I love the Notebookism blog. Their dedication to pen and paper resonate, even in this age of treos, palms, bluetooth and all the other “personal” high-tech.
They posted a short paean to listmaking on pen and paper:
Using pen on paper just feels good. You need the right paper and the right pen–an old Bic on a decrepit yellow sticky note won’t get you to tactile nirvana–but with proper equipment, isn’t it much more satisfying to write a new to do item onto a piece of paper than to type it into your laptop or thumb it into your Treo?
The Underground salutes you.
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I’ve been a copywriter for over 40-years. Twenty eight of them using a yellow pad and a good No. 2 pencil with a soft eraser. Different world now and continuing to get differenter and differenter.
Bob;
So true. My first copy jobs were written on an electric typewriter, and though I much prefer word processors and e-mail, there’s little doubt in my mind that the time for reflection has been largely lost.
I can now send an edited file around the world in a second, but I can’t write any faster than I used to, and lord knows deadlines have compressed to the point of lunacy…