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Posted by Beck
Apr 1, 2019 at 02:17 PM
MadaboutDana wrote:
>Perhaps we ought to set up a joint academic forum to pursue this
>research more actively!
Not sure how serious a suggestion this is, Bill, but I’d love to do this.
I’ve done some preliminary research on daily freewriters, and have a database of folks who’ve signed up saying they’d be interested in being interviewed. So far I’ve dipped into it to explore the difference between analog and digital writing environments and also to phenomenologically (and auto-ethnographically) study the experiences of major life change as a byproduct of daily freewriting. A poster on the latter here if you’re interested: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0spcvmK-ZmoR0w4am5CMUhUOU0/view?usp=sharing
Posted by Franz Grieser
Apr 1, 2019 at 03:08 PM
Hm. Am I the only one here who feels awkward when writing by hand? I learnt touch-typing 40 years ago and type pretty fast. When I write by hand, I am much slower which frustrates me because I have no chance to keep up with my thinking. And I do not like my handwriting: It looks ugly and sloppy (when I try to write faster) and later I have problems deciphering what I wrote.
What’s more: I prefer digital data because I lost so many slips of paper I had written ideas on and because I find it easier to file digital data.
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Apr 1, 2019 at 05:13 PM
Hi, Franz,
See my note from earlier today.
Steve Z
Franz Grieser wrote:
Hm. Am I the only one here who feels awkward when writing by hand? I
>learnt touch-typing 40 years ago and type pretty fast. When I write by
>hand, I am much slower which frustrates me because I have no chance to
>keep up with my thinking. And I do not like my handwriting: It looks
>ugly and sloppy (when I try to write faster) and later I have problems
>deciphering what I wrote.
>
>What’s more: I prefer digital data because I lost so many slips of paper
>I had written ideas on and because I find it easier to file digital
>data.
Posted by WSP
Apr 1, 2019 at 05:15 PM
Yes, I agree. My handwriting has deteriorated badly in recent decades—whether because of old age or constant use of keyboards, I’m not sure. But whatever the reason, I certainly don’t want to return to any sort of note-taking by hand.
Posted by Franz Grieser
Apr 1, 2019 at 05:28 PM
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>Hi, Franz,
>
>See my note from earlier today.
>
>Steve Z
I just read it and thought. “Thank god, I am not alone” ;-)