Why I still use paper

My desk has a notebook that I’ve used every day for the past two years. It doesn’t sync anywhere.

I’ve tried the digital equivalents. They’re fine. But there’s something about the friction of writing by hand that slows my thinking down just enough to notice what I actually think, versus what I assume I think.

It’s not a productivity hack. If anything it’s the opposite. I just find I make fewer bad decisions when I’ve written them down first.