Taking Notes by Hand in a Digital World
E-ink tablets, notebooks and why writing beats typing for memory.
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Essays on living in agreement with how things actually work — discipline, focus, habits, money, time and the laws behind The Reality Code.
E-ink tablets, notebooks and why writing beats typing for memory.
Every phone calendar in the house, on one screen in the kitchen.
Video meetings ask you to perform. A phone call asks you to answer. For a weekly accountability check, the second is the point.
Fifty pages a day is a system, not a talent.
Why a dedicated reader beats a tablet when the goal is finishing books.
Ambitious daily targets produce impressive first weeks and abandoned second months. A bar you can clear on your worst day produces a life.
Move reminders, hydration pings, bedtime alerts — set them right.
A chair that will not let you slump for long.
Small, automatic, forgiving — because you have no spare attention.
One task per note. Peel it off when done. The list that shrinks visibly.
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