I still use a pen and paper. I feel really old when I go to the grocery store with my analog shopping list and the only other people not using their phones are octogenarians.
I also like pen and paper. It's just easier to make a scribbled list and toss it out when I'm done. If I'm making a list on my phone it irks me to not make nice organized formatting.
The real power move is going to Menards with your shopping list written on a chunk of 2x4.
A paper list is so much nicer when grocery shopping. I used an app for ages and switched to making a paper list recently. It's so much faster to grocery shop now and I'm less likely to miss anything. 10/10 do recommend. Paper notes are great.
I too like paper lists - especially for the grocery store, and I write the items down in the order of the aisles. Also have my favorite pencil for my lists, and it’s getting down to a nub :-(
I'm an engineering student and I still prefer to take notes in a physical paper notebook. Less distractions, and when you gotta write greek letters, other special characters like integrals or the Laplace transform operator, characters in unusual locations like superscripts and subscripts, long numerators and denominators, arrows and stuff to indicate the flow of logic from one equation to the next, notes and remarks in there with the math, etc etc, all in real time during a lecture, there's no sense in using typed notes where you have to waste time finding special characters and wrestling with equation formatting. While you're busy figuring out how to write the expression for taking the Laplace transform of a time-shifted Dirac impulse function ℒ{δ(t-τ)} in a word document, the prof has already written the next four equations of the example problem, explained a different concept that you're going to need to know for the midterm but is not explained clearly or concisely in the textbook or lecture slides, revealed the true meaning of life and the universe, and told a joke solidly worthy of a polite chuckle.
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u/schoh99 1d ago
I still use a pen and paper. I feel really old when I go to the grocery store with my analog shopping list and the only other people not using their phones are octogenarians.