Subj : Re: Memory loss
To : Adept
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Mon Mar 31 2025 06:47 am
-=> Adept wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
pF> I shopped around for planner systems. New, they've gone way up in price
pF> as paper planning becomes a niche, but used there are a lot of nice
pF> binders - some models I remember from the 90s. I wonder if paper
pF> planning might not be worth an experiment for 30 days, if anything for
pF> nostalgia's sake.
Ad> From how you're describing it, it sounds like something you'd like to
Ad> do, or at least to have done.
Calendaring. It used to be that people kept schedules, now appointments
move around much more - makes it difficult to keep a calendar updated.
Ad> As for me, with this... I have almost never done things on paper, other
Ad> than the occasional scribbled list. I do, however, have a lot of random
Ad> text files floating around. And a lot of scanned documents from when
Ad> something did wind up on paper.
I use paper journals for day to day notes, but keep the master list in
Outlook now.
Ad> ...and even some Livescribe notebooks, that were interesting for having
Ad> class notes that sync with audio. I still have the pen, though it may
Ad> have failed by now -- I've never really figured out another time when
Ad> it'd be useful.
