Re: [emacs-humanities] How do you keep engaged with your writings?

[Paul W. Rankin]

On 2021-01-28 08:15, Göktuğ Kayaalp wrote:
> Another thing that helps with searchability is that the notebook is a
> physical object.  Obviously you can use "post-it flags" and the index
> pages of the notebook, but less obviously, you naturally remember where
> things are. Often you’ll think of a note and just automatically open 
> the
> page with surprising dexterity. I used bujos for a decent amount of
> time, and pen-and-paper note-taking for way longer, and I don’t recall
> ever having to search for long to find my any note. Same with margin
> notes in books etc.

This is such a great point! I'd not even considered it. I use a 
Traveler's Notebook [1] with weekly planner in the front and grid 
notebook in the back. All my notes are entered haphazard wherever 
there's a bare bit of page, and I'd kept thinking I should have some 
kind of system, but considering it now, the haphazard arrangement is 
likely what gives me the notebook's mental landscape, one that I know 
like a familiar place.

Also I find it amusing that this list has been discussing ways to not 
use Emacs.

[1] https://www.travelers-company.com/products/trnote/about