It generally breaks down like this: Any note-taking done while out and about is with my G2 or B2P on a little reporter’s pad. Your Tiger Pens blogger takes a lot of notes. In the Lifehacker poll, 38 percent (as of Tuesday night) said they preferred handwritten, and 38 percent said a combination of handwritten and typed notes.

Responding to a poster who asked whether she should take notes in nursing classes by hand or by laptop, the general consensus seemed to be that the best way is to take notes by hand, then later transcribe and organize them on a computer. To which Nifty says, “SACRILEGE!!!” And we add: Can you really even call yourself a writer if you don’t carry around even one writing instrument? C’mon, everybody needs a pen…can your smartphone take notes in the rain, like the Power Tank can?įortunately, a more balanced approach prevailed among the nurses at. I’m a writer, and I don’t carry a notebook around with me. Writer David Pierce says he uses his phone exclusively, entering random ideas into applications like Evernote or Simplenote. Nifty at Notebook Stories pointed the way to another person arguing against the use of pen and paper in favour of a smartphone, of all things, for note-taking. We say (only half-seriously) shame on them for making such outrageous – and patently untrue – claims! Sure, it can be a little difficult to keep up with a fast speaker when trying to scribble down everything by hand, and your fingers can start to cramp during a long session of furious notetaking, but it isn’t a chore, by any means. Writing notes by hand can be such a pain that more and more people are taking notes on the computer. The website of the popular For Dummies series even has a page dedicated to, yes, “ Notetaking on the Computer.” At least 23 percent of the respondents in Lifehacker’s poll said they go with typed over handwritten notes. We all have to take notes, whether for work, school or just daily life, so Lifehacker poses an excellent question to readers on that topic: Do you prefer to take notes with pen and paper or on a computer?įor those of us who love using pens, the idea of relying on a keyboard to record all of our thoughts and information might seem a little alien, but there apparently are plenty of people who choose to do it that way.

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