The Best of Both Worlds

Paper Gets It Out of Your Head

There's a big advantage to using paper combined with a digitized method. It gives you the best of both worlds.

The way you externalize information from your mind onto paper is extremely powerful.

Digital Makes It Searchable

But of course, digital systems have an amazing power too. They can make things completely searchable.

Just imagine a box of index cards you want to organize through. You don't want to be bothered to name and label every single card as part of a hierarchy, like the Zettelkasten system does.

Write by Hand, Scan in Bulk

So if you want the best of both worlds, in my opinion, it's writing on paper and then having a super powerful, quick system to scan them all in bulk.

That seems to give me the best of both worlds.

From Notebooks to Index Cards

A Card Holder for My Pocket

I've been playing with writing in notebooks, and now I'm testing out index cards.

I've got some really nice systems for it, almost like an index card holder I can put in my pocket with a pen. It holds blank cards, and organized cards that are already completed.

Better Than Pocket Notebooks

This system has been a game changer. So far, it's a nice upgrade to pocket notebooks.

As cool as pocket notebooks look, index cards are way more practical. Not only do they make scanning easier, they also make it easy to throw out the cards that don't matter all that much.

Ripping pages out of a pocket notebook doesn't always work that well, especially with the pocket notebooks I make myself.

I'm trying out this system, and I'm really excited to be sharing it with you.