For me, I’m fairly confident it’s that paper just feels so much less convenient than typing. I am fairly quick to open up a text editor to help me think, and (less, but not much less) quick to do it in a group context.
But I type way faster than I write (perhaps if I wrote more I’d be better at it?)
The main advantage of paper is for diagrams. I agree with Ben’s comment elsewhere about sharpies being good to get you into a diagram mindset, although then you need even larger paper to have enough room.
Agreement that for solo thinking, a text editor is best for me (except for diagrams, where I’ll go back to sharpie-and-paper).
I regularly use text editors to make my stream of consciousness explicit, and then notice the errors/fallacies I’d been falling prey to. This is one of my top personal tools for making decisions and clearing up confusions.
Have you ever looked at forms of shorthand? I picked up pieces from a journalism major I knew in college, and then started making up my own. You can write a lot faster if you’re willing to be incomprehensible to anyone else.
Yeah, this also seems worth doing, and is part of what I’m trying to get at with breaking out of the school frame. Absolutely no need to be even slightly comprehensible to anyone else if you’re just writing for yourself; you don’t even have to be comprehensible to yourself in the future if you’re just writing for working memory.
I also type way faster than I write and that’s also a factor for me, and I also lament the fact that I can’t type diagrams. (Critch tried to get me to use some mindmapping stuff awhile back but it felt icky and bad for some reason.) I experimented with using a fountain pen because I heard the writing experience was much smoother, and it helped a little but not that much.
On paper I would recommend using way fewer words; just barely enough to label the thoughts.
For me, I’m fairly confident it’s that paper just feels so much less convenient than typing. I am fairly quick to open up a text editor to help me think, and (less, but not much less) quick to do it in a group context.
But I type way faster than I write (perhaps if I wrote more I’d be better at it?)
The main advantage of paper is for diagrams. I agree with Ben’s comment elsewhere about sharpies being good to get you into a diagram mindset, although then you need even larger paper to have enough room.
Agreement that for solo thinking, a text editor is best for me (except for diagrams, where I’ll go back to sharpie-and-paper).
I regularly use text editors to make my stream of consciousness explicit, and then notice the errors/fallacies I’d been falling prey to. This is one of my top personal tools for making decisions and clearing up confusions.
Have you ever looked at forms of shorthand? I picked up pieces from a journalism major I knew in college, and then started making up my own. You can write a lot faster if you’re willing to be incomprehensible to anyone else.
Yeah, this also seems worth doing, and is part of what I’m trying to get at with breaking out of the school frame. Absolutely no need to be even slightly comprehensible to anyone else if you’re just writing for yourself; you don’t even have to be comprehensible to yourself in the future if you’re just writing for working memory.
I also type way faster than I write and that’s also a factor for me, and I also lament the fact that I can’t type diagrams. (Critch tried to get me to use some mindmapping stuff awhile back but it felt icky and bad for some reason.) I experimented with using a fountain pen because I heard the writing experience was much smoother, and it helped a little but not that much.
On paper I would recommend using way fewer words; just barely enough to label the thoughts.