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An academic discovers the joys of Lofi

Not just for fellow academics, you might appreciate Ms. Wink's epiphany:

"In my break from computer assistance, I discovered a new truth: writing by hand can make my thinking go faster."

http://insidehighered.com/views/2006/08/24/wink

TOPICS: Lofi
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I try to maintain a...

I try to maintain a mix of both so as to get the advantages of both. I find that taking notes in a meeting/class I can take it much faster on paper and I use different colored pens to keep my own comments seperate.
My problem is the merging of the two, I find I often have problems locating data in lofi or misplacing what I wrote down so I end up trying to retype all my notes and loose a bit in that process, or scan them in but I still can't search across scanned images.

 
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