While typing is great, and fast, sometimes I found I wanted to sketch out an idea, something I couldn’t easily do with keystrokes.The mechanics of typing is different from writing longhand.Of course, I had my iPad and Evernote and I could quickly open up a note and begin typing–but the problem was, typing wasn’t always the solution I needed. The more I went to conventions and hung around these other writers, the more I saw how useful and convenient it was to be able to scribble something down on paper. Until I few years ago, I, too, used a Moleskine notebook to jot down whatever happened to occur to me on a given moment. At a science fiction convention panel audiences seem roughly split between those with tablets and those with Moleskine notebooks. Just about every writer I know these days carries around a Moleskine notebook to jot down thoughts or ideas. Recently, however, I’ve found ways to recreate that notebook without paper and it has been a lifesaver! Let me explain. So tricky was it, that I stubbornly gave up the notebook entirely, rather than having to still use paper. The trickiest thing for me, back then, was converting my pocket notebook to digital format. There were the occasional pieces of paper I had to handle, but mostly I tried to do everything that I used to do on paper in digital form.
When I went paperless–now going on more than two years ago–I tried to go pretty much wholesale. And if you missed it the first time around, well, then it is new to you! Happy holidays everyone! Today’s post was first published back on January 15 and is the second most popular post of the year so far. This week and next, I present the two most popular Going Paperless posts of 2013. I am on vacation for the next couple of weeks.
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