[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":79},["ShallowReactive",2],{"idea-why-i-still-use-a-notebook":3,"related-why-i-still-use-a-notebook":52},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"cardSize":39,"category":40,"date":41,"description":42,"extension":43,"featured":44,"meta":45,"navigation":46,"path":47,"readingTime":37,"seo":48,"stem":49,"updated":50,"__hash__":51},"ideas\u002Fideas\u002Fwhy-i-still-use-a-notebook.md","Ruminating on Why I Still Use a Paper Notebook",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":35},"minimark",[9,13,16,19,22,25,28],[10,11,12],"p",{},"I have tried every note-taking app. Notion, Obsidian, Apple Notes, Bear, Roam Research, plain text files. I keep coming back to a cheap paper notebook from Muji.",[10,14,15],{},"The reason is not nostalgia. Paper forces me to think before I write. With a digital tool, I can type faster than I can think, which means I end up with a lot of words and not many ideas. With a pen, I have to choose my words because crossing things out is messy.",[10,17,18],{},"Paper also has no notifications. No links to click. No formatting options to fiddle with. It is just me and the thought.",[10,20,21],{},"My system is simple. One notebook at a time. Date at the top of each page. Write whatever. No organization system, no color coding, no fancy bullet journal layouts. When it is full, I flip through it once, tear out the pages with ideas worth keeping, and transfer those to a digital file. The rest gets recycled.",[10,23,24],{},"About 80% of what I write in notebooks is trash. But the 20% that survives the flip-through tends to be the real stuff. The ideas that passed the \"still interesting after two weeks\" test.",[10,26,27],{},"The digital tools are for storage. Paper is for thinking.",[29,30,31],"ul",{},[32,33,34],"li",{},"Mohan",{"title":36,"searchDepth":37,"depth":37,"links":38},"",3,[],"medium","Miscellaneous","2026-03-05","Digital tools are better for everything except thinking.","md",false,{},true,"\u002Fideas\u002Fwhy-i-still-use-a-notebook",{"title":5,"description":42},"ideas\u002Fwhy-i-still-use-a-notebook",null,"L6dIdvdpoXLhysL5C9YTOGt6DqnySV39CsMb-Zhm_l0",[53],{"id":54,"title":55,"body":56,"cardSize":70,"category":40,"date":71,"description":72,"extension":43,"featured":44,"meta":73,"navigation":46,"path":74,"readingTime":75,"seo":76,"stem":77,"updated":50,"__hash__":78},"ideas\u002Fideas\u002Fshower-thought-search-engines.md","Search engines peaked in 2012",{"type":7,"value":57,"toc":68},[58,61,64],[10,59,60],{},"Remember when you could Google something and get a straightforward answer on the first result? Now the first result is an ad, the second is a listicle written by AI, the third is a Reddit thread where someone asks the same question and the top reply says \"just Google it.\"",[10,62,63],{},"We went backwards.",[29,65,66],{},[32,67,34],{},{"title":36,"searchDepth":37,"depth":37,"links":69},[],"small","2026-03-20","A shower thought about how Google used to just give you the answer.",{},"\u002Fideas\u002Fshower-thought-search-engines",1,{"title":55,"description":72},"ideas\u002Fshower-thought-search-engines","IjJHiWS5emyQ7HLDxfNe0TPB51tXQ0zBS56XcErakWk",1776214201870]