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submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by rockyroad226@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Libb@piefed.social 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Your thoughts are yours. Your notes should be too.

100%. And one of the two reasons I take all my personal notes using pen and paper. 100 % the analog way, as there is...

no AI,
no tracking,
no ads,
no subscriptions,
no user account required,
No (forced) updates & no upgrades,
no bugs,
Also, no matter how hard they might want to, there will be no law to make it so that paper now has to check my age when I'm using it, or for my wooden pencil to report everything I write down.

[–] pound_heap@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I dunno, this wooden pencil of yours is kinda sharp. Would be a shame if it's not registered... You've got a carry permit for it?

[–] Libb@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago

I don't, sir. It's a gift from my late dad.

More seriously, I'm half-expecting some stupid shit like that to happen. To have some sort of control on who is allowed to use pen and paper... Unsurprisingly, this would happen at the same time people are considering the very notion of educating children has an obsolete and useless thing, since we now have AI to do everything for us, why even bother sending kids to school to learn to read and write?

[–] shiftymccool@piefed.ca 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You can have all the orgaization methods you want but, imho, notes over an extended period of time are almost worthless without search

[–] Libb@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

You're right, save that search is nothing without a great index and it happens I have made one... If you want to know how an analog index works search for more info on what is a Zettelkasten, as my own 'system' is very close to that. Using that index I can find any book I've read (and my notes about it), any notion I've ever written about (be it a book or mere vague ideas),and I can find them in a matter of an instant. No matter how old it is, how short or how... flimsy it can be compared to other and much thicker parts of my notes and research.

Edit: https://zettelkasten.de/overview/ (it's in English). To get a glimpse of a 100% analog version (like mine), check Luhmann's work (the one who formalized the idea, an idea people had been using centuries before he formalized it): https://niklas-luhmann-archiv.de/nachlass/zettelkasten (this one is in German).

At my humble level, my system has become my second brain as well as a precious companion allowing for deeper conversations with... a better/smarter version of myself.

I tried digital mind you, I started using a computer in the very early 80s and must have tried a lot of those digital tools (even contributing money and suggestions to a bunch of of them), but as far as I'm concerned nothing beats pen and index cards and the most essential part linking them all: indexes (plural, as I use two different ones).

[–] FrugalBlue@discuss.online 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

That is super cool! I've vaguely heard of Zettelkasten, but everything was in a digital context. To use it for pen and paper did not cross my mind till I saw this!

[–] Libb@piefed.social 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

It's an amazing tool. And I would love to see for much more younger people give it a chance.

If you want to give it a chance, the only things I would advice you to keep in mind are:

be ok with spending enough time using it... in slow motion. New habits take time and practice before they become natural, even more as far as writing goes.
Keep it as simple as you can. You don't need to make it bulletproof/perfect before you start using it, quite the opposite. It's an organic system that will grow and change at your pace, don't force it into any preconceived direction because someone told you you should do it like that, or because it's trendy. Don't worry about categories or tags, or even about devising the ultimate numbering and indexing system. It's wasted time. The system is devised for evolving naturally (one of the reasons I don't fancy many of the digital apps: too rigid in their way) without ever needing to rebuild everything from scratch. To give you an idea, in my own system co-exist multiple numbering systems that I used and abandoned along the years, without any issue. My index(es) also changed a few times. But I never had to rewrite a single index card. Ever. Really, it's amazingly efficient provided you don't try to make it be the 'ultimate' and perfect system.

[–] FrugalBlue@discuss.online 0 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

That's awesome! I'm always looking for tips and tricks, including stop making things too complicated with the tips and tricks (reaching for the 'ultimate'), and keeping it simple ;-)

[–] Libb@piefed.social 1 points 1 hour ago

(like many communities around here) not the most active one but feel free to post questions/share your experience/doubts over there: the more people will do the more people will be likely to participate. !pkms@lemmy.blahaj.zone (https://sh.itjust.works/c/pkms@lemmy.blahaj.zone=

[–] LunarLoony 1 points 1 day ago

Who needs search when you have binders?