What you see is what you write
Ideas in my brain are invisible, of course. Once I capture it on indexcard, then it become visible in this real world.
This is simple matter. But it makes me feel comfortable. When I write a hundred of indexcard in a week, I feel some kind of satisfaction. I pile it, count it, box it, flip it. Like a child playing with bricks. I can’t feel such satisfaction with digital media.
I think this simplicity of indexcard attracts me so strongly.
cf. ‘What you see is what you get’ (Wikipedia, WYSIWYG)
May 26th, 2007 at 6:40 pm
hawk,
wow! I’d love to go to paper. Having things on paper is a lot better than having things on a PDA or computer.
But I hate to think I’m wasting my time copying from field note to index card.
Maybe if I combine both technologies– input my thoughts via keyboard and then print out– it will save time.
May 26th, 2007 at 6:41 pm
That’s good point. Copying from fieldnote to indexcard is waste of time. Lately I don’t use fieldnote so much than before.
It will be break through if we could make such nice device with new technologies. :)
May 26th, 2007 at 6:41 pm
The cards are just the medium, the stuff is your brain!
May 26th, 2007 at 6:43 pm
Oh yeah. That’s important :)