ve had to deal with over the years undoubtedly arose because of my dreadful posture while writing in schoolbooks/notebooks/on paper.

I think Dr Andus’s remark about using a Chromebook for instant note-taking is interesting, too. I used to take an iPad with keyboard case along with me for similar reasons, but funnily enough, laptops/notebooks still have the edge when it comes to fast, efficient note-taking, so nowadays I tend to grab for my MacBook Air first of all.

Looking back, I suppose that was one of the great attractions of the original netbooks (like the minute Asus whatever-the-number-was, which I still have tucked away in a box somewhere - the battery life eventually deteriorated to unusable, but I was very fond of it for a long time; just as I was fond of my AlphaSmart Dana, Compaq WinCE device and other light but robust keyboard-based solutions; how life flows by…)