Why Levenger paper may help you think betterThe paper is cool; it's the argument I don't buy.
How tempting it is online to switch from email to spreadsheet to Internet to document, each time interrupting your flow of thought. Paper, on the other hand, has a way of grounding you, even as your thoughts race across the page. Focusing on the paper in front of you—especially well-designed, high-quality stock—can give you more time to stay with your thoughts.
Try the paper method for at least some of your note-taking and see what—and how—you think. It may lead you in new direction.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Non sequitur
I just got a catalog for Levenger. As someone with a penchant for office supplies, I enjoyed perusing the pages of fancy pens, desk accessories, and their analog-cool note cards-organization system (the FranklinCovey'esque descendant of the hipster pda). But it was their pads of specialized paper -- or more specifically, their argument for its benefits -- that was blog-worthy. Seems interruption (1, 2, 3, 4) is being invoked to shill paper.
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While I surely doubt that expensive paper is better than cheap for this, it does help me to have a tangible thing in hand sometimes when I'm writing. Seems easier to mentally hold my place in, say, the meeting agenda email I'm sending out while I refer to a print-out of last week's minutes than while I open the Word doc (which involves navigating a deep folder system and sometimes even remapping the department's shared drive...our drives like to disappear at random). Or maybe it's not about paper vs. electronic; rather long vs. short process. Maybe I should open all the files I'll need before I start writing my email. But I'm never that organized.
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